NS-Rachel+C

== =Hi, my name is Rachel!=

= = =Grade:8= = = =Best Vacation: Branson, Missouri (2007)= = = =Birth Month: March= = = =Career Goals: Pharmasist= = = =Favorite Band(s): Anybody= = = =Favorite Candy: Anything= =Favorite Food:Turkey dinner for sure Ummm.....= = = =Favorite Munchie: Doritos Chips= = = =Favorite Soda: Probably Sprite= = = =Favorite Subject: Math and L.A.= = = =Hobbies/Sports: Scrapbooking, Reading, Writing stories, Basketball and Badminton.= = = =Pet Peeve: When I am talking and nobody listens to me. I get sooo..... mad.= = = =Pets: I have two fish Bubbles and Goldy.= = = =Siblings: I have one sister. Her name is Robyn.=

Here is a part of my story I will put the rest on once I am finished. Enjoy!!!

Harmony Bzzz!!! Her alarm rang for the fourth time this morning. ‘Wake up!!’ Her mother yelled. Her mother was the ugliest person she had ever met. Her eyes were redder than the red wine that she would gulp down every morning before she eats her breakfast. Harmony was scared of her mother ever since she was brought into this horrifying world. Her pure blue eyes were turned into dark clouds when her mother was around. She was used to it. After her father died, her mother was never the same lovable mother that she first knew. All her mother is now is a big user of Alcohol, which she drinks every morning to calm her nerves. Then, Justin came into the picture! Do you think this life could get any worse? He is a complete IDOIT! He is definitely not good for her mom at all. Worst of all he abuses her terribly. She still loves him. I have know idea why. Personally I think he is just as bad as she is. ‘Hurry up’ mother shouted again! ‘Get up and go to school so I will not have to see your face!’ Harmony figured that she should get up and get ready for school. She jumped out of her bed and got ready as quickly as possible, because she knew that if her mother told her the third time she would beat her and she would have to go to school all black and blue. With no breakfast, lunch or books in Harmony’s hands she raced out the door. She walked gently maybe even running, trying to get away from her mother before she realized that she was going to be late for work because of her stupid daughter Harmony. As Harmony walked around the corner of her street, she was dazed to see Middle Creek High were she was going to school. She had been going to school for three years. She was in grade eleven in Mrs. Goodwin’s class. There were 24 of them. Harmony was 20 minutes late for class. Like the sneaky person she was, she slipped into class without anyone knowing. Mrs. Goodwin was starting the class by passing out last weeks French tests. Harmony was nervous. If she failed another French test she would fail French and would have to go to summer school for half of the summer. She was planning on going to her Aunt Meg’s house in Winnipeg for the summer. If she failed she would have to stay at her house and she hates her house. ‘Harmony White will you please and come and get your test’ Mrs. Goodwin said ‘Yes meme’ Harmony replied like she always does. She didn’t even bother to look at her test until she was comfortably seated on her seat. She was shocked! She had a 65% it was just a pass! Harmony jumped up into the air and screamed! She had passed and everybody knew it!! ‘Excuse me!’ Mrs. Goodwin yelled. She stormed like a raging tiger over to Harmony’s desk. ‘Oh snap’ Harmony whispered to herself. ‘For that young lady’ Mrs. Goodwin began for the second time. ‘You will have detention for the rest of the week!’ ‘What?’ Harmony yelled with rage for the first time in here life. ‘What? Why? How? What??? She repeated again and again. ‘She stood up in the middle of class and she has no idea why she got detention?’ how stupid can she get??’ Kelly whispered gently to her friends. ‘Your right!’ Allison giggled. Kelly, Allison and Josie are the most popular people in the 11th grade. All they do is just pick on people who are lower than they are. Harmony is the lowest person in the entire 11th grade. All they do is pick, pick and pick some more. ‘Another reason why she got the detention is because all she does is play with her invisible friends. Of course that’s if she has any!’ Josie yelled to the whole class! Everyone began laughing. Even Mrs. Goodwin even gave a little chuckle. Harmony just slumped down in her chair and began to cry. She was so tired of it. This would happen everyday at school ever since Kelly and Josie came along. Allison used to be best friends with Harmony. They always tried to become popular because they had the characteristics to become popular. Once Kelly and Josie came, the two best friends shattered like a thin piece of glass. They haven’t even spoken to each other since grade 7. Once everyone calmed down from the joke that the three girls had made, Mrs. Goodwin reminded Harmony that she had to go to the office for her first detention of the week. She arose from her seat, left the classroom shutting the door behind her and made her way down the lonely hall to the principal’s office. She then opened the door making a little creaking noise and sat down on one of the seats and stared into silence. Next thing she knew she heard the principal’s still fern voice. ‘Miss White are you present?’ The tall, slim man said as he appeared in front of Harmony. ‘Yes, she is here’ replied Harmony in shock. As the strange man who was supposed to be the principal brought her into his office Harmony said. ‘You aren’t the principal are you?’ ‘Yes I am’ replied the man. Shocked by his strangely good appearances she said. ‘Are you sure?’ ‘Yes, I am sure.’ He said with a little laughter in his voice. ‘So why are you hear today Miss White?’ He said gently. ‘My teacher is a complete idiot’. Harmony began. ‘I jumped up in class yelling to everyone telling them that I passed a test and she gave me a detention for it.’ Harmony said ‘Well’ Mr. Glen began. “That is a pretty good reason. Anyway, you will report for your first detention today after school right here with me. Do you get that Harmony?” “Yes”. Harmony responded. Then Mr. Glen dismissed her and she went to her locker to put back her books. She then walked down the deserted hall and walked into the cafeteria were she would sit alone. She sat down at the first seat that she saw as soon as she entered the cafeteria. She just sat there and looked at everyone eat there lunches. One girl had Macaroni and cheese it looked delicious! Another guy had spaghetti it looked like puke! Harmony sat disgusted not knowing what to do. She was annoyed that not even the geeks would sit with her. She couldn’t believe it! This has been happening ever since she came to this school for grade nine. She has been putting up with this for three years now and she is sick and tired of it. As some of these miserable thoughts ran through her head the bell finally rang for fifth period. She walked towards her locker and came to a stop. She looked down the dusty hall and looked where her locker was. There were three obnoxious tall, blonde hair girls talking beside Harmony’s locker. Harmony just stared at the fact that Kelly, Josie and Allison were beside her locker talking. They were waiting for here. She walked slower and slower as she got closer and closer to her locker and the girls. Why where they there? Were they going to tease her about getting detention? She finally reached her locker than Kelly began the nagging. “So we heard that you have detention for the rest of the week!” Kelly said with a strange voice. “Yah” Harmony replied. “You guys already knew that” Harmony said. “Yah we know” Allison replied. “What do you guys want?” Harmony said a stranger voice with every word that she said. “So you obviously meet the principal? Right?” Josie replied. “Yes I did!” What in the world do you guys want from me!” Harmony replied ferociously. “Isn’t he so cute!” All three said at once! “Umm…” Harmony said with a giggle. At this time, the bell rang again. This bell meant that everybody has five minutes before class would actually start. Harmony shoved them away from her locker, and was able to get her books, and raced off to class while the girls were still asking her the questions over and over again. The last two periods seemed like heaven they were speeches. Harmony did not have to worry because Harmony was the best in the class and she had already completed both if her speeches the day before. She had done her French speech on Siberian white tigers, and her L.A. speech on the o-zone layer. They were fantastic! Hopefully she would get a really good mark! After the bell rang, the last bell of the day she then called her mom to tell her that she was going to be late because she had to go to detention. Of course she wasn’t there but she left a message on the phone so she would know where she was. That way her mother would have no reason to yell at her once she got home from detention. She then went to her locker got her homework and made her way once again down the hallway, passed the gym and into the detention room. She signed in by entering her name on a sheet of paper and put it on the front desk. Then she went and sat down on one of the wooden seat witch had a wooden table hooked on to it. These tables have been there since the school was first built. She sat down her books on her desk and opened one