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04-19-2006, 10:08 PM
Hi, this is my story, The Tall Tales of Sixth Grade. I hope when I'm finished with this story, I'll be able to publish it. That's just hope. Well, post your comments here, and please please, tell me what I can fix about it. This takes place in this 2006, so don't worry about the timing. It goes in a girls perspective, but boys can enjoy it too, because its about someones life. Thanks for living
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Tamara Banks clutched her books.
"Please please, let this be all right!" she whispered to herself.
Swinging on the car door, her brother shouted through the window,"Never mind, Tammie! Day Closed Da Door!".
He had no teeth, so it was hard for him to say ANYTHING.
"Please, please let me have this day as a great one!" she whispered again.
He swinged again, and turned the window down, with his long arms.
Ignoring her mumbling, he reached in, and grabbed a notebook, that was his mom's.
"Tammy, why so sad?"
"I am not sad!"
"Why so, angry?"
"Not angry!"
"Why so--" He started, but he wasn't able to finish when Tamara interupted.
"Brooker! Stop it, and leave me alone, okay? I'm excited and nervous about 6th grade, and mom's not helping making me be late!"
He was about to add another comment, but stopped because he didn't want to take the chance of being screamed at. So he grabbed his own bookbag, and hugged his book, trying to copy Tamara.
"Dird grade gonna be fun!" He shouted.
"Good for you" Tamara said, as she waved him off.
She wasn't paying attention to him, she was simply listening for any snowstorms on the radio. She knew it was summer, but she wanted school not to start that day.
Their mom finally hoped in the car,"Hi guys, sorry I'm late" she said, as she squeezed her seatbelt in the old seat risistant.
"Lets just go.. Mom.." Tamara grumbled.
She started the car, and drove off. Passing, 1.. 2..3 stop signs.
They waited and waited, until they came up to a tiny school, with red windows.
Tamara and Brooker hoped out, and kissed their mother on the other side of the door. Brooker was the only one skipping to the door, Tamara just slumped.
"Bye!" Brooker said with excitement.
"Bye.." Tamara grumbled.
Tamara walked up the stairs, into her classroom, and sat down. The sixth grade, had just started.
The teacher, Mrs.Beale, gave them some time to talk with friends.
So, Tamara unpacked, and looked to see if any of her friends were there, At the middle school.
"Tammy! Tammy! You're here!" Jessica screeched.
"Hi Jess!"
"Tammy, you have got to see the magazines that they have! They have, ParagonGirl! Do you know that, ParagonGirl costs $5.50 at the news stand. $2.00 more than my allowance!"
"Wow, awesome. Anyone new here"
"Just some new kids, a boy a girl.. a couple kids!"
"Oh, Wow!"
Jessica reached over, and hugged Tamara,"I missed you this summer"
"Missed you too!"
As Tamara turned around, someone caught her eye.
"Who are they? And why are they crowding around Molly?" Tamara stopped hugging.
She looked at Molly, her other best friend. She was surrounded by girls wearing glittery outfits. Not the regular outfits Molly would wear.
"Didn't you hear? Ever since Molly went on a cruise to Miami, she's had her own "possy" now." Jess said, as she flipped through the flashy magazine.
Just hearing the word"possy", made Tamara flinch.
"Pppposssyyy? What is that? Why would she want one of them?!"
"I don't know.. Really.. Ask her that.. OOh, look at this nailpolish! So pretty!" Jessica seemed distracted.
Tamara decided to step right up to Molly, and ask her to come to her sleepover party, next week.
"Hi Molly, want to come to my sleepover party? All the girls are invited."
"Well, if I'm invited, I'll sure to come" She said in a weird, stuck-up voice.
"Huh? Molly, who are these guys?"
"They're my friends.. Nothing you could understand" She turned around, and sneered.
Her friends giggled too, which made Tamara feel like a complete fool.
She kicked the table stand, lightly"You guys are invited too!" she said as she felt the bump.
