by Amanda

In our group, there was an adolescent

Always acting very prepubescent

Her manners were nothing to be wished

Her complaints would not be missed

She rolled her eyes and said things were boring

She often imitated someone snoring

Her headphones were always on her ears

She would often mock others deepest fears

Everything about her bright green hair

Would often make others stop and stare.

       "This is such a stupid idea, but if I have to tell a story, whatever. You won’t gonna like it. I already know you won’t. I have no creativity at all."

       This one day, there was this guy. He was hanging out at school, with like three of his friends. They were pretty bored, because it was school and school sucks. This guy’s name was, umm, Joe.

       "Hey guys! What do you wanna do? School is lame, let’s leave," said Joe.

       "Yeah right. Every time we skip ‘cuz of you, we get caught," said Joe’s friend, Russ.

       "We won’t this time. You heard of the expression ‘Twentieth times the charm’?" asked Joe

       "Dude, the expression is ‘third times the charm.’ And we got caught that time too," said Melissa, Joe’s other friend. "You just don’t know when to leave."

       After fighting about it for another ten minutes, they decided to leave. They were always getting caught, but even that was better than English class, and that was next. Joe managed to get his rusty 1974 Dodge Dart going and they drove off.

       They were out of school but now what were they gonna do? All three were broke and they had to either had to be out of town or in a house. They couldn’t hang out outside because of Deputy Dewey, the truant officer of their town. He was the most evil person they ever met, besides the tenth grade English teacher. He was constantly prowling around, looking for kids who were skipping or those who just happened to be outside during school hours all year long. He was just jealous ‘cuz he never skipped in high school, mainly because he had no friends.

       "Dude, what do you wanna do?" asked Russ

       "We could go play video games at my house," replied Joe, as he did every time someone asked what he wanted to do.

       "That’s all we ever do. We need to get some new hobbies. How much gas you got in the Dartmobile?" asked Melissa.

       "Running on empty. It might get us to the house. Besides Dewey is always around the best spots. How would we do anything if we had to run from Dewey every five minutes? We should just go play the video games at my house," said Joe.

       "Alllright!" exclaimed Russ. He was a video game junkie and had beaten every game he had ever attempted, except for one. If you ever mentioned that game in front of him, he would beat the crap out of you.

       So they went to the house. They barely made it in time. Right after they shut the front door, Dewy drove by in his pink 1982 Gremlin.

       Joe went up into his room to get his Playstation. He brought it downstairs and hooked it up to the 50 inch TV in the family room. After fighting for ten minutes with Russ, he put in Rayman, which he thought was the best game ever. At the title screen, which was a mixture of scary little blue things and a big, evil dude in a black hat, the power went out.

       "Aww, man. Now what are we going to do?" asked Joe?

       "Don’t ask me. I wanted to play video games," said Russ.

       "We could play board games. You got to have some good ones," said Melissa.

       "Board games? Why? Besides, the only games I have are Monopoly, Parcheesi, Clue, and Hungry, Hungry Hippos," said Joe

       "Dude! Let’s play Hungry, Hungry Hippos!" exclaimed Melissa.

       "What are we, three? That game is for babies," said Russ.

       "What else would we do? The other games are even stupider. We might as well play the hippos," said Joe.

       And so they sat down and played Hungry, Hungry Hippos for three straight hours.

       "There. That’s my story. Told you it would suck. Now leave me alone. I didn’t want to come on this stupid trip and I definitely didn’t want to tell a stupid story. So not exciting. Just let me listen to my CD player."

       And with that she pulled her headphones onto her ears and turned away from the rest of the group.