“Okay guys, it’s page 315 and you guys should have your books and notebooks out to take some notes.”

“Where’s my book?” said Michelle

“I don’t know… Didn’t you bring it with you? We had a project due today! Don’t you remember?” said Sally

“What? A project? What was it about? Was it about the Shakesphere’s birth?” asked Amy

“Are you kidding? It was about the World War 2!” exclaimed Sally

“Oh my gosh! I totally forgot to do it!” said Jennifer

“What about you Sally, did you do it?” asked Michelle

“… nope” replied Sally with anxious voice.

“Where’s Erica? Did she do her project?” asked Jennifer

“She says she will going to miss first period.” said Amy

“Uh oh, we are so doomed. Mr. Hinkle will going to get so mad.” Everyone shouted at the same time.

The long awaited time has come. Mr. Hinkle asked the students to take out the projects about the World War 2. Since the students had one month to accomplish the project, Mr. Hinkle was expecting a great projects from the students. However, the students were different. They didn’t even touch the books during the break. Because they are in senior years of high school, they were suffering through senioritis. Unfortunately, seniors were out of luck. It was their last chance to finish their project. So, Mr. Hinkle got extremely angry at the students. He then, suddenly cracked his knuckles and started to twist his body. The students were all shivering their bodies at the back of the class.

“IF YOU GUYS DON’T FINISH YOUR PROJECTS, WHAT DID I SAY BEFORE THE BREAK?” shouted Mr. Hinkle.

“Swish, Swoosh!” His arm started to get muscular and his thighs started to blow up and ripped his pants. Then his hair suddenly grew and his eyes turned into pale purple.

“Oh my gosh! The war is on! Guys, get ready!” said Sally

“Yes! I got my Biology text book!” said Michelle

“I have my school tights ready!” said Amy

“Here! I have school pen!” said Jennifer

“Guys, I found school laptop inside my backpack!” said Christina

“Okay, you guys all know how those work right? Are you guys ready?” said Sally

“Wait, wait! Let’s call Erica! I think we need Erica’s superpowers to defense us!” said Amy

“Rawr—! Where is the homework! Give it to me RIGHT NOW!” said Mr. Hinkle.

“Here, I got this! Mr. Hinkle! First of all, we are really sorry that we forgot to do our project. And I am very sorry to give you this…but I will!” said Michelle

“Boom! Bam!” there were few crashing sounds. Michelle chopped Mr. Hinkle’s feet with the corner of her Biology book. As soon as Mr. Hinkle got attacked by Michelle’s textbook, he suddenly gained new powers. He opened up his literature book to page 317 and started to shoot the vocabulary lasers. Since seniors didn’t know the meaning of the vocabularies, several got attacked and fell down.

“Okay! It’s my turn! I’ll turn on my laptop and Jennifer, you get out your school pen!” exclaimed Christina.

As soon as Christina gave a command to Jennifer, she started to shoot poisoned ink bullet to Mr. Hinkle. He temporarily collapsed, but he counterattacked the students. Then Christina turned on the Chinese power point and started to yap at Mr. Hinkle in Chinese. Mr. Hinkle lost his focus on his eyes and ears then he eventually collapsed. His skin came back to normal and his hands and hair returned to his original body. The three days war was over. There were few casualties, and everyone was in pain. At that moment, Erica and Dabin came into the classroom and said, “Guys, we brought you guys projects!”

Then after the war, all of the classmates have realized that they should at least finish their works. Even though they are suffering through senioritis, they decided that they will accomplish their work first then, play hard. Let’s go Seniors! (661)

“Oh please, mom! I know what I have to do! I’m not a kid anymore. Stop pressuring on me.” Then I slammed my door and started to cry.

My mom has a huge expectation on me. Ever since I was young, she wanted me to become a diplomat. Well, it’s not only my mom who wants me to become a diplomat, but also all of our family members. I think it’s because of me. When I was young, I used to inform them that I will become a diplomat when I grow up. So in their mind, they already recognize that I want to be a diplomat in the future. Thus, it is a lot of pressure for me to satisfy their expectations.

While I was sobbing in my room, mom started to knock on my door and started lecturing me again. “Lizzy! Did you finish your homework? Did you memorize some vocabs? You got to have everything done perfect to become a diplomat!”

