teddies in love

Theodore and Sally were always placed next to each other no matter how many times their owner,  Maliyah, re-organized all of her teddy bears. Theodore was a brown, dressed up bear. He wore pants and a button up shirt. Sally was more of a casual bear. She was white, didn't have special clothes, and was starting to unravel. One day, while Maliyah was at school, the bears came alive. Sally looked to hear right and couldn't help but notice Theodore. He didn't like her at first, but she soon grew on him. Everyday when Maliyah left for school and her parents were at work they would adventure through the house together. It wasn't a big space, but as long they were together they were happy. Sally and Theodore were in love. They knew at 3:00 Maliyah would be coming home and that they would need to position themselves back on the bed. They hated it and wished they could always appear alive. During one of their adventures Theodore's foot got caught on a nail on the hardwood floor. He couldn't seem to unhook his foot himself. He panicked because he knew Maliyah would be home soon. He told Sally to leave him, but she didn't listen. She carefully unhooked his foot, trying not to rip him, but the rip was unavoidable. He told her it was okay and that next time they'd have to be more careful. Sally was scared and didn't want to risk getting caught. She was paranoid but missed having fun with him, so she gave in. The bears continued on for years until Maliyah grew out of them and passed them on to a charity for childrens toys. They were seperated and never saw each other again.

-Breanne

my first love

It was a rainy Saturday night when I answered the door and saw my first love standing there. I tried to speak but nothing came out and to be honest it was probably better that way because I didn't really know what to say. Say something, anything, I thought.
"What the hell are you doing here?" I blurted out, I couldn't contain myself.
I was in a happy relationship of almost six months and now he wanted to ruin it. He didn't even answer me but yet he invited himself in and sat on my couch.
"Why are you here? I repeated, this time more calmly.
"I really don't know, I forgot about how much of a b**** you are."
He can't be serious.
"Do you expect me to just act like everything is butterflies and rainbows? Because its not." to be continued...
-Breanne

Laws of the creatures- Jasmine

It was a rainy Saturday night when I answered the door and saw my first love standing there. I wondered how long he had been waiting there but now that didnt matter what matter was that we were going to be together again. In my world, the underworld were mythical creatures as humans would say live there was laws but one of the most important law was that no creature would marry or be friends with any creature outside of their own kind. For so long that law has been alive and for so many souls were vainshed or killed because they fell in love with a creature different from them. I never thought anything of it till I met Chase my first love, and of course Chase and I were very different creatures. From the moment I met Chase we fell in love together and ever since then we had to sneak around to be together. My heart was riped out of me when they caught us together, my parents begged the underworld ruler not to vanish me but to give me a second chance that I had been young and foolish. I didnt hate my parents for saying that after all they were just trying to protect me but they didnt understand that I loved Chase and that I would stop at nothing to be with Chase forever. After that day we agreed to keep away from each other for two weeks and it killed me not begin able to see him, and it`s rare for demons to feel pain. Chase spoke breaking my thoughts and bringing me back to realitly "Are you ready?". I went back to thinking but this time how to would be like to be dead for good.
Before me and Chase agreed to not see each other for two weeks we also decided to run away after my birthday when I reached demon hood, for humans this would mean turning 18 and begin consider an adult but for demons like me this meant getting my full powers. Now that I had reached demon hood I decided this would be the perfect time to run away with Chase. I gradded Chase`s hand and lead the way to the darken woods that`s where vanished creatures would go or if a creature wanted to kill themsevle once and for all. Me and Chase were going to kill ourselves, I know it sounded crazy but I wasnt allowed to see Chase so at that point it felt like I was dead, I didnt think much of how we would kill ourselves but there were rumors that most creatures starved themsevles there since there there was no life in the darken woods and my kind which are demons feed off humans, but to me I thought the idea of starving would take to long and it would be more painful for us. Beside Chase was from the dragon clan, and his kind got hunger faster and more uncivil with each minute and I didnt want him to suffer to much or accdiently hurt me. I was glad that my family owned a busniess which sold poisions and other things so I thought I would grad a poision that killed both me and Chase at the same time and painless. He agreed with me that was the best way to kill and so agreed to take the poision with me. We had planned to die in the darken woods circle, it was another rumor that creatures talked of. It was this circle in the middle of darken woods and it was told that the very first vanished couple died on it and that it was the most romantic place. I lead the way the whole time and after a while Chase had stopped and complained that he was tired and that we should rest. I knew my parents would be after me soon when they realized I was gone and Chase was no where to be found. Also knowing my parents they would report it to the underworld ruler`s guards so I begged him to keep going that he would soon find darken wood`s circle. After a while Chase decided to keep leading the way since I was getting a bit sleepy. I noticed that we were still holding hands and that only made me keep moving. Fianlly we had reached darken wood`s circle when I tripped over a rock and landed in front of it. I quickly got out the poisions but Chase stopped me. I questioned him asking what he was doing, he stood up and followed around "I hear them, the guards there coming". I threw him his poision and oppened mine but then something happened and before i knew it my poision was gone and i was begin dragged away from Chase. The guards were shouting and my parents had anger in their eyes. Everything was moving so quick, all I saw was Chase begin pushed to the ground and my father shouting kill. I tried to run to Chase but I felt weak for some reason, my body had betrayed me. I was held by two guards still watchi8ng Chase and soon I realized that the guards were going to beat him to death when one guard moved out a club. I struggled and yelled "Stop" but no one listened, Chase was on the ground in pain. Everything had happened so fast that I hadn`t noticed that I had free myself and was running toward Chase before I could grad his hand I was stabbed with a dagger in the back right through my heart. The only thing I remembered hearing was Chase yelling and screaming my name "Ana!".

