HOME | DD

Description
Mew Mew Power Part 4- A trip down Memory Lane

It was 8pm till we finished working. I was so happy that there would be less of a work load on me, because we had Corina but it would've been better if she wasn't there at all! All she did was sit there at a table and sip her tea. She has to take her tea PRECISLEY at 3:15 or 5:33 or any time we ask her to do any work at all! I cleaned the last table and went off to the locker rooms. When I got in I saw that Corina was already in there. "Today was long and hard, wasn't it?" she asked me stretching her arms. "Yeah maybe for me and Zoe! You barely did anything!" I said. I turned round to open my locker and Zoey came in looking all hot and bothered. Ignoring her, I swung open my locker and out fell all my photos from me as a kid. I forgot I put them in there! I was going to decorate the inside of my locker like the kids in the movies do but I was already late for my shift this afternoon that I didn't bother sticking them on. I jumped on top of them putting my arm round them so that Corina and Zoey couldn't see them. But one managed to float over to them. I stuffed the rest in my locker and was just about to grab the last one but Corina grabbed it before and Zoey held me back. And even though she was younger than me she pushed me onto the sofa and sat on top of me. "Omyigod! That is sooo cute!" Corina said waving it round. I could've died. She calmly walked over to my locker and opened it. She smiled evilly. "I have to see this!" Zoey said jumping up off of me and went over to her. I seized my oppurtunity got up and just as I was about to pull them off Corina flicked onto a different picture and said "Who's that? Your boyfriend?!" she smiled at me. Zoey began giggling. I saw which picture it was. It was the one me and Elliot took at the park a couple of months after he moved next door. Corina and Zoey looked at me inquisitively. I reaslised I didn't answer their question yet. I knew that this was going to take quite a while. I sat down on the sofa, indicating that they sit beside me. They sat on either side of me. "Ok this guy is umm Elliot." I said. "Elliot! Grumpy, old Elliot? He looks so young! When did you take this?!" Zoey asked. I guess I was gonna have to spin the whole tale. Just as I suspected. "I'm gonna start from the begining. Basically when I was 6. Which was 10 years ago, Elliot moved next door to me. We lived just down this road. Well um this isn't a road but I mean on Hamilton Avenue. I was 166 he was 168. As soon as he moved next door, I had this mega crush on him. Like in the first few weeks I'd just stair at him through my bedroom window. Then one time when I got back from school, his mum caught me and invited my family to dinner at their place. So when my parents got home I told them about it and we got changed then went over to their place. His mum was really pretty. She had blond hair right up to her bum and she had blue eyes. She was mumsie and I don't think she had a job. So we sat down at the table. We had a roast and erm she introduced Elliot's father and stuff. We called them Mr and Mrs Grant. She introduced Elliot afterwards. That was when I found out his name for the first time. Halfway through the meal Mr Grant excused himself and went off. Everyone looked up at Mrs Grant so that she could tell us where he went off to. and in turn the said that he was this scientist studying things that used to live on this planet. It was like before dinosaurs. He used fossils and did his research. Elliot went off too. And we saw that his leg was bleeding. I gasped cos I was kinda worried. She took him into the kitchen and he came back with a plaster on. I asked her why he was bleeding. She said it was because he was bullied. I didn't know what that meant so I asked her why. She didn't look like she wanted to tell us and Elliot was blushing like mad but she told us anyway. He was bullied because he was such a geek. Obvs she didn't say that but like he had an IQ over 180 and people got jealous and beat him up. So they moved houses and he was going to start at a new school. Then my mum said that he should join our school so she was like yeah, and he was gonna start schools with me after the hols. So like from then I'd just hang out with him most of the time and we'd go to the park and mess around. NOT like that but I mean like chuck mud at eachother then spray water and psycho stuff like that. We actually came to this park, except then they didn't have this Caff here."

