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His hand, warm and soft, reached for mine. Under great big blue skies. Everything seemed so peaceful. Blue birds chirping blissful tunes. Roses, daffodils, daisies, all sorts of flowers blooming. Water crashing down into the harmonious lake. Walking towards the sunset, hand in hand. Together as one. I knew he would be happy when we were to be together on the other side. The side where it is peaceful, loving and happy. Being with this alluring man brought me this blithe world and I never want to get out of it.

My world used to be filled with a world of crime, hatred and melancholy. I had no family. Both of my parents passed away when I just started my senior year because my dad and mom were involved in the war. My dad was in the army and my mom was an army nurse. My grandmother always had to come over and watch me. I despised her. She would never let me do anything. But of course she always left me home alone to care for myself. I never had anyone around me. I was depressed as a ten year old and my parents never knew. My grandmother said she would lie and tell my parents that I was a dreadful girl if I told them the way she treated me. I had friends in school but I never got to hang out with them. I only had one true best friend that I told everything and he would try and help me feel better the best he could. The day I wanted to tell him I was in love with him, he told me he was moving. And the month after my parents passed away... he was gone. It was too hard to bear. Yeah we still kept in touch, until my grandmother found out and took the phone away and made sure no letters were written. There was no way of getting out. My senior year was abominable; I could not wait to get out because I knew I would be away from my grandmother for good. She finally left the summer that I turned 18. But it was too late… he was gone and there was no possible way of ever finding him again.

So I went off and began college. My grandmother did not know but my parents left an appreciable amount of money for my education. Also, the army ended up paying for college because they knew how I had no one left to help me. My first day of college was great! I was finally free from my retched grandmother. I decided to major in psychology. I figured, “there are many more people out there like me and I want to help them overcome it.” I walk into class and I see one seat open so I sat down. A boy I noticed staring at me screams my name! IT WAS HIM! I could not believe it! I knew it was fate when we found each other. Since it was our first class we decided to stay until it was over. I was so glad that we found each other. After class we held each other tight never wanting to let go. I told him all that happened with my grandmother and why I never wrote him back. He figured that was the reason why and confessed to me something I was shocked about:
“I have loved you for the longest time and I have not one day stopped thinking about you, I have always wanted to tell you but never had the guts too. I’m sorry.”
I apologized to him as well because I told him how I always wanted to tell him how I felt. We were together ever since!

Ever since that day my life had changed for the better. My world turned upside down and it was amazing! When we graduated college he proposed to me right on the spot and I accepted! Now that our lives are set we helped troubled people’s lives change, like ours have change. I love him.

COMMUNITY PROJECT!

For my community project I'm going to show myself recycling and picking up trash outside and showing how I'm trying to clean up the environment around me to make our world look like a better place! :)

Paradox About Me

Soccer is my life, running is not

I laugh so hard, I start to cry

I come off happy even when I'm sad

I have a big heart even though I'm small

The more years I accomplish, the less I remember

Loud music soothes me

I work all the time and still don't have enough money

My friends are my family

I love to shop; I hate to spend

I procrastinate and I still get things done! :)

outside reading

3. What is the central theme of the novel? What values and ideals does the novel promote?
Promise Not To Tell, a suspenseful novel by Jennifer McMahon shows the central theme of seeking the truth. It all starts when the protagonist, Kate Cypher, moves back up home where she has to take care of her mother who has Alzheimer’s. On the first day of her arrival she comes to find out that Opal’s (her niece) best friend Tori got murdered the night before. Not only was it that she got murdered but it was the way she got murdered. Kate’s past best friend, Del, got murdered the same exact way Tori did, and is still unsolved. Now that Kate’s past is rushing back into her life, she needs to find the truth of Del and Tori’s death, and stop all of it before it gets to Opal. Not only that, but her mother has been showing signs of Del being around which leads Kate to seek what is truly going on.
Back in 1971, Kate and Del were together all the time outside of school. The only time they were not together was when they were in school. Del was known as the “Potato Girl” because she smelled bad and always wore the same clothes (only because of her father not caring for her the correct way). Kate felt ashamed talking to her in front of the popular girls, so she would tell the girls all about Del. One day everyone was picking on Del and Kate did not do anything about it. Del escaped and Kate tried chasing after her to apologize but she had a rock in her hand and Del thought she was going to hurt her. That was the day Del got murdered. In the end, when Kate found out it was Zack (her mother’s past lover). Also, she found out Zack was the one who gave Del the sheriff’s star and that he loved her and that’s why he killed her. Even more, Del loved a boy her age named Mike, who gave her a tattoo of the letter M on her chest. After Zack had killed her he cut off the tattoo that she had and kept it with him all through the years and even took his sheriff’s star back. He wanted to save her from her squalid family life but since he found out about Mike he realized for her, it was not worth trying to win him back.
The reason for Tori’s murder was because at night, when Tori and Opal were hanging out, Tori was wearing Opal’s sweater. Zack wanted to kill Opal because she had taken the Sheriff’s star from him. Zack wanted it back because he knew it would be huge evidence towards Del’s murder. Another thing about Opal is not only is she Kate’s niece but, she is also Del’s half sister. Del’s father had raped Opal’s mother. Obviously, she kept the baby but did not want her daughter to know anything about her “family.” When Kate moved back home to take care of her mother, Opal was having weird dreams of Del and asked Kate about her. Opal’s mother found out and forbid Opal from seeing Kate. Opal went missing for a few hours and suddenly the ghost of Del went into Kate’s mother’s body and showed Kate the way to find the truth and save Opal. As an ending result, Kate found Opal and saved her before it was too late, and more importantly found the real truth of Del and Tori’s death by stopping the killer and found out why Opal was really involved in the murder.

Narrative

It's been raining all day today! This is so worth it. I'm in Orlando, Florida and there is a rally called the United for Peace and Justice Anti-War in Lake Eola. I love being here! Being surrounded by people who understand how you feel, who stick by you, wanting the same thing as you:

PEACE.LOVE.HAPPINESS.

The three main things that most people want. Who would not want that? Oh yeah...those so called "real-true Americans." They all themselves the "Gathering of Eagles;" pro-war protesters.

As our march began it started pouring, of course. But hey, it felt nice because it was really hot out! As we were moving through the streets, out of no where, a small group of the "Gathering of Eagles" show up. They started yelling loud and obnoxious profanities towards us. It was so rude but yet it's sad to see that these people feel happy to send innocent people out to war and get hurt. And yes they're doing it for our country which is great but it's the people who believe that fighting and wars solve everything. When in reality, it does not. It was funny though, to get the "Eagles" to go away, I yelled: "Go fly away!" Haha yeah, that got them to shut their mouths! If only they would see our point of view of the world and how it can be fixable if we do not make wars our number one priority. And yet they are saying the same things for us towards their own point of view.

In the end it all worked out and it ended with a big finish! =) Our conflict with the others ended up getting some of them to join us. This was a huge victory for us because that has not happened in years. It was even greater because the ratio of anti-war protesters to pro-war protesters was huge!

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