The Move: A Short Story

Ms. Stephanie saw Miranda walking around squatting and crossing her legs and said “Miranda do you need to use the restroom I will hold your babies.” Miranda walked towards me and ignored Ms. Stephanie. I said “Miranda why don’t you go to the restroom and I will watch over your babies for you until you get back. I promise I will take really good care of them.” Miranda gave me her baby dolls and ran to the restroom where Ms. Alyssa helped her use the restroom. After Miranda came out of the restroom she washed her hands and then ran over to me to get her babies. I said “Here they are Miranda I kept them nice and safe.” Miranda said “Thank you!” I played with Siba and baby for a while longer. I put baby on an airplane and pretended to fly the puppy around Siba giggled. Ms. Alyssa told the children that it was time to get back on the circle time carpet so that they could read a book and pick the line leader for that day. Ms. Alyssa asked me if I would read the children a story before going outside. I read two books to the children both were about insects and the last book was called Mr. Bumble. After reading the two books Chase got picked as line leader for the

The story “Your Move” stood out to me the most because James and Isaac, the main characters of the story, left their house just because James was forcing Isaac to come with him to join the cool kids club. Also Isaac telling James to stop doing what he wanted to do and be like.

In the story ¨ Your Move” by Eve Bunting James is the main character and has a little brother Isaac.James wants to be in the ¨ K-bones club¨, but it’s a risky thing because he is responsible for his six year old brother.His mom is at work and his dad is gone, so he is the only one that can watch Isaac. James starts off trying to be cool with the K-bones, but then starts to understand he did something wrong and is nicer to Isaac, towards the end.

In life, especially as kids, we have choices to either be cool or respect our family's rules. In the story, “ Your Move” By Eve Bunting, the protagonist, James, has the choice to join the K- bones or keep the trust from his family. Therefore, he learns that caring more about his family is more important than caring about his so called “friends.”

Johnny walked into the living room, his stomach feeling queasy. His parents look his way in dull manner. They didn’t want Johnny home. They like him out with his friends, not bothering them. Truth is, they felt as if they wouldn’t be good parents even if they tried, so they thought “Why try?” They also didn’t want Johnny to end up like them so, they pushed him away and acted like they couldn’t stand him. Little did they know they were just hurting Johnny by doing so. They had planned to kick Johnny out on this night. They thought he would end up better off with the Greasers. So, when Johnny walked in his mother said, “Go pack your stuff and get out my house.”

One day, Lisa made a dentist appointment with Solomon's mom who is a dentist to find out more about Sol. Lisa wants to counsel Sol back to health because her admission paper for the school she wants to go to has to be about her personal experience with mental illness. She planned to fix Solomon. Lisa hopes to move out of town and be someone important. Sol wants to get a pool because water calms him down but he is scared to tell his parents. Lisa wrote a letter for Sol saying that Lisa wants to be his friend. When his grandma comes over she finds out that Sol wants a pool and she says that she will buy Sol a pool if he invites Lisa over

Toni started to question why they were heading towards Las Vegas. She turned to her aunt and asked why they were heading towards Las Vegas and her aunt replied” We’re not going to yosemite today.” Toni said, “why not tia?” “We’re going to take the long way and go to St. George for a couple of days.” Toni replied “Oh.” Vero said “We’re going to go visit your tio’s aunt and uncle.” “Oh cool and they live in St. George?” “yes.” she replied. They went along their way their first a stop in Las Vegas. They stopped at “best buffet” in all of Las Vegas. In Toni’s opinion that was not the best buffet. She has had way better. All the different aroma of sushi and fish made Toni want to gag. At the buffet they had exatic foods from all over the world but they also had the basics such as mac n cheese, mini sliders, and pizza. Then they left and they were on their way to St. george. About 4 hours later they finally got to Chris’ aunt and uncle's’ house. Toni politely went up to them and greeted them and said “Hello my name is Toni and im Chris’ niece and i will be staying with you the next couple of days.” They

