Skating in Pajamas
It was finally Ellie's time to shine. Out in the open everyone cheering. She had been practicing for months. Listening to her coaches tips and pointers, and everytime he did she would assimilate them and try her best to follow them. There was never any dissension between her coach and her. He gave her tips and she tried her best to follow it.
She remembers seeing the poster in the locker room five months ago. The poster that screamed for her to come and compete at the annual ice skating competition. She knew if she wanted to compete she would have to practice. But she never gave up. She fell many times but got up and kept skating.
Ice Skating was her passion, she wasn't going to give up on it that easily. She wanted to prove to everyone that she could skate and could win. She begged her coach to help her think of a routine. After many attempts, he succumbed and helped her to train.
The day before the competition she dreamed of skating around the cold smooth ice, everyone cheering her on while she skated and afterwards they would pick her up on their shoulders, they lionized her, until she woke up to find her brother screaming at her. "It's late, you're late, Get up!"
She ran out the door still in her Pajamas out into the dark, cloudy morning. She rushed in her car and drove off. Yesterday she had put her skates and outfit in the back seat, so she would not forget. Looking back at it, she's glad she did. "I can make it if I hurry, I can do this."
She could've...But there was traffic on the highway, too much traffic. She thought that there was probally a little accident, blocking a lane or two, but instead it turned out to be a calamity blocking all the lanes. No one could get through. There was a big- ramp-looking tow truck blocking everyone. She was frantic. She knew if she didn't make it she would regret it forever. Her routine was perfect, the song choice was perfect, She deserved a chance and she knew it.
It was unbearable for her to wait in the car, the traffic was not progressing, the radio was playing bad music again, and the rain was pounding so hard on the windows she couldn't even think. So she took a risk. She drove straight for the big-ramp-looking tow truck, and well...used it as a ramp. The car shot through the sky, nearly hitting electric wires as it flew. Birds that were perched upon the wires flew away scared. And then the car came down, the people outside in the highway were screaming, the people inside the cars were screaming, and you could bet Ellie was screaming too.
The car landed with a thud. Ellie wasn't hurt but she was shaken. "I can't believe I just did that! It was...Amazing!" Unfortunetly for Ellie, Her car didn't survive the crash, it wouldn't turn on again. She knew she didn't come all this way for nothing, so she grabbed her skates, opened the door, and began to run through the rain in her pajamas. Meticulous not to drop her skates or step in any puddles.
It took about twenty minutes for Ellie to arrive at the Ice Arena. When she did she knew she would have to explain to the secruity guard who she was and why she was late. She could deal with that, but when the guard saw her, he screamed, like a little girl who just found out the truth about Santa, and also he fainted. Ellie would have loved to help him, but she was to busy searching his pockets for the keys to the door. When she found them she opened the door and threw the keys on his big, fat, jiggling belly.
She ran to the locker room to change out of her pajamas and into her beautiful, expensive outfit she bought just for this event. But when she looked down she realized it was back on the highway, in her car, two miles away. She nearly pulled the blades of her skates, but then she heard her name being announced. It was her turn. It was her time to shine.
She turned around and ran to the ice. Ellie skated into the center of the arena and struck her starting pose. As soon as she did she was laughed at by the thousands that were in the bleachers. Her face turned hot, but when the music started she began to skate. The crowd silenced when she did. They were silent until the very end. Then they clapped and cheered. They threw roses and teddy bears. She was applauded. They lionized her. And for the first time today, she was happy. Then a whole group of people came to grab her and put her on their shoulders just like in her dream, but instead those people were the police and the security guard from outside. And they didn't look so happy.
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Daniel the Mailman
and the Two Dancing Dwarfs
"So what exactly happened? Start from the beggining, don't leave anything out." The detective interrogated Daniel, Vigan,and Saad in a dark room, the only light was the bright light shining in the middle of Daniel's face, making each of their palms sweat nervously. The heat from the light sweltered all three of them making them very uncomfortable.
Saad was the first one to talk. "We don't know anything!"
The detective's dark grimace gave each of them goosebumps, but they said nothing. "My sources tell me all of you were accused of vandilizing school property, caused a calamity in your school, and worst of all you started the most bizarre dance party I ever heard of. So it seems you do know something, the question is, who will speak up first?"
