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Alejandro Muñoz #20 9G The Guardian Begining the Second World War, I saw with my own eyes all those with helmets, armor, weapons, and projectiles. I was afraid he was only twelve years old and was involded in this war. The General prepared us and got together with my team on a big plane where we would feel the real adrenaline. I was afraid of the bullets that could be pierce on my body or could kill me. I was not alone, there were more kids of my age or younger in this case doing this kind of thing. I saw soldiers lying on the ground, heard shots and felt all that was spinning, heard screams and explosions, I cried to see my family. They ran and began to shoot everywhere. I felt despair. I heard that someone said my name and waved.-Tom, Tom! I woke up from bed rubbing my eyes, my eyes were wet. “I t w as just a nightmare, Mom told me. I told her ev erything I had dreamed of and my participation in the war. I had been obligated to be there. I saw people suffering. - I know son. - What do you mean? - Your grandfather as a child participated in the war while I was hiding, as in your nightmare. I t w as the w orst thing that happened to me in my childhood. My dad has always been a great man with a big heartand gav e everything to his family and we will always have a guardian angel w ith us. Many say that he w as an angel. - Do not worry mom.” I said softly.” “If something happens to you I will protect you. - You´re just like your grandfather. My mother said happily.” An angel.

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Alejandro Muñoz #20 9G

The Guardian

Begining the Second World War, I saw with my own eyes all those with helmets,

armor, weapons, and projectiles. I was afraid he was only twelve years old and

was involded in this war. The General prepared us and got together with my

team on a big plane where we would feel the real adrenaline. I was afraid of

the bullets that could be pierce on my body or could kill me. I was not alone,

there were more kids of my age or younger in this case doing this kind of thing.

I saw soldiers lying on the ground, heard shots and felt all that was spinning,

heard screams and explosions, I cried to see my family. They ran and began to

shoot everywhere. I felt despair. I heard that someone said my name and

waved.-Tom, Tom!

I woke up from bed rubbing my eyes, my eyes were wet.

“I t was just a nightmare, Mom told me. I told her everything I had dreamed of

and my participation in the war. I had been obligated to be there. I saw

people suffering.

- I know son.

- What do you mean?

- Your grandfather as a child participated in the war while I was hiding, as

in your nightmare. I t was the worst thing that happened to me in my

childhood. My dad has always been a great man with a big heartand

gave everything to his family and we will always have a guardian angel

with us. Many say that he was an angel.

- Do not worry mom.” I said softly.” “I f something happens to you I will

protect you.

- You´re just like your grandfather. My mother said happily.” An angel.

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Sofia Kharissova 8A #3

“I am who I am”

At my 14th birthday I got a yellow book with the t itle “Princess” from my

lovely grandmother.

I never enjoyed reading.

Stories made me become asleep when I was lit t le, but I never believed

in them. But this t ime my mother asked me to read this book so I took it

and began to read.

After the 6th chapter I had totally forgot about t ime. It was 12:56 a.m. I

had to go to sleep, but the book was so interest ing…

I stand up and looked through the window of my bedroom.

The night was beautiful. The stars and the moon were shining, and there

were no clouds at all. Suddenly, a comet rapidly passed through the sky.

Mother usually told me stories about comets and wishes so I made my

wish (just in case).

My wish was to become the princess of the book. She was so nice,

educated, and intelligent. Yes! I wanted to be her…

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I had a very good night.

“Good morning, Anastasia” someone said with a kind voice.

I opened my eyes and saw a woman. She was wearing a white and

black dress, like the ones servants used in films.

I observed my room. Everything was different. Everything was so beautiful

and it was luxury style. Beige and pink pastel colors decorated the room.

“Who are you?” I asked. I wasn’t scared, but I was surprised. I had

completely forgotten about my wish.

“Your majesty, please stand up so I can prepare you for breakfast” said

the… I think she was the servant.

I couldn’t believe it . I was the princess Anastasia from the book. I was so

happy and at the same t ime so confused. How should I act? What

should I say?

