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=Exposition/Inciting Incident= IT'S SUMMER! YES! PARTIES! FUN! FRIENDS! SLEEPOVERS! We were at my family friends' house one night for a party! It was one of the kid's birthdays and all the decorations were pink, blue, and sparkly! We had lots of good food. The mom made cinnamon apple pie and could almost taste by the way it smelled so good! Towards the end of the night, the daughter's friend, Danielle, came over. Danielle is sweet, nice, pretty, and fun to be with! Danielle and I started to hang out a lot and we became very good friends! We started hanging out, and talking to each other online. We tell each other everything we know and it's fun to have a friend you can do that with-tell them everything and they won't tell a soul. I like her a lot and we have a lot of fun together! We had a lot of fun times. It seems like we have been through everything in life together, already! We help one another through everything and we had lots of laughs together.

I called Danielle up and we started talking to each other on our silver, shiny phones. "Oh my goodness, Danielle! School is starting tomorrow!" I shouted. "I know! I'm so scared! I think it's scary because we might get lost, how are we supposed to find our classes? I am really bad at getting my locker open, too! What if I'm late for class? What are we going to do, Christina!?" Danielle exclaimed. "I don't know!" "I'm sure we could make it through the day. Haha!" So then we started school the next day, even though it was as hot as the sun's surface! I was so scared for school I almost turned blue! It seemed as if summer went by super fast! We met each other there and we hugged before first period. We were going through everything together! So the first few days of school went by smoothly, but then came the first test. It was my first test of middle school so I wanted to do very good. I was stressing over this! I needed help and I did not know what to do!

=Rising Action= My sometimes snobby friends were also apart of RMS. We got into so many fights and I didn't know what to do! They were stupid fights though, I thought I loved them so much! It made me feel like I was nothing and they made me feel bad about myself. They were nice to me at first. But now, I don't know. They act like bullies sometimes. They yell at me and my other friend, Brittany, all the time! I needed more help.

Love- treats for the heart. When my other friend, Vanessa, told me a boy liked me, I was so excited! I ran all over the house and screamed! I had to call Danielle! "DANIELLE! YOU'LL NEVER GUESS WHAT HAPPENED!" I shouted. "No, what!?" Danielle screamed into the phone. "Matt likes me!!!!!!!" "NO WAY!" "YES!" Matt was a boy I had liked for a very long time. I had liked him because he was nice, sweet, and always made me laugh. I was so excited! I had a huge smile on my face!! Then, he had asked me out at Brittany's party! Brittany had a party because it was her birthday and she invited almost the whole grade! I had said yes to Matt because I liked him also. We danced to a slow song and I enjoyed it. It was fun! He handed me a rose. I loved it so much it's as if the rose was singing to me! So it was going to be a week we were going out, but then, out of the blue, he had dumped me. I thought we would even make it to Valentine's day- the heart's holiday. He had texted me that he did not like me anymore and wanted to break up. I don't even know why he did, and I still don't. "Danielle. I have some sad news." I cried. "Oh my gosh. What's wrong Christina?" she said nicely. "Matt dumped me..." I cried again. How can you like someone one minute and then dump them the next? I got over it now, but it was still very sad.

There was something else, something big, very very big. School. The hardest, funniest, strangest place to me. Tests, book reports, everything was confusing and hard to get! I needed some advice from a good friend...What to do? How to study? How to get my locker open?! I didn't know a lot about middle school. I needed someone to help me that has been through these kind of things before. But who?

=Climax= I am having many problems in middle school. I am having trouble with my grades, my friends, and boys. School's a blur and it is way harder than I ever thought it would be. My friends aren't treating me the same and my mom told me that I would have to rethink getting new ones. Boys are, well, boys and they are just a puzzle to me. I don't know what to do anymore. I needed help! Who could possibly help me with this? Sometimes I feel like I can't tell anybody because I feel like I am talking to the walls! Nobody listens to me. I think it would be hard to tell my mom because she would get mad about some of my no homeworks. None of my friends could keep a good secret because they have such big mouths. They would tell someone else in a second and that person would tell someone else and then by the end of third period, the whole school would know about all my problems. Then, it came to me: DANIELLE! Since I was on my red phone, I texted her as soon as I could. I needed someone to talk to about my problems. I felt like I can tell her anything without her telling anybody. She can keep a good secret. "Danielle, can I talk to you about something?" I sighed. "Of course, Christina. You know you can always talk to me." She said nicely. "Thanks, Danielle. I need to talk to someone. Since you are older, you might have been through this kind of stuff before. I have been having boy troubles, my averages in grades are moving slowly down, and my friends aren't being very nice to me. What should I do? "Well, about the boys, don't worry. You're boy will eventually come. You will find someone who loves your silly, crazy, funny self!" "Thanks, Danielle." "Your welcome, and about the friends. I see. I have had many problems and I do see your problem. Just try t ignore them and concentrate on sports or something else." "Thanks." "And the grades, got to get them grades up, so go, go, go, girl! Haha. Just study your hardest and if you need some help, I'll come to your house and we can set up a study method or something." "Haha. OK, Danielle. I'll be back later. Love you!" "You too! Good luck." I feel a lot better know that I have told someone. I got it off my chest. Most of my problems are solved because I know I can talk to Danielle and get good advice from her.