Then I gratuitously stared at Mr.Ban’s picture on my wall. Because, I admire him a lot, I hung his picture on my wall to get some impetus. But interestingly, something seemed very strange. I doubted my eyes at first. However, some part was slightly different than it used to be. So I looked closely into the picture, and scanned through his face. As soon as I looked at his eyes, his eyeballs suddenly moved and made an eye contact with my eyes! I screamed out loud. But it was too late for me to scream out for help. As I scream, I got sucked inside that picture with Mr.Ban.

“Hello, Lizzy! I’m Ki Moon Ban, the secretary general of United Nations.” Mr. Ban talked to me with soft voice.

“H..Hi, How..did I get here…?” I murmured.

Yes, that’s right. I was sucked into the Headquarters of United Nations in New York. At first, I thought it was just a dream. But, as he introduced the United Nations and his office around, I realized that I wasn’t dreaming.

“Lizzy, I am so honored to be your respected figure.” Said Mr. Ban

“No! No problem. Mr. Ban, just to let you know, I’ve been admiring only you ever since I was in grade three!”

“Yes, I already recognized it because I still remember the day that I got hung up on your room wall.” Replied Mr. Ban.

“Listen Liz, l know how much you try hard to prepare for your dream. And, I understand how tough it is to fulfill it! But, always remember that I am right next to you, right beside you, who will look after you. Whenever you are having bad days or even experiencing the slump of your studying, just look at my eyes through the picture then, I will respond to you.”

After listening to his advice, I somewhat got touched and stood there for a while. When I was about to say thank you to Mr. Ban, my body started to shake. “BAM” then I woke up. I was back in my room crawling down. My tears were all dried and I was holding the United Nation’s badge on my hand. So I looked back at the picture and thanked him for teaching a big lesson to me. Sine, I got all impetus from him, I promised myself to work more hard to achieve my goal. Even though, it will take a while, I decided that from now on I will always be positive when accomplishing the given work. (587)

“Tick Tock, Tick Tock”

The humungous clock on the wall was ticking and ticking. “Ding!” clock pointed exactly at ten. A mysterious woman came out and announced in front of this broken man.

“It’s exactly ten. You must choose one. Do you want to go back to past, or just move on to future?”

As soon as the guy chose an object, the place started to shake. All of a sudden, the guy disappeared with a buzzing sound. He now arrived to his past. He wanted to go back to the moment that he regrets the most in his lifetime. By the time he arrived, there was one girl waiting for him at the coffee shop. She was sobbing. He walked up to her and said, “Hey, I’m back. Sorry that I hurt you.” Then the girl started to cry out loud with sorrowful voice.

“I thought you are going to leave me forever!” girl spoke out loud.

“Sorry, I shouldn’t have said those things to you. I know I’m a bad boyfriend. Will you forgive me?” said Paul.

Paul was a patient. He was suffering through leukemia, so he had to leave his girlfriend before he receives the cancer treatments. That’s why he had to say goodbye to his one and only girlfriend. Since she didn’t know what was going on, she cried and abhorred him for few years. But now Paul have traveled back to past, he will going to tell the truth to her and ask her to wait for him until he recovers from his leukemia. So when Paul saw her, he hugged her tightly and said,

“Sorry that I made you mad, sorry that I made you worry. But will you please forgive me?”

And Kelly held Paul’s had tightly and said “Of course, wherever you go, I will always be right next to you.”

After hearing comforts from Kelly, Paul began his story with whispering voice.

“Honey, it might be hard for you to understand me, but I am suffering through leukemia. And I just don’t want to leave you alone when I’m receiving my treatment. So that was the first reason why I had to leave you. But since I’m here now, I am asking you a huge favor. Will you marry me?” Paul asked directly to Kelly.

Kelly mumbled for a while and said, “Are you sure? I feel so sorry that I didn’t know how much you suffered through. Please, it’s my pleasure to be your woman. Let’s get married!”

And they got married right away before Paul’s health gets worse. So Paul and his family lived a happy life after Paul time traveled back to the past.

At this moment, everyone will be curious what Paul chose in the beginning of the story. Between the golden hammer and a cup of water, Paul chose the golden hammer to travel back to his past. The place where Paul chose the golden hammer was at heaven. It was heaven where he had to make a decision whether to travel back in time or move on and start a new life in the heaven. However, Paul regrets the most that he had to die first and leave his girlfriend alone on earth. So that’s why he wanted to go back to the past and stay with her. Though, he will die early, he wanted to be with Kelly for few more years, and confess that he really loved Kelly. So, Paul have had realized that life is short and contains full of regrets. Therefore, everyone in the world should take care of each and every move that they make in present days, and never hesitate to the new upcoming adventures for the future. (620)

Hi, I’m Babe Ruth. As most you have known, I am the most popular baseball player in the United States. And today, I would like to share my story that happened on this weekend.