"Then once school started I'd hang out with my mates instead of him because I didn't want to be seen hanging out with a boy. Then when I was 10 I saw him getting beaten up by one of my mates. I was more mature than I was 4 years ago so I got up and went over. I told my friend off and got her to leave him alone, so she said I couldn't be friends with her no more. So I was kinda a loner to. That was when this picture was taken. After school finished we came to the park and we took this picture. He also said he loved me and I said I did too but I think he might have thought it a bit childish and stuff" I was going to carry on but Corina interrupted me. "Ok so that's that. Anyway how come he's never mentioned his pare..." I was going to explain that but she never let me so I carried on with my story. "Carrying on with my story. There was a new sandbox in the park so I took of my shoes and socks and dived in. Well not literally but you know what I mean. He looked at my foot and asked me what it was. I said I didn't know. It only appeared four years ago so it probably wasn't a birth mark. He said it was a symbol of our love since I only got it when they moved next door." I removed my shoe there and then so that I could show them it. "Carrying on... Mum was late picking up my sister so she asked Mrs Grant if she could look after me till she got home. They were like best buds so she was totally cool with it. She made Elliot go get changed from his school uniform so when he was upstairs, I went into his dads lab or something. I saw this file. So I picked it up and read it. It was something about Predasites and Cynoclones I read all about it and I worked it out. Then I saw this Picture but it was covered with this sheet. I thought it might be a bit like Narnia so I pulled it out and I looked at it. It was the fossil of this weird predasite. I forgot but I think ti ahd wings and a long tail. I looked up to meat its eyes, now I know that it doesn't have eyes but then I didn't, so I looked at it and where the sockets were I saw this red glow and I heard hissing. I got super scared and ran out of the room. I buped straight into this guy that I hadn't met before. I started screaming like a freak and Mrs Grant came over running looking super worried. She held me up and told me that he was Mr Grant's apprentice. He'd been there the entire time but I'd probably never met him. I looked up at him and he said 'Sorry that I might have scared you. I'm Wesley J Coolridge III' he held out his hand and I shook it I apologised too for being a freak but he was like its ok. Then Mum came and picked me up. She told me we were gonna go to the cinema and I was like sure so we left about an hour later. We had a good time but when we got back we saw that our Semi-detached house was on fire" I saw Corina and Zoey look a bit worried. My eyes sprang with tears which I couldn't hold back. I made no sound but they streamed down my face. Zoey placed a hand on my knee. I carried on with my story. "We parked across the road and Dad called the Fire Engine. I stood in front of our house as all my memories burnt to cinders in front of me. I thought that I would never see my Elliot again and I began crying on the street. Mum and Dad were crying too because they had lost their friends. The only person not crying was my sister because she had nobody to cry FOR. Just as the Fire Engine arrived a car pulled up and parked behind ours. I looked round to see who it was. The door opened and Elliot and Wesley came running out. I was so happy that I just ran up and hugged Elliot. My parents thought that Mr and Mrs Grant were in the car too and they looked relieved. They came to the car and looked inside to find nobody else inside." I began to full on sob when I was thinking about it. When I saw how sad and angry Elliot looked. I thought he might be mad at me for having to living parents. I could've died. I carried on with my story still, "After they put out the fire everything was burnt. Nothing had survived. I was howling then. On everybody and so was everyone else except Elliot. He stayed brave. I saw something different in his eyes that day. They weren't happy and bouncing, instead they were tired and expressionless. My family were placed in an emergency home. I wanted to take Elliot with us but we couldn't. Mum never told me why." I knew none of them could understand what I was saying. I was crying too hard.