One hot friday afternoon Jamal and Jonathon got off the bus from a long day of school.Jonathon was staying the night at Jamal’s house.They walked down the street to Jamal’s house.But one thing about it is Jamal forgot to do the dishes this morning which it one of his chores he calls a job.They finally got to Jamal’s house after a long hot walk.But as soon as they walked threw the door all you could hear was Jamal’s mother yelling like somebody had died saying“you knew you had to do the dishes now go do them”!Jamal and Jonathon went into Jamal’s room and put there bookbagas down then went straight into the kitchen.As Jamal and Jonathon walked to the kitchen Jamal thougtht of a plan to get Jonathon to do his work for him because he really didnt want to wash dishes.

The paramedics rushed over to Angelica, checked her pulse, the paramedic said, “She has no pulse, we have to get her to the nearest hospital quick.” Marie started crying and screaming, “Oh my God, Oh my God, Please, help my baby.” Aunt Lori held Marie. As they were working with Angelica, Aunt Lori rushed to the phone and called David and Simone to tell them to meet them at the hospital. After hanging up, the paramedics rushed Angelica out the door, Marie rode in the ambulance with them. Aunt Lori rushed out behind them following the ambulance. When they made it to the hospital, they rushed Angelica inside, were there was Doctors waiting. As they rushed Angelica to the back, Marie tried to follow them, but one of the paramedics stopped her and said, “Maam, she’s in good hands, I’m sorry, but you can’t go back there.” “That’s my daughter.” said Marie. “Maam, I’m sorry, but you can’t.” said the paramedic. Marie walked off, headed to the waiting area, she was still crying. When she got to the waiting area, Aunt Lori rushed to her side. “What did they say?” ask Aunt Lori. “They told me that I can’t go back there.” said Marie. As they were talking, Simone and David rushed in. “Mom, What happened?” ask Simone. “I don’t know.” cried Marie. “Mom, come sit down.” said David. Marie kept crying. “It’s going to be alright, Angelica will be just fine.” said David. “Aunt Lori what happened?” ask Simone. “We were all asleep, then Angelica started screaming, she was crying and complaining about her head, she said that her head was hurting real bad, so Marie went and got a warm towel and placed it on her forehead, but she was still in pain, so I called the ambulance, when they arrived Marie and I rushed to the door to let them in and when they rushed to the back, they said Angelica had no pulse.” “Oh my God.” said Simone. “Have the Doctor or anyone spoken to you?” ask David. “No, just before you both arrived, they rushed her in the back.” said Marie. They all sat and

The woman gets out her phone and says “hello 911 there are monsters at the gas station” “Dave maybe we should get out of here.” “No let’s stay she just called for more people to come.” “Hey brother where are you going?” says Dave. Looking around and coming down the street he sees 3 giant hovering trucks. Dave looks behind him and starts to run. George runs away from the FBI in town and calls out for Jorge “Jorge where are you” finally he finds Jorge hiding in a bush and says “Jorge what are you doing we should run” Jorge replies “no we should hide here” Jorge hears the dogs and footsteps and says Jorge waves for Dave to get in but Dave does not listen and runs once he turned the corner he ran straight into a group of FBI officials and is taken

One day, Ocean Man and Lake Boy were finishing up saving a dog from falling out of a fire house when they got a signal from headquarters. “Buh da, buh da, buh da!” went the emergency siren. “Oh no! Someone’s in trouble!” said Ocean Man as he and Lake Boy ran to headquarters. When they got there, Alfie, their secretary, told them about the issue. “Cindy and Mindy are stuck on top of the roof because their ladder fell over,” said Alfie. “ You will have to go to their house and save them.” After hearing that news, Ocean Man and Lake Boy went straight to Cindy and Mindy’s house. Upon arriving their, Lake Boy went right up to the top of the girls’ house to retrieve them. As he did that, Ocean Man went to investigate on how the girls got stuck. When

