The Lonely Ladybug

Me and two of my friends were playing the story game the other morning.
This is when you start with a sentence then pass the paper from person each writing a sentence until it's over. Our story turned out really good so here it is:

The Lonely Ladybug
By: Becca, Kelsey and Zach

Once upone a time in a castle made of pancakes lived a lonely orange ladybug.
Now this lonely orange ladybug was one-hundred-fiftyseven years old, which is not too old for a ladybug. She dreamed every night of the one-hundred-and-sixty year old ladybug named James who lived across the fields of cotton candy in a castle made of graham crackers.
James was a red ladybug and his amazing graham cracker castle was the wonder of ladybug land.

So off on her journey she want, watching day and night for Lady Liquorish, her rival for James and his amazing graham cracker castle. Finaly she arrived at James' castle, before lady Liquorish and was welcomed by James for dinner.

Just as she and James sat down for dinner, Lady Liquorish burst in angrily brandishing her pretzel and gumdrop want. The lonely ladybug jumped from her chair, and unsheather her wand of bacon preparing to banish Lady Liquorish to the dreaded land Green Beans!!
Then Lady Liquorish pointed her wand at the lonely ladybug. Anger sizzled through the air and the lonely ladybug jumped too late at was hit by a jet of red light.

In an instant she was changed from her beautiful orange self to a hideous red ladybug. She immediately returned the spell changing the charming pink Lady Liquorish into a hideous green and blue speckled devil! Lady Liquorish screamed in fury, and prepared to stab the lonely ladybug.

But James jumped between them "ENOUGH!!" he yelled. He changed them both back into their beautiful selves and allowed them to settle their differences over Jelly bean soup.
Lady Liquorish finished her soup then hurried home. The lonely orange ladybug, who was now no longer lonely, was left to marry her charm prince James in his beautiful castle of graham crackers.

Dance with Me

I wrote this because me and some friends are filming a talk show next week, and we needed a skit for it. <3>

Narrator: Once upon a time

James: No! No! No! I'm just an average street sweeper, this story is my one chance for greatness. Can it please have another beginning?

Narrator: Hey! I like once upon time

James: So do I, don't get me wrong. It's just a little overused

Narrator: Ok ok, I've got one. Many Years ago in a far off place,

James: That's better

Narrator: Hush!! Many years ago in a far off place lived a street sweeper named James . Every day

James: I sweep streets

N: Day in and day out he swept streets. Now street sweeping isn't such a bad job, but in his heart James longed for something more.

James: I want an adventure, but street sweepers don't have adventures

Narrator: Little did James know that the perfect adventure was crashing his way

Messenger : May it be know that all young men in the kingdom are hereby invited to a royal ball at 7pm at the palace tonight in honor of princess Julia's 18th birthday. Goodbye.

James: Wait!

Messenger : What?

James: Did you just invite me to a royal ball?

Messenger : The invitation did include you I suppose, but I am much too busy to debate the finer points of court proclamations. Goodbye!

Narrator: So James went back to his street sweeping he swept faster than he ever had before . Finally he finished But now he had another problem: what to wear to the royal ball? So James skipped off in search of the perfect thing to wear to the ball.



Fairy: Uncle James!!!

Narrator: James was so busy that he didn't notice his older sister's daughter, his niece and fairy god-daughter following him.

James : It's hopeless!!!

Fairy: Uncle James!!! N

arrator: But James still did not notice, so his fairy god-daughter decided that it would take desperate measures to get his attention. She pulled out her wand and said:

Fairy : Gibbity Gobbity Go!!

Narrator: Nothing happened so she tried again:

Fairy: Clickity Clockity Clue!!

Narrator: Suddenly her can of magic fairy dust appeared, she sprayed it in the air, rapidly getting her uncle's attention!

James : Hello Lisa!

Narrator: Finally getting his attention she gently layed the dry cleaned suit her mother (the dry cleaner) had sent her to deliver to a neighbor also named James. Unaware that her innocent mistake had opened new doors for James she skipped away!

James : Hmmmmm

Narrator: Suddenly it occurred to him, his sister the dry cleaner had heard about the ball and sent him the suit to wear for it. He ran to get dressed, meanwhile at the castle...



Queen: Come you must get ready for the ball!

Princess: I don't want to go the ball

Queen: Nonsense Julia! The ball is in honor of your eighteenth birthday, you must go!

Princess: I know why I have to go I just really don't want to

Queen: Nonsense!! This is a very important ball, you must go!

Princess :And find a husband

Queen: And find a husband

Queen: Julia it's not that bad.

Princess: They're just so boring!

Queen: What?

Princess: Prince Charming only wants to hear himself talk, Prince Awesome only wants to show off and Prince Intellect is an absolute toad!!

Queen: Who names their sons Charming, Awesome and Intellect anyway???

Princess: You're not helping mother

Queen: Sorry honey, I just meant that maybe the boy you're looking for isn't a prince.