and began to do her homework. She didn’t really have a lot of homework tonight. She only had Math homework and a science project witch was due the next day. Her science teacher had given them two weeks too complete this big project. Harmony hasn’t even started the project. As she began working away at her project, she heard a strange sound coming from the gym next down. She turned away from her homework and stared in awe of this wonderful thing which seemed like magic. She has never seen anything like this before in her life. It brought peace into her. She was young lady about her age, jumping and hitting a ball into the air and over a very high net. This was very amusing too Harmony. Without even knowing, Harmony got gently out her seat, and walked into the gym never taking her eyes off of this amazing sport. Her hands were shaped in the form of a triangle as she hit the ball with the pads of her fingers. She hit the ball very gently but the ball seemed to go farther than she hit it. Harmony entered into the gym door still in awe of this wonderful sport. She watched the young lady practice and practice over and over again hit the ball back and forth. Not even knowing Mr. Glen followed her out of the room and into the gym. “Wow! That’s amazing”. Harmony whispered to herself. “Yes, it is.” Mr. Glen replied. She quickly turned around to see Mr. Glen right on her heals. Shocked, Harmony said “you followed me out!” “Why yes I did!” Mr. Glen replied. “You weren’t supposed to be out here in the first place! That’s why I followed. “Well the only reason why I left the room was because…” She suddenly stopped. “What?” Mr. Glen finally said. “I wanted to come closer and watch this girl play this sport! I find it really interesting!” Harmony snapped back. “You mean this sport?” Mr. Glen said shocked. “Yah it is amazing!!!” Harmony replied. Mr. Glen agreed. “Harmony, Mr. Glen said with a weird voice. The name of this sport is volleyball. I am actually the grade eleven girl’s volleyball coach. “Really?” Harmony Replied. “Yes, see the girl that you have been watching for the past ten minutes? She is my wife Laurie, she is my assistant coach. Mr. Glen said. Harmony’s eyes widened. REALLY? Could you ask her if she could teach me? “Well I guess”. He said with a chuckle. Harmony began to jump up and down with excitement, she was so happy! “There’s only one problem.” His voice began to fade. “What is it” Harmony yelled. “I will do anything I don’t care!” “Ok” Mr. Glen said. “You have to pass all of your classes”. Excited Harmony said “I am passing all of them!!!” “With a lot of detentions.” “Why detentions”. Harmony asked “Because” Mr. Glen began. “This is the only way that you will have time to be taught the basics. Instead of having detention Laurie will teach you how to play volleyball. We don’t want Mrs. Goodwin to know, so you are going to have to get a lot of detentions so you can come here. There’s still one catch, you cannot tell anyone and I mean no one! Are we clear?” Harmony quickly said yes. Mr. Glen also told her that she would have to bring her gym clothes so it would be easier for her to be taught. She would start tomorrow after school and also during school by getting some more detentions next week. She had a bright face coming out of detention that day because she knew that she was going to taught the best sport ever invented on this planet! VOLLEYBALL! She woke up early the next morning. Normally she wouldn’t even wake up until her alarm clock rang for the third or fourth time. She woke up this morning before her alarm even went off! She quickly got dressed and she even ate a quick breakfast. She was just about to leave her home when she heard light but heavy footsteps coming down the stairs. She paused. It was her mother. Why does it have to me mom Harmony thought to herself. She was busted. There was no way that she could get by her know. She was frozen with shock as the footsteps continued down the stairs. “Harmony is that you?” Her mother whispered with fright. “Yes it’s me Harmony. Are you okay?” “Yes” her mother quickly replied. “Keep on going. Pretend that I not even hear.” “Ok” Harmony replied heading for the door. “Mom I’ll be home late, I have detention.” “Ok darling that will be fine. Have a good day. I love you” Her mother replied. “I love you too. Bye” Harmony replied racing out the door. Harmony was shocked. This was the first time that her mother said I love you ever since her father had past away. She walked slowly to school still wondering what came over her mother that morning. She was surprisingly nice to her. She was just seconds away for her school’s parking lot when it hit her. “This