Chad was hoping for bad weather so he wouldn't have to go. When Chad woke up on Saturday morning he saw that the weather was perfect for a little fishing. The dad and the two boys made the twenty-eight mile journey Catalina Island. After the boys and Mr. Kincaid have caught quite a few fish Mr. Kincaid decided to take a nap before the journey back to shore. The boys sweating from a long day decided to take the boogie boards out and go for a swim. The boys continued to swim for a little while and they were on opposite sides of the boat when Chad saw a shark. He yelled shark as loud as he could when all of a sudden the shark came up from under Chad and had thrown him in the air about fifteen feet. The commotion woke up Mr. Kincaid and Mick. Chad was taken under water and tried not to breath and remember what the tv show said to do if ever in a shark attack. Chad remembered what the video said and he began punching the shark in the nose it released him just in time for Chad to get a breath. The shark

A day after eight year old Ashton’s birthday, he finds his father and complains that something just isn’t right. “I don’t feel natural” Ashton told his father. “Why? What do you mean?” “I wish I was born a girl.” as she turns away running into his room, bawling his eyes out. Thomas chases him to his room saying “Hold on little buddy what’s the matter”. Once again the boy still crying intensely says “I’m not a boy! I want to be a girl!” and then buries himself in his pillow. Thomas calls for Julia, and she rushes in “What’s the matter?”. Once again the boy responds with “I want to be a girl! I’m in the wrong body, I hate this body!”. The father worried but for some reason angry rushes out into the hallway. He blames his wife saying “It’s all your fault.” She responds “How is this my fault you’re crazy” He then stresses to his wife “This is because you’ve gotten him all these girly toys growing up”. “You’ve always treated him like he was some princess”. She starts to cry. He continues, “the kid thinks he’s in some other body because of you, you ruined my little man”. She yells “Shut up! Shut up! I have had enough of this! Maybe it’s just a phase.” “You better hope it is” Thomas says. “What?” she confusedly asks “I better hope”. The husband storms out the house, probably going to a bar to drink his problems away. The wife runs to her boy’s room to try to calm him down. She tells him “Don’t worry about your father, if you really believe this, we’ll help you make your change. Only if you feel the same way you feel now when you are twelve.” The boy remembers her words, every day until the day of his twelfth

today I took a jog and a walk. for me when ever I get out doors it opens my mind. I think clearer and deeper and more steady. alone, kinda quiet but not super quiet, time to my self, getting my mind off all this school shit, it was nice for once and gave me a lot of stress relive and problem solving. I needed it, but at the same time the things I was thinking about and solving would make a great story for a paper. now I know where to turn if I'm completely stuck and out of good ideas for a paper or story that I need to write in the future.

When Kristina and Brandon got married they decided to open a CrossFit Prevail Gym in McHenry Illinois. Brandon dressed and went downstairs to eat breakfast then headed out the door to get to the gym to coach the 5am WOD class at the gym then head to his job afterward. When Brandon left it was 4:45am Kristina lied back down and fell back to sleep. When the second alarm went off at 6:45am Kristina found a little munchkin in bed with her it was Chase. He had snuck into her room to give her morning cuddles. After morning snuggles both Kristina and Chase got up and went to wake the girls for school. Running in and jumping on his sisters Chase finally awoke them and they all headed down stairs for breakfast. While all three children ate their cereal and watch cartoons. Kristina went up to take a quick shower and dress herself to take the kiddos to school. After finishing their cereal, the three children all went upstairs to get dressed. Madison the oldest dressed herself, made herself a lunch and packed her bag for school. As Madison was finishing packing her bag Makenna came down the stairs to pack her bag. After dressing Chase Kristina came down stairs to help her children. Kristina made Makenna a lunch and packed Chase a snack for preschool. “Get your shoes on” Kristina yelled as she turned off the lights and television. By the time that everyone got out of the house and into the car