This time it was Vigan who spoke up. "You have no proof!" He yelled at the detective so loud any regular person would lean back startled, but not Detective Budd. Detective Budd was the best detective in all of Central America, no one ever had scared him or has left a case with him without spilling something about there crime.
"Your name is Vigan right?" He said looking at his clipboard to be sure. "You like video games Vigan?"
Vigan didn't apprehend where he was going with this, but he nodded.
"Good Good." He said with a sly smile on his face. "Well, you wouldn't want anything to happen to your precious Black Ops game now would you?"
To Saad and Daniel it was imminent that Vigan was going to freak out and tell the detective everything. But what actually happened was way more bizarre. Vigan started to growl louder and louder by the second, then Boom! He jumped of out of his seat breaking the shackles of his hands, and jumped on the detective and began to punch and kick like a little kid. And the whole time he was yelling "Black Ops!"
Daniel and Saad would've laughed any other day, but today they knew if they did anything else wrong they could be arraigned or who knows what else. Vigan was still yelling and fighting, when the backup came in, grabbed Vigan and strapped him on the chair in shackles once again.
The backup finally left and the detective got back to work.
Same expression hasn't changed, not even when Vigan jumped on him. The only thing that changed was now he was more meticulous about what he asked. "No more games, you tell me the truth or you will be prosecuted...to the worst place you can imagine...Detention!" Vigan, Daniel, and Saad looked at eachother.
Daniel spoke up this time, feeling it was his turn to take a risk. "I will tell you what happened."
The detective smiled, leaned back in his chair, and prepared to assimilate all the information he could.
"January 25 started out as a normal day for most kids, Most kids went to class on time, spoke to their friends just like a normal day, Most kids, but not us.
Saad, Vigan, and I wanted to leave Mrs. Meadows' class in total anarchy."
"
And why was that? What did she do for her to deserve this?" The detective asked writing everything down in a little notepad he had.
"Umm...I don't know, we just wanted to."
"Ok...go on then"
"So, we started a conspiracy against Mrs. Meadows' whole class. We planned it for weeks, and finally the day cam to strike.
In C period everyone came in and started to work on the Wordly Wise. At 10:30 sharp I knocked on the door of Mrs. Meadows' classroom."
"My sources say you were dressed as a-" The detective asked with a big gri on his face."
"Mailman? Yes I was, you can blame Vigan for that. That is the only part where our plan showed a bit of dissension. Anyways, so I knocked on the door dressed as a mailman and I talk to Mrs. Meadows. I was keeping her busy, because at any moment Vigan and Saad were supposed to Break down the windows and begin to dance."
"Dance?" Detective Budd asked looking at Vigan and Saad shamefully.
"Yes." Daniel said in a small voice.
"That was Daniel's idea!" Saad yelled.
"Ok..." Budd said questioning there common sense. "Continue please."
"When they did, when they kicked through the window, landed on the table, and started to dance, I followed our plan. I turned on the CD player that I stationed outside before I knocked on Mrs. Meadows' door and turned the volume all the way up,then I hoped on the table and started to dance too."
"How did the students respond at first?" Asked Budd.
"At first they were confused and then they lionized me, because i was such a great dancer." Saad said at first.
"They wern't lionizing you, they were at me though." Said Vigan.
"Hello, guys?" Budd asked.
"They were lionizing me obviously." Said Daniel.
Vigan and Saad looked at eachother and laughed. "You? HAHA!"
All of a sudden Bud made a noise that shocked all three of them. The most frightening noise anyone could ever hear, and a noise that still haunts them now. He laughed.
Everyone was silent except Budd as he continued to laugh. "Why are you torturing us?" Daniel screamed longing to cover his ears, but could not because of the shackles around his wrists. Minutes elapsed as Budd tried to calm down.
"Ok...ok sorry about that continue."
Daniel was hesitant to continue, but he did. "The music was so loud it could probally be heard from the highschoolDaniel was hesitant to continue, but he did. "The music was so loud it could probally be heard from the highschool building, so surely Mrs. Sosa heard from her office. She came and apprehended us, when she saw the broken windows she decided to call the police and so here we are."
Budd laughed again. "Ok nice story. Now what really happened."
