Aria
“One
Moment Is All It Takes?” I read out loud. “What a stupid title
for a book!”
“Aria
are you done with your homework!” my older sister Amelia hollers
from the living room.
“I will do it later,” I mutter to myself and then shout back, “yah be right down. “
Suddenly
I hear my little twin sisters clattering up the staircase. I know
Emma and Lydia are coming to get me. It is “family fun night”,
which basically means watch some dumb Disney movie or play some
princess game like escape to the unicorn palace. The only people in
the family who enjoy this are Mom, Dad the twins (aka) Emma and
Lydia, and I really am not sure what side my baby brother Jonah is
on, if only he could talk.
“Aria,
let’s get this night over with!” Did I mention I have the most
annoying big brother? Well I do. His name is Erick.
“Shut
up, I’m coming!” I scream
“Tuesday
night,” I think. “What a stupid night to be alive on.” And I
trotted down the stairs.
I
hear my alarm clock making the same noise it always does day after
day, and know that it’s time for another day at “Galen
Elementary School “, yah. Suddenly my mind remembers a problem. I
didn’t do my homework. Yah, I know it sounds like no big deal but I
haven’t handed in an assignment for 2 weeks and my teacher said if
I miss one more assignment I would have to get a tutor and that means
I will be late for gymnastics every single day. I can’t afford to
miss a single second. Regionals is only three months away and I have
to get first, second or third or give my place in the team up.
Worst
of all report cards are on their way home.
I
speed around the room trying to finish getting ready so I can quickly
do my homework. But Lydia and Emma rush up to tell me that it’s
eight o’clock. Great, just enough time to accomplish absolutely
nothing.
I
rush down the stairs, past my sisters, and out the door and don’t
stop to say “bye” to my mother. I bet you’re wondering why I’m
doing this. Simple. My mom checks my homework every morning and I
have rushed past her for the past few weeks so she doesn’t know I
haven’t done it. I have more important things to worry about. If I
don’t ace my test my mom will probably make me give up a sport I
love.
You’re
probably wondering what those sports are:
- Gymnastics (duh)
- soccer
- lacrosse
- swim
- yoga
- and basket ball
I
really hope she chooses basketball. I do love it but it’s my least
favorite out of the six.
When
I enter the class I slip by the teacher and hope he won’t notice
me. But later he pulls me aside and confronts my lack of homework
from the past weeks and offers one last chance, of course I accept.
When
I get home I hear yelling and then turn the corner to find my mother
crying by the window. I don’t really care at first but then I see
my dad storm down the staircase with tears dripping down his cheek.
I
wonder what’s wrong. First of all Dad and Mom never fight. Second
Dad never cries. He
storms past me and out the door. Later
I hear my mother on the phone with Dad and then she calls us down for
a family meeting. When
I get down there I still see little remains of tears dripping from
the corner of her eyes.
“Children”,
Mom begins. I look toward Amelia. She glances back at me. I know
she is thinking, “Wow this must be serious she never calls us
children.”
Then
Mom continues. “Your father and I are having trouble and we are
going to be spending some time apart. Your father is moving to Rhode
Island, and we are moving to Rock Creek, Wisconsin.”
“No,
you’re the worst!” I scream.
“I
can’t,” Amelia says.
“Make
me!” Erick replies.
“Okay!”
Lydia exclaims. All Emma does is nod her head in excitement. Jonah
starts crying so once again I decide he is on our side. I
look at Mom’s face and see the disappointment in her eyes. I know I
have to say something. So I do.
“Alright.
Let’s get to it.”
My
siblings look at me like I am mentally ill or something. I need to
take her side on this. I can tell she is having just as hard a time
with this as I am. As soon as I say those words Jonah stops crying
and Mom looks up at me with hope.
“All of
you, we are leaving in three days so start packing,” she whispers.
Three
days later.
I look
around the house. Its emptiness makes me want to cry. I haven’t
seen the house this empty since we moved in when I was three. Even
then there were boxes everywhere. My mom and siblings prance out the
door and I am left in the house. For the first time I am the only
thing in it.
I close
the door, and blow the house a kiss. Which I know is kind of weird
but whatever.
I get in
the car and drift of to sleep and before I know it my mom is
announcing our new home.
It
is about seven times the size of our old home. I am amazed and right
away I turn to Mom and say, “Wow!
How can we afford this?” Mom looks at me with a strange look.
“What
do you mean?” she asks.
And
I reply, ”Well I just thought we moved because of money.”
“Why
would you think that?” Mom says
“Well,
you and Dad were both moving so I thought you couldn’t afford a
house that big on your own,” I tell her.
There
is a moment of silence and then she finally says, “No babe we have
plenty of money.”
I
get out of the car and walk up the set of stairs .I am excited for,
picking my new room. But then Mom says,“ guys I looked at all the
rooms last night and I have already assigned you your rooms.” I
let out a small sigh. Ugh! This will be the WORST year of my life!