is going to be the best day of my life” Harmony said quietly. “My mom was nice to me this morning, I am early for school, I get to bug my teacher today, I have a lunch and I get to play the best sport in the world! What could be better?” Harmony said walking into the school and to her locker. She got her books from the top part of her locker and walked into class. She was the first one in the class. Mrs. Goodwin wasn’t even there yet. Harmony took out a piece of paper and began writing ideas down of what she could do to get an after school detention. Then her eyes opened wide. She would make a cartoon on the board of Mrs. Goodwin, except it would be a guy. Then she would leave the class and blame it on Kelly, Allison and Josie. That way she would eventually get caught and she would see them being blamed. She figured that she would get in big trouble for this action but she didn’t really care. Her plan began. She walked slowly up to the large white board and began to draw Mrs. Goodwin’s head. She drew her hair long and grey. Then she began drawing her nose. A nose of a witch Harmony was thinking. Of course everyone calls her the Witch so it would match her perfectly! She drew the big nose filled with pimples! It didn’t even look like a nose. Harmony was just about done the wonderful beast when she thought she heard some light footsteps coming down the hall. She quickly finished the picture and walked out of the classroom. It was Mrs. Goodwin. Thank goodness that she didn’t see her. Harmony then walked to her locker and saw Kelly, Allison and Josie walking in the distance toward her. Perfect timing Harmony thought. Just as they finally approached Harmony Mrs. Goodwin screamed. “WHO DID THIS?!!!! Quickly everyone ran to the door of Mrs. Goodwin’s class. Kelly and the other two girls were the first ones there. Harmony walked occasionally over too the door. Once Kelly, Allison and Josie got to the door they began laughing there heads off at the drawing that Harmony secretly drew. “Did you three girls do this?? Miss Goodwin yelled a crossed the room. A stunned look came a crossed there faces. Before they could say anything Harmony jumped in. “Yes it was them!” Harmony said. “How would you know this?” Mrs. Goodwin snapped back. “Because I saw them do it! I was early for school today and I came into the class to put my books on my desk. I heard some footsteps in the distance so I hid in the closet. A little crack was open so I could see them clearly. They began drawing. Once they were done they left. I was going to wash it off but I heard some footsteps so raced into the hall, because I knew that you would blame me if you saw me. That’s the TRUTH!” Harmony said with an ending. The girl’s laughter quickly ended when Mrs. Goodwin gave them an ugly stare. “For this” Mrs. Goodwin began. “But we didn’t do it!” The girls screamed! “Why should I believe you? After all you did this!” She said pointing to the board. “For this” she continued. “For this you will all have detention for the rest of the month!” “What???” All three of them said. “Oh! I almost forgot!” Mrs. Goodwin said. “I cannot believe any of you so Harmony will also have to go to Detention. You will have to report for your first detention after school in the principal’s office!” “Oh man, not again” Harmony whispered to herself, knowing that she did a good job of getting more detentions. Harmony sat there still throught the whole class, not knowing what to do. Thank goodness the class just flew by. After the second period in a row with Mrs. Goodwin, Harmony went to her locker to pick up her books for the next two classes. She had Social Studies and Science with her favorite teacher Mrs. Lady. She was the nicest teacher in the whole school, or at least the nicest in Harmony’s eyes. Harmony passed Social Studies and Science with flying colors and she was failing all of her other subjects. Mrs. Lady was a special teacher she was the only teacher that provided extra help for students. Harmony had just a pass in both of those classes, but the rest was a sure fail! She grabbed her snack of a granola covered in chocolate and ran into class just before the bell rang for third period to begin. Harmony stared as she listened to Mrs. Lady still sound voice as she explained to the class how to correctly use a microscope. Mrs. Lady has already explained to Harmony how to use it properly one day in extra help. The two classes were pretty boring today. After class, Harmony went to her locker to grab her lunch, when she stopped. Down the hall and heading toward her were of course Kelly, Josie and Allison. “Guess we will see you in detention today!” Kelly said. “Ya, kind