Writers Workshop 3

I didn't use one of the writing prompts this time. I was bored in French...again...so I started writing this in French class. I was flipping through my action planner (I don't know how many schools have these, it is a notebook-type thing that we write our assignments in) and I saw a quote in it.

"If you spell 'stressed' backwards, you get 'desserts.' Coincidence?"

So wrote a story based off of this.

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Bruce looked at her phone. No messages. It had been five days since she was forcibly removed from her home. Her parents called it 'moving,' but she couldn't think of it that way. That sounded too nice. She felt so alone. None of her friends had called her of texted her in five days.

Now to make matters worse, she had a ton of homework. She wished Steph was there. There was no way Bruce could understand calculus on her own. She was attempting to do mathematical induction when the doorbell rang.

For a moment, she thought one of her friends had come to rescue her. She put her books off to the side and ran to the door. When she opened the door, she didn't recognize the girl standing there. She was holding something that looked the size of a plate, but it was covered, so Bruce couldn't tell what it was.

"Hey there." She looked friendly.

"Hi."

"I live next door. My mom baked you some cookies as a housewarming gift. I would have come over sooner, but I was at a science camp."

"Better late than never." Bruce opened the door wider. "Come on in." They walked into the kitchen. It was the only room that wasn't filled with boxes. "You can set the cookies down on the table."

"OK. I'm Sana, by the way."

"I'm Bruce."

"Bruce?" Sana looked confused.

"It's not my real name. My parents aren't that cruel. All my friends call me Bruce. Like Batman."

"It would be cool to be named after a superhero."

They stood at the table for awhile, not saying anything. After awhile, Sana said, "You seem kinda stressed. Is everything OK?"

"Yeah...it's just moving so far from home, I miss my friends."

"Well, you can consider yourself as someone with a brand new friend."

Bruce smiled. "That would help get rid of some the stress."

"You know what else would get rid of stress?" Sana asked. "Dessert."

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Au revoir. Je m'en vais.

-Amarantha93