I got up and went to the toilet in the locker room. I cleaned myself up and calmed down. I went back in all smiles. I saw that they had hidden the picture in a bad place. It was on the desk by the door, turned upside down. I saw that they had a different picture this time. I raised my eyebrows. Zoey nodded patting the seat I was sitting on before. I sat down. This was turning into an interrogation now! They held out a picture. Knowing what I had to do I looked at who was in it. Safer grounds. Phew! "Ok, well this is my sister. I think we took this when SHE was in Year 11, I just started TGS..." I couldn't finish because just then. Elliot came in. I was partly relieved that he'd not come in a few minutes earlier when I was bawling my head off. "What are you girls still doing in here?" he asked. I was looking at the photo and prayed that he wouldn't see it. Going against my prayers God let Elliot pick up the photo and stare at it. I bent my head burning with embarassment. The I saw that the other pictures were sprawled on the floor beneath my locker. They had pictures of his parents in them. I didn't want to make him upset. I was going to jump up and get them but he'd already seen them. He silently walked over to them. He picked up the one I'd hoped he'd never see. It was the one where his parents were hugging me and him. He looked at me. I couldn't quite meet his gaze. "What are you doing with these pictures?" he asked me harshly. "I was going to stick them on the inside of my lockers. To show memories of my life. Like in mov..." he never let me finish. "Oh and I bet you've been blabbing with your big mouth all about my past to these two," he stared at me coldly. I couldn't blame him because that was exactly what I did. "You have no right! Opening your fat mouth. Wesley wouldn't do that and he's known me longer. So what right does that give you? I wish I never met you, Elizabeth. Because all you and your rotten family brought us were bad luck." I couldn't stand it. "These are my memories too!" I yelled back. As soon as I said it I regretted it. "Your memories, are they? Lets see what you do about this!" he shouted. He started tearing all the pictures up into tiny shreds. "No! Stop it. Elliot!" I attempted to grab the photos, only managing to save 2 of them. I wanted to swear at him then. Even though most of the photos he tore up were him and his family, I hated him for it. It killed me because his parents were closer to me that my blood-related Aunts and Uncles. I didn't say I hated him because I didn't. Not really anyway. I ran out of the building not once looking back. I ran all the way home. It was about an hours run, but I found new strength and ran all the way. I opened the door, slammed it behind me and sat down leaning against it. I looked at the picture that survived. Slightly crumpled but survived. I was happy with the ones that survived. The picture that Elliot, Annabelle, and me took, all of us smiling like idiots. The other was the one with me and Elliot in the park. After today I probably couldn't face Elliot ever again.

Description
Mew Mew Power Part 4- A trip down Memory Lane

It was 8pm till we finished working. I was so happy that there would be less of a work load on me, because we had Corina but it would've been better if she wasn't there at all! All she did was sit there at a table and sip her tea. She has to take her tea PRECISLEY at 3:15 or 5:33 or any time we ask her to do any work at all! I cleaned the last table and went off to the locker rooms. When I got in I saw that Corina was already in there. "Today was long and hard, wasn't it?" she asked me stretching her arms. "Yeah maybe for me and Zoe! You barely did anything!" I said. I turned round to open my locker and Zoey came in looking all hot and bothered. Ignoring her, I swung open my locker and out fell all my photos from me as a kid. I forgot I put them in there! I was going to decorate the inside of my locker like the kids in the movies do but I was already late for my shift this afternoon that I didn't bother sticking them on. I jumped on top of them putting my arm round them so that Corina and Zoey couldn't see them. But one managed to float over to them. I stuffed the rest in my locker and was just about to grab the last one but Corina grabbed it before and Zoey held me back. And even though she was younger than me she pushed me onto the sofa and sat on top of me. "Omyigod! That is sooo cute!" Corina said waving it round. I could've died. She calmly walked over to my locker and opened it. She smiled evilly. "I have to see this!" Zoey said jumping up off of me and went over to her. I seized my oppurtunity got up and just as I was about to pull them off Corina flicked onto a different picture and said "Who's that? Your boyfriend?!" she smiled at me. Zoey began giggling. I saw which picture it was. It was the one me and Elliot took at the park a couple of months after he moved next door. Corina and Zoey looked at me inquisitively. I reaslised I didn't answer their question