The woman dressed me and brushed my hair. I not iced that my brown

hair was longer and more beautiful. Also my face had changed. And my

eyes were amber color. I was very happy to be Anastasia instead of

Jessica.

Breakfast went good. Everyone was dressed beautifully, including me.

There were a lot of servants, ladies and gentlemen, and two girls of my

age; one of them was called Nicolette, she was taller than me and she

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had green eyes, and the other girl was named Scarlet, she had long

orange hair.

Nicolette and Scarlet were talking about a ball.

“Which dress will you use in the ball?” Nicolette asked me.

“Ball? When is it?” I asked.

“How can you forget? It’s tonight, my dear” Scarlet said.

“Uh! I thought it was tomorrow” That was the first thing that came to my

mind.

“So, Anastasia, what dress will you use?” Nicolette repeated.

I didn’t know what to answer so I told them: “I don’t know”

Both, Nicolette and Scarlet gave me a weird look.

After breakfast I asked the girls, to come with me to choose my dress. I

realized that they were my sisters.

Nicolette took me to our wardrobe (we had one big wardrobe for the

three of us). She showed me her dress. It was yellow, very beautiful. I

have never seen something like that before. Scarlet had a simpler dress

but st ill very elegant. It was sky blue.

Nicolette gave me a pink pastel dress.

“You should wear this dress.” Nicolette said.

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“It fits very well to you!” Scarlet told me. “Every prince would like to

dance with you”

I agreed. The dress was very perfect.

The rest of the day was boring. I had French classes with a tutor. I didn’t

understood anything and he got angry, but he respected me. I also had

mathematics class and I was preparing myself for the ball like for two

hours with Nicolette and Scarlet, and the woman from the morning was

also there helping us.

At last, night came. I was so excited. But I did know how to act with the

other people.

I got nervous. It was t ime to go to the ball with my sisters.

“Is it obligatory to dance?” I asked Scarlet.

“You are the best dancer ever! You should dance. Everybody is wait ing

for you to dance with Prince Fillip di Vello. I heard Mother saying that she

would like you to marry him.” she answered me.

“Who is Filip di Vello?” I asked.

“He is the son of…” Scarlet started.

“It’s t ime” Nicolette interrupted.

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We all went downstairs. The place was huge. Ladies and gentlemen,

maybe queens and kings, were dancing. I couldn’t hide the surprise in

my face.

After some t ime of talking with my sisters, a gentleman, came to ask

Scarlet to dance Waltz.

Then I not iced a gentleman looking at me all the t ime. He was 23-25

years old, but I wasn’t sure.

“He is Prince Fillip” Nicolette said.

“But he’s like ten years older” I said.

“Our Father was 12 years older than our Mother” Nicolette said calmly.

Prince Fillip came toward me. He smiled.

“Would you like to dance with me?” He asked smiling.

I said nothing. I just made a reverence and started dancing with him.

Fortunately I knew Waltz dance, my real mother taught me it .

In that moment I remembered my mother. She was so kind to me. She

was the best in the entire world. I wanted to be with her right now.

The music stopped.

“Princess Anastasia” Prince Fillip said. “It has been a pleasure to dance

with you”

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I looked down, smiling. I told him that I liked dancing with him too. I

turned away to go with Nicolette and I crashed with someone. I fell to

the floor and I looked around. My dress was covered with red vine.

People started gathering around me. The servant with whom I crashed

was asking for apologies.

There was a silence for a moment. Then people began to laugh.

I stand up and ran into my room crying.

Nicolette came in a few minutes. “Your dress is ruined”

I didn’t answer. I was so embarrassed.

“It wasn’t that bad” she tried to make me smile.

I looked through the window. The night was precious. Stars and the

moon were shining and fresh wind was blowing. Then, a very bright

comet passed through the sky.

“I want to go home” I whispered with my eyes closed.

I opened my eyes and saw my room. My real room!!! I was home with my

pajamas. I couldn’t be happier. I realized that I had better be me than

someone else. I had better be happy by who I am than be bored by

being someone else.