"Of course they are coming, if I'm coming." Molly said again with her weird voice.
Tamara didn't know whether to leave, or go back to Jessica. She chose Jessica.
As she walked, her long hair breezed through.
"Ar.. My hair is so boring. Why is it good to have blonde hair, with brown streaks?"
"Because, its pretty, and people like it. See see, they have cleaning tips! This guide has everything!" Jessica exclaimed, while putting the magazine down.
"Everyone, take your seats!" The teacher shouted, over the giggling and talk of kids.
Everyone stumbled into a seat, near their friend or near the wall.
" I am Mrs.Beale, and I am your new teacher." sshe said as she wrote on the blackboard."You will be learning interesting things.. Today"
"Interesting.. Woo!" Molly whispered to her possy.
"Aheehee" they giggled.
"Aww shut up!" Tommy shouted at them.
"That is enough! We are going to be learning mostly movies. All our lessons will be based on a movie that you guys may find cool. "
"AWESOME!" Lela shouted.
"Ahem!" Jamie coughed, to get Lela's attention.
"Hi, Mrs.Beale. Just to let you know, I am running for class president this year. And I'm sure, everyone will vote for me!"
"Just five more minutes.." Tamara whispered.
She knew it was a half a day, and in five minutes, they could go home.
"RRRIIINNNNGGGG" the bell rang loudly.
"YES!" Tamara shouted, as she threw her book in the air.
Everyone pushed, and shoved to get to the door, and through the school entrance. By the time they got there, the janitor was already on the floor, trampled by fourth graders.
"Yay, Yay Yay!" Jessica screeched with laughter,
Tamara, took a seat on the school brick wall, which was short, as tall as bushes. Jessica joined her.
" You know, your party should be today, since its friday. I'll invite, and you can just help me get ready. It'll be perfect!"
"Well.. Okay, lets go to the store."
Tamara had gotten her allowance a day before, so she was ready to go shopping.
" 70 dollars! You are rich, how can you save money?" Jessica exclaimed.
"Chips.. Cookies.. Candy.. Toys.. Games.. And, music!"
Tamara wasn't paying attention, just finding party favors.
"Aha! I've got the streemers, and the food. Isn't this great?"
"This only costed you, 10 dollars.. Cheap!"
"I know!"
They walked together, down the baige sidewalk, and looked at the strange kids in the street. The neighborhood had changed.
"Wow, who knew so many goths hung out here. They don't go to our school"
"Yeah.. They're kinda creepy, and we should get outta here soon"
They walked quickly, only to find more strange people, but soon, they got to their house, were the rest of the houses were fine, and no one strange was hanging out.
"Okay, got the student directory!"
"Molly is invited, and she can invite her friends.. Jamie and Lela. Lousiana twins, and Gordo. Franny Marchetti, and Gertie. And Sumrah!"
"That's all we need" Tamara said, interrupting.
Jessica looked puzzled. She thought Tamara wanted 15 people. Not 12.
"Well.. That crosses off the Benson Twins.. But alrighty."
They gathered all the food, and put it inside bowls, and made designs on mini cups, they had bought at the store. They set up Tamara's room, to look like a party house. And, they had Brooker be sent out for his own sleepover, at his friends house. The house was theirs, besides the fact that her mother and father were upstairs. They didn't have to worry about them.
"Perfect!" Jessica said, as she made an okay signal with her hands.
"Let me fix this sign.."
Tamara, had made a sign saying, Welcome Back. SHe hoped everyone would like it.
"Dddiiinnnggg DddddOoooNnngg" The door bell rang.
"Hi Molly!" Tamara said, as she opened the door.
"Sorry, Tammy, about earlier. Those girls wanted me to act that way towards other people. I'll never do it again!" She said, as she held her pajamas. They were pink,and glittery.