It was a bright sunny day. Since it was baseball season, we had a game on this Saturday. Everyone was cheering up for our team. But strangely, there was a one guy who was keep saying bad stuff about our team, especially to me. He was keep on saying, “Hey Ruth, you think you got ‘em all? You think you’re the best among these players? Well, you suck! If you want to keep your team members safe, you got to put on some teamwork not just you dominating the whole stadium!” Well, at first, I just thought he was drunk. But he wasn’t. So after the game on that day, I was heading down to parking lot to get my car and I found some sort of mysterious paper on top of it. And the note said, “I’ve taken your most prized possession. If you want to see it again, intact, meet me tonight at baseball field around the corner of the local high school. And bring your glove.” It was just insane. I didn’t know what to do. I mean, I didn’t know what to think of when the note mentioned about my most prized possession. I thought of everything. And something just crashed into my head. So I said,

“Oh, Linda!”

Then, I automatically called her. I tried to reach her several times, but she wouldn’t answer my call. So I got all frustrated. I directly hopped in the car and accelerated like a cheetah. But on the way home, I got an unexpected call from Linda.

“Hey, darling you called me? Sorry, I was busy cooking so I couldn’t hear your call! Sorry Babe, what’s wrong? You seemed very urgent?” said Linda, Ruth’s wife.

“What?! Are you seriously okay Linda? Did anything happen to you or to our kids?” Ruth inquired.

“No, why? Did your game go bad? What’s wrong!! Why do you sound so frustrated?” replied Linda.

“Oh, never mind. I’m almost there, guess I’m very hungry. Don’t worry! Honey, see you in ten minutes.”

As soon as I hung up, I questioned myself. “Then, what should the most prized possession be? Maybe my parents?” it was very tough for me to guess what my most prized possession was. Since I have very curiosity personality, if there is something that I don’t know, I must figure out what the answer is. Or else, I would go crazy and do self-injuring. So, I called my parents right away.

“Mom! Are you safe? Where are you?”

“Oh son, I just saw your game today! It was awesome!”

“Mom, no! There’s no time for you to compliment me!”

“Why honey? Is there something wrong? Your dad and I are at home now watching television. But what’s so desperate about you, son?” said mom.

Then I sighed for a moment and said, “nothing, mom! Take care and if someone’s trying to threaten you, then please don’t hesitate and call me automatically okay?”

After asking my parent’s secure, I got home. Then I ate the most delicious dinner what my wife cooked for me. Because I am such a gourmet, I love eating foods. Especially, fast foods! When I eat fast food, such as McDonalds, I get extra hyper and attain a strong energy. Sometimes, I feel like fast food makes me to concentrate well on the game. So, when eating fast food it is within bounds to say that I feel like I’m in heaven. After thinking about eating fast food, I got more frustrated. Time was ticking like a bullet. It was already night. I had to go to baseball field at local high school to figure out who took my prized possession goods. So I rushed into the car and went to that place. It was very dark, so I wasn’t able to see anything in clear. But, there was a one stream of light coming from the school door. And a weird looking guy started to come out from the school building. I went closer and closer.

“Ha! I got ya! Who are you! Why are you playing this stupid game on me? Are you the one who always says bad stuff about me while I’m on the field?”

“I got your McDonalds set menu. If you beat me, I will tell you who I am and give this McDonalds set to you.” said the stranger.

“Okay, bring it on!”

Then we had ten minutes of short throw and catch game. And eventually, I won. The stranger, then took off his hat and confessed everything. But before, saying who he really was, he gave the McDonalds set to me and told him the truth. After listening to a stranger’s truth, I laughed and laughed till my belly disappears. And on that day, the stranger and I became best friend. Then I finally realized what my most possession was! It was McDonalds set menu number two. I didn’t realize whenever I eat McDonalds I get a good score on the game. Though the threatening message on my car windshield was pretty frightening, this guy inculcated the most indelible memory of my life.