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Sofia Kharissova 8 A #3

La piedra fría

Era uno de los días más cálidos días de verano. Mis papás se habían ido

a tomar el té con unos t íos y yo me quedé en casa sola. Antes me

entristecía quedarme sola sabiendo que mis papas tenían compañía y

se estaban divirt iendo, pero siempre fue así. Siempre me sentí diferente

de los demás. Me preguntó si todos los niños y niñas sienten ese frío en

el corazón cuando ven y hablan con sus papas.

Como no tenía nada que hacer, decidí bajar al sótano a ver los objetos

viejos de mis papás. Siempre he sido curiosa. Cada vez que encuentro

algo, lo estudio perfectamente hasta saber que es y qué función t iene.

Al bajar, lo primero que vi fueron los álbumes de mis papas. Agarré el

más viejo y comencé a hojearlo. Había muchas fotografías de mis

papas en su juventud, también había fotos de mis t íos y mis abuelos. Le

di la vuelta a la últ ima página y una foto de un niño captó mi atención.

El niño tenía 12 o 13 años y estaba usando abrigo, botas y bufanda en

t iempo de verano. Miré la foto con asombro. El niño tenía algo brilloso

en la mano, pero parecía eocultarlo. Me di cuenta de que mamá no

me había contado sobre este joven.

Después de pasar t iempo en el sótano, escuche las voces de mis papas.

Subí arriba con el álbum que estuve observando.

Después de cenar yo aproveche para preguntarle a mi mamá sobre la

foto.

“Mamá, me podrías decir quién es él” pregunté enseñándole la foto

desde el álbum.

Mamá observó la foto.

“El era mi hermano mayor Inatius…” contesto ella.

“Ah, sí, el que falleció a los 14 años” recordé. “¿Qué le paso?

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“Nunca supimos que le pasó. El era muy extraño, es decir diferente. Al

estar con él sent ía que no pertenecía con nosotros. El era muy curioso.”

Mamá hizo una pausa. “Recuerdo que le gustaba pasear mucho por el

rio. Salía cada día. Pero en su últ ima semana de vida, encontramos a

nuestro perrito muerto, muy t ieso y frio, como si estuviera congelado, dos

días después encontré a un conejo y a un ave con los mismos síntomas

del perro, estaban muertos. Varios días después, Inat ius huyo de casa y

en una semana la policía nos dijo que se había suicidado.”

“Oh, qué triste” fue lo único que pude decir.

“Lo es” dijo mi mamá.

Ya en mi cuarto, volví a la últ ima hoja del álbum. Me parecía muy

extraño todo lo que me había contado mi mamá. Saqué la foto del

plást ico protector y vi que había una nota doblada en el lugar de la

foto.

La nota estaba escrita en papel de un cuaderno, parecía arrancada.

Esta decía:

“¡¡Wow!!”Pensé. “Esta hoja es de Inatius, el hermano de mamá.”

Me quedé dormida pensando en lo que le había pasado a mi t ío

Inatius.

A la mañana siguiente, después de desayunar, fui corriendo al río, en

donde estaba el manzano. Me acerqué por detrás y comencé a

Julio 24, 1979

Como siempre, hoy estaba paseando a nuestro perrito Max por las orillas de río,

cuando de pronto Max comenzó a escarbar algo en la tierra detrás del manzano.

Me dio curiosidad y le ayude. Encontramos un objeto envuelto en papel periódico,

me impresioné al desenvolverlo. Era una hermosa piedra de color azul cristalino.

Pero al tocarla sentí un frío pasar por todo mi cuerpo.

Para agradecerle a Max por lo que encontró, le acaricie la cabeza, pero este solo

se cayó muerto en el suelo, como si estuviera congelado. Yo, asustado, fui

corriendo a casa con la piedra en mis manos.

Inatius

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escarbar en el lugar donde supuestamente Inatius había encontrado la

piedra.

Después de media de escarbar, mis manos tocaron algo duro. Lo saqué

y le quite los restos de t ierra. Era un objeto redondo envuelto en papel

periódico y otros papeles arrancados de cuadernos en el que venía

algo escrito. Me emocione. Removí el periódico junto con las otras hojas

y vi una piedra brillosa. Era hermosa, color azul como el agua. No pude

evitar tocar la belleza. Tan pronto como toque la fría piedra, un

escalofrió recorrió mi cuerpo.