"What's with glitter?" Jessica stated, uneasy,"It was my favorite design, until you decided to wear it. In fact, you look like a girraffe"
Molly coughed a long cough. It seemed fake, and she was just being dramatic, but it was so long that they could have mistaken it to be real.
Finally she spit out, "Water.. Please"
Tamara ran to the kitchen, and poured a glass of water from the sink, then ran back and handed it to Molly.
"Thank you, Tammy. My presence at this sleepover is not needed.. But, I will stay, seeing as I do have one friend here. And more coming. Where shall I sleep"
"Don't you have a sleeping bag?" Jessica hesitated,"Beauty queen"
"Oh.. You're saying I'm a beauty queen. Look whose talking!"
"Girls, girls, stop fighting!" Tamara put her arms between them, and seperated them. "We are 11, not 2! We are going to have fun, so set your stuff down, in my room, Molly"
"Fine with me.." Molly said in her stuck up voice.
The door bell rang, again with three girls, from Molly's possy. The girls placed their bags that were identical, next to Molly's.
"Hi all," A brown haired one said, "I'm Sarah," She then pointed to another girl"This is Jane," and pointed again to another,"And this is, Camiele"
Jessica stood mouth open at them, when she finally closed her mouth, it was to say, "Fools.."
Finally, the last girls came inside, and they were ready to play the game.
"What's this game?" Jamie asked anxiously.
"Its a learn more about your friend game. Your friend walks out of the room, and each girl writes what they think they friend likes the most. If you're wrong, you aren't really friends.. If you're right, you are friends" Jessica explained.
First was Jamie.
Everyone got everything right about her.
Jessica went, and only Molly and Tamara got everything right.
Then it was Mollys turn.
The three Possy Girls, were writing in there own answers, when it was time for Molly to come in. Molly picked up the girls papers, and Read her Possys Papers first.
"MTV? I would never watch MTV! Swans aren't my favorite animal! And my favorite subject is SCIENCE!" She shouted.
"Drama queen.." The Louisiana Twins, mumbled to each other.
Molly had ran out of the room, and slammed the door, crying.
The three girls sat together, puzzled, and the only one who went to see Molly, was Tamara.
"Molly, don't worry. I'm still your friend!"
"That doesn't matter!" She said between muffled tears,"The people I spent my whole summer with are just, girls that don't even understand me!"
"Well.." Tamara had started to say something.. But she stopped, mid-sentence.
"For a while I thought I was popular" She joked, "My hair was finally curly, and I thought I had fashion sense. And, Im not gonna lose my popularity by sitting here!"
Tamara was speechless at what Molly was saying, she didn't even care they were friends.
"Those girls are gonna have to spend more time with me! And my popularity will go much higher, if more people like me! So, movies tomorrow, is My Possy day!"
Tamara flinched again. Molly had kept speaking about her popularity. She only cared about herself, and that her friendship with the Possy Girls, was only to benift herself.
"Thanks for Listening Tammy!" Molly had said, grabbing her arm.
"Don't call me that! And don't touch me!" she had shaked off Molly's hand.
"Tammy? I mean Tamara, what's wrong?"
"Get back to your friends all ready, Molly!"
"Okay.. Okay.." She said, and ran towards Tamara's bedroom door.
Tamara had taken 30 minutes, to calm down, after splashing her face with water 10 times. She had gone back to the party, and had not participated in any games, pie fights or any scary story times. She just sat on her bed, staring at Molly.. Her old best friend.
"Time for bed girls," Tamara's mother insisted.
"Aww" The each said, and gathered into their sleeping bags.
Jessica had gotten inside her sleeping bag, right next to Tamara's.
"What's wrong, Tammy?" She said, wondering why her friend was quiet.
"Molly's wrong.. She ignores me, and all she cares about is being popular"
"She's a girraffe! Don't listen to zoo animals!"
"but.. She was one of my best friends.. I trusted her.."
