THE+DOLPHIN

BY: Lauren Preston
 * **THE GIRL WHO COULD!!!!!!!!! **
 * Prologue **

=== Sometime ago when your mother was in preschool a young girl named Alexandra went to a school called ST. MC .Dallon Middle School. The school was a trash pit there were people that did bad things like steal cars and set off smoke bombs and skateboard in school. The only reason that Alex went there was because it was the only school her parents could afford even Alex had to pitch in some money to go the trash dump. It’s even on the bottom of the list come to think about it it's not on the list the school was shut down but it never was officially closed teachers still went the and students to but only to hang around and to trash it some more. ===

=== "Oh no here comes little miss prissy thought" Alex. "HEY aren't you the girl that actually cares about stupid school that wears cloths that look like you've been sitting in a trash dump for your whole life". The only trash dump I see here is this dang school and YOU helped make it the worlds grossest school " "And yes if you want to described me like that then yes I am." What do you want with me if you think I'm so worthless”.” Nothing " "O.K. good because I don't anything to do with you ".Yes I finally got Stinthia off my back though Alex. SSSHPPHH CRACKLE POP the hall began to get so foggy Alex couldn't see she covered her nose in disgust the smell of smoke and chemicals invaded the hall but she kept walking suddenly four 7th graders came into sight running and laughing. Ouch! "Dude watch were your going" "NOT SORRY HA HA". "Wow” thought Alex. Alex kept walking though the smoky hall DING DING DING DING DING .The rusted bell rang out it's loud obnoxious mad song. Alex walked down to the lunch room for her alone time. No one talked to her or even sat at the same table all they did was gossip about her and just tri to make her mad but she just ignored them. Lunch was Alexandria’s last period ding ring din "finally the bell broke thank god". Alex went home and started studying for a test that she most likely not even be going to take since most of the teachers don't show up on ===

 //** Two **//
=== When Alex walked through the front door of her house every day she would always hear the same thing “Why don't you just go and find a apartment that you can live in and leave us alone.” NO" SLAM! "GO AHEAD SLAP ME SEE IF IT MAKES YOU MORE OF A MAN" Alex just headed up to her room and studied. === === When she first heard came home in First Grade and heard them fighting it was a shock but now it's an every day sound. Like the bell at school or the gossip that went around the school about her, or even the sound of smoke bombs going off. It had always been so hard to hear her mother cry and to face the reality that her parents might get a divorce but it never occurred to her that the day would come so soon. After Alex was done with her studies that didn't really matter, she began to walk down stairs to get her own dinner but then she noticed something different "it was silent usually mom and dad would have commenced fighting over something else'. Thought Alex. She kept walking quietly down the stair waiting for something, she didn't know what but she was waiting for something to happen. Then as she walked down the last half of the stair case whispers began to come into range ===

 She was broken by her thoughts by the sound of her mother’s voice
=== calling her name she pretended as if she hadn't been listening, making a few extra fake steps, and then finished walking down the long staircase. Smiling she said "What" then by the look of her parents Alex smile diapered. Alex's dad gestured her to sit down in the chair in front of them. She sat down, waiting longingly for the silent to break and then her mom started the conversation Alex was just sitting there unknowingly of what might happen. ===

 "Your Father and I still love each other but we no longer enjoy each others presents and we always fight".
=== " so were going to get a divorce and we just wanted to let you know that were working out a plan so that you can switch off and see us both" ===

=== "We have tried so hard to make this work but it just hasn't and we don't want to fight any more and were sure that you don’t like always hearing us fighting." Were so sorry." ===

=== Alex tried to chook down the tears that had commenced running down her face but she let it go rushes of tears streamed down her face. Alex looked down so her parents wouldn’t see her pitiful face. Her mother’s tender voice cooed ssshhh it will be ok as they both hugged her uncomfortably. Alex got up slowly, silently crying and went to her room. She went to bed without dinner and fell a sleep crying to her self, thinking of all the wonderful times that they had all together before her parents started fighting. ===

 **// Three //**
=== The next morning Alex woke up and almost forgetting that her parents were getting a divorce but then the sound of fighting made her remember the night before. Alex put some basket ball shorts on and a lacy torques tank top, with tennis shoes, let her bangs down but put her hair into a butt bun and her flat rimmed skating hat, packet her back pack and set off for school on the bus it was wild people making videos and running all over the place and the annual Friday smoke bomb was set off. School was as it always was laughing playing around smoke bombs and no teachers, not even the principle. Alex went to home room and wrote in her dairy about thing that happened the night before no one came to that class room because it was said to be hunted by her the ghost of the school girl, but Alex thought that they were all being stupid and childish. After School Alex came home to a horrible sight big boxes that said === === WWW.NEW HOMES/ MOVING.COM In big bold red letters then dad was the one that was packing them. "Dad was moving why so soon" thought Alex. Alex's mom walked in from work anstoped behind Alexandria and went to sudden shock Alex ran up stairs because she knew that a fight was going to break out and she didn't want to be in the middle of it. turns out that her dad wasn't supposed to leave until Friday but he was leaving today because he got a job that was closer to the apartment that he was going to move to. As they said there goodbyes a spark lit inside her head. === === “she couldn't let life take her by the wheel she had to take it by the wheel “Alex thought in realization” Alex was sad but she had to do this she had to change her life and stop it from turning up side down She hustled up to her room and started to write down things she wanted to change in her life ===

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;"> 3. Make people like me for who I am and to see my talents
===<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;"> She thought real hard about which one she wanted to start with she thought and thought and then came to a concussion she was going to star with the school because the one with her parents it would work better after they had some time to be alone and maybe people would appreciated her more if she changed the school so it all resolved around the school Alex satisfied with her decision commenced writing a big speech she edited it and edited it. At school at home at her dad's apartment she even set aside school work to work on it and this was the finishing speech ===

