Betrayal

 "Betrayal is the only truth that sticks (Miller, Arthur)"

     A time where I was betrayed, was not too long ago. It was summer vacation of last year. I met Stacey when I was in 7th grade, and she was in 8th. The summer going into my 8th grade year was our first summer, where we really go to know each other as friends. We didn't know each other until my friend Jessica  introduced us. We were best friends for about two years, so we weren't friends for the longest time. We spent so much time together, because we were best friends, and because she basically lived down the street from me. Since it was summer, we were always sleeping over at each others houses, and hanging out all the time. It wasn't long that she started to invite me over, when her other friends or cousins were over and ignoring me. I think that it was because we were hanging out to much and needed a break. 

     The next school year started, she had started high school,and I was still in 8th grade. At the school that we were attending the high school students and the middle school students had to be separated for lunch. We got the break that we needed and started hanging out again for the summer. I was going into 9th grade and she was going into10th grade. We were not going to the same school for the following year, and I think that she got mad at me for not wanting to go to Rio Grande with her. I wanted to go to Atrisco Heritage Academy. When  I finally started my freshmen year I wasn't into any clubs yet and I was still hanging out with my same friends from the year before, so Stacey and I would hang out on the weekends. Freshmen year is the year that everything happened and where we soon stopped being friends. 

     Freshmen year I slowly stopped hanging out with my old friends and got some new ones. I still hung out with my old friends sometimes but all of us got new friends and started with new adventures in our life. About a couple months into the new year we moved into the new building, which everyone now knows as the AHA building. Soon after moving into the building is the time where I all got new friends and I started hanging out with Monique, and Stephanie. Stacey started to get mad at me because I made new friends and she wanted her to be my only friend. I told her that she wasn't going to be my only friend, and she denied it. Stacey lived next door to Stephanie's boyfriends house, and would tell him things like, "Stephanie's cheating on you", but then go around and tell Stephanie and I that he was cheating on her.

     Everything basically started because Stephanie started going out with Andy, and Stacey started to get jealous. All through Freshmen year there was this tension that had been building up between my friends and Stacey. Stacey is the kind of person who wants EVERYTHING to go her way, and if it isn't her way then she's mad. Since Stacey started rumors about Stephanie, she started rumors about Monique and I. Then one night when I was spending the night at one of my other friends house, Miranda, Andy called me and texting me, that I was such a bad friend to Stephanie. He then started to threaten me that he was going to make sure that Stephanie and I weren't friends anymore. I got so mad, and decided to call Stacey to tell her all that happened. She was my best friend, so I thought. I had told her everything through a text message, and she then soon replied. She had told me that she didn't care anymore about what had happened, between my friends and Andy. Stacey told me that he had called her. saying that I had started rumors about Stacey. I felt so betrayed because she was supposed to be my best friend ,but she had believed some guy that we weren't even friends with anymore. After that had happened I got mad at Stephanie and told her that I didn't want to be friends with her anymore, only because I didn't want to deal with her boyfriend anymore. I had lost a best friend because of a guy that didn't like me. I had also lost a good friend because she didn't know who to believe, so she had to betray a "best friend", to find out the truth. Ever since that had happened, and Stacey and I had stopped being friends, Stephanie and I started talking again. Stacey had said sorry to be after everything she did, but I didn't want to forgive her. only because she made me almost lose my true best friends.

     I think that ending Stacey and my friendship was for the best because, I don't have as much drama in my life, and Monique, Stephanie, and I are not fighting anymore.I believe that I need to chose my friends more carefully, because after Stacey, there was another person who had betrayed me, and who still is. I have had some other experiences with betrayal. When my sophomore year started here at Atrisco, I made a new friend, and then soon was their "best friend", but now I know that you can NOT trust everyone because that person is most likely to be the one talking behind your back, when you less expect it.. Having that betrayed feeling, is the worst feeling that there is. When I was betrayed be someone who was close to me was a horrible feeling. I never thought that a friend would do that to me, especially one of my best friends. Sometimes I wish that I would have never became friends with her because she took away from my other friends. She would make me feel bad that I would "ditch" her to hang out with my other friends. I never thought that she would do that to me, but now I know that you can not always trust that person closest to you. Chose your friends carefully, and don't always trust the person, who you THINK is truthful!

Not Normal Remake

     If I was hired to come up with an alternative episode of the Spongebob Squarpants series, I would make an alternative of the episode "Not Normal". If you have never seen the original episode, the main idea of it was that Squidward told Spongebob that he wasn't normal, and Spongebob got sad so then he wanted to become normal. He then changed his house and his whole personality. At the end, Patrick convinces Spongebob that he must go back to the way he was. Patrick helps him by doing the weirdest things that he can think of, and Spongebob eventually goes back to his "normal" self. In my alternative episode everything changes.

