Story 7 (704 words)

This story is going to be told through first person. I am going to be the first person narrator because this is a true story. Here we go!

I was just sitting at home playing some Spiderman 2 on my PlayStation 2. I was playing that even though I have an Xbox 360. It was the summer of 2013, so the summer that just ended. It was around the time of the Lancaster carnival. Back to the story. I was just sitting at my house when all of a sudden I get a phone call. It was from thee Austin Hopcia. I was a little puzzled as to why he was calling me, so I answered it. The conversation went a little like this.

“Uh Hello.”

“Hey Jake Woj.”

“Who is this?”

“It’s Zelasko”

“Hey man.”

“You’re going to the carnival. Tell Joe.”

“Alright man..”

Then I went and told my mom what was going on and called Joe. Hopcia picked me up with Zelasko and Cole. Then we went to Joe’s house and picked him up. Then we started our adventure to the Lancaster carnival. On the way there Zelasko put his hand out the window like a gun and pretended to shoot at a car. It just so happened that the car was a cop. Hopcia was really nervous at this point because he thought we were going to get pulled over, but we didn’t. We decided to give a call to our good pal Matt Schaefer. He was at a graduation party for someone he knew in Lancaster. We parked outside and we were yelling his name until he came out. Then he dove in the suv and we went the carnival. We walked around and played some I got it. We decided we had enough of the game, so we decided to walk around and try to find someone we knew. The next thing we knew our good pal Tom Reger came out of nowhere. We all started talking and we walked over to this large group of kids. Then Tom’s little brother came up to Tom and said that someone was making fun of him and he was older than him, so we all followed Tom and he went to talk to the kid. The only problem is he was younger than Tom, so the mean kid called his brother complaining how Tom was being mean to him. It was just a whole lot of words being said. Then the older brother came up to use and started dropping f bombs and freaking out. Then he was saying lets fight at save a lot, but then Tom saw the older brother and realized how big he was, so he didn’t want to fight, but then something crazy happened. This guy that was with him took his shirt off and started yelling who will fight me. Then Tom was pretty annoyed with this kid at this point, so he agreed. If the dumb guy never would have taken his shirt off and started yelling I bet that no one would have fought him. Then Tom knocked the kid out in like three punches. The other kid started it, so everyone was okay. We all bailed at that point. Hopcia, Zelasko, Cole, Joe, and I all drove to drop Joe off at home, and after that we went and played some basketball at Rufus Marx’s house. That was a weird time. We lost the game, so we decided to go to get some Gatorade. The blue kind in the squirting bottle. The only problem is we couldn’t find it anywhere, so we had to go to Tops and just get it in regular bottles. That was a bummer. After that we went to McDonalds to get some food, but instead of them giving us the two burgers we got a quarter pounder burger patty. It was weird. They dropped me off at home shortly after that, and I went to bed to think about how crazy of a night we had. Yes I do still have the video.

The moral of the story is don’t be that guy to take his shirt off and try to fight people. Someone eventually will.

Story 6 (300 Words)

There was a little red bird named Jerry. Jerry the red bird was a canary. This canary was very hairy. Jerry the canary liked to fly around in the hood. He stuck around in Brooklyn. This was a very rare creature. Jerry the canary was known as a hood bird. He would fly around and fight other birds. He would even sometimes loot and pillage peoples houses. He would fly into open windows and start breaking open glass containers and steal all the cookies. Jerry the canary didn't have too many friends because of how he treated everyone. Jerry was the outcast of the hood. If people seen him flying they would either scare him away or throw stuff at him to try and hit him. Jerry didn't like that too much. That would only make Jerry the canary angry, and when he was angry that's when he would go loot and pillage the hood. After awhile of this Jerry got sick of it, so he decided to move and live somewhere else. Jerry didn't really know where to move to, so he just started flying. He eventually ran into this sketchy parrot named Garrett. Garrett the parrot told Jerry the canary they could fly together and find a new place to live. They ended up in New Jersey to start their new lives. They lived on the telephone pole on the corner of New and Jersey. Jerry wasn't too sure how Garrett survived, but Garrett was a big parrot, so Jerry figured that he knew how to eat well. That's when Jerry the canary asked Garrett the parrot how he ate, and that's when Garrett said well I like to eat little red birds. Jerry the canary was really scared, so he started to fly away. He didn't know where he was going, and then he flew into a pole and fell to the ground. Jerry the canary was never seen again.

