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This is a short story i had to write for my english honors class. we were supposed to write about a special gift and the person who gave it to you when you recieved. HELP!!!!
I had to do this in 800 word or less...my teachers friggin insane!!!!!!!
Sorry... anyway i had to take my other essay and transform it into a narrative. please guide me you guys. i'm having a really hard time with this assignment and my grade's depening on it...and my life.
The sky was the color of Pepto-Bismol that summer evening and my friend Bailey and I sat on the curb of the street outside of her house. Our favorite song was playing on the radio, but Aerosmith’s solid guitar skills weren’t succeeding in helping us face the facts. We knew that summer was ending as the sun continued to sink behind the lakes that stretched behind the neighborhood houses, and we knew that I was going to start next year at junior high. Bailey was one year younger than me, too young to go to middle school. She was my soul sister and we couldn’t stand being split up like this. It was like our friendship was getting close to an apocalypse.
“Can you pass the grapes?” Bailey asked. I nodded, dumping a bunch into her lap and laughed at her shocked face. She frowned at me with a disapproving cross of the arms, followed by a turned up nose.
“Do you remember how we met?” I asked suddenly. Bailey’s frown turned into a slight smile.
“Yeah. Our moms made us talk to each other after we got into a fight.”
“No, what did we fight over?” Her excited expression told me she remembered.
“The grapes,” she said. Bailey was right. We had been four at the time and our parents had set out some fruit. Apparently we both loved grapes and there wasn’t enough for the both of us to share. After our parents made us solve our dilemma out we continued to eat the grapes. Bailey had even insisted that she didn’t like them since they weren’t fresh ones.
“Grapes,” Bailey repeated.
“Fresh seedless grapes,” I said. She punched me teasingly. Although I was older, she was taller than me, more intimidating, and stronger. And because she was stronger, whenever she punched me, I would hold my arm discreder4cf3swetly to my side.
“Hey Ms. Brenda’s here,” Bailey said, pointing at the little Corolla. I wrinkled my nose in disgust. This was Bailey’s last piano lesson. We both despised the teacher, Ms. Brenda, whose laughs sound much like the sound a dog makes before barfing. The dreadful thing is she laughs at everything I do.
I walked into the house, Bailey and Ms. Brenda behind me. Bailey sat at the piano with Ms. Brenda breathing down her neck. Ms. Brenda was rather fat, so her exterior fell over each side of the chair. I couldn’t stop staring at her sometimes, she was that strange.
I sat on the couch in the same living room and watched as Ms. Brenda began to instruct. I had never been to one of Bailey’s piano lessons, recitals, anything she had to do with music. My point: I had never heard Bailey play on the piano before. As pathetic a friend that might make me sound, it was true.
“B flat,” Ms. Brenda shouted. I jumped and Ms. Brenda laughed. Bailey’s dog looked up and barked. Bailey then looked back at me with a teasing gesture. Unaware that we were making fun of her, Ms. Brenda finished the lesson in twenty minutes.
I loved how the piano sounded, and Bailey was really good at playing it. Ms. Brenda exited the house and drove off in a cloud of smoke. Bailey stood up. She quickly put her long brown hair into a ponytail. She was sweating slightly.
“Livi, I was so nervous with you watching me,” she said. I gave her a hug.
“I thought it was good,” I said.
Bailey went into the kitchen to make us peanut fluff sandwiches. Marshmallows and peanut butter combined was like Alpha and Omega. They were meant to be. I was still sitting on the living room couch, staring at the piano. It looked like it was staring me down, trying to pull me into the keys. Finally, I got up and sat down at the stool.
“Hey Bailey, can I play?” I asked.
“Sure,” Bailey shouted from the kitchen. As soon as my finger hit the keys I felt as if I had been playing for years. Something inside me clicked and I continued to let my fingers fly over the keys like frantic spider legs. To Bailey, it sounded like an elephant was trying to play. To me, it sounded like music.
Bailey walked over with our dinner and slapped my hands. I pulled them in close.
“What?” I said.
“I’m going to teach you a song. This will be a gift from me to you,” she said. Bailey taught me “Mary Had A Little Lamb”. The way she taught me the song it was like I was on a roller coaster. We started slow and pretty soon we picked up speed. Sometimes I would fall fast on that roller coaster and get a wrong note. Then I would pick up speed again and I would keep on to playing. I got the song down pat and continued to play it every day.