     One sunny morning Spongebob wakes up to his very loud alarm clock. It's so loud that it wakes up Squidward. Everyone knows that Squidward can not stand Spongebob, so with all his anger he stumbles out of bed and goes to Spongebob's house. Spongebob is just having a normal morning, getting ready to go to work at the Krusty Krab. Squidward comes storming through the door, still in his pajamas. Do to Spongebob having such a great morning, like always, he is happy to see Squidward, even in a surprise visit. Squidward starts yelling at Spongebob, but he doesn't know what he is saying because Squidward is putting all his words together. The only thing that Spongebob hears at the end of Squidward's yelling was that he wasn't normal. Spongebob gets so sad that he starts to cry and Squidward gets even more angry , so he just walks away to go home. 

     Spongebob is so unset that he goes crying to Patrick, his best friend. Spongebob says "Patrick am I really the weirdest person EVER?!?!". Patrick replies "Yes Spongebob, you are the weirdest person ever", and starts crying. "Why are you crying Patrick?" Spongebob asks Patrick. Patrick, still crying says "Well Spongebob, I don't know why I'm crying. Why are you crying?". Spongebob knows that Patrick doesn't always understand what he tells him so he explains to Patrick again, what happened. Patrick told Spongebob "That yes, he is the weirdest person that he has ever met, but that's why he is his best friend, and Squidward needs some time to relax". Spongebob decides to take Patrick's advice and not bother Squidward all day, even at work. 

     All day at work Spongebob stayed in the kitchen, and made Krabby Patties. Squidward became curious to why Spongebob was quiet the whole day. When he asked him, Spongebob replied with "Well you told me that I was the weirdest person that you have ever met, so I decided to be quiet all day and be as normal as I could". Squidward was satisfied with himself, and continued on with his day. The next day he, walked outside and saw Spongebob walking to work. Squidward caught up with Spongebob to see if he was going to be his normal self today. When he looked at him, Spongebob wasn't square, he was round! He also didn't have craters on his body, and he wore jeans, with a collar shirt. Squidward stared at him with a shocked look in his face. Spongebob replied with "Hello Squidward, wonderful morning we're having". Squidward couldn't believe his eyes. Spongebob just continued on walking and as he walked off said "Well see you at work Squidward". 

     Spongebob stayed in the kitchen, like the day before and made Krabby Patties in peace. Mr. Krabs came into the kitchen to see Spongebob about some shipping that had came in, but stopped in the middle of his sentence to see the "new" Spongebob. Spongebob told Mr.Krabs "Hello Sir, what we're you saying about the new shipment that had came in?". Mr.Krabs just looked at him and continued with what he was telling him. 

     Squidward liked Spongebob being normal, but kind of missed the old, weird Spongebob. The next day Squidward went to work and saw that Spongebob was already there and now he was making all the customers be "normal". Spongebob was telling all the customers, what they needed to change, or they could never come back again. The customers would leave and come back different, and "normal". Squidward screamed and went to the kitchen, to get away from it all. He felt like he was in a bad dream, where everyone was bad dressed.  The end of the show would be Squidward telling Spongebob that he was sorry for calling him a weird person and telling him that he wasn't "normal". Spongebob tells Squidward that he was also sorry for bugging him and the last scene is the two of them hugging! 

Moment of Bravery

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow (Radmacher, Mary Anne)."

     When I think back, when I had a moment of bravery, I can honestly say that I am not the bravest person, and I don't think that I have had my moment of bravery yet. I know that there were many times that came my way, for me to be brave, but I am not the kind of person to just speak my mind. I like to think about what I want to say before it's said, and think about the consequences before hand. I am not the kind of person to be in the middle of major problems, and the center of attention. I would rather stand back and let other people take the spot light. I'm the shy girl that likes to keep my thoughts to myself.

     I really like the quote the I chose for my bravery quote because I think that it explains my courage very well. The quote that I chose, to me means, that not everyone has to be brave, every single day, but they still have another day to bring that bravery out. This quote describes me because I am one of those people who has the little voice that keeps waiting for tomorrow for her bravery to take a stand.

      Bravery to me, is something that everyone does have within them, but sometimes it doesn't always come out. Everyone can be brave in their own way. It can be the smallest things, like standing up to someone when your being pushed around, to the biggest things like standing up to an adult, when you don't like how your being treated. then I am being brave I don't have the best bravery, and I think that the biggest bravery situation that I have been through is telling a friend that I don't like the way that she was treating me.

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen (Churchill, Winston)."

     I found another quote that I think is a really good quote about bravery, because it is so true. Having bravery doesn't always mean that you need to stand up, and speak whenever you don't like how something is going. To have courage and bravery you have to understand that you can't speak your mind at any time that you would like to, you have understand that there is a time and a place for everything. At times you can speak your mind whenever you want, but to be the brave person that you are you have to have the courage to sit down and listen to what others have to say.