Me asusté. Tomo las cosas y me fui corriendo a casa.

Al encerrarme en mi cuarto, tome la brillosa piedra y las notas de Inatius

y comencé a leer.

“Pobrecito” pensé pero después me di cuenta de que sentía lo mismo.

Yo me sentía diferente y rechazada por mis familiares al igual que

Inat ius. Pero… al momento en que el tocó la piedra congeló a su perrito,

y yo también toque la piedra y sent í frio, entonces....

Tenía muchas preguntas:

¿También puedo matar a seres vivos por el simple hecho de tocarlos?

¿Moriré igual que Inatius, sabiendo que no soy querida y por no poder

deshacerme del frio? ¿Qué voy a hacer?

Julio 25, 1979

Me siento diferente, aunque siempre lo he sido, pero siento que algo está mal. Hoy,

mi hermana se fue a buscar a Max y lo encontró muerto, dijo que parecía congelado.

Me siento culpable aunque no se qué paso. Y aunque mis papas nunca me trataron

como parte de la familia, me estoy comenzando a preguntar si alguna vez me han

querido.

Después de haber estado encerrado todo el día, creo que voy a salir para averiguar lo

que paso, pero quiero hacerlo de noche para que nadie sepa que estuve fuera.

Inatius

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Tome la últ ima nota que había dejado Inatius.

Enojada, lancé la piedra al suelo, t ratando de romperla para

deshacerme de ella, pero esta era más dura que el metal.

Lloré por el coraje que tenía. Pero me di cuenta de que eso no

ayudaba mucho. Así que tomé la piedra y la metí en una cajita de

madera.

Esa noche no pude dormir. Estaba aterrada. Quería seguir viviendo pero

si mi final estaba cerca, quería aprovechar cada minuto que tenía de

mi vida para ser feliz.

A la mañana siguiente, después de ponerme guantes. Bajé para

desayunar.

“¡Buenos días a todos!” dije felizmente.

Mis papas me miraron sorprendidos. Creo que nunca me habían visto

así. Pero ahora, yo, queriendo disfrutar mis últ imos días, comencé a

plat icar con ellos, cosa que casi nunca hacía.

Les pedí que fuéramos a una feria y así fue. Todos nos divert imos

muchísimo y por primera vez en la vida me sentí aceptada, el frio que

tenía en el pecho había desaparecido. Me sentía feliz.

En los siguientes días pasé la mayor parte del t iempo con mis papás.

Fuimos al cine, jugamos monopolio y otros juegos de mesa y visitamos a

mis t íos y primos.

Estaba tan feliz que se me había olvidado por completo la piedra

brillosa. Una tarde, mi gata Mussy, vino a mi cuarto. Ronroneando, se

Julio 29, 1979

Espero que me perdonen mis papas, pero ya no puedo seguir matando criaturas

inofensivas. En estos días ya congelo a un inofensivo conejo y a una bella ave con solo

tocarlos. ¿Y qué pasaría si tocara accidentalmente a un humano? ¿Lo mataría?

Mañana escaparé para alejarme y no hacerle daño a nadie más. Por eso dejare la piedra

en el mismo lugar en el que la encontré.

Desearía no haber tocado la piedra. Solo me trajo problemas.

Inatius

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subió a mi cama para que la acariciara. La comencé a acariciar y

cuando sentí su suave pelaje en mis manos, me sobresalte. No tenía los

guantes puestos y la gata seguía viva sin haberse congelado.

Rápidamente, abrí la caja que contenía la piedra y lo que vi fue la

misma hermosa piedra pero ahora de color anaranjado.

Al analizar lo que pasó, me percaté de que realmente había disfrutado

estos días que pase con mi familia y por eso, el frío en mi corazón

desapareció, al igual que el frío de la piedra. Ahora me sentía cálida y

querida, y la piedra, también cambió a un color cálido.

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