=Falling Action= I was so close, however so far from the end of the school year. But ever since my friend, Danielle, had given me that little advice, I have been a whole lot better with RMS. However, other things do happen. When I do need a friend, I just text or call my friend for advice. I love her and I know that she will always be there for me. She's really nice and a great friend.

One day, I was very boredom so I went on my screen name. I looked at Danielle's status on AIM that she had posted. It had a crying face and a broken heart. BAM! You hear the slam of my hand on the computer table. I hit it so hard I almost could not feel my hand. I texted her her immediately and asked what was wrong. "Well..." She said. "DANIELLE! What happened!?" I stated. "Well, I like Mike. So my friend, Jenna, said she didn't like him at all. So, Mike said he liked me, and he hated Jenna. However, Mike and I were going to go to the movies last night. We had puppy love! But then he said he got sick. So we didn't go. Later, I found out that Mike blew off our date so him and Jenna can go see a movie together." She said sadly. "Oh my gosh, Danielle. How are you? Are you OK now? I feel terrible. You don't deserve that jerk." "No, Christina, I'm not that mad at him. I actually really still like him. I'm very mad at Jenna for betraying me. I know boys are stupid in the first place. But, Jenna WAS my friend. She stabbed me in the back with a very sharp, big knife.'' "Do you want me to come over? You can give me a memorandum of your typed conversation." "Yes, my Mom authorizes you to come." "OK, thanks." "Don't dawdle now! HURRY!" "I'll be right over!" It turns out that she used my help too. I went to her house that day and we talked. I told her that for now, try to work things out with Jenna. "Hi Danielle!" Jenna called Danielle. "Oh, hi, Jenna" Danielle said sadly. "What's wrong?" "Well, I know that you took Mike from me and it really hurt me that you would do something like that." "What? What are you talking about? Whose Mike?" "Mike, the guy you went to the movies with." "Oh, yeah. No! I told him that I didn't want to go out with him because I knew you liked him so much." "Wow, thanks. But he told me that you two went to the movies." "No! I would never do that to you! He is such a liar!" "Yeah, I guess you're right. Thanks, Jenna." "Sure, no problem! I have to go. I'll talk to you later. Bye!" "OK, bye Jenna!" Her and Jenna are friends now! I just really hope that Danielle does not get hurt again by Mike. She's so nice and deserves a nice boy.

She thanked me for coming over to her house and it was reverse for once. We ate food and candy and had a great time! The candy tasted SO good! It felt weird giving HER the advice and her not giving me advice. I loved her so much and I felt like I had helped her through a rough patch in life. I felt good about myself and she benefited. We were all happy.

=Resolution= In the end, Danielle got a nice boy and she is not sad or mad with him. They hug and have fun together. He is very nice to her and they deserve each other. I'm glad we both got our boys. I am also doing a lot better in school from Danielle's advice. Since I was troubled the first semester, I got B's. But then, when I got my report card from the second semester, I got straight A's! I was very happy with my grades and so was my mom. I also found new, friendly, nice friends. We have a lot of fun together and I'm so happy that I am having fun in middle school again. "Hey, Christina. What are you doing tonight?" she said to me cheerfully. "Nothing much. I have to study for a Vocabulary test, then I'm going to the movies with friends and I think Andrew is coming!" I said. "Holy Moly! Have fun! I have to go. I'll see you later. Have fun tonight!" "OK, thanks, you too! Bye!" Danielle and I both ended up going to the movies that night. We had fun because we knew we could both trust each other and no drama would happen. We had more fun than a pig rolling in mud! Some other friends went too, including my crush AND hers! We love each other and we know we'll have each other through everything and forever. We always give each other advice and when one of us is blue, we are ALWAYS there for each other. I guess true friends always stand by each other.