Well, you guys might all wonder who he is, but I won’t going to reveal until the next game. Find him through the screen or television. And, don’t miss! Our next game is on July 3^rd at Clerk stadium. (927)

Her name is Sara. She is a well-known florist. When she was young, she didn’t like flowers or trees. Due to her pollen allergy, Sara was unfamiliar with the natures. So she used to stay at home or enjoy indoor activities such as going to café, movies, and etc. However, there was this one incident that made Sara to become a florist.

[It was three years ago…]

“Ding Dong!”

“How much is this?”

“It’s $15”

Three years ago, Sara used to work at a convenience store near her house. And one day, there was a random guy came into the convenience store and bought a Ferrero Rocher chocolate. At that time, the guy was holding a big pack of present box and a bunch of red roses. So Sara thought the guy must be having a big day in his life that day. As soon as he paid the chocolate, he left the store. But at that moment, something jumped to her eyes, it was his wallet. He left his wallet while after he paid. So Sara ran out the store and chased after him. But she was too late. And five minutes later, Sara opened his wallet to look for the address. Interestingly, there was a weird piece of note inside his wallet. It said, “I fell in love with you. Please meet me after your work at time square.” After looking at that note, Sara was excited to return his wallet back. Even though the note wasn’t for Sara, she thought that she will be able to meet him at time square and return his wallet to him. So as soon as Sara finished her shift, she went to time square. It was only eight o’ clock at night. But nobody was around time square. Usually, time square should be filled with peoples and music. However, when Sara got there, everything was dark and she could barely see the stage in front of the time square. All of a sudden, a light turned on and the guy from that store was on the stage. He was about to propose his love to his girlfriend. But strange thing was that there were no people except for Sara. Even his girlfriend wasn’t there. Nevertheless, that guy started to perform his event in front of Sara. She got extremely surprised and yelled out loud.

“Hey! I’m not your girlfriend! Your misunderstanding! I am just here to return your wallet to you! You dropped your wallet in our store this afternoon!” Sara waved her arms back and forth.

Then the guy just stared at Sara with a tender smile. Actually the whole propose was meant to be done for Sara. He was in love with Sara, so he purposely put his wallet on top of the cashier. So, Sara was the lucky one who got the proposed by that guy with a present box and a bunch of roses. Though Sara has pollen allergy, his proposal and a bundle of flowers made Sara’s allergy to flee away. A love is a strong potion that alters a person’s constitution.

[Three years later…]

Now, they became a lovely couple. But most interestingly, Sara’s husband turned out to be a florist. So that was why he gave a bundle of roses to Sara on that proposing day. And due to her husband’s job, Sara naturally got interested in natures and the flowers. So she became a one of the most famous florist in the world. Also she got rid of her pollen allergies as well! Above the rest, a major thing changed with Sara. When she was alone, she used to have very rough temper with picky personalities. However after being familiar with natures and flowers, her personalities have also changed as well. She became very soothing and tolerant person.

As a result, a love begets love. Which cultivate one’s beauty in her life and bring desires to become a green thumb. And the love of nature will eventually bring a peaceful and calm environment to each one of our mind. (676)

“Sunday morning rain is falling~ … that someday it will lead me back to you…~” Joseph sang along the song that came from the radio.

It was a typical Sunday morning. Joseph woke up with a big full of yawn. He pulled out his drawer and he ate his morning pill as soon as he woke up.

“Great! Another day with rain!”

The rain was falling like cats and dogs. It was a heavy rain. Joseph sat down near the fireplace and listened to the radio. His favorite radio channel was playing the Sunday morning from Maroon 5. Joseph was indulged in reminiscence. His teardrop fell on top of the blanket. He wiped out his tear and recalled his past days.

…

[Ten years ago]

“Bailey! I’m going out for a workshop okay? So call me when you get home!” Joseph leaved a message to his girlfriend Bailey.

Bailey and Joseph was a lovely couple. They were dating ever since they were in high school. And currently they are planning to get an engagement. So Bailey and Joseph are busy in their own way. Particularly, Joseph was suffering with his work these days. Few days ago, Joseph got promoted to chairman in his office. Unfortunately, he had to take care of the huge amount of tasks as a chairman. Therefore, Joseph and Bailey naturally got drift apart with each other.

“Honey, are you free tonight? You know we have to pick up our dress and our wedding ring.” Bailey claimed.

“Yeah, yeah, wait a minute I have to finish this meeting. Call you later. Bye.” Joseph replied.

Due to Joseph’s situation, Bailey always understood him and waited for him. And few days later, the engagement day was just around the corner. Bailey realized the rush so she called her boyfriend right away.