"don't worry," Jessica said, as she pointed to herself and Tamara, repeatedly,"You and I'll be best friends for ever" She whispered.
"Thanks, Jess" Tamara said, between muffled tears.
They had falled asleep, right after that
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More to be continued..
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Tamara Banks clutched her books.
"Please please, let this be all right!" she whispered to herself.
Swinging on the car door, her brother shouted through the window,"Never mind, Tammie! Day Closed Da Door!".
He had no teeth, so it was hard for him to say ANYTHING.
"Please, please let me have this day as a great one!" she whispered again.
He swinged again, and turned the window down, with his long arms.
Ignoring her mumbling, he reached in, and grabbed a notebook, that was his mom's.
"Tammy, why so sad?"
"I am not sad!"
"Why so, angry?"
"Not angry!"
"Why so--" He started, but he wasn't able to finish when Tamara interupted.
"Brooker! Stop it, and leave me alone, okay? I'm excited and nervous about 6th grade, and mom's not helping making me be late!"
He was about to add another comment, but stopped because he didn't want to take the chance of being screamed at. So he grabbed his own bookbag, and hugged his book, trying to copy Tamara.
"Dird grade gonna be fun!" He shouted.
"Good for you" Tamara said, as she waved him off.
She wasn't paying attention to him, she was simply listening for any snowstorms on the radio. She knew it was summer, but she wanted school not to start that day.
Their mom finally hoped in the car,"Hi guys, sorry I'm late" she said, as she squeezed her seatbelt in the old seat risistant.
"Lets just go.. Mom.." Tamara grumbled.
She started the car, and drove off. Passing, 1.. 2..3 stop signs.
They waited and waited, until they came up to a tiny school, with red windows.
Tamara and Brooker hoped out, and kissed their mother on the other side of the door. Brooker was the only one skipping to the door, Tamara just slumped.
"Bye!" Brooker said with excitement.
"Bye.." Tamara grumbled.
Tamara walked up the stairs, into her classroom, and sat down. The sixth grade, had just started.
The teacher, Mrs.Beale, gave them some time to talk with friends.
So, Tamara unpacked, and looked to see if any of her friends were there, At the middle school.
"Tammy! Tammy! You're here!" Jessica screeched.
"Hi Jess!"
"Tammy, you have got to see the magazines that they have! They have, ParagonGirl! Do you know that, ParagonGirl costs $5.50 at the news stand. $2.00 more than my allowance!"
"Wow, awesome. Anyone new here"
"Just some new kids, a boy a girl.. a couple kids!"
"Oh, Wow!"
Jessica reached over, and hugged Tamara,"I missed you this summer"
"Missed you too!"
As Tamara turned around, someone caught her eye.
"Who are they? And why are they crowding around Molly?" Tamara stopped hugging.
She looked at Molly, her other best friend. She was surrounded by girls wearing glittery outfits. Not the regular outfits Molly would wear.
"Didn't you hear? Ever since Molly went on a cruise to Miami, she's had her own "possy" now." Jess said, as she flipped through the flashy magazine.
Just hearing the word"possy", made Tamara flinch.
"Pppposssyyy? What is that? Why would she want one of them?!"
"I don't know.. Really.. Ask her that.. OOh, look at this nailpolish! So pretty!" Jessica seemed distracted.
Tamara decided to step right up to Molly, and ask her to come to her sleepover party, next week.
"Hi Molly, want to come to my sleepover party? All the girls are invited."
"Well, if I'm invited, I'll sure to come" She said in a weird, stuck-up voice.
"Huh? Molly, who are these guys?"
"They're my friends.. Nothing you could understand" She turned around, and sneered.
Her friends giggled too, which made Tamara feel like a complete fool.
She kicked the table stand, lightly"You guys are invited too!" she said as she felt the bump.
"Of course they are coming, if I'm coming." Molly said again with her weird voice.
Tamara didn't know whether to leave, or go back to Jessica. She chose Jessica.