My
mom, one by one, shows us our rooms. Finally she gets to mine. My mouth
drops wide open. I see the most beautiful view, a wide-open room with
a balcony! I smile and run straight to my mom and I holler, “you
are the best mother in the whole entire amazing world, scratch that
you are the best person in the whole entirely perfect world ! ”She
breaks out into laughter,
“Three
days ago you said I was the worst!Remember
school starts tomorrow," she finished.
By
then my laughter stops and I say, “what but………”. I try to
think of a good excuse but my mom interrupts.
“Look , sweetie pie I
am sorry but tomorrow's the day.”
I
slowly unpack my stuff until my room is finally full, but it looks too
TV-like to be an 11 year old girl's room.
The
next morning, Mom wakes me up at 6:30 and tells me I have to take a
shower. All morning I say nothing. When we enter the car she tells me
that once I learn our town better I can walk. Soon we pull up to
the school, jump out, and I holler, “Bye” before she can reply.
I
enter the little school and think you could fit about seven
of this Rock Creek Academys in my old school. I
know I would never find a friend at this little place ! Not to
mention I am horrible at that “being friendly” thing.
As
soon as I enter the classroom I know there are no other new people. I
sit through Math, Science, and worst of all Gym and finally I hear a
bell ring. Lunch, oh wait I have no one to sit with.
I
walk to the lunchroom, get in line and get a turkey burger, mini
salad and bag of chips. Then I look around for somewhere to sit and
see an almost empty table with a girl about my size (really short)
and sit down. Her face lights up once she sees someone sit near her.
She says
, ”Hi I’m Nichole! What’s your name?”
“Uh,
hi I’m Aria. I just moved here from Maine,” I tell her.
“Maine?,
I love Maine. I go there every summer."
Suddenly
I perk up. “What a perfect friend,” I think to myself.
“Hey,
do you want to come over after school?” Nichole asks.
“I
would love too.” I say with a smile across my face and think,
”Maybe this year wont be so bad!”
THE
END
Aria
“One
Moment Is All It Takes?” I read out loud. “What a stupid title
for a book!”
“Aria
are you done with your homework!” my older sister Amelia hollers
from the living room.
“I will do it later,” I mutter to myself and then shout back, “yah be right down. “
Suddenly
I hear my little twin sisters clattering up the staircase. I know
Emma and Lydia are coming to get me. It is “family fun night”,
which basically means watch some dumb Disney movie or play some
princess game like escape to the unicorn palace. The only people in
the family who enjoy this are Mom, Dad the twins (aka) Emma and
Lydia, and I really am not sure what side my baby brother Jonah is
on, if only he could talk.
“Aria,
let’s get this night over with!” Did I mention I have the most
annoying big brother? Well I do. His name is Erick.
“Shut
up, I’m coming!” I scream
“Tuesday
night,” I think. “What a stupid night to be alive on.” And I
trotted down the stairs.
I
hear my alarm clock making the same noise it always does day after
day, and know that it’s time for another day at “Galen
Elementary School “, yah. Suddenly my mind remembers a problem. I
didn’t do my homework. Yah, I know it sounds like no big deal but I
haven’t handed in an assignment for 2 weeks and my teacher said if
I miss one more assignment I would have to get a tutor and that means
I will be late for gymnastics every single day. I can’t afford to
miss a single second. Regionals is only three months away and I have
to get first, second or third or give my place in the team up.
Worst
of all report cards are on their way home.
I
speed around the room trying to finish getting ready so I can quickly
do my homework. But Lydia and Emma rush up to tell me that it’s
eight o’clock. Great, just enough time to accomplish absolutely
nothing.
I
rush down the stairs, past my sisters, and out the door and don’t
stop to say “bye” to my mother. I bet you’re wondering why I’m
doing this. Simple. My mom checks my homework every morning and I
have rushed past her for the past few weeks so she doesn’t know I
haven’t done it. I have more important things to worry about. If I
don’t ace my test my mom will probably make me give up a sport I
love.
You’re
probably wondering what those sports are:
- Gymnastics (duh)
- soccer
- lacrosse
- swim
- yoga
- and basket ball
I
really hope she chooses basketball. I do love it but it’s my least
favorite out of the six.
When
I enter the class I slip by the teacher and hope he won’t notice
me. But later he pulls me aside and confronts my lack of homework
from the past weeks and offers one last chance, of course I except.
When
I get home I hear yelling and then turn the corner to find my mother
crying by the window. I don’t really care at first but then I see
my dad storm down the staircase with tears dripping down his cheek.
I
wonder what’s wrong. First of all Dad and Mom never fight. Second
Dad never cries.
He
storms past me and out the door.
Later
I hear my mother on the phone with Dad and then she calls us down for
a family meeting.
When
I get down there I still see little remains of tears dripping from
the corner of her eyes.
“Children”,
Mom begins. I look toward Amelia. She glances back at me. I know what
she is thinking, “Wow this must be serious she never calls us
children.”
Then
Mom continues, “Your father and I are having trouble and we are
going to be spending some time apart. Your father is moving to Rhode
Island, and we are moving to Rock Creek, Wisconsin.”
“No,
you’re the worst!” I scream.
“I
can’t,” Amelia says
“Make
me!” Erick replies
“Okay!”