of!” Harmony replied walking toward the cafeteria. Kelly, Josie and Allison just looked at her and didn’t say anything as she walked into the cafeteria and sat alone, like normal. She ate her own lunch for the first time this year. She had a cold grilled cheese sandwich. She thought it was the best lunch that she could have ever made by her self. The rest of the afternoon went by really slow. Harmony was so excited about actually being taught how to play volleyball that she didn’t even care that the classes were going by really slow. After the bell rang for the end of the day, Harmony walked slowly out of her class, toward her locker trying to hide her excitement. “See you soon!” Allison said as she walked my Harmony on her way to the principal’s office. Harmony just gave her one of her little stare’s and want on preparing her books for detention. She grabbed her homework, her book bag and her gym shorts and went to the “Principals office” were she would have her second “Detention” of the week. Harmony decided that it would be best if she got changed first. She walked into the girl’s bathroom and quickly changed her clothes. She put on a cherry red t-shirt and black shorts and went into the principal’s office. “Are you ready for your detention girls” Mr. Glen said too the girls as Harmony walk into his office. “There you are Harmony” Mr. Glen said “Are you ready?” he asked. “I guess so” she replied. “Ready for what?” Kelly said. “A royal beating?” Kelly said. When those words came out of Kelly’s mouth Harmony wanted to tare her head off of Kelly’s stupid body, but she stayed calm. “Ok girls” Mr. Glenn said. “Come with me, into my office”. The girls just stared as he led them into his office. Once the door was shut Harmony said. “Mr. Glen you didn’t take me into your office when I had my detention.” “I know” Mr. Glen replied. “It’s obvious that they don’t like you and you don’t like them. I put them in my office so they can’t see you while you play volleyball so you can concentrate! Also, I know that they think I am “Hot” so I don’t want them to see my wife!” He said with a chuckle. “Thank you Mr. Glen, for everything!” Harmony replied. After the wonderful talk with Mr. Glen he went into his office to keep an eye on the girls while Harmony walked into the gym to meet Mrs. Glen. “Hi! Are you Harmony?” Mrs. Glen asked “Yes and you must be Mrs. Glen” Harmony replied. “Please call me Jen.” Mrs. Glen replied. “Ok that’s fine with me” Harmony replied. “Ok let’s begin. I will go to the other side of the net and I will trough the ball to you. You can either hit it back or bump it.” Mrs. Glen walked gently over too the other side of the net and tossed to ball toward Harmony. It was coming toward her too fast she couldn’t run, hide or do anything, so she just stood there. SHUD! It hit her right in the face. Mrs. Glen came running over. “Are you alright, are you ok???” “Yah I am ok…. I guess”. “Let’s try it again” Mrs. Glen said once Harmony stood up. “This time put your hands in a triangle form, do not connect them. When I trough the ball, run under it and hit the ball with your finger pads, flicking your wrist. Before Mrs. Glen trough it for the second time, she showed Harmony what she should do once Mrs. Glen let go of the ball. When Mrs. Glen let go of the ball she knew exactly what to do. As soon as the ball was out of her hands, Harmony began running toward the ball to get under. Then she hit the ball with her hands in a triangle form. She did it!!! She hit the ball and it went really far!! So far that it went over Mrs. Glen’s head! “Sorry” Harmony yelled a crossed the room. “No you shouldn’t be sorry” Mrs. Glen said. “That was an amazing shot. Good job!” “Thanks Jen” Harmony yelled. “Ok, this time I want you to use a little less muscle so it will come right to me. We are going to see how long we can volley it one to another!” When Jen let go of the ball, Harmony ran thinking in her head not to hard, not to hard. Harmony hit it. It went over the net, a perfect spot were Jen could hit it! Over and over the net it went again and again. Harmony just hit the ball it was the 56th time that they had hit it when Harmony hit it a little too far, far enough out of Jen’s reach. She missed, so close but it was a great hit! “That was great! Good job!” Mrs. Glen said. “Ok now I am going to teach you how to use the bump.” Mrs. Glen said when she came back from getting the ball. “First, you make a fist with your left hand. Then you put you other hand around it like this. Then you put your thumbs pointing upwards.” “Like this” Harmony said. “Yes perfect!” Mrs. Glen said. “Now when the ball comes, try to hit the ball right here”. Mrs. Glen