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Creative Writing: Eaglewood High School

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The cold, brisk air hit their fragile bodies harsh like a cluster of bricks. Manda jumped and giggled at the tiny, yellow bird brushing past her head. Misty snarled and whipped herself around to smack the bird with all the power she managed in the freezing weather. Manda gasped and hurried over to the bird. “Why’d you do that?” she asked with fake tears in her voice. Misty snarled and threw the injured bird hard on the ground. The bus made a deafening screech sound as it pulled down the driveway. Together the girls made a run without hesitation as the bird took its last breath before disappearing from this world. The two girls dumped the insides of their packs to the lockers assigned to them. The old lockers aligned crookedly resembles the …show more content…

Melanie, a new sophomore at the school waved hello to the twins that was coming towards her. “Practice is at six?” Melanie asked quietly. Misty crinkled her nose at the cheap, ragged shirt she was wearing. Her collarbone popped up creepily, clear that she wasn’t fed well at home.
“Yup, that’s right.” Manda replied with a warm smile.
“No, five thirty” Misty corrected in her mind but played along with her twin sister by giving an approving nod. Misty knew for sure that Manda was simply lying straight to her face. These girls would do anything to make the mat. Princeton University was basically guaranteed after you make the cut for the national team. They’re out for blood. Oh poor her. Guess who’s going to be late for tryouts now. This thought was enough for a smile to creep into her face. The twins exchanged a baffled look when they saw the sophomore standing awkwardly at the corner with two shiny pom poms. Manda made sure to tell the clueless sophomore a time later so she’d get disqualified from tryouts. “Manda. Come here, I need to speak to you now,” Coach Wolff said in his authoritative voice. “Hi Coach! How are you?” Mandy replied in a voice as sweet as …show more content…

shook his head. “You know I treat all my members fairly. The next time I see this, you’re off the team,” he said sternly. From a couple feet back, Misty saw her sister digging her sharp nails into her palm, and sure enough fresh tears sprang to her eyes. Your plan failed. Now there’s nothing we can do Manda. We’re a living failure. Misty landed her icy blue eyes at the frail girl still shuddering in the corner. She noticed her nails were gnawed raw with angst and her eyebrows were knitted with concern. Misty watched emotionless as her sister made her way to the girl to yank the poms out of her tiny hands. A trail of blood followed when the poms caught onto the corner of her bitten nails. The girls were rolling up the mats at the end of tryouts when Coach W. pulled Melanie to the side. Manda noticed he was leaning a little too closely to the fifteen year old. He whispered something into the girl’s ear which made her turn sickly green. She fidgeted with her hands as she looked helplessly to the girls. After a short meeting, Coach casually asked Melanie to stay for some information about the uniform. The twins stared at each other with their frosty eyes and acknowledged wordlessly. Misty swung open the door when she caught Melanie’s eyes pleading silently for help. Misty looked up to see a swarm of lively birds flying across the somber sky and walked towards her car without

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