Soon after I started middle school I got piano lessons which were taught none other than Ms. Brenda. Now instead of playing by ear, I’m playing by reading the notes on the page. I played in recitals in churches and at my middle school performances. Four years have passed and I still haven’t forgotten Bailey’s gift. Now, after every single performance, I play “Mary Had a Little Lamb”. This is my way of saying, “I dedicate this performance to Bailey, my soul sister.”
The sky was the color of Pepto-Bismol that summer evening. My friend Bailey and I sat on the curb of her street outside of her house. Our favorite song was playing on the radio, but it wasn’t succeeding helping us face the facts. We knew that summer was ending as the sun continued to sink behind the lakes that stretched behind the neighborhood houses. And we knew that I was going to start next year at Junior high. Bailey was one year younger than me, too young to go to junior high. She was my soul sister and we couldn’t stand being split up like this.
“Can you pass the grapes?” Bailey asked. I nodded, dumping a bunch into her lap. I laughed at her shocked face.
“Do you remember how we met?” I asked suddenly.
“No, what did we fight over?” Her excited expression told me she remembered.
“The grapes,” she said.
Apparently we both loved grape and there wasn’t enough for the both of us to share.
After our parents made us talk the problem out we continued to eat the grapes.
Although I was older she was taller than me, more intimidating, and stronger.
“Hey Ms. Brenda’s here,” bailey said, pointing at the little Corolla.
I wrinkled my nose in disgust. This was Bailey last piano lesson.
We both despised the teacher, Ms. Brenda, whose laughs sound much like the sound a dog makes before barfing.
Ms. Brenda was rather rotund, so her exterior fell over each side of the chair.
“B flat,” Ms. Brenda shouted. I jumped and Ms. Brenda laughed. Bailey’s dog looked up and barked. Bailey then looked back at me with a jesting gesture.
Unaware that we were making fun of her, Ms. Brenda finished the lesson in twenty minutes.
Honestly I loved how the piano sounded, and Bailey was really good at playing it.
Bailey stood up; her long brown hair was pulled back into a ponytail.
“Livi, I was so nervous with you watching me,” she said. I gave her a hug.
“I thought it was good,” I said.
Bailey went into the kitchen to make us peanut fluff sandwiches. Marshmallows and peanut butter, what a genius, I thought silently to myself.
As soon as my finger hit the keys I felt as if I had been playing for years.
Something inside me clicked and I continued to let my fingers fly over the keys like frantic spider legs. To Bailey, it sounded like an elephant was trying to play. To me, it sounded like music.
“I’m going to teach you a song. This will be a gift from me to you,” she said. Bailey taught me “Mary Had A Little Lamb”. I got the song down pat and continued to play it. Soon after I started middle school…
Now instead of playing by ear, I’m playing by reading the notes on the page. I played in recitals in churches and at my middle school performances.
This is my way of saying I dedicate this performance to Bailey, my soul sister.
Congratulations on your score, Skittles. Now, for the next review. Any edits that I make will be in bold.
The sky was the color of Pepto-Bismol that summer evening.
Our favorite song was playing on the radio? CD player? iPod?, but it was succeeding in helping us face the facts.
She was one year younger than me.
“Yeah. Our moms made us talk to each other after we got into a fight,”
her expression of excitement told me she remembered.
"Grapes." Bailey repeated.
“Fresh seedless grapes,” I corrected.
She punched me teasingly.
The dreadful thing is she laughs at everything I do.
what a genius
HEY GUYS OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! i got a 26 out of 30 on this!!!! thankyou so much! ..........
...now you can help me with the final draft!
Skittles~
question # 1: Does this paragraph make any since?
I guess you could say we were two shirts tossed into a cat filled room. Each individual cat hair was like a different trait that was stuck into our cloth skin. Since we spent so much time together in that big hamper called Summerfield Glades, our special talents got mixed into each other.
question # 2: do you have to double space after every period, exclimation point, and question mark, ect. ? or is it just one space?
question # 3: are my sentences bad? do they make since?
question # 4: am i a bad writer. my mom says that i could be a golden writter if i just listened to her. she says she would have majored in english
Hiya! Here as requested!
“Can I have a grape?” Bailey asked. I looked at her for a moment and passed the bowl purple seedless grapes.
I obviously didn’t care about the temperature of the grape.