yet. I knew that this was going to take quite a while. I sat down on the sofa, indicating that they sit beside me. They sat on either side of me. "Ok this guy is umm Elliot." I said. "Elliot! Grumpy, old Elliot? He looks so young! When did you take this?!" Zoey asked. I guess I was gonna have to spin the whole tale. Just as I suspected. "I'm gonna start from the begining. Basically when I was 6. Which was 10 years ago, Elliot moved next door to me. We lived just down this road. Well um this isn't a road but I mean on Hamilton Avenue. I was 166 he was 168. As soon as he moved next door, I had this mega crush on him. Like in the first few weeks I'd just stair at him through my bedroom window. Then one time when I got back from school, his mum caught me and invited my family to dinner at their place. So when my parents got home I told them about it and we got changed then went over to their place. His mum was really pretty. She had blond hair right up to her bum and she had blue eyes. She was mumsie and I don't think she had a job. So we sat down at the table. We had a roast and erm she introduced Elliot's father and stuff. We called them Mr and Mrs Grant. She introduced Elliot afterwards. That was when I found out his name for the first time. Halfway through the meal Mr Grant excused himself and went off. Everyone looked up at Mrs Grant so that she could tell us where he went off to. and in turn the said that he was this scientist studying things that used to live on this planet. It was like before dinosaurs. He used fossils and did his research. Elliot went off too. And we saw that his leg was bleeding. I gasped cos I was kinda worried. She took him into the kitchen and he came back with a plaster on. I asked her why he was bleeding. She said it was because he was bullied. I didn't know what that meant so I asked her why. She didn't look like she wanted to tell us and Elliot was blushing like mad but she told us anyway. He was bullied because he was such a geek. Obvs she didn't say that but like he had an IQ over 180 and people got jealous and beat him up. So they moved houses and he was going to start at a new school. Then my mum said that he should join our school so she was like yeah, and he was gonna start schools with me after the hols. So like from then I'd just hang out with him most of the time and we'd go to the park and mess around. NOT like that but I mean like chuck mud at eachother then spray water and psycho stuff like that. We actually came to this park, except then they didn't have this Caff here."

"Then once school started I'd hang out with my mates instead of him because I didn't want to be seen hanging out with a boy. Then when I was 10 I saw him getting beaten up by one of my mates. I was more mature than I was 4 years ago so I got up and went over. I told my friend off and got her to leave him alone, so she said I couldn't be friends with her no more. So I was kinda a loner to. That was when this picture was taken. After school finished we came to the park and we took this picture. He also said he loved me and I said I did too but I think he might have thought it a bit childish and stuff" I was going to carry on but Corina interrupted me. "Ok so that's that. Anyway how come he's never mentioned his pare..." I was going to explain that but she never let me so I carried on with my story. "Carrying on with my story. There was a new sandbox in the park so I took of my shoes and socks and dived in. Well not literally but you know what I mean. He looked at my foot and asked me what it was. I said I didn't know. It only appeared four years ago so it probably wasn't a birth mark. He said it was a symbol of our love since I only got it when they moved next door." I removed my shoe there and then so that I could show them it. "Carrying on... Mum was late picking up my sister so she asked Mrs Grant if she could look after me till she got home. They were like best buds so she was totally cool with it. She made Elliot go get changed from his school uniform so when he was upstairs, I went into his dads lab or something. I saw this file. So I picked it up and read it. It was something about Predasites and Cynoclones I read all about it and I worked it out. Then I saw this Picture but it was covered with this sheet. I thought it might be a bit like Narnia so I pulled it out and I looked at it. It was the fossil of this weird predasite. I forgot but I think ti ahd wings and a long tail. I looked up to meat its eyes, now I know that it doesn't have eyes but then I didn't, so I looked at it and where the sockets were I saw this red glow and I heard hissing. I got super scared and ran out of the room. I buped straight into this guy that I hadn't met before. I started screaming like a freak and Mrs Grant came over running looking super worried. She held me up and told me that he was Mr Grant's apprentice. He'd been there the entire time but I'd probably never met him. I looked up at him and he said 'Sorry that I might have scared you. I'm Wesley J