“Honey! We are in urgent. Our engagement is day after the next day!!! Did you pick up our ring yet?”

“I will do that this afternoon!” Joseph replied.

“What about your suit? Did you pick up your suit and tie?” Bailey asked in an extreme urgent tone.

“I’ll do that too!” Joseph replied with insincere voice.

“Then, what about our furniture? Did you go to Ikea and tell the clerk that we will going to order that?…” Bailey spoke in a feckless voice.

“…No… then what about you? Did you pick out your dress, wedding ring, and our furniture? You know how much I am busy these days. And you are asking me to do all that chores? Are you serious? Do you not even care about my situation? Gee…!” Joseph raised his anger.

The conversation got end with Joseph’s anger. Then they hung up on their call. After a while, Joseph called Bailey back but she didn’t answer. Joseph regret on what he did to his fiancé. He tried to call Bailey over and over again, but she wouldn’t answer her phone. But, few hours later, Joseph got a phone call from his mother in law. She called Joseph and said,

“I heard you guys are facing some problems these days before the engagement.” She spoke with caring voice.

“Yes, and I made a huge mistake on Bailey today mam. I am so sorry for her right now. So I called her about hundred times but she is not picking up her phone…Is everything okay? Is she okay?” Joseph said in worried voice.

“Hahaha, yes son, don’t worry about Bailey. She is just not in a mood right now. She will eventually get better. But son, I have a suggestion.” She claimed.

“What is it?”

“Since you guys are not ready yet, what about postponing the engagement date? You are busy with your tasks, and Bailey isn’t just ready… She is always waiting for you to finish your tasks. So, would you like to postpone the date?” she said it with very soothing tone.

“Well, if that’s what Bailey wants to do, then let’s postpone the due date.” Joseph admitted without his thoughts.

Thus, their engagement got postponed and their relationship has gone so far that they can’t even fix the situations. As the time goes by, the engagement got cancelled. So Bailey and Joseph never met together after their phone call.

[Ten years later]

Joseph finally became a CEO of his company. He now owns his own business. He eventually succeeded and gained some wealth. However, he is not happy. He lost his one and only fiancé because of his anger. Due to his mistake that he made in the past, he regrets himself on what he had said to his girlfriend. And now, he is sitting in front of the fireplace at his home and listening to Maroon 5 thinking of her girlfriend Bailey.

“How have you been? Did you get married? Do you have any kids? I am very sorry for what I’ve done to you… I am such a bad guy. I still regret on my fault. I miss you. I mean I missed you…would you please come back to me? Your emptiness makes me feel very lonely”

Joseph was practicing his lines for the future when he actually gets to meet Bailey.

“That someday it will lead me back to you~”

Therefore, to not make any foolish mistake like what Joseph did in this story, we should really watch out for our mouth and our thoughts. We should always think before we speak. And hold on to our anger. If you have a person who means a lot to you then don’t make any regrettable mistakes because a spoken word is not amendable. (928)

I am a party planner. But actually, I am also an interior designer at the same time. I love designing an interior building. However, I majored in party planning. It was fifteen years old, when I started to show some interest in party planning. I had a chance to go to a dance club with my sister Lulu. Since Lulu was a business woman, she was all over the party stuff. So, I often got a chance to go to clubs with her from an early age. I used to help her out and design the interior of the club. It was extremely fun. So then, I decided to major in party planning and I went to various parties in U.S.. I mean I seriously traveled across the states to attend some hot parties. And as time goes by, I built up some amazing experiences to design my own party and decorate the interior of the party backgrounds. Then eventually, I did. That is now called a “Bazzinga” party club. Actually, this Bazzinga club is more of like a building. From the outside view, it would just look like a perfect normal building. However, when people enter inside of the building, it will make people to freak out. People will go insane when they step inside the building because the first floor of our building is all transparent. Which means, we could see through outside from inside clearly. And on the 2^nd and 3^rd floor, it is an actual dance hall. Also, the both floors have voice recognition so whenever people are thirsty or hungry, they can just say that “I’m hungry,” then it will automatically save their voices and will be served right in front of them.  So one day while I was working, my sister Lulu came to me and said,

“Hey your party is getting lame you plan the same thing everyday.”

“Do you really think so? Because I realized that too… these days I don’t have any ideas for the new creative party plan.” I replied.

“Or maybe you could just change the interior settings in the club. In that case, people will get more attracted to your building and they will obviously visit Bazzinga club more often.” Lulu answered.

