Just Another Girl In The Artistic Gymnastics Academy
Just another girl in the artistic gymnastics academy
That afternoon was extraordinary! I continued to practice some exercises in the living room of the apartment, but very soon it became clear t...
2022-10-20 13:12:22 +0000 UTC View Post
That evening Mum and Dad were latish home. I'd done myself a snack, I was just sitting, thinking about how things had developed, waiting for them when Jake turned up at my door. Jake was just about the only real friend I could trust in the school, he was the only one I'd told...
2022-10-18 12:50:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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The afternoon was sunny, and Dana decided to wait outside for her ride to arrive. She planned to have a quiet dinner in her room as she waited for Savannah to make her decision.
“Well, well, I thought I saw you out here,” said Vince as he walked up b...
2022-10-17 13:04:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Just Another Girl In The Artistic Gymnastics Academy
ALL STORY LIST | PARTS - PART 2 | PART 3 | 2022-10-14 13:51:17 +0000 UTC View Post
‘Hi,’ Jacquie shouted, ‘I’m in here with a friend.’ Gemma put her head in the door. ‘Oh, no Alex? Where is he?’ ‘Don’t know. This is Zandra, she’s an actress.’ I noticed this time she used the feminine of actor, a deliberate part of her subterfuge. ‘Oh...
2022-10-12 13:20:07 +0000 UTC View Post
‘Mum, in here.’ Dannie shouts. ‘Mum!’ The door opened wider and Mum entered. ‘What on earth?’
Then she saw him. ‘What are you doing here? There’s an order against you. I can have you arrested.’ ‘You won’t do that. I know you of old. Why don’t you...
2022-10-11 13:20:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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Waking up on Saturday, Natti dressed and put on a dark green skirt and a pale green sleeveless pullover top. She brushed her hair and applied light makeup and switched everything into her white purse and with white sandals stood in front of a mirror approving of the fi...
2022-10-10 13:44:01 +0000 UTC View Post
"All right. There was a girl, when I was in junior school, I used to like a lot, she was called 'Helen'. Her family moved away, pity really. But the name's stuck in my mind."
"OK then. Right, Helen. I quite like that. Ready for off?"
I picked up my folder and my '...
2022-10-07 13:29:42 +0000 UTC View Post
We took our tea into the sitting room and sat on the floor, warming ourselves before the fire.‘So do you design dresses or what?’ ‘We can more or less do what we want, men’s casuals or suits or women’s wear, from bras outwards.’ She smiled. With her lovely s...
2022-10-06 12:52:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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“Initially, I did it because I was pissed that many people thought I was running the company because I was family. My father loved me, but he loved this company, and the reason he gave me control was that he knew that I wouldn’t run it into the ground. He had confi...
2022-10-04 13:07:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Two weeks later, Dannie has settled again. Now she came home and Mum was there, still off work and receiving money from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board. Rachel and Mum had discussed and argued about moving. To Mum, the house her parents had owned, the place she had b...
2022-10-03 13:11:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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When Natti’s mom walked in she had no idea what that smell was but it really smelled good, and she also had no idea that she would be assaulted with the news of a fight at school and that Natti was attacked. Hi hon, do you have something cooking it smells really good...
2022-10-01 13:31:49 +0000 UTC View Post
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Then, a couple of days later as I was going to leave, Mr. Carlisle surprised me.
"Harry, I know you've been working really hard recently but we do need to sort out something. Your Geography is coming along really well but there's a problem looming. You have a Project St...
2022-09-29 14:50:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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The car pulled up in front of a large stone mansion. It was a three-story building that had several additions that maintained the colonial architecture.
“The main house was built in 1762,” explained Becky. “It was expanded in 1863 when it was owned...
2022-09-28 15:13:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Rachel went to sleep in the family home. She had made certain, twice at least, that every door and window was closed and shut securely, bolted or locked. After the shock of wreckage that had been Daniella’s room, she was nervous, even though her Dad doted on her. She was in...
2022-09-26 14:01:07 +0000 UTC View Post
The baby arrived on a Thursday. Sylvia gave Mark the afternoon off so that he could go to the hospital. He met his mother for the first time. She was a cute blonde who was a little overweight. She was very distraught. When she met him, they seemed to form a constant bond....
2022-09-23 13:41:54 +0000 UTC View Post
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When Natti’s mom came home she found Natti in her room looking on her computer and chatting to Tara on her phone. She said hi and told her that she was going to go and change and then start dinner. Natti waved and said that she would be in soon. As she walked into th...
2022-09-22 12:58:47 +0000 UTC View Post
I thought for a moment. I hadn't asked about Mr. Carlisle's family, well, you don't do you? I knew his wife had died quite some time ago. His daughter must be - forty? No, surely not, that would have made him over 60 probably. And twenty was too young, she must be thirty. Tha...
2022-09-20 13:43:35 +0000 UTC View Post
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I just stood there for a second and stared at Tommy. Uncertain, I said softly, “What?” Tommy took a step forward and taking both my hands said, “There’s been an accident.” An icy bolt shot down my spine as an utter feeling of dread washed over me. “An an ac...
2022-09-19 13:50:52 +0000 UTC View Post
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“Don’t take that tone with me, Mr. Winters!” Mom said into the phone. “John took us by surprise. We had no idea.” I could hear Mom on the phone as I walked through the living room to the kitchen. I was still in my nightgown. I glanced at the clock and noticed...
2022-09-16 13:23:21 +0000 UTC View Post
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Dana spent most of the day studying her presentation, as it kept her mind occupied. It wasn’t that she was upset with what had happened the previous evening; it was just that she knew she had to take care of business first. She smiled at this, knowing her father woul...
2022-09-15 12:54:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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Natti awoke and after putting on light makeup just enough for school she donned the dark maroon A-Line skirt matched with a sleeveless light pink lace top that buttoned up the back. There were only two buttons on the back and being new to this kind of clothes she was a...
2022-09-12 17:59:54 +0000 UTC View Post
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Note - The following chapter is the edited version of chapter 11.
Sunday found Natti, her mom, and Tara walking into Janlei’s and signing up for a consult. They had to wait about 45 min and they would text Natti about 10 min so that sh...
2022-09-12 17:52:31 +0000 UTC View Post
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I had called Tommy to meet me for lunch. I was already at the restaurant, waiting. I wore a very pretty and feminine blue dress that I hoped wasn’t too dressy for lunch, along with matching heels. I was giving my antiperspirant a workout as I waited, afraid he wouldn...
2022-09-10 13:30:45 +0000 UTC View Post
It was all a nightmare and Dannie knew that she would make mistakes. Jock terrified her. He seemed perpetually bad-tempered, even when he was being nice. A bad-tempered man with a meat cleaver that he shook about for emphasis was a frightening sight. Under Jock’s watchful e...
2022-09-09 12:27:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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Dana woke up the next morning with a splitting headache. She stumbled to the bathroom and, after several attempts, was able to open up the bottle of Tylenol. She took two pills and washed them down with a glass of water.
She thought about what she had co...
2022-09-08 14:20:41 +0000 UTC View Post
I returned back to my crappy little studio apartment on the outskirts of town just a short bus ride later, letting myself inside and then dumping my gym bag full of sweaty clothes on the floor in the hall. I strode through to the bathroom, figuring it was finally time to...
2022-09-06 14:33:15 +0000 UTC View Post
The next morning Betty talked him into making pancakes. It was nice that she was in there fixing a breakfast drink simultaneously. After he had finished his drink, he only had room for a couple of pancakes. She put away five. He never wondered why she never drank the same...
2022-09-03 13:30:25 +0000 UTC View Post
