Rosie Ortega Ms. Lehmann English 2-1B 17 December 2019 By the Sea Shore I woke up to the sound of the ocean waves outside our house. I love hearing that calm and relaxing sound. I took a shower and started to get ready. Last night my parents told me that we were going out to the beach today. I was very excited because we moved in late last night. "Aliyah, it's time to wake up!" my mom yelled. "Okay, I'm already getting ready, don't worry!" I yelled back. I can hear my sister going through her closet to the room beside of me. Her name is Adelyn and she is two years older than me. Good thing I have my younger sister to tease, her name is Abbie. She is only nine years old. My parents literally let Adelyn do whatever she wants because she acts "grown" according to my parents. I have to admit that she is very mature but she does make stupid decisions sometimes. "Can you not throw things around in your closet?" I asked her. "Can you just mind your own business, I'm having a crisis in here, I can't find anything to wear!" "Well you're kind of making it my business because you're being so loud. I'm trying to get ready myself" "Just turn on your stupid music if you don't want to here me!" "Girls! Will you stop arguing? You guys need to get along or phones will get taken away" my dad exclaimed. Adelyn opened my door and asked if I liked living here. I basically told her that i didn't know because it felt weird living by the ocean. Anything can happen, maybe even something bad. She walked into my room and sat on my bed and turned on my LED lights to a dark red color. She loves the way that color looks like. She was kind of staring at the ceiling and wouldn't say a word. "Are you okay?" I asked "I have no friends, this is why I didn't want to move to California." "My neither, but I am also very excited to have a fresh start." "Fresh starts are good but maybe not for me, I loved my life back home" "Our home is here now, in California! Don't you love it here?" "I'm not even sure, like I love the beach view and all but who knows how it actually is like to live here. I'm really scared about how school is gonna be next month. I'm honestly so scared Aliyah." I assured her that she would make friends really easy, she is so pretty and so nice to everyone. I am pretty sure that she would be just fine and make a lot of friends. To be honest, I think that I am going to be the one to have no friends. I barley had any friends back home, I felt alone most of the time. I finished getting ready and went downstairs to the kitchen to find something to eat. By the time I went down stairs, everyone was ready to leave. My mom decided to take us out to eat for breakfast. We went to this really fancy restaurant called Perch. I had really good food. I ate some really good eggs and avocado toast. Adelyn got an acaí bowl. It looked really good and healthy, I kind of wanted to get some too but I felt so full. After we were all done eating, we went to the mall to go shopping for some clothes. We went got a lot of clothes and shoes. We were at the mall for like two hours. We went back home and got ready to go down to the beach. Once I was ready to walk down I got a beach towel from the cabinet. I took Abbie with me because Adelyn wasn't ready to go. My parents were getting ready to walk to the shore too. Abbie and I had buckets to go get some sea shells. I had so many in my bucket. I even got a piece of an oyster pearl which I thought was very odd. Abbie found a jellyfish. We were stabbing it with a plastic shovel. I was looking out at the water and I saw something very bright. I saw a glass bottle with a piece of paper inside it. Then I pulled it out and got the paper inside of it. It read, "Be careful, fear is here." The paper felt rough or like hard. I held it up to the sun. There was no date on it. Abbie asked what it said but I didn't tell her because I didn't want to scare her. I wasn't sure if it was a joke or if somebody just threw it in the water not even wondering if someone was going to see it. I looked out at the horizon and heard a loud boom. I looked like a big huge puff of smoke. It covered the entire sky and I tried to grab Abbie's hand but she was no where to be found. I rolled up the paper in my hand and took off towards my house. "Aliyah, Honey where are you?" my mom asked. Soon the smoke covered the air. I couldn't see anything at all. The air kind of cleared up but there was no one on the beach, I was alone. I could still hear my mom call for me but I couldn't see her anywhere. "I'm over here. Where are you?" I exclaimed. I looked around shortened of breath. I felt a heavy pain in my chest like it had been stabbed one hundred times. "Aliyah!" I heard my sister yell. I started to run towards their voices but there was no one in sight. "Hello? Dad? Adelyn?" I yelled out. "Aliyah, please come back!" my mom yelled. "I'm right here! I yelled back. All I could hear is their voices screaming for me. I felt movement pass through me almost as like a soul was passing through me. I tried reaching out to see if I could touch it. All of a sudden, I realized that I was standing still not moving a single muscle in my body. It started to get foggy again. I could feel my eyes start filling up with tears. Soon I was crouched over at by the shore waiting for someone to rescue me. Student’s ChoiceReflection Please answer all questions in complete, grammatically correct sentences. 1. Explain the process you went through to write this paper. Please be specific. I was given a beginning of a story and had to write starting with the words "And then" 2. Is this paper narrative, expository, or argumentative? How do you know? A narrative because I am telling a story that I wrote myself. 3. Tell me one thing you learned from writing this paper. I learned how to come up with a base of a story and know to write using show don't tell and dialogue. 4. What are you particularly proud of in this paper? I am glad that I accomplished this paper in a specific amount of time and how I set up my entire story. 5. What does this paper show readers about you? I like to write stories with a cliffhanger because it leaves you wondering and keeps you thinking about what happens next.