Then later on, I contemplated myself every night. And finally, I figured out to enhance my party. Since the background setting was perfect, I decided to build up one more story on top of the third floor. And I wanted to make the last floor to be a VVIP room. So few days later, it really increased the guests to our party hall. Thus, we gave out some free drinks to people and now my “Bazzinga” club is bright star in Les Vegas. Well, I think I’ve been talking too much. I should finalize my introduction. To reflect on my self-introduction, I am very delicate and passionate person who loves partying and interested on miniature props for the interior designs. Living with dual jobs might seem really strenuous but, I enjoy my life very much! And special thanks to my sister Lulu, who gave me an inspiration to become a party planner plus designer.

“Oh! By the way, just to tell you some tips for your future, live with your ambitions and do whatever you can before you die.” (553)

“One, two, three” the whistle blew and the soldiers started to march.

Everyone in the people square gathered around the parade ceremony and they started to walk straightly towards the street. Cherry blossoms were fluttering all over the place. The pink leaves were falling on the ground one by one. I stepped on the pink fallen leaves and I smelled the spring scent all over the place. Since the place was so crowded with people, I was scared of getting lost. So, I held onto my mom’s hand tightly. My hands got all sweaty while holding her hands.

“Ding dong, ding dong,” the bell rang out loud. People in the parade danced along to the music from the stereo. The beat of the music was so loud that my ears got hurt. I plugged my ears and watched the parade. But, I felt like someone was calling me, so I abruptly turned around and looked back. There was a little girl standing behind my pants with crying face. I was so anxious, so I asked her.

“Are you okay? Did you lose your mommy?”

But she didn’t answer. Then, she pulled my pants real hard that I got literally got pulled by her force. I told my mom that I’ll take a little child to her mommy. Then my mom and I got separated. I chased after a little child to make sure that she goes to her mommy safely. But, I shouldn’t have chased her. Since I was in a rush, I didn’t get a chance to bring my cellphone. So I had no tools to call my mom. I got so frustrated. Though I had this frustrated mind, I just followed her. But something was very weird. She was keep going into the alleyway. And the street was quite dark. I was getting so nervous. So I asked her again,

“Honey, are you sure where you are going?”

As soon as I asked her a question, she suddenly stopped crying. I looked at her eyes then, she started to glare at me with a vicious look. I was afraid. So I just told her that I’ll go back to where my mom was. All of a sudden, she just grabbed my hand and pulled me into the black van. I squirmed my feet like a tornado. I yelled out loud.

“BAM” then I heard the sound of the car door closed.

I, then, realized that I got in the black van with eyes covered with a red handkerchief. They arbitrarily covered my eyes and drew me into their van. After thirty minutes of ride, the random people pulled me out from the van. And they uncovered my eyes then they dressed me up as a solider. I had no idea what was going on, but I just got dressed up compulsively and participated in spring parade. I was in the middle of the parade crew. I was the only girl who dressed up in a solider uniform. Everyone didn’t really recognize me well, so I just marched along the street with the soldiers.

“Sally! Sally!” my mom called me from the sidewalk.

“Mom! I’m here, I’m here!” I yelled right back to my mom with loud voice.

Luckily, she recognized my moves and she yelled at me with relieved voice. After when parade was finished, I found my mom right away and hugged her. I cried and cried for a while. She also cried. Then, I blamed that little girl for this situation. On the other hand, I also got an indelible memory due to that little girl. On an impulse moment, I get to be in part of the parade crew. I mean how can I participate in that cool parade ceremony by chance? So after the parade, I tried to find that little girl, but she was gone. Then I put my phone number and my letter on top of that black van, and left that place.

I wish I could meet that little girl one day in the future. Thank you for giving me the best memory of my life, little girl. (687)

“Boo!”

“What the heck? Just pour some candies in my basket. I’m 11 years old. I don’t get scared with that childish mask anymore!” said to Mr. Bob with little bit of a quivering voice.

Mr. Bob is my best buddy who lives next door. He used to hand out some candies for kids ever since I was six. Unlike the other houses, he hands out infinite amount of candies to children.

Oh! By the way, my name is Linda, Linda Lawerence. I live on 25^th street where it is well known for the horror festival. So whenever it’s Halloween season, our neighbors will decorate the whole street to make everything eerie. And also, my mom will cook a Halloween pumpkin pie for the Halloween treats! This is why I love Halloween. Eating those crunchy and juicy pies are the reason why I desperately wait for Halloween season to come.

