Nod Your Head

the heartbeat in the walls “They’re lonely, you know,” her grandma informs Juno slyly one early Sunday morning as she slips into her gram’s room for the fourth time that week. The lighting of the room is dim, a warm golden cast from lamplight and glow-in-the-dark stick-on stars. Juno’s blanket is around her shoulders like a cape, red and fluffy and dragging against the scarred floor, and her grandmother’s quick to follow the fashion statement, wrapping her own around her frail, curled figure. She

a crowd hovering around something. I shake my head and make my way to my locker. "Those stupid fuckers are bullying the new girl. Supposedly, she fucked a bunch of dudes at her old school." I look over there again and chuckle. "Yeah. Right." Not dressed in that getup she's wearing. Her sweats look like they belong to someone five times her size. "Sadie and Parker are egging them on, That's kinda shitty, they do the same thing." He shakes his head and opens his locker.

shine, not just a simple glow, but an actual light. The bark is a dark reddish-purplish-brown. You can’t see the bottom of the tree and you don’t know what the ground looks like. You feel the cold wind on your face, your jacket not doing much to keep you warm. You hear a vvp sound coming from below your branch. The sound is gone as instantly as it appeared. As you crawl to the trunk of the tree, you look around for what made the sound. Once out of the dense foliage, you see a person against the trunk

one-hundred-year-old grandpa. I mean I told her that technically my birthday was 3 days away, but then you called… If she chooses a dork over me, what does this make me? A double dork! (pause and think. Place hands on head) Renee is looking confused and worried. Renee sighs and looks down. Places hand on head. Then looks back up. Claire takes out a magazine from shopping bags and starts reading.

"I think it's held at the cemetery this year," I then draw a Patrick above my message, I fold up the paper and pass it to Rose. She unfolds it and then looks up and nods at me. "Miss. Harper and Mr. Ryder can I have a word with you two?" Miss. White asks looking up from the papers on her desk. SHit! Did she see me and Rose passing notes?! No you idiot, if she did she would be calling Rose not Ryder...Duh. My brain

"Simon I told you I can't go to your gig tonight!" Seraphina Marullo said frustrated as she struts down the street in a black mini pencil skirt, matching it with a white crop top. She had black stilettos on her feet which matched her blazer and purse perfectly. Her makeup was minimal with her hair up in a messy low side bun that made her look flawless and effortless. "But you said you would and you didn't come to the last one you promised!" Simon Lewis pointed out pouting. He hadn't seen her in

in, sit down and take notes on the lecture. Then I pack up and head to the gym. I work on my routine for the competition this weekend and then when I finish I head to the showers and quickly scrub the sweat and chalk off of my body and get dressed. I got into my

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Your name is Pacifica Northwest and you are an eight year old, vivacious, wealthy blonde living in the peaceful town that was Gravity Falls, Oregon. It was small, and your mansion was probably one of the biggest buildings in town, owned by none other than Patricia and Richard Northwest. Right now, you are at your mother Patty’s side as she is admiring herself in her vanity mirror, powdering her face with blush to match her already beautifully done makeup. The twenty-five year old, aesthetically

Your name is Aradia Megido and a few weeks ago, you bought yourself a ticket to Six Flags Magic Mountain so you could go with a few of your close friends today! But... they all bailed on you and since you don’t want your somewhat expensive ticket to go to waste, you decided to go by yourself! You’ve been here a million time! Sure it was with friends but at least you know your way around! You drive up to the location and hop out of your car. The weather here is absolutely awful, super humid and almost