As she walked, her long hair breezed through.
"Ar.. My hair is so boring. Why is it good to have blonde hair, with brown streaks?"
"Because, its pretty, and people like it. See see, they have cleaning tips! This guide has everything!" Jessica exclaimed, while putting the magazine down.
"Everyone, take your seats!" The teacher shouted, over the giggling and talk of kids.
Everyone stumbled into a seat, near their friend or near the wall.
" I am Mrs.Beale, and I am your new teacher." sshe said as she wrote on the blackboard."You will be learning interesting things.. Today"
"Interesting.. Woo!" Molly whispered to her possy.
"Aheehee" they giggled.
"Aww shut up!" Tommy shouted at them.
"That is enough! We are going to be learning mostly movies. All our lessons will be based on a movie that you guys may find cool. "
"AWESOME!" Lela shouted.
"Ahem!" Jamie coughed, to get Lela's attention.
"Hi, Mrs.Beale. Just to let you know, I am running for class president this year. And I'm sure, everyone will vote for me!"
"Just five more minutes.." Tamara whispered.
She knew it was a half a day, and in five minutes, they could go home.
"RRRIIINNNNGGGG" the bell rang loudly.
"YES!" Tamara shouted, as she threw her book in the air.
Everyone pushed, and shoved to get to the door, and through the school entrance. By the time they got there, the janitor was already on the floor, trampled by fourth graders.
"Yay, Yay Yay!" Jessica screeched with laughter,
Tamara, took a seat on the school brick wall, which was short, as tall as bushes. Jessica joined her.
" You know, your party should be today, since its friday. I'll invite, and you can just help me get ready. It'll be perfect!"
"Well.. Okay, lets go to the store."
Tamara had gotten her allowance a day before, so she was ready to go shopping.
" 70 dollars! You are rich, how can you save money?" Jessica exclaimed.
"Chips.. Cookies.. Candy.. Toys.. Games.. And, music!"
Tamara wasn't paying attention, just finding party favors.
"Aha! I've got the streemers, and the food. Isn't this great?"
"This only costed you, 10 dollars.. Cheap!"
"I know!"
They walked together, down the baige sidewalk, and looked at the strange kids in the street. The neighborhood had changed.
"Wow, who knew so many goths hung out here. They don't go to our school"
"Yeah.. They're kinda creepy, and we should get outta here soon"
They walked quickly, only to find more strange people, but soon, they got to their house, were the rest of the houses were fine, and no one strange was hanging out.
"Okay, got the student directory!"
"Molly is invited, and she can invite her friends.. Jamie and Lela. Lousiana twins, and Gordo. Franny Marchetti, and Gertie. And Sumrah!"
"That's all we need" Tamara said, interrupting.
Jessica looked puzzled. She thought Tamara wanted 15 people. Not 12.
"Well.. That crosses off the Benson Twins.. But alrighty."
They gathered all the food, and put it inside bowls, and made designs on mini cups, they had bought at the store. They set up Tamara's room, to look like a party house. And, they had Brooker be sent out for his own sleepover, at his friends house. The house was theirs, besides the fact that her mother and father were upstairs. They didn't have to worry about them.
"Perfect!" Jessica said, as she made an okay signal with her hands.
"Let me fix this sign.."
Tamara, had made a sign saying, Welcome Back. SHe hoped everyone would like it.
"Dddiiinnnggg DddddOoooNnngg" The door bell rang.
"Hi Molly!" Tamara said, as she opened the door.
"Sorry, Tammy, about earlier. Those girls wanted me to act that way towards other people. I'll never do it again!" She said, as she held her pajamas. They were pink,and glittery.
"What's with glitter?" Jessica stated, uneasy,"It was my favorite design, until you decided to wear it. In fact, you look like a girraffe"
Molly coughed a long cough. It seemed fake, and she was just being dramatic, but it was so long that they could have mistaken it to be real.