But there is an unforgettable story that I want to share from last year’s Halloween. It is about me going alone into the haunted house. Since, my friends were cowards I went to the haunted house by myself. But, that was my wrong decision to celebrate Halloween on last year. Going into the haunted house by myself literally made me to pee on my pants. It’s still frightening to recall that memory. Everything was so quiet when I entered the house. I was only able to hear my heartbeat. After I inhaled my breath, I looked around the house with a flash. There was nothing but some spider webs on the ceiling and a mini candy box underneath the rocking chair. As I walked down the hall, I was able to hear a creaking sound from the wooden floor. However, on the end of the hallways, I found some kind of creature moving rapidly across the kitchen table. I first thought it was a person, because it was pretty big and heavy looking. I immediately shout at that creature. But, there was no answer. So I just walked down to the rocking chair to get the candy box. As I reached my hands underneath the candy box, I saw a pale looking face rolling underneath the rocking chair. I just freaked out at that moment. I screamed and cried. I ran down to the door, but it was locked. And, it said “you must get the candy box to get out of this house.” So, I closed my eyes and ran over to the rocking chair again and grabbed a candy box. But, on the way back to the door, my costume got stuck inside the wooden floor. There was a crack on the floor so my dress got caught. As I tried to pull out the dress, a bloody chopped hand abruptly grabbed my dress. It was pulling me into the downstairs. So, I kicked and stabbed a hand with my hair pins. But, it didn’t go away. So, I just took off my costume in that place and escaped. As soon as I got out, I fainted in front of my friends.

Then, few hours later, I got my souls back in. I cried like a little baby. Mr. Bob came to me and gently whispered.

“Was it that scary? I’m so sorry. I should’ve just let you go honey.”

Then, I fainted again after hearing that the ghost was Mr. Bob. I still feel betrayed toward Mr. Bob, but it’s better now. Anyways, I am really excited about tonight. No matter what, this time I’ll just compulsively put my friends into Mr. Bob’s haunted house. Anyhow, Happy Halloween everyone! (600)

The baby woke up and started to cry. The entire apartment was shaking like it encountered a strong earthquake.

I am a merchant. And my wife is a well-famed professor. So, just to brag about myself, both of us make a huge profit. And that’s why we are living in this luxurious apartment in Manhattan. But, there is a one problem that makes me and my wife go insane; a noise pollution. Since our apartment has powerful soundproof walls, everything is so peaceful and quite except for the baby crying noise. Whenever I come back from my tiring work, I can hear baby crying exactly at 11:45pm. It was like a routine for baby to cry exactly at 11:45pm. Thus, we had to suffer through sleep deprivation. Besides, my wife is a sterile, so it was just a torture for her to endure all that baby noises.

One day, we figured out a solution to not listen to that noise. We decided to come home late after work. So, after our works, we often went out for date and then came home at about 12:00am. In that case, we thought we won’t get to listen to baby crying while sleeping. Unfortunately, we were wrong. Since, the baby was a newborn baby, the baby just cries randomly everyday. Eventually, we couldn’t suppress that noise. So, I went to downstairs and screamed in front of the door.

“I am really sorry to say this to you guys, but since we can’t hold on to that noise anymore…Well, I know that your child is a newborn baby and I know that they cry a lot. But, we are the working people and we sometimes want to sleep quietly. But, whenever 11:45pm, your baby cries like a flock of crows and we can’t go to sleep peacefully. Could you please make your baby go to sleep early? I mean it’s really irritating for us to hear that every night.” I spoke with high pitched voice.

Then I knocked on the door and went back to my home. And, I told my wife that everything is solved. And, we went to bed at 11:00pm as usual. But suddenly, we heard that baby crying again. We thought we were just hearing things. It was a real baby crying sound. So, as soon as I heard that baby crying noise, I opened the window wide open and yelled outside.

“Not again! Would you please make your baby shut up?”

Few weeks later, since we couldn’t handle the baby crying anymore, we bought the detachable soundproof walls to stick it to our bedroom walls.

Luckily, this method worked out very well. My wife and I were so happy to sleep peacefully again. No more of crying sound at 11:45pm.

“So, those of you who can’t fall asleep peacefully, buy some detachable soundproof walls to stick it around your house walls. It will work right away. I promise. And it’s only 145 dollars. Make a good choice!” I advertised loudly. (500)