Cristina Bedolla
Ms. Lehmann
English 1-A
Ms. Lehmann
English 1-A
All Alone
I wake up hearing my alarm clock emitting a loud ring. Drowsy, I get out of bed, brush my teeth, get dressed, and walk out to go get some breakfast. As I was walking down the stairs, I can smell bacon and hear it sizzle. As it sizzles, it calms me down knowing everything is going to be okay.
I walk into the kitchen and I see my mom cooking some eggs.
She tells me with an excited voice, "Good morning sweetie!"
I respond back with a tired voice, "Good morning."
"Why aren't you excited? Today, your dad comes back from the military."
"My step dad!" I tell her in a screaming voice and just by telling her it wakes me up. See the thing is that my dad left me and my mom when I was three, and since then I have to deal with my "step dad." He acts like he owns me, which I also hate.
"To me, there is nothing exciting about Mike coming back," I tell my mom.
"He loves you, honey" she says with a sweet, kind voice.
"I'm leaving!" I say out loud.
"Jennifer, don't get mad," she says as I walk out the door.
You may ask why I act like that; why I'm I so negative about him. Well, ever since he came into our lives, my bond broke with my mom, and these past few days she's be acting way different. She acts like something is going on and she is keeping it from me. I can't wait to go home and find my step dad there waiting for me.
After school is finally over I head home. I drive at a very slow speed, trying to ignore the fact that when I get home, Mike will be there. I slowly walk up the sidewalk to my door, grab the door knob, and as soon as I touch it my heart pounds. I walk in and the first thing I see is him.
"Hi, Jenny" he calls me by nick name.
"Ah, hi" I reply softly, acting like I don't care. As I walk up the stairs to my room, my mom calls my name.
"Jennifer, where are you going?"
"To bed!"I tell her in a mad voice. As I enter my room, I can hear Mike talking to her.
"It's okay. Just let her; she must be tired." As I walk into my room and put pajamas on and lay in bed, I think about how my family is all split apart and not as close as they used to be. I think about how everything changed when my dad left us, and Mike came into our lives. I lost many things. I haven’t seen my grandma and grandpa since my dad died, and my aunt Jane doesn’t get along with my mom since she got together with Mike, and my favorite uncle Joe doesn’t talk with us because Mike doesn’t like him. Every thing got mixed up since he came! Sometimes I wonder how life would be with out them. My life would be so calm with no stress, no arguments, nothing!
The next morning I wake up, get ready like I did the day before, and walk downstairs. This time, I don't hear my mom in the kitchen; she wasn’t making breakfast. It is like she is gone and didn’t tell me anything. I look around and can't find my mom or Mike. Where are they? I continue my day and go to school, but for some reason, I decide to go to my aunt Jane's house. I pull up to her house and see that her car isn't there, but I go knock anyways. I ring the doorbell, and no one answers. I check to see if my uncle Joe is next door, but he isn't.
I don't even go to school because I spend the day looking for my family. I search and search, but I can't find anyone. I try calling them, but they don't answer. It is like if they are gone. I head home after a long day, go to my room, and see a letter on my bed sealed in an envelope. I open it and what I read is unbelievable. This is what it said. Dear Jennifer: I hope you like your wish, and I hope it is delightful; enjoy your time alone, just like you wanted.
What do I do? I start to cry. I don't know how to fix things. What am I going to do without my family? How am I going to get through life? I didn't know this was going to happen; if I had known, I wouldn’t have said anything. I regret everything about me not liking Mike; I regret it all!
Days pass, then weeks, and even months, yet still there is no sign of my parents or my family. I am all alone. I do have my friends and my neighbors but not my family. I regretted everything about my wish and hate how this all happened because of me. One year goes by, and still I have no hope of seeing them. Yes, I was sad but from all of this, I learned one thing: think before you say something.
I walk into the kitchen and I see my mom cooking some eggs.
She tells me with an excited voice, "Good morning sweetie!"
I respond back with a tired voice, "Good morning."
"Why aren't you excited? Today, your dad comes back from the military."
"My step dad!" I tell her in a screaming voice and just by telling her it wakes me up. See the thing is that my dad left me and my mom when I was three, and since then I have to deal with my "step dad." He acts like he owns me, which I also hate.