She may not have known this, but she taught me something that day.
You’re probably wondering why I bring up this age of my life. It’s simply this: I met my soul sister.
Let’s go back to the word crazy. It means mentally deranged; demented; insane.
And here’s the crazy thing, she’s one year younger than me.
our mother’s had arranged.
Pretty soon I was old enough to think on my own and decide things by myself. I quit swimming. And then I picked it up again. And then I quit again. And then I took up dancing. And then I quit that too. I was very active until I got into middle school.
Even though we were best friends we never saw eye to eye. We never understood each other completely.
That is until we merged our special talents. I went on to middle school and she stayed behind in elementary.
I guess you could say we were two shirts tossed into a cat filled room. Each individual cat hair was like a different trait that was stuck into our cloth skin.Since we spent so much time together in that big hamper called Summerfield Glades of Lakewood Ranch, our special talents got mixed into each other.
Hey Skittles, here as requested. ^^ The other reviewers' points are valid, so fix those grammar issues and such. I may repeat something, because I didn't read all of them.
“Well [comma here] fresh ones are better,” she said, sticking her nose in the air. I stuck mine up too.
Yes [comma here] I invite myself in. I just open the door, say hello to their dog and walk into Bailey’s room. We give each other a sisterly hug and go get some lunch.
I nodded my mouth full.
question # 3: are my sentences bad? do they make since?
This is why I think I caught my musical spark in the middle of middle school. My soul sister has given me the gift of just accepting things in life, even if it hurts. She has also taught me to accept change into my life.
Thank you guys for all your help and reviews. i'll post my grade after i turn it in!
Love,
Skittles
Hiya Skittles! ^_^ I'll answer your questions at the very end, because that's just the way I like to format my reviews. I'll go over some things first though.
“Can I have a grape?” Bailey asked. I looked at her for a moment and passed the bowl purple seedless grapes.
She took a bite and spit it out again, making a contorted face of disgust.
She may not have known this, but she taught me something that day. I was four years old at the time. You’re probably wondering why I bring up this age of my life. It’s simply this: I met my soul sister. My soul sister was something else, I’ll tell you that. As we got older and matured we learned that people’s thoughts matured as well. More sophisticated…theories. For instance you might call my soul sister weird, strange, intimidating, and in some cases a “nobody”. My soul sister has a name, Bailey. She detests the name, but I refuse to call her anything but. Bailey taught me to not listen to people with their rude remarks about the way we looked followed by our personalities. She taught me that best friends listen to each other. That they laugh as one, in unison, all the time. And that they have crazy ideas and weird habits that they share, like kindergarteners at lunchtime. Let’s go back to the word crazy. It means mentally deranged; demented; insane. And here’s the crazy thing, she’s one year younger than me.
The dialogue part doesn’t really go anywhere. It could tell us about the two characters, but it doesn’t. Try and put more personality into their speech – different speech patters, turns of phrase, things like that. Show your readers the people you’re dealing with.
The next few paragraphs tell us about the characters, but it manages not to be too tell-y, so good work on that. ^_^ However, at times it does feel like too much of a list: “she was like this and I was like this and she was like this and I was like this and we were both like this…” Also, what is a soul sister? At first it sounded like a kind of Third Age imaginary friend but then you talked about the arranged play dates, so now I’m assuming Bailey is a real person?
Your punctuation is off in some places, like here:
“My ears are bleeding,” she mused. We laughed even harder…If she had said that same sentence to me today; I would have punched her face in.
Hi Skittles, welcome to YWS! I'm Hawkie, and I'm glad to be your reviewer today. If I'm harsh, don't take it personally.
i. Nit-picks
purpled seedless grapes.
“Yes,”
I became less Logical and more optimistic.
We both became Artists and writers.
Now here’s the cool part where the little dreamy jingle comes as you go back into my memory when I start with the sentence, “I remember as if it were yesterday.”Although it wasn’t yesterday and was actually three years ago my memory is very good (in most cases).
“What are you doing Livi?”
My fingers flew over the keys like little frantic spider legs.
We laughed even harder…if she had said that to me today, I would have punched her face in.
It’s Mary had a little lamb,”
So after Bailey taught me “Mary had a little Lamb”, I became determined.
I took up band and orchestra and learned two instruments. The clarinet and the violin.
That change is good-keeps you fresh.
Fresh like a purple seedless grape.
Points: 269
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