Creative Writing: Tater

Which was the reason why I hated Eros. I hated that I loved him. I hated that his one glance on me could lift up my mood instantly. For the last six years, ever since Mom and I moved to New York, I have been madly in love with the most unreachable guy in our school.

“I’ll be right over!” I excitedly told Carly over the phone. “Mom I’m going to Carly’s to make slime!” I yelled from my room. BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM. Four stomps boomed from the ceiling, my queue to go upstairs. “Coming!” I screamed. I bounded up the stairs into my mom’s room. “I’m going to Carly’s.” I repeated.

Grandma had figured out, that after seeing her shotgun, the Cowgill boys would be coming for it. So, she took her shotgun, turned the lights out, and made sure Joey and Mary Alice were silent. Then, she heard a file on the screen door, and she bolted down stairs and blasted them with a cherry bomb. BOOM!

"Wake up, partners," the trail boss, James called. I sleepily looked up , shivered, and saw I was the only one not up. "Here," James said, giving me the horses' bridles and saddles. "Take these and get the horses ready. We have a long day today." I groaned in reply and set up the horses for the day's long drag. I was the horse wrangler and this was my everyday job but I still couldn't get use to the idea of waking up before the sun and working. We drove the cattle into open plains against the winter's cold wrath.

“Yes I am dad.” Kevin screaming at the top of his lungs,” Mr.Cromwell needs to go!” While Howie and Kevin argued ,Cromwell was over there eating Kevin’s breakfast, waffles. It was too late, Howie and Kevin turned around ,the waffles were gone.Kevin and Howie went straight over to doggy daycare. Cromwell had stayed 1 hour knowing he wanted to leave.

“I don’t know; I didn’t vote for him. I didn’t vote for anyone, if that’s what you’re asking.”

“Oh, there you are” her mother would reply Jordan would giggle, then run back out the back door with no shoes on. For a few days Jordan came inside the house limping on one foot, crying to her mother, “Mommy, I got cactus stuck in my foot” her mother would sit there with tweezers, pulling out each spine from the heel of her foot Jordan flinching each time she yanked one out. As soon as her mother was done, she'd look at her mother thankful she could help her, but still a tear still rolled down her face onto the floor from the surging pain now in her foot. Her mother would look at her in the eyes and repeat “You better learn how to wear your shoes” Jordan would nod, then limp off to her room to take a nap. One day, Jordan opened her eyes, she looked out the door and found her mother to be in the yard digging up cactus in the yard. Jordan made sure to put on some shoes and ran outside hiding around the corner of the house. Her mother saw her peeking around the corner of her house and said “Jordan, do you want to come help me?” Jordan smiled disappearing back around the house. She ran around the other side of the house trying to make her mother to jump. Kristina would giggle and say “Get over here you little turd” Jordan would run up to her mother, hug her, then look up at her saying “I love you mom” as her mother looked down

When he sat up he saw a grandma, but this was not any grandma it was thee grandma. It was grandma Debbie. This was the one he got blamed for tying up and stuffing in the closet. She was staring him down looking like a shootoff was about to happen. Schlargen could smell the sweet smell of chocolate chip cookies as grandma Debbie pulled them out. Schlargen saw the steam rising from them as if it was a real cloud from outside. The chocolate perfectly melted into the cookie, like a chocolate river from Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. As she took a bite the crumbs fell like raindrops onto the ground. He could barely resist, but then he tried to grab them and ran into the metal bars that he forgot were there. As soon as Schlargen woke up again he sat up and started screaming. Little Felicia Wendys (Little red riding hood) could not stand the screaming so she finally revealed herself from behind the wall. Schlargen just went back to sit in the the corner after seeing her. Hours later the same police officer came back and took him to the therapy office. After the meeting Schlargen was so happy he couldn’t believe it, he got a retrial. Over at granny's house it was a normal day with protesters in front of her house, when out of nowhere an officer cuffed granny and Little Felicia to take them to the

“NO!” The word flew out like a bomb, but she wasn’t done. Once her mouth was freed, all the internal pent up pressure exploded.

Susie’s mother opened the door to let Molly, Susie’s babysitter, inside. Ten-month old Susie seemed happy to see Molly. Susie then observed her mother put her jacket on and Susie’s face turned from smiling to sad as she realized that her mother was going out. Molly had sat for Susie many times in the past month, and Susie had never reacted like this before. When Susie’s mother returned home, the sitter told her that Susie had cried until she knew that her mother had left and then they had a nice time playing with toys until she heard her mother’s key in the door. Then Susie began crying once again.

“Mom, can I go to uncle Marks?”I asked. “Sure , go get your stuff ready and packed, and I’ll call them.”Ok! “Uncle mark said yes.” “But you are gonna make slime , so we are have to go get the glue.”

I repeated those words everyday as I sat with blank eyes in a pitch black room. I was feared by many, people dreamt about me, including you.

I watch as Caleb stuffs a pickle into his mouth and I can tell by his face he really doesn't like pickles. He takes another huge bite and I'm worried that he's going to throw up all over the place. Then he shoves the rest into his mouth and swallows it and goes back to his group to tag Jordan in. I look at Violet and she has to eat a long candy snake that looks like it came in a seven pound bag. I can hear her trying to eat it and she's gagging so badly. In my head I'm crossing my fingers-hoping she won't throw up everywhere but luckily she didn't. She eats the rest and tags the next person in her line. I would've gag and thrown up if I had to stick that whole thing in my mouth. Bleh. Violet comes back and I can see that her eyes were light

“Attention, shoppers, there is a traitor among you. One of the employees from Foodtopia, the rival grocery store, has infiltrated us. Anyone who apprehends this imposter will be rewarded with thirty dollars. Just a reminder: we are covering all exits with metal grates. Thank you and have a nice day.”

“I have a job for you little girl.” My grandpa called from the milkhouse, excited I called back “What is it?”. Growing up as a farm child, I was always excited to learn something new on the farm, I couldn’t wait to do everything my dad and grandpa did. “I want you to use the floor bucket to milk Betsie” my young heart jumped with joy, as a 7 year old farm child this was something I looked forward too. “You better scrap the walk first