Story 5 (300 Words)

The once was a girl named Natalie, and Natalie was dating a boy name John. John did everything he could to make Natalie happy, but Natalie didn't realize this. Natalie started hanging out with a boy named Brandon. They would go on dates around town and spend a lot of time together. This would cause problems between Natalie and John. John and Brandon used to be best friends, but then when John and Natalie started dating Brandon stopped talking to John and only would talk to Natalie. John would try to talk to Natalie about how she ignores him for Brandon. The only problem is that Natalie would then turn the tables and get mad at John for saying how much he was upset. Everyone out there told John to leave her so he wouldn’t get hurt, but John didn’t care. He wanted to be with her more than anything else in the world. Natalie just would never see it out of John’s eyes and that hurt John. That hurt him really bad. He would try to not let it bother him, but no matter what happened he would get hurt. Brandon started writing Natalie songs even though they were only “friends.” All of this hurt John. He didn’t know how much more of this he could take. He knew that within the next few months he would lose Natalie to Brandon. That was John’s biggest fear. The only problem is that John couldn’t take the thought of being alone. He hated being alone, so he stuck through all of the stuff that happened, but deep down every time Natalie and Brandon would talk it would hurt him and he would just get sad. John was the one getting hurt, but Natalie would get mad and take it out on him. John wasn’t ready to lose her, so he didn’t.

Story 4 (600 words)

There was a band named Chasing Bridges. They finally had their first show. The singer of the band was Justin Marie, the main guitarist was Nate Lowmair, the bassist was Sean Masson, and the drummer was Brendan Farley. The band all met during their freshman year. They all went to Lancaster High School and they didn’t know they could all play different instruments and had all the components of a band. Justin and Nate first started hanging out when they were both assigned to do a project for health class. They had to learn about what the other liked and disliked. At the same time Sean and Brendan were doing the same thing. Nate found out that Justin really liked to sing and play acoustic guitar, and Sean learned that Brendan liked to play the drums. Justin found out that Nate could shred on a guitar, and Brendan learned that Sean could play the bass like no other. During the next health class they all did presentation about each other and learned that they could all play different instruments. In health class their teacher brought up how they could all start a band. That sounded like a good idea to them, so they all got together during health class and they talked about how they practiced and where they learned. Everyone besides Justin went to classes for it. Justin taught himself how to sing and how to play guitar. This is how he escaped from everything that was going on in his life. Justin was the one who thought about making a legit band. They were throwing ideas around. One of the names they thought of was “Fridays With Her.” The entire band didn’t think that that was a good idea for the band.  They threw that name right out and came up with Chasing Bridges. Chasing Bridges was the very first home town band that had a chance of going somewhere fast. They practiced almost every day after school and sometimes during school they would go to the band room and write songs and make chord progressions. This is where it all began for them. The band came together and threw down all the money they could and booked a place on their first gig. It was at a little place, but they had to start somewhere. This was an important show for them because if they did great, it would help future promoters look for them and book them. If they could make a name for themselves then many doors would be opened that no one else would have open. They were watching the other bands perform and they felt like they weren’t as good as the other bands, but then they decided they would play the best show ever. They got their set list together and headed for the stage. They played 5 songs. The first song there was no one by the stage, but once they started playing people started coming. By the time the last song was played everyone was yelling encore. The only problem was the only other song they had was only half written and it wasn’t practiced once. They decided they would give them a little sneak peak, so they played about 20 seconds of the song and everyone was dying for more, so the band realized their little project would turn into something much bigger. They made a Facebook page and a twitter for the band and it was looking very good for them, but that’s when the unthinkable happened. Justin realized his full potential and left the band to try and go for a better band. The only problem is the band wasn’t as committed as his original band. Now Justin Marie works at Tops and doesn’t play or sing anymore.