Princess: I suppose so

Queen: You'll meet him tonight, I'm sure you will!! He'll walk in and look at you...

Princess: What will he say?

Queen: He'll say... Dance with me! But no one is going to say anything if you don't get ready



Narrator: So the princess got ready and the guests arrive. Julia mingled while James wandered, both unaware of what was to come.







James: Sorry...

Narrator: James began, but before he could finish he met the princess' eyes. They stared into each other's eyes until James retrieved her glass slipper and pulled her to her feet. Then very slowly he reached out his hand..

James: Dance with me?

Narrator: The princess said yes and you all know th rest



Narrator: Ok ok, James got a bad allergic reaction from his fairy god-daughters fairy dust but it wasn't that bad and they got married and lived in a shinning castle, became king and queen and lived happily ever after!!

Everyone: The end!

Harry Potter 7

Harry Potter 7 is comming out on JULY 21st!!!!!
I'm soooo excited, but it's defiently a mark of how much I loved camp last year that I'll be at Camp WILD when it comes out. So I probably won't be up until 5 in the morning reading it like I was last time (I finished too!!!)

But anyway.. intresting/exciting things I've found out about it (mostly so I can keep track of them)

"Now, the important thing about Harry's mother - the really, really significant thing - you're going to find out in two parts. You'll find out a lot more about her in book five, or you'll find out something very significant about her in book five, and you'll find out something incredibly important about her in book seven." – J. K. Rowling

Because Harry convinced Remus Lupin and Sirius Black to spare Peter Pettigrew's life in the third book, Pettigrew owes Potter a yet unpaid life debt.

Rowling has long said that the fact that Harry's eyes resemble his mother's is important

Rowling has said that some non-magical character will perform magic late in life in desperate circumstances.[26] However, Petunia will not be the one to perform magic (despite that whole Petunia being a squib theory)

Rowling has said that Ginny Weasley is quite powerful, that we have seen a taste of that in the past, and we will see it again (HECK YESSS)

Dumbledore was said to have a "gleam of triumph" in his eyes when told that Voldemort had restored his body using Harry's blood, at the end of Goblet of Fire (Ch. 36). Rowling has confirmed that this is "still enormously significant

ARGHH!

I love my brothers! I really truely do!

But I'm going to be sooooooo glad when I can stop babysitting them tomorrow!

I've discovered another musical though: Aida.

I bought the soundtrack Saturday and it's really amazing music.

Anyway.. I'm hoping to have time to type up a story tomorrow :)

Trek

Woah... just got back from youth confrence. It was a pioneer trek and was mighty intresting let me tell you. They divided us into "families" with a ma and a pa and I had three sisters and four brothers, as well as one of the nurses who they decided was our "aunt". It got below 20 one night which is totaly crazy for Texas. And this morning I was so cold I was wearing all my shirts (4), a sweatshirt, my cloak lined with a blanket, two pairs of pants, my skirts and my sleeping bag. The sleeping bag part was intresting... the sleeping bag didn't unzip all the way so I had part of it on my head and trailing onto my shoulder and then I just wrapped the rest around myself. My hands were so red and cold I finaly just put my pink poka-dotted socks on them as gloves. It was sooooooo cold! It wasn't that bad when we were moving, but when we werent it was freezing. My sunbonnet also un-ruffled itself this morning and looked really stupid so I kept stealing my "brother"'s hat... the guys hats were cooler anyway :D

We had to walk through a river yesterday, it wasn't very deep but it was freezing cold. My "brothers" kept asking if I wanted to be carried but I was sooo afraid of being dropped (I saw two girls from another group dropped) that I just hiked up my skirts and kept going. Then they had to rope up the handcarts.. which involved going through mud. My shoes got suctioned into the mud and it was sooo gross cause people kept walking over them so they had to dig around to find them and they were covered in MUD!! Ewwww! There was no were to wash our feet either so I had to use my hand towel and waterbottle to clean them. It was worth it though... my water shoes were a mess but my feet were nice and warm (if not entirely clean) in my socks and tall boots.

They also gave us a "baby" named Sarah Ashton. It was really a pillow dressed up and with hair and a face drawn on but one of us always had to be holding it.
Some one accidently called her Sarah Ashton "Kutcher" so the name stuck and we ended up calling her that. It may seem weird but it was almost like she was alive cause we were always taking care of her and everything... but today they said all the babies had died of cholera and we had to bury her. It was sooo sad, I was literaly crying so one of my brothers came over and gave me a hug.

Then when we got to the 2nd hardest/muddiest hill they "drafted" all of the guys and we had to pull the carts all by ourselved up these really steep hills. The had to be tied to ropes for a lot of the time... me and this other girl were in front pulling and everyone else was pushing. They didn't even bother to hide the guys, they were just sitting on the cliff above us watching. It was soo hard cause it was all muddy and everything. It was really cool when we were done though, cause we'd done one of the hardest parts without the guys. Then the guys did a project and they gave us one of those inspirational talk thingies.

