Tootie's Duties: A Narrative Fiction

In college Louise choses to befriend another thin girl, Carrie. They become really close and even write one another when they leave for breaks during college. Even still in college, Louise hid candy and would eat it when she thought Carrie was asleep. One night Carrie said to Louise “One night last week I woke up and smelled chocolate. You were eating chocolate, in your bed. I wish you’d eat in front of me, Louise, whenever

The first thing I can remember is when I was laying in my mother bed.

I handed the half drank shake to the girl. I knew the girl would not drink it but still out of my own heart I had to serve her something. The black girl, took it anyway and replied, “Thanks

It was less than a second, maybe half a second, but it changed everything. It was late at night after a soccer game. I was laying down in my room, coloring in a picture book, when my parents called me downstairs. After my sister and I walked downstairs, we were told to sit on the couch. Apparently my parents had something important to tell us, i didnt really realize what was going to happen because I was younger, so I sat on the couch smiling widely.

I can still recall a small but impactful moment I experienced my Freshman year of high school. I dropped my pencil in class

The time I got the concussion. I was skating with two of my friends when I fell over forward onto my head. I got up and I was really dizzy and I didn't know what was happening. My math teacher Mr. Darling brought me over to the bench and checked my eyes. My eyes were dilated. We had to call my parents, thankfully I remembered

Memories can last a life time, so we tend to only remember the extraordinary ones. Extraordinary like the essay “The Yellow Ribbon” by Pete Hamill, in which he talks about how a person named Vingo, was riding on a, bus recently released from jail, to this oak tree explaining to some passengers that he had told his wife to leave him if she wanted, since he went to jail or to go to this oak tree and tie a yellow ribbon around it to see if she wants him to stick around and he will go and check it out. In the end, he saw hundreds of ribbons tied on to the tree. Not only is this an amazing story, but also very unforgettable one as well, because he finds out that after four years in jail his wife has enough love for him to go to this tree and tie hundreds of ribbons just to show the type of love the women had for Vingo. I have to say that, I believe this story is truly unforgettable, but I also got a story that is very extraordinary, like the time that I got my very first car. Furthermore, I didn’t just get a car, I got the love of two truly loving parents.

I have one memory from my childhood that is very vivid, most likely because I was seen on Americas Funniest Home Videos. It all started when my brother had an idea, at the time it seemed very fun and harmless. The idea was to make a skate video of him, but like always I wanted to be just like him so I wanted in on this video as well. Little did I know I was going to end the day in the emergency room, in tears, with an ice pack and twelve stitches, and later find myself on national television.

“Oh right, forgot about that,” and just like that Brennan clicked his phone back into sleep mode. Now to get back to his grand campaign in his game. David was a good friend and he had been since middle school, but he had the habit of bothering him sometimes. They were exact opposites in personality. David was all outgoing and didn’t really keep to himself, while Brennan had been the very definition of an introvert. Nothing you could do about though. Brennan went back to his game, but for some reason the palms of his hand had begun to get all sweaty. He didn’t know why, but he started feeling dizzy too. He ignored it and continued to

She was sitting in one chair and her feet were propped up on another. Alannah admired her black boots, and made a mental note to ask her where she had gotten them. Nealie was so in grossed in something on her cell phone that she hadn't even heard Alannah walk in. For being in her mid forties, she still acted like a teenager. Alannah thought. "Nealie…" Alannah began. "Oh, shite in a bucket Alannah, you scared me half to death," Nealie exclaimed jumping to her feet and hurriedly stuffed her phone in her pocket as if she were hiding something. Alannah smiled at the use of the Irish saying. "Sorry I just came to get a broom to sweep up the bits of glass I broke," Alannah told her. "I heard some commotion out there, what was that all about?" "Some jerk decided to order a piece of my ass with his burger and I dumped my drink on him," Alannah said, laughing at how it sounded. "I'm sorry, I'll pay for it, I just hate being talked to like that." "Well, in that case don't worry about it. Good for you for standing up to that jerk, baby," Nealie said, kissing Alannah on the forehead. She reached into her pockets and pulled out a twenty dollar bill and handed it to Alannah. "For telling that asshole were to stick it." "But - Finn probably scared him off more than me." Alannah tried to protest.

Another memory I had was when my cousin and I decided to make our own slip and slide. We had some old tarps and blankets. We put the blankets down first then we put the tarps on top of the blankets. We put some dishwashing soap on the tarps. Then we put water all down the tarps. We would take turns sliding down the tarp to see who could slide down the tarp the farthest .After a few minutes I cut my knee on some glass that was under the blankets and tarps.

The mother arrived at the library little past 4:15 P.M. because she walked to 7-Eleven to get Gillian some snacks including Guava juice and Pringles. While Gillian was in the car, the mother asked for her preferences of chip flavors. In front of the library, Gillian took off to run away and hid behind the trees although this worker tried to call her back. Gillian then ran into the library and hid underneath the checkout computers. When this handed her some cookies, Gillian crawled out and pretended to be a lion. Grabbing the cookies, she said “thank you” and continued hiding. When the mother arrived, Gillian ran towards her to give her a hug. They checked in a group study

I’ve never been so scared of my little child life my brother Vernon flew across the field and landed on the ground. The ambulance came pronounced him dead and brought him back to life. I say this was a snapshot moment because this was the moment when I learned that I will always have to be responsible for my brothers and that imust keep an eye on them. I guess it stuck with me because at that time it wasn’t funny but now that we are older we laugh and joke about it.

“Fine!” Tannie said, firmly. She spent a few minutes trying to tie them, but the loop kept on coming out. Tannie sighed, looking up. Nereth just stood there with arms folded. Instead of being frustrated, she pulled them tight, and wrapped them around and around her ankle and tucked them into the top of her shoe. She would teach herself how to tie her shoes, but she was too bored of this place.

During lunch in the cafeteria, I didn’t eat my lunch. The flashbacks of Mrs. Price with that uncaring face make me feel disappointed and hurt. I’m not hungry because of those feelings whirling inside me. Phyllis Lopez, who’s on the other end of the room, stares at me in disbelief and disgust of her sweater being worn by me.