Coolridge III' he held out his hand and I shook it I apologised too for being a freak but he was like its ok. Then Mum came and picked me up. She told me we were gonna go to the cinema and I was like sure so we left about an hour later. We had a good time but when we got back we saw that our Semi-detached house was on fire" I saw Corina and Zoey look a bit worried. My eyes sprang with tears which I couldn't hold back. I made no sound but they streamed down my face. Zoey placed a hand on my knee. I carried on with my story. "We parked across the road and Dad called the Fire Engine. I stood in front of our house as all my memories burnt to cinders in front of me. I thought that I would never see my Elliot again and I began crying on the street. Mum and Dad were crying too because they had lost their friends. The only person not crying was my sister because she had nobody to cry FOR. Just as the Fire Engine arrived a car pulled up and parked behind ours. I looked round to see who it was. The door opened and Elliot and Wesley came running out. I was so happy that I just ran up and hugged Elliot. My parents thought that Mr and Mrs Grant were in the car too and they looked relieved. They came to the car and looked inside to find nobody else inside." I began to full on sob when I was thinking about it. When I saw how sad and angry Elliot looked. I thought he might be mad at me for having to living parents. I could've died. I carried on with my story still, "After they put out the fire everything was burnt. Nothing had survived. I was howling then. On everybody and so was everyone else except Elliot. He stayed brave. I saw something different in his eyes that day. They weren't happy and bouncing, instead they were tired and expressionless. My family were placed in an emergency home. I wanted to take Elliot with us but we couldn't. Mum never told me why." I knew none of them could understand what I was saying. I was crying too hard.

I got up and went to the toilet in the locker room. I cleaned myself up and calmed down. I went back in all smiles. I saw that they had hidden the picture in a bad place. It was on the desk by the door, turned upside down. I saw that they had a different picture this time. I raised my eyebrows. Zoey nodded patting the seat I was sitting on before. I sat down. This was turning into an interrogation now! They held out a picture. Knowing what I had to do I looked at who was in it. Safer grounds. Phew! "Ok, well this is my sister. I think we took this when SHE was in Year 11, I just started TGS..." I couldn't finish because just then. Elliot came in. I was partly relieved that he'd not come in a few minutes earlier when I was bawling my head off. "What are you girls still doing in here?" he asked. I was looking at the photo and prayed that he wouldn't see it. Going against my prayers God let Elliot pick up the photo and stare at it. I bent my head burning with embarassment. The I saw that the other pictures were sprawled on the floor beneath my locker. They had pictures of his parents in them. I didn't want to make him upset. I was going to jump up and get them but he'd already seen them. He silently walked over to them. He picked up the one I'd hoped he'd never see. It was the one where his parents were hugging me and him. He looked at me. I couldn't quite meet his gaze. "What are you doing with these pictures?" he asked me harshly. "I was going to stick them on the inside of my lockers. To show memories of my life. Like in mov..." he never let me finish. "Oh and I bet you've been blabbing with your big mouth all about my past to these two," he stared at me coldly. I couldn't blame him because that was exactly what I did. "You have no right! Opening your fat mouth. Wesley wouldn't do that and he's known me longer. So what right does that give you? I wish I never met you, Elizabeth. Because all you and your rotten family brought us were bad luck." I couldn't stand it. "These are my memories too!" I yelled back. As soon as I said it I regretted it. "Your memories, are they? Lets see what you do about this!" he shouted. He started tearing all the pictures up into tiny shreds. "No! Stop it. Elliot!" I attempted to grab the photos, only managing to save 2 of them. I wanted to swear at him then. Even though most of the photos he tore up were him and his family, I hated him for it. It killed me because his parents were closer to me that my blood-related Aunts and Uncles. I didn't say I hated him because I didn't. Not really anyway. I ran out of the building not once looking back. I ran all the way home. It was about an hours run, but I found new strength and ran all the way. I opened the door, slammed it behind me and sat down leaning against it. I looked at the picture that survived. Slightly crumpled but survived. I was happy with the ones that survived. The picture that Elliot, Annabelle, and me took, all of us smiling like idiots. The other was the one with me and Elliot in the park. After today I probably couldn't face Elliot ever again.