Little to Late

      It was a rainy saturday night when I answered the door and I saw my first love standing there. What was he doing here? I hadn't seen him in over ten years. What was he doing here? After all this time, after all the times I cried over him. He wanted to leave this town, and I only wanted to be with him. A mix of major emotions were running all through me, that I could almost fall over. Then I looked at him, into his eyes, they were still as deep and blue as the first time I looked into them. When I looked into his eyes, all of the memories of our relationship came flodding all back like a movie reel. The very first time we met, the first time we talked, our first date, our first kiss, all the fun times we had togather, our first fight, the backup and him leaving, and me crying. It all came back to me.
     I realized that he was still standing in the rain, getting soaking wet, I snapped back into reality and said
"Luke" taking a deep breath in as I said his name
"What are you doing here?" I asked
He was about to say something, I could tell. But he let the thought go and we we standing in silence again.
"Oh daer. You're soaking wet, come inside, please, before you get sick or something" I said hoping to break the awakward tension that could be felt in the air. He nodded his head and came inside. He sat on the big leather couch infront of the window in my living room. Since his clothes were soaking wet and everytime he moved it made the loudest sweak. He was looking around the house and he wasn't saying anything.
Then I asked him again "What are you doing here?"
He looked at me, the paused for a second then began to say "I just got back to town and I was at Andy's diner, and someone told me that you were still here, so I figured I'd stop by and maybe talk to you about, you know everything that happened to us. Maybe we can pick up where we left off".
I honsetly didn't know how to respond, I just looked down at my hand, at the dimond on my wedding ring. Then I looked up at Luke and said "After we broke up, I thought that my life was over, and it would never be the same again. I cried myself to sleep ever night for almost for months. Then the crying stopped and I just didn't sleep, couldn't really. Then I got a job at Jacobson's printing company, and had to work late, almost all night, so I could keep my mind off you. But the times that I didn't work late, I spent tossing and turing 'till before I knew it, it was morning. It took me a long time to get over my heartache. That's when I met James, it was like all the tears, and sleepless nights went away. I fell in love again. We got married just 8 months after we met."
I looked over at Luke, waiting for his response. But instead, he got up and said to me
"Well, I'm happy for you, really I am."
Then he walked out the door, I could see the dissapointment in his eyes, I didn't know what to say, all I could do was let him walk out of the door, the same way he walked out the same door ten years ago.
      -----Haleigh

I Kissed a Girl and I Liked it

It was a rainy Saturday night when I answered the door and saw my first love standing there.  I was thirty-two years old. How could I have seen her again? This is ridiculous. I spend my whole life trying to get away from the love that I was so afraid of. Ok, let me start from the beginning. I was a freshman in college. She was my first distraction there. I worked hard in school to become the business anchor I am today, but that didn’t stop her from consuming me. I never thought I would hook up with a girl. Everyone told me to just does it and that it would be a fun experience. I never expected to get so attached. The first time I kissed her I was uncomfortable and embarrassed because we were playing kiss and blow. It was supposed be boy, girl, boy, girl, but there was a shorter number of boys. When we kissed everyone laughed, because I was straight and she wasn’t. Her name was Vikki and I never saw her like that. She was always kind of a tomboy but she was a pretty girl. We hadn’t talked since that day, until she approached after my class and asked if could study with her. I said sure but on anything led to another and we kissed again. We had a ‘thing’. We would hook up almost every day after that. I still considered myself straight, even though I knew I was in love with her. Soon Vikki transferred to Virginia State. I tried to stay in touch with her, but she never returned my calls. After a few months I gave up. I met my husband, and I had a beautiful daughter named Dorothy. I love my family. I don’t want to get involved with Vikki anymore, but something is pulling me to her. Looking back I realize that she never loved me like I loved her. She never asked me out, or said if she liked me or not. She didn’t even say goodbye when she transferred.

“Hey, long time no see.” Vikki said.

“Hi, how are you.” I said nervously. I could tell she was the same Victoria.

“You know, I didn’t mean to-“She started.

“I know, I know. You didn’t call. I’ve gotten over it. I moved on.”

“I was going to say I’m sorry for leading you on. It was college; I didn’t think you were going to take it so seriously.” She went on.

“It was college! What an excuse. Since you knew I was straight and never done that before you should have never even messed with. You totally played with my emotions. You made me think I was in love with you.” I argued.