Finally she spit out, "Water.. Please"
Tamara ran to the kitchen, and poured a glass of water from the sink, then ran back and handed it to Molly.
"Thank you, Tammy. My presence at this sleepover is not needed.. But, I will stay, seeing as I do have one friend here. And more coming. Where shall I sleep"
"Don't you have a sleeping bag?" Jessica hesitated,"Beauty queen"
"Oh.. You're saying I'm a beauty queen. Look whose talking!"
"Girls, girls, stop fighting!" Tamara put her arms between them, and seperated them. "We are 11, not 2! We are going to have fun, so set your stuff down, in my room, Molly"
"Fine with me.." Molly said in her stuck up voice.
The door bell rang, again with three girls, from Molly's possy. The girls placed their bags that were identical, next to Molly's.
"Hi all," A brown haired one said, "I'm Sarah," She then pointed to another girl"This is Jane," and pointed again to another,"And this is, Camiele"
Jessica stood mouth open at them, when she finally closed her mouth, it was to say, "Fools.."
Finally, the last girls came inside, and they were ready to play the game.
"What's this game?" Jamie asked anxiously.
"Its a learn more about your friend game. Your friend walks out of the room, and each girl writes what they think they friend likes the most. If you're wrong, you aren't really friends.. If you're right, you are friends" Jessica explained.
First was Jamie.
Everyone got everything right about her.
Jessica went, and only Molly and Tamara got everything right.
Then it was Mollys turn.
The three Possy Girls, were writing in there own answers, when it was time for Molly to come in. Molly picked up the girls papers, and Read her Possys Papers first.
"MTV? I would never watch MTV! Swans aren't my favorite animal! And my favorite subject is SCIENCE!" She shouted.
"Drama queen.." The Louisiana Twins, mumbled to each other.
Molly had ran out of the room, and slammed the door, crying.
The three girls sat together, puzzled, and the only one who went to see Molly, was Tamara.
"Molly, don't worry. I'm still your friend!"
"That doesn't matter!" She said between muffled tears,"The people I spent my whole summer with are just, girls that don't even understand me!"
"Well.." Tamara had started to say something.. But she stopped, mid-sentence.
"For a while I thought I was popular" She joked, "My hair was finally curly, and I thought I had fashion sense. And, Im not gonna lose my popularity by sitting here!"
Tamara was speechless at what Molly was saying, she didn't even care they were friends.
"Those girls are gonna have to spend more time with me! And my popularity will go much higher, if more people like me! So, movies tomorrow, is My Possy day!"
Tamara flinched again. Molly had kept speaking about her popularity. She only cared about herself, and that her friendship with the Possy Girls, was only to benift herself.
"Thanks for Listening Tammy!" Molly had said, grabbing her arm.
"Don't call me that! And don't touch me!" she had shaked off Molly's hand.
"Tammy? I mean Tamara, what's wrong?"
"Get back to your friends all ready, Molly!"
"Okay.. Okay.." She said, and ran towards Tamara's bedroom door.
Tamara had taken 30 minutes, to calm down, after splashing her face with water 10 times. She had gone back to the party, and had not participated in any games, pie fights or any scary story times. She just sat on her bed, staring at Molly.. Her old best friend.
"Time for bed girls," Tamara's mother insisted.
"Aww" The each said, and gathered into their sleeping bags.
Jessica had gotten inside her sleeping bag, right next to Tamara's.
"What's wrong, Tammy?" She said, wondering why her friend was quiet.
"Molly's wrong.. She ignores me, and all she cares about is being popular"
"She's a girraffe! Don't listen to zoo animals!"
"but.. She was one of my best friends.. I trusted her.."
"don't worry," Jessica said, as she pointed to herself and Tamara, repeatedly,"You and I'll be best friends for ever" She whispered.
"Thanks, Jess" Tamara said, between muffled tears.
They had falled asleep, right after that
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More to be continued..
Please do not add to this story