said as she showed Harmony what to do. “Ok, I am ready for it!” Harmony said with confidence. “Try to use your bump but you can volley it if you want to!” “Ok! I got it!” Harmony said. Mrs. Glen throught it to Harmony, and over the net it went. Harmony was watching the ball like an eagle watching it’s pray. She slightly bent her and knees bumped the ball. She had nailed it. The ball went flying over the net as Jen bumped it back. Then they began to volley and bump they had great fun. But Harmony’s bright and vibrant smile began to fade into a dark and seldom frown when Jen said that it had been enough for one day. Two hour’s had gone by like a blink of an eye. When Harmony realized that she was only supposed to be an hour she grabbed her stuff, thanked Jen for all of her help and ran out the gym. She began walking throught the office toward the bathroom to change when she saw two figures in the darkness of the hall’s of the school. They were both in the girls bathroom were she would have to change. There was know way out of this one. She had to enter the bathroom to change her clothes. But when Harmony heard what they were saying as she drew closer she ran. She ran out the school and into the parking lot still running. She didn’t stop running until she safely in the comfort of her mother’s arms. “What’s wrong honey?” Harmony’s mom asked when she saw her daughter running with a frightful face. “I was going to change my clothes and I heard some girls talking in the bathroom” Harmony with a shiver in her voice. “They they they said that they were going to kill me and my family!” “Oh Harmony you know that there is know way that they will come and kill you, they were probably just saying that as a threat!” “Let me help you up to bed come on”. Her mother said with a gentle voice. Her mom helped her get her pajama’s on and put her in bed. She began singing a song to her as she gently rubbed her cheeks. Harmony’s mother always did that when she was a little baby; she would always fall asleep every time she did this. Like always Harmony would always try to stay awake but she could never do it. Before her mom even sang the second line of the song she was Harmony closed her eyes and never opened them until early the next morning. Today was a Saturday. Normally Harmony never did anything on Saturday’s but today was a special day. Harmony woke up around nine like she normally does. Then she ate her breakfast. This was the first Saturday that she ate her breakfast ever since her father died. When her dad was alive, he would have her breakfast already when she woke up. It was great! Harmony had two pieces of toast, two scrambled eggs and some bacon, the same breakfast that her father would have made her. Too top it off she had some fresh out of the garden strawberries and some fresh orange juice that her mom had just bought. It was delicious. She ate it slowly cherishing every moment that she would have if her dad was alive. As she was downing her last bight, she heard some rugged footsteps coming down the stairs. There was a soft noise then a loud bang the whole way down the seven old wooden stairs of the empty apartment. Around the corner Harmony saw her step-dad in the shadows. He walked quietly but quickly trying to escape the apartment without anyone knowing. Little did he know that Harmony was in the kitchen finishing her breakfast. He was mumbling to himself, something but Harmony could make it out because he was walking around the corner. “Good morning!” Harmony said with a bright voice. “Nothing shut up. I am leaving!!” Justin said firmly. Harmony just watched as he left the room and slammed the door behind him. As soon as the door slammed behind him, Harmony heard more footsteps coming down the stairs. It was her mother. They were a lot lighter than Justin’s. It sounded like they were happy light footsteps coming down the stairs. “Good morning” Harmony said to her mother. “Good morning hunny” Her mother replied. “Did you like the juice that I bought you??” “Yah thanks a lot!! That’s the same juice that dad use to buy.” Harmony replied. After a long pause, not knowing what to say, Harmony said “I saw Justin walk out today with his suitcase. Did you notice?” “Yah I know” her mother said with a bright smile on her face. “We broke up and I think it was the best thing that has ever happened to me!!!” A slight smile began to appear on the side of Harmony’s face. Her face turned a light as the sun when those sudden words came out of her mother’s mouth. “The best thing about it is” Her mother began to shout with excitement. “The best thing is that I haven’t had any Alcohol ever since it happened! I feel great!”