This morning we did the hardest hill and there were all these people in white shirts helping us push cause it was really rocky and steep. But none of them would talk to us. Well one of them had this patch thingy so I assumed they were park rangers cause we were in a national park. Well we got back to camp and all the other groups were talking about the angels. It took me a while then my friend said "help me find David (her 21yr old YSA return missionary boy friend who wasn't on the trek". So I was like What? Then she said "you know the angels... they helped push the cart up the hill". Then I said "oh you mean the park rangers?" Then it hit me as everyone started laughing.

I was with a really awesome & funny family so it was a lot of fun even if it was really hard. I had a really cool family too... I'll miss them a lot. But I'm soooo glad to be home with my real family... and running water and flushing toilets. :)
<3 Kelsey

Another story!!! I still don't have a title for this one, comment if you have a good one. I finaly set comments so you don't have to be registered, just click on the comments button and type something.
<3 Kelsey

They had nothing to say to each other Kabira thought firmly as she walked slowly up the mountain. They would only try to stop her from doing what she now knew that she must. Zara, the princess and Kabira's best friend lay dying in the barren field below. It was a grim sight, the field littered with the bodies of the dead and dying. And for what? Kabira asked bitterly. They had fought, these last five years for the defeat of evil; to put Zara back on her rightful throne. Evil had at last been defeated, but there was nothing left for the good to own. Without a princess they would be back were they had started, those five years ago.

Yes, Kabira thought firmly I cannot let that happen. So she continued up the endless path to the top of the mountain, trying not to look back at all she was leaving behind. They need me to do this, she told herself again. If I do not, everyone and everything I love will wither away and perish. So she continued up the path. Her resolve almost crumbled as she glanced back once and saw Daran. The war had taken away their shared childhood, but not their love for one another. What will he do without me? She wondered forlornly to herself, but she steeled herself with the legends. It had been the same, all those thousands of years ago. Another princess lay dying in the field below, and another sacrifice had been required to create the kingdom she knew and loved. Legend said that as the princess had breathed her last breaths her friend had run to the top of the mountain; and cried unto the gods for her friend's life. The princess had been saved, she reminded herself bravely; and so she continued walking.

Memories fell onto her mind, like rain on dry ground. She eagerly soaked them up, reminding herself why she must do what she must. A childhood with Zara and Daran by her side, how she and Daran danced the night away at their first ball, the joy of being free and happy. Before she was ready she reached the top, her walking was through. She looked down for the last time, Zara still lay unmoving, close to death. Bodies still littered the bloodstained ground. Still her eyes could not find the other she was searching for. "Let me see his face, one last time" she prayed, and then she did. He lifted his eyes to the mountain, and although it seemed impossible their eyes locked; boring through the time and distance to reach each other. "Goodbye" she breathed to him, the wind whipping through her copper brown hair "I love you, both of you" she sang to the sky; the echos carrying her last words to him on the wind.

Daran never looked away, but suddenly she was gone. He ran to the mountain, praying that it could not be true. He ran to the top, his lungs burning with the sulferous air. But when he reached the top it was too late, all that remained was a bright red cloak; clinging to a broken tree. He looked over the edge into the boiling lava below, it's heat burning his face; even from far away. Daran wiped the unwilling tears from his eyes, no one would ever know where she had gone; all that could be sure is that she was gone... forever. With her passing a spring wind blew gently through the field, breathing hope into the hearts of the wounded. As he watched Zara rubbed her eyes and sat up. When he reached the bottom of the mountain she ran to greet him, a question in her eyes. Silently he shook his head, and in an instant she understood. Kabira was gone forever, he could never love another. But her spirit remained in the earth around them, healing the damage of the war. When the wind blew again it carried not just hope but promise. Promise that the kingdom would heal. Promise that Zara would reign for many years, returning the peace to her kingdom. Most of all the promise of happiness for the children of tomorrow, who would one day take the place of Zara, Daran and Kabira. The promise of a kingdom full of promise, in return for the sacrifice of one noble girl. But her sacrifice was not in vain, the future she gave up would provide a new world.

Beauty and the Beast

Wow!!
I just got back from my preformance tonight... it was awesome.
I've always been a bit doubtful after the preformances but I wasn't tonight, even though a lot of people screwed up I felt really good about it. I was able to overcome a lot of the issues I've had and throw myself into it all the way and I know I did my absolute best!!!
It's really an amazing feeling, and one of the biggest reasons I like acting cause when you really get into it and work really hard it's totaly awesome to hear the people clap at the end of the scene and know they're clapping for you... and that you deserve it because it's terribly obdvious when the clapping is just that akward polite kind. The you-did-a-great-job kind is soooo much better than the other kind!!! :) I went after to greet the audience and two of my friends that I've been in plays with before were there and it was sooo cool cause I was really hoping they would come. I wish you were all here to see it!!! <3 Kelsey