“Seriously, you were grown women. You- you were in love with me?” she asked curiously.

“I thought I was. Now I’m happily married and hoping to have a child.”  I said.

“Oh, well I’m happy for you.” She said.

“Thanks…” I started.

“You’re welcome. Are you happy?” She asked.

            In that moment, I realized that I was happy. I didn’t want Vikki at all. She was a mistake that happened in the past. Even though I got hurt in the process, I don’t regret what happened.

“You know what, Victoria. Good-bye.” I said. I began to walk away from the scene and didn’t feel any trace of sadness.

“Wait, where are you going? You don’t want to talk about anything!” She yelled after me.

I kept on walking, feeling proud of myself. I was so happy I had a family to go home to. Frankly, I didn’t care about what happened to Victoria.   I was glad I got all of that off my chest.

When I closed my door my husband was on the computer. I ran to him and sat on his lap. I gave him a big passionate.

“I love you.” He said as he laughed. I laughed with him.

“I love you, too.” I said. And for the first time, I knew I had meant it.

The Lucky Chap-stick

   Over the summer when I went on a cruise ship with my family, me and my sister purchased a chap-stick from the cruise ship gift shop. It smelled kind of weird like minty pineapple, but we used it anyways because we both had forgotten to bring a chap-stick on vacation with us. That night we used it, and we literally had the best time. It was probably the best time we had on the cruise ship that whole week. Me and Christine didn't think anything of it, until we used it the next night and we both ended up talking to the guys we had been wanting to talk to the entire vacation.
   That night we established that the chap-stick had definitley brought us good luck. After we got home we continued using the chap-stick whenever one of us felt we needed something lucky, wherever we were going. One day over the summer I used it, and it was the last time I saw it for a while. It was the first time I lost it. A few weeks later my friend Abby called me and told me she found it under her bed. I was shocked! I hadn't been to Abby's house in about two weeks, and when I went to her house we usually just went in her pool, but I hardly ever went into her bedroom. 
   The day Abby found it me and her went to a Red Sox game, with my lucky chap-stick back I felt that I would have the best time. But, when I sat down in our seats at the game, I realized it was gone! Where could it have gone already? I had just got it back and it had been missing for weeks. I was so stressed out and heartbroken I had lost my chap-stick for the second time in weeks. When we got back to the car I was about to step on the little piece sticking out for your foot to lift you into the car, when I saw my chap-stick wedged between the car door! It was found again. I knew for sure this had to be a lucky chap-stick if it brought me good times, and it kept turning up in the most random places from being lost.
   That night I brought it back to Christine, and I told her how it kept going missing and then turning up in the most random places you could think of. Me and her were legit shocked at how lucky one chap-stick could be, and we still took turns alternating the chap-stick between us. Right now it's a time period of it being lost, but I know it'll turn up found eventually because that chap-stick is full of luck. 


-Courtney
 

Hailey

   Hailey was one of the best dogs I've ever had. I had her when I was younger, maybe five or six years old, and she literally did everything for me. She would let me use her as a pillow when I was laying down, and even let me ride her around the house like a horse, considering my small size. She was what I looked forward to seeing every time we came home. Hailey would get so excited, and run around the house barking with excitement that we had returned home again.
   The only problem was Hailey got a little too excited every time we came home. When we arrived home Hailey would always urinate on the floor, instead of waiting to go outside to go to the bathroom. At first my family shrugged it off and just found it as an inconvenience, but it began to happen every single time we came home. One day I came home from school and my parents told me and my sister Christine that they had taken Hailey to the vet. The veterinarian had told my parents that Hailey just needed more space to run around, and she needed to be in the open outdoors.
   Our family didn't really think much of what the vet had said, considering we had a huge backyard that Hailey could run around in if she wanted. So, we let Hailey stay outside more often than she had been inside, and everything was fine for awhile. Until I came home from school another day and my parents told me they took Hailey back to the vet, which came as a shock to me. I thought everything was fine, why would they take Hailey back?
   My parents sat me and Christine down at the kitchen table, and told us that the veterinarian took Hailey and sent her away to a farm where she could run around as often as she wanted, and with as much space as she needed. Me and Christine were so confused.. Everything was going fine, or so we thought, why did Hailey have to go? And to a farm? I didn't even get to say goodbye to Hailey. It wasn't fair, and everything was so confusing. Me and Christine both started crying. How could they tell us that just abruptly?
   Pretty soon me and Christine got over it though, as much as we possibly could, and we got a new dog a year or two later. I found out just two years ago that Hailey didn't actually go to a farm, the veterinarian had to put her to sleep. That was the most heartbreaking news of all. My parents never wanted to tell me or Christine, because since we were so young they didn't think we'd be able to handle it. It makes me even more sad to think about now that Hailey was one of the best dogs I've ever had, and she didn't even go to that farm, she had to be put to sleep. I guess she had kidney failure, that's why she went to the bathroom every time we came home. I still think about Hailey occasionally, and I'll never forget how she was such a big part of my childhood, and helped contribute to my love of animals even more.

-Courtney