My dad had a project so he would be out for a wek, I didn't enjoy the look of things after three days, Beck expected me to stand up to Aunt Deirdre to leave and he kept bugging me. He had a hard time communicating his needs so I ended up doing all the talking. "Beck, you can't just tell her to leave, it's wrong." I was starting to worry about dad not coming home, there hasn't been any calls every five minutes or messages, I was getting a sick feeling in my stomach. Maybe the project had been further delayed. "Where are you?" I called, Mort's family were leaving for Cancun and Beck signed up late for summer camp, so he was staying at home. THIS NUMBER DOES NOT EXIST1 week pushing, I never expected things to get gloomier from there. I called his other friends were starting to show up at our house, even his colleagues who made the trip with him. The project had been finalized."Maybe he got lost," Lois sniffed. She hadn't been sleeping in since the fifth day and I noticed that she w

I put the vehicle at full speed, I brushed my eyes and I rode the heart away from the exploding ship, I started to grow more impatient as we drew farther apart from the maze. The maze exploded and the heart landed close to the frontier of the city and they stepped outside. "The aliens are coming!" The old man let out pointing. A man in black yanked another civilian out of the ship and they dropped on the heart. My eyes crinkled at Zed coughing with dad on his stomach, weakened from the trip.[ Ding! You have rescued 15 people ] I stared back at the burning maze, there was sign of them. I wondered how the other Zed was coping, for now, it was safer to go home. I sniffed, I never even got to see him. ..."And I get to kiss the frog forever and ever and ever and_," Lois told and Zed's hair stood up in terror at that and he sighed."No, Lois, some frogs are actually very toxi...yes, forever and ever," He crossed his fingers. She smiled at him and showed signs of tiredness, yawning wh

I was looking at the sky askance. Then I groaned pushing the door inside when Dad called my attention again. He stood with Amir who was fretting and they were all glaring at me like I did something wrong. "Why are you all looking at me like that?""He called me a phony," Amir let out with beads of tears in his eyes. "And then hit me in the nuts during a baseball practice. I was only trying to make good friends with him but I guess he's too good for me. You were right, Morty, a lot of things haven't changed," He sniffed."What the_?! You were there!" I shrieked at Morty. "No, I wasn't." Mort hid behind Kendra who passed him a dry look. She looked pretty disappointed in me too.I glanced over at Dexter and he grimaced."You need to stop being so defensive and put an end to this grievance. It's getting out of hand, right Mrs Al-Abadi?" Amir sulked. Mrs Zaman was glaring at me and she softened. "Shame on you, Zachary, that's a poor way to act," I groaned shutting my eyes and sure it wa

Zack! PSST PSSSST I rolled open my window and my eyes popped. Kendra stood on the roof. She pulled away. "Kendra..." I was lost for words at how she managed to climb that high with a plant. "Is this a bad time, chap?" She said to me. The strands of her hair was flying in all directions. She looked nervously at me and broke eye contact. "I heard you went practicing." I cringed into myself.I suddenly felt like I would to curl up into a ball. "Yes." I couldn't seem to raise my eyes up from the suddenly very interesting speck of dirt on the roof. I felt like I didn't have anything witty or interesting to say. Or cover up for that act. She heard about the game too. I crouched down thinking about my massive fail. The room was locked. I tucked my knees in and she sat back staring wistfully ahead above our neighbourhood. Her nails beat on the roof rhythmically. I cleared my throat. "So are you what doing here?" I blushed. Kendra's eyes crinkled and she half-laughed. "What?" "What do you ne

I was scared senseless, when I looked at the crowd of them, they could easily overpower me even if I gave it a fighting chance, after all, I've been doing lately was failing. I hoped someone else would come rescue to me. I had no fighting chance. I looked around and everything seemed to be in a standstill. I looked for any signs, any loopholes. They spoke and I clenched my teeth as they uploaded my data in a strange language on their monitor. How did I know? My picture was pasted up there. They pointed and studied my details and I struggled to break lose. The mimic touched a device on its neck. "Prepare for uploading. Lord Gondomier would be very disappointed with the results I assure you."I grimaced. "The Blundering Earth boy is weak and defenseless." It said stepping around me. I pulled at the shackles. Sweat trickled into my eyes. I clenched my fists and wriggled and one of them stuck a spear into my chest. I roared in pain at the currents and my eyes closed. I couldn't believe it