===<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;"> The day I came to this school I thought it was a good carefree school, a school that just needed a few touch up but as the year progressed, I saw the school for what it really was. A horrible school where teachers made excuses to not show up and were the students did not go to their classes to learn they just fooled around and trashed the school. This school used to be at the top of the list and now were not even on the list but where still here. Why? Why do we deserve to be here when we are the worst school and you know it? I think that if an inspector comes here every year and were not on the list then this school should be given a chance to renew it’s self and to become better. We can make changes if we want but you haven’t thought about your future your life do you really want to be homeless people that have no job and no money don’t think so. But, in order to start are future we need to change are school. We need to make this school the best that we can and this goes for all schools “To be the best you have to have faith and to have faith you need hope and hope comes from students and the students need You”. Therefore, if you have had a dream to be someone worthy of a job that you are interested in it all starts at the heart of the school and look around you does this place look like a place that you want to remember in your life. To tell your grand children stories about No! So on that note I ‘m going to do every thing I can to make this school be the best it can be. Nevertheless, I need volunteers young and old to help. So if you think we should be making a difference in these schools then join. Thank you. ===

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;"> **// Four //**
===<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;"> Alex typed her speech and printed it satisfied she practiced saying it so that it would pack a punch and so it would put some since into people’s mines. === ===<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;"> Alex went to school that day no longer sad but more of a proud lively feeling filed her. Her next step into changing her school was to get some kind of TV station that will broadcast her .The sound of broadcast sent cold nerves shivers down her back. Alex commenced think what if I stump up and forget the speech and what if It fails. Alex wasn't half way through her list of things that she wanted to work on and she was already nerves. "Not Good!" thought Alex. After school Alex took the bus to her dad’s apartment and called the channel 10 news and asked if they would broadcast her they said that they would need some info before they could broadcast her and they would also need to see what she would be talking about they hung up and she thanks. Three weeks later she got a call from the news channel and said that they would broadcast her. Alex’s eye’s widened and her mouth dropped open all the way to the floor and then at the top of her lungs she screamed “THANK YOU”　and slammed the phone the holster that hung on the wall. The next week Alex told her parents that she would broadcast that Wednesday and be on TV. ===

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;"> The next day Alex went and practiced her speech at the news cast station
===<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;"> All around there were people caring cameras ,big lights, wires, and huge binders of thick papers and they were all getting ready for her ,and the next days news. === ===<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;"> Alex was practically peeing in her pants when she got to the station the next day Alex sat there for hours on end saying her lines and just waiting for her name to be called finally Alex's name was called and she was told to come and to stand at the podium and to start her speech. === ===<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;"> She shook and she almost paced out because she then knew that this would be showed to America the Untied Stats the only country that would ever let her do this. Alex started at the black camera that stared right back at her and she began to sweat because of the hot bright light that beamed down at her "1, 2, 3" whispered the camera man as he gave her a thumbs up. Alex spoke as loud as she could but all that came out was te dy th in a horrifying groaning sound '' CUT” called the director. "Hun do you need a glass of water" Alex choked "yes' and left. When she came back she heard her voice te dy th over and over again they were looking it over worried Alex looked over the camera mans shoulder and watched her scared nerves old self 6 times before the director said would you like to try again Alex nodded And stood in front of the podium And said her speech nice loud and affective. She said it with pried and with confidence She made it sound like she was the best president in the world that was giving her companying speech. ===

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">**// Speech //**
===<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;"> The day I came to this school I thought it was a good carefree school, a school that just needed a few touch up but as the year progressed, I saw the school for what it really was. A horrible school where teachers made excuses to not show up and were the students did not go to their classes to learn they just fooled around and trashed the school. This school used to be at the top of the list and now were not even on the list but where still here. Why? Why do we deserve to be here when we are the worst school and you know it? I think === ===<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;"> that if an inspector comes here every year and were not on the list then this school should be given a chance to renew it’s self and to become better. We can make changes if we want but you haven’t thought about your future your life do you really want to be homeless people that have no job and no money I don’t think so. But, in order to start are future we need to change are school. We need to make this school the best that we can and this goes for all schools “To be the best you have to have faith and to have faith you need hope and hope comes from students and the students need You”. Therefore, if you have had a dream to be someone worthy of a job that you are interested in it all starts at the heart of the school and look around you does this place really look like a place that you want to remember in your life a place that you would like to tell stories about No! So on that note I ‘m going to do every thing I can to make this school be the best it can be. Nevertheless, I need volunteers young and old to help. Thank you. ===

===<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;"> When she was done with her speech she smiled and then said" now back to news cast weather" When Alex was done The room cheered and laughed they coagulated her and praised her. Alex felt like a movie star she really loved the way people talked to her so professionally. looking at the big screen that show her speeking and making her point, she smiled and cried happily as she remembered how scared she was when she first stepped up on that podium. And then the director screamed "now we show the video on TV" ===

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;"> "Sir would you like to show it in only the town or in the country". "Please be town please be town". thought Alex
===<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;"> "I would love to post it America wide" shocked Alex took two big breaths and then said "Sir how may I repay you" "You can celebrate the best debate every at my house with all your friends and family" ===

===<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;"> After the show Alex took a bus home smiling all the way there and when she got home both of her parents were together and congratulated her with a cake they never fought that night or yell it was the best the next night they went over to the directors house and partied all night long the school was so much more improved that it was on the top of the list for public school and her parents didn't fight as much but they never got back together but every one did noticed her allot more so all in all she achieved all she wanted to and now she is a public debater at the university of Colorado. ===

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;"> And she now has so many friends and you know what one of them is Stinthia.
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