Lydia exclaims. All Emma does is nod her head in excitement. Jonah
starts crying so once again I decide he is on our side.
I
look at Mom’s face and see the disappointment in her eyes. I know I
have to say something. So I do,
“Alright.
Let’s get to it.”
My siblings look at
me like I am mentally ill or something. I need to take her side on
this. I can tell she is having just as hard a time with this as I am.
As soon as I say those words Jonah stops crying and Mom looks up at
me with hope.
“All of you, we
are leaving in three days so start packing,” she whispers
Three days later.
I look around the
house. Its emptiness makes me want to cry. I haven’t seen the house
this empty since we moved in when I was three. Even then there were
boxes everywhere. My mom and siblings prance out the door and I am
left in the house. For the first time I am the only thing in it.
I close the door,
and blow the house a kiss. Which I know is kind of weird but
whatever.
I get in the car and
drift of to sleep and before I know it my mom is announcing our new
home.
It
is about seven times the size of our old home. I am amazed and right
away I turn to mom and say,
“Wow!
How can we afford this?” Mom looks at me with a strange look.
“What
do you mean?” she asks.
And
I reply, ”Well I just thought we moved because of money.”
“Why
would you think that?” Mom says
“Well,
you and Dad were booth moving so I thought you couldn’t afford a
house that big on your own,” I tell her.
There
is a moment of silence and then she finally says, “No babe we have
plenty of money.”
I
get out of the car and walk up the set of stairs .I am excided for,
picking my new room. But then mom says,“ guys I looked at all the
rooms last night and I have already assigned you your room’s.” I
let out a small sigh. Ugh! This will be the WORST year of my life!
My
mom one by one shows us our rooms. Finally she gets to mine. My mouth
drops wide open. I see the most beautiful view, a wide-open room with
a balcony! I smile and run straight to my mom and I holler, “you
are the best mother in the whole entire amazing world, scratch that
you are the best person in the whole entirely perfect world ! ”She
breaks out into laughter,
“three
days ago you said I was the worst!”
“Remember
school starts tomorrow”. She finished.
By
then my laughter stops and I say, “what but………”I try to
think of a good excuse but my mom interrupts, “Look , sweetie pie I
am sorry but tomorrows the day.”
I
slowly unpack my stuff until my room is finally full, but it looks to
TV like to be an 11 year old girls room.
The
next morning, mom wakes me up at 6:30 and tells me I have to take a
shower. All morning I say nothing when we enter the car she tells me
that once I learn our town better you can walk. Soon we pull up to
the school, jump out, and I holler, “Bye” before she can reply.
I
enter the little school entrance and think you could fit about seven
of this Rock Creek Academy’s in my old school.
I
know I would never find a friend at this little place ! Not to
mention I am horrible at that “being friendly” thing.
As
soon as I enter the classroom I know there are no other new people. I
sit through Math, Science, and worst of all Gym and finally I hear a
bell ring. Lunch, oh wait I have no one to sit with.
I
walk to the lunchroom, get in line and get a turkey burger, mini
salad and bag of chips. Then I look around for somewhere to sit and
see an almost empty table with a girl about my size (really short)
and sit down. Her face lights up once she sees someone sit near her.
She says , ”Hi I’m
Nichole! What’s your name?”
“Uh,
hi I’m Aria. I just moved here from Main.” I tell her.
“Main?,
I love Main. I go there every summer.
Suddenly
I perk up. “What a perfect friend,” I think to myself.
“Hey,
do you want to come over after school?” Nichole asks.
“I
would love too.” I say with a smile across my face and think ,
”Maybe this year wont be so bad!”
THE
END
Animal testing
By Emma French
Animals
are being used for testing products, and it’s been happening for
years. I think its time to say goodbye to torturing these little
creature. I believe that animals should not be tested for products.
Testing
on animals is not fair and just plain evil. Their last few days
living is not comfortable, I’m sure, because I saw a picture of a
bunny’s body trapped in a little container with its head poking
out. It really is cruel.
Research
shows that animals aren’t the only ones tested on. Some people say
that it’s better to test the item on animals than on people, but
actually 90% of products tested on animals are still tested on humans
anyway! Can you believe that! Humans don’t even have the same DNA
as a rat or bunny and usually the product has a different effect on
us than when they test the animals.
Animals
have feelings. That’s right! Scientists have proven that animals
feel pain and some elephants even cry! Others even make a loud
shrieking sound!
Some
people might argue against what I think and say stuff like “ it’s
better to hurt an animal than a human”. But humans still take the
drugs, and scientists test the products on humans too. Others say,
“Animals don’t have feelings so their deaths or injuries won’t
hurt.” But they do have feelings!
If
you still think its fine to do this I want you to think about what
life would be like without animals in our lives. Wouldn’t you miss
your dog, cat or bunny? Every thing animal would be gone: like zoos,
books about animals, and any product from an animal like milk and
eggs. Would you enjoy life as much? Think about it and that may
change your mind.
A
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
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http://www.debate.org/opinions/should-products-be-tested-on-animalS
FOR
PROVIDING THE INFROMATIONN I NEEDED TO PROVE MY POINT
THANK
YOU FOR READING!
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