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Lauren’s Stories

By: Lauren Bennett May 10, 2013

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Lauren’s Stories

By: Lauren Bennett

New York Publishing

May 10,2013

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 4

Part One: School to summer 5 Introduction 5

Oh No! School! 6 Party All Night 7

Freedom 8 Traveling the U.S. 9

Surprise 10

Part Two: Sports 11 Introduction 12

Go Team Ozark 13 Amazing Skills 14 Playing Dirty 15

Madison’s Support 16

Part Three: Stories 17 Introduction 17

The Extorting Goddess 18 No One’s Perfect 19

The Mysterious Woman 20 The Lost 21

Wonderland 22

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Acknowledgements

I would like to dedicate this anthology to my

cousins Jake and Sean who should be here. To my

family for always being there during the worst and

best times. My friends for putting up with me

through all my break-ups, break-downs and ALL of my

drama. Thanks for being there for me.

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Part One: School to Summer

Introduction:

Part one of my anthology is about how I go through the school year into

summer break having fun with friends and family. I’m just having fun being

myself, not what my friends want me to be. It will be showing how I change

between being a quiet student at school to a party animal at night when it’s the dance. How I get to travel around Europe and see the amazing views.

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Oh No! School

I need to take a break from getting up early in the morning and getting

ready for school. Listening to teachers giving long lectures, too many

assignments, and all the drama. From listening to my mom getting road rage. I

need a break from having to get up put on makeup, fixing my hair to how

everyone else wants it and having to be perfect like everyone else. It’s

just like wearing a mask covering up who I am. I just want to take a break

from it all and just be myself and have fun.

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Party all Night

Tonight is the night, we all dress up and act like someone else, every girl

finally gets to wear their colorful, sparkly dress and dance. Also wear giant

skyscraper high heels and bright, bold, neon eye shadows that we can’t wear and get away with.

When you show up the lights are off except for the laser/dance lights.

Everyone is having fun dancing and partying. When the music goes from raid

and loud to slow and somewhat soft. Everyone clams down and dances with

someone they like or just a friend. It’s all slow and romantic; then the

music will speed up again and it goes crazy. You have to yell over the music

and in the end you might end up losing your voice. When you talk to someone

after the party you start sounding like a chipmunk and they will probably call you Alvin (trust me I know).After the dance the party is still going at

a friend’s house or yours. It continues until 3 in the morning most of the

time, it just depends on you.

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Freedom

Everyone is getting excited. In ten more days is summer break. Over the break

kids will take trips or do nothing.

This summer break my mom is making plans to take us to go see my cousins Dakota and Julia. They live in London, England or the United Kingdom (U.K.).

We’re going to tour London and the rest of the United Kingdom if we don’t

have to leave. The tour involves seeing Queen Elizabeth’s castle, taking a

trip down the river, trying the food at the most popular and not so popular

restraint, going to see the London Bridge, other castles and more. Then were

going to Paris, France and try to see the Eiffel tower and tour other places

in Europe. It’s going to be so much fun seeing new places and trying new

things.

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Traveling the U.S.

I have travelled to Oregon, Missouri, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Washington and

many more. The people in each place is different; in Oregon they do lots of

horseback riding, eats lots of seafood, fishing/swimming or any sports that involves water and the have lots of lighthouses. The people in Missouri are

laid back and nice. The people in Oklahoma don’t mostly spend their day by

the water. The people don’t eat lots of seafood; they eat mostly home cooked

meals. They also are mostly involved in Indian artifacts from their

ancestors. Then the people in Washington mostly talk about the politics and

about what the president is going to do for the economy to improve it.

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Surprise

During the summer, my mom took my sister to go visit my aunt. While they were

at my aunt’s house my dad and I went to go get the horse they bought. The

horse was brown and black with a hint of red. When we got there the horse would not come near us, but the others would. So we tried to trick it with

feed, chase it, and everything else, but she still would not come to us. It

continued like that for two days straight, and then finally we caught her.

When we were leading her home she reared up and broke the harness; you could

tell she was frighten to leave her family by the look in her eyes. My dad

found her and had to call the vet to come, she was tangled in the wire. After

three days she finally came to live at her new home, with us.

My mom and sister came back to find the surprise waiting for them in the field. Madison was so happy later that day we named her baby.

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Part Two: Sports

Introduction

Part two is about how my brother’s soccer games inspired me to play soccer.

When I started playing I kept on trying to improve myself more and more.

With my so involved in soccer my sister came inspired to play and she began

to follow in my brother and mine footsteps. She wanted to become a pro soccer player for the American women’s soccer team. She still has that dream and I

support her all the way.

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Go Team Ozark

I couldn’t ask for a better day. Here I was cheering on my brother; what

better way can you spend an afternoon. My brother was playing college soccer for the Ozarks; his team was in the lead four to one. There was only 20

minutes left of the game. Some of the other team’s members started getting

violent. They were pushing and shoving. The referee red card one member for

kicking Alex in the leg just below the knee cap. Alex had to be taken off the

field. The opponent’s team was catching up fast it was five to four with

only 10 minutes remaining on the clock. They battled back and forth. My

family and I were cheering as loud as we could for my brother Derek. It was

starting to get intense when the buzzard went off. But it was five to five; they decided to go over time. Both teams were exhausted battling over the

ball. That’s when Derek got the ball and was making his way to the goal. He

had to jump over someone who fell.