"To me, there is nothing exciting about Mike coming back," I tell my mom.
"He loves you, honey" she says with a sweet, kind voice.
"I'm leaving!" I say out loud.
"Jennifer, don't get mad," she says as I walk out the door.
You may ask why I act like that; why I'm I so negative about him. Well, ever since he came into our lives, my bond broke with my mom, and these past few days she's be acting way different. She acts like something is going on and she is keeping it from me. I can't wait to go home and find my step dad there waiting for me.
After school is finally over I head home. I drive at a very slow speed, trying to ignore the fact that when I get home, Mike will be there. I slowly walk up the sidewalk to my door, grab the door knob, and as soon as I touch it my heart pounds. I walk in and the first thing I see is him.
"Hi, Jenny" he calls me by nick name.
"Ah, hi" I reply softly, acting like I don't care. As I walk up the stairs to my room, my mom calls my name.
"Jennifer, where are you going?"
"To bed!"I tell her in a mad voice. As I enter my room, I can hear Mike talking to her.
"It's okay. Just let her; she must be tired." As I walk into my room and put pajamas on and lay in bed, I think about how my family is all split apart and not as close as they used to be. I think about how everything changed when my dad left us, and Mike came into our lives. I lost many things. I haven’t seen my grandma and grandpa since my dad died, and my aunt Jane doesn’t get along with my mom since she got together with Mike, and my favorite uncle Joe doesn’t talk with us because Mike doesn’t like him. Every thing got mixed up since he came! Sometimes I wonder how life would be with out them. My life would be so calm with no stress, no arguments, nothing!
The next morning I wake up, get ready like I did the day before, and walk downstairs. This time, I don't hear my mom in the kitchen; she wasn’t making breakfast. It is like she is gone and didn’t tell me anything. I look around and can't find my mom or Mike. Where are they? I continue my day and go to school, but for some reason, I decide to go to my aunt Jane's house. I pull up to her house and see that her car isn't there, but I go knock anyways. I ring the doorbell, and no one answers. I check to see if my uncle Joe is next door, but he isn't.
I don't even go to school because I spend the day looking for my family. I search and search, but I can't find anyone. I try calling them, but they don't answer. It is like if they are gone. I head home after a long day, go to my room, and see a letter on my bed sealed in an envelope. I open it and what I read is unbelievable. This is what it said. Dear Jennifer: I hope you like your wish, and I hope it is delightful; enjoy your time alone, just like you wanted.
What do I do? I start to cry. I don't know how to fix things. What am I going to do without my family? How am I going to get through life? I didn't know this was going to happen; if I had known, I wouldn’t have said anything. I regret everything about me not liking Mike; I regret it all!
Days pass, then weeks, and even months, yet still there is no sign of my parents or my family. I am all alone. I do have my friends and my neighbors but not my family. I regretted everything about my wish and hate how this all happened because of me. One year goes by, and still I have no hope of seeing them. Yes, I was sad but from all of this, I learned one thing: think before you say something.
Student's Choice Semester I Reflection Questions
1. List one thing you've learned from writing this paper that you have applied to other writing assignments.
2. Identify a challenge you faced while writing this paper(this can be at any stage of the writing process). How did you over come the challenge? What did you learn?
3. What genre does this paper fit? How do you know?
4. Given more time to work on this paper, how would you improve it?
5. Why did you choose to include this paper? What do you want me to learn about you as a writer?
1. List one thing you've learned from writing this paper that you have applied to other writing assignments.
- Giving a introduction about what the paper is about letting the reader know what the story is going to be.
2. Identify a challenge you faced while writing this paper(this can be at any stage of the writing process). How did you over come the challenge? What did you learn?
- Grammer would be one of the things I struggled with, how did I overcome this problem by letting someone who is a expert at it revise it.
3. What genre does this paper fit? How do you know?
- This story would fit as a suspense story, because you don't exactly know what will happen next.
4. Given more time to work on this paper, how would you improve it?
- I would probably give details, how the character feels and maybe even add a second part to the story like if she ever found her family or if they found her.
5. Why did you choose to include this paper? What do you want me to learn about you as a writer?
- I choose this paper because it was one of my favorite story, and I actually that it was one of my best ones too. That anything can happen on day your here the next day you might be gone, so thats why I wrote this story cause it can happen.