Creative Writing: Lucy's Murder

Hayley goes back to her house to get sweatpants. She sees her dad with Trish. Hayley gets upset with Trish and start yelling. Andy starts yelling too and Finn comes in. Andy gets more angry that a boy is with Hayley, so he grabs Finn’s collar. Hayley says she is going to Gracie’s, she packs a bag and runs. She heads for a bus station and Finn follows her. Finn convinces her to stay at his house. He makes her breakfast and Gracie and Tropher show up. They explain that the police came at the party at the quarry. Finn and Hayley tell their secrets to each other. Hayley talks about her mom, Rebecca. Finn talks about his addict sister, Chelsea. Hayley explains the whole backstory about Trish. The next morning, Hayley goes home. She gets into an argument with her dad, about how he never told her about Trish. Hayley goes to Gracie's house and Gracie is hungover. They talk about Gracie drinking and the Trish problem. Later in the week, Hayley, Finn, Gracie and Tropher talk at lunch. Hayley and Finn get into an argument about Finn not telling Hayley about his family. After their fight, there was a lockdown at school. When they were safe, Hayley gets into a fight with a kid picking on another kid. She gets punched in the face. In the nurse's office, she makes up with Finn. At home, she goes grocery shopping with Trish. I think it is important that Hayley volunteered to go shopping with Trish. Hayley

However, the class environment is much different which causes Charlotte to change the way that she views her extravagant teacher. The new classroom could be described to have an environment that was based upon hostility and disdain. Miss Hancock is the new target of mockery, she is given no respect. Charlotte begins to take part in the antics of her new class. Miss Hancock raises her arms and a boy yells “‘let us pray’”. (5) Laughter exploded within the room and Charlotte joined as she “snickered fiercely” (5) behind her duo tang folder. The pressure of the entire class laughing has an impact on Charlotte that causes her to disrespect Miss Hancock by joining in. The new environment is beginning to cause Charlotte to change the way that she had initially treated Miss Hancock. Furthermore, the new student-created environment causes Charlotte to fear speaking to Miss Hancock publicly. As a result of this, Charlotte arranges to speak to Miss Hancock after class as she “wanted to be sure that [the conversation] would not be witnessed.” (5) The new environment has pressured Charlotte into avoiding contact with Miss Hancock as she likely wants to avoid being also mocked by her classmates. The class has changed Charlotte’s character by indirectly causing her to fear interacting with Miss

Scott was... done. Just done. He supposed Mitch noticed the difference over the last few days, but he really couldn't care. He killed... no, helped kill Alex. He tossed his body out of the window and pulled off all his fingernails. He even held the poor bastard's mouth open as Mitch ripped out all of his teeth. Scott released a bitter laugh and lowered his head, avoiding his reflection with an even more bitter grin. He assisted in a murder.

"Hello, this is Jimmy's pizza, how can I help you?" answers the woman from the pizza restaurant.

“Dammit Billy , what has happened to you this time?” , said the redneck mother.

“Why are you laughing Mrs. Maloney?” asked Jack, already suspicious. Already planning on writing the report, getting the court ready for the trial. Mr. Maloney was his friend, and he needed justice. Mrs. Maloney had to think of a valid excuse quick.

It’s the next week and they’re in the car on the way to school. Finally, Bethany has had enough and decides to speak out about it.

The first time his parents heard about Charles is when Laurie said he was spanked by the teacher. He was fresh the teacher spanked him and made him stand in the corner. “You wanna know what Charles did”, Charles was so fresh that he yelled and a boy from a different grade had to come to tell the teacher to keep him quiet, and because of that Charles had to stay after school and “all the kids stayed after school with him”. Actually, there is no Charles because when the Laurie’s mother confronted the teacher about Charles the teacher was confused and said that there was no Charles. It turns out Charles is just the name Laurie used to describe himself to his

“I can’t wait for the haunted house adventure in the old mansion near 13 main street!” said Sadie. “I bet it's going to be fun,” said Carter “ But good thing we found this old cabin to stay in while we wait for the rain storm to pass,” said Amos. “I wonder who lives here and why does it smell like dead meat.” voiced Carter. “Who cares who about I just want to know what the owner going to think when he sees three teenagers in his

Murder In The Paperback Parlor is the second book in the A Book Retreat Mystery series.

She had that confused look on her face, the kind where you pinch your eyebrows together and tilt your head. “Well, he must be talking about someone else. I have never taught a Charles in kindergarten,” said the teacher shaking her head. She was fairly short with blonde, curly hair, and I could tell she had dark bags under her eyes. Those must have been caused by Charles I thought to myself. I stared down at my tea, wondering what had happened to Charles. No one would have just made him up, not my little Laurie. He was always such a good child, never anything but good.

Throught the seven different tapes she tells each person the events and their actions that prompted her to kill herself. Clay Jensen had gotten the tapes in the mail and he did not understand why he had received them because he did not think he was influential in Hannah’s life. As Clay was waiting for his name to come up in the tapes he found out things about his classmates that he could not believe. One event was that a boy named Zach Dempsey was secretly stealing Hannah’s notes that classmates had wrote to her to make her feel good about herself. Another event was when Ryan Shaver took one of Hannah’s poems and put it in the newspaper as his own. Hannah did not feel safe anywhere after that. However she did feel safe when she was talking to Clay. When Clay’s name came up he was shocked to hear he did not do anything that was as terrible as the other people who were on the tapes. Sometimes people do not know how they influence people’s lives. Some people on the tapes did terrible things that made Hannah hate her life even more but in Clay’s case he made her feel better until he didn’t defend her when the rumors were going around about her. Clay did not feel that he was an influential person in Hannah’s life but as the tapes showed, he clearly was very important to

In the first few weeks of school Laurie came home full of stories about Charles, the class rebel. Charles was rude to the teacher, hurt some of the other students, and yelled so loudly that it disrupted other classes in the school. He even hit the teacher, and kicked a presenter that came into their class. During those same weeks, Laurie’s behavior grew worse, mirroring Charles’ problems at school. He became loud and insolent,

When Charlies car breaks down on the way to her parents’ house, she fears the worse. Stranded with no car, she takes a ride from the mechanic to her parents’ house. With a winter storm coming in though, Charlie makes him stay the night.

“She’s thirteen, Sarah,” he told her. “That’s old enough to know better. Now wipe up your mess.”