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Not on my Watch By: Tess Fox

When he got up in the morning his hair was very messy and it was all in one big knot. He finally got dressed and threw his the book he was reading called, Holes into his backpack. As he walked down stairs he could hear his sister saying to him, “Good Morning Edwin!” He didn’t say anything back. Then he went into the kitchen and made him-self penut butter and jelly sandwich. He put that into his lunch box along with a Twix bar and some Oreo’s. He grabbed his lunch box and walked out the door heading for the bus.

When he got on the bus he could hear everyone on the bus screaming and yelling. He just remembered that in his back pack his iPod was in there. Edwin reached in and pulled it out. When he turned it on his favorite song was playing called Bad Day. That really woke me up. Now, he was really awake.

When he got to school he was getting ready to go to his classes that were math, science and humanities. He just remembered that in his science class they were going to start to learn about this three species of birds. They were a blue jay, a hawk and humming bird. He couldn’t wait. But, it got better. In humanities they were going to do research on a famous dead person. His famous dead person was Abraham Lincoln. He was very excited. But, in math they were going to measure the weight of three objects: a hammer, pipes and some nails. Also in math they were going to measure the area of six signs that were a stop sign, exit, danger, one way, no u-turn and slippery. He thought it was going to be a pretty fun day.

That day at lunch he ran over to his friend and asked him, Hey Chris, what famous dead person are you doing?” “ I am doing the crocodile hunter Steve Erwin,” said his friend. Then they both walked over to the swings together.

That night when he went home he got started on his homework. He didn’t have that much. The moment that he had just finished his home work his mom called him for dinner. When he went down to the dinner table his sister kept saying mommy over and over again till his mom finally answered her. After dinner he went back upstairs and was getting ready for bed.

When he finally got to sleep he had this dream that he was on the planet Pluto and he was talking to his dad and this is what he said, “Hey Dad, guess what. I can play the Simpsons theme song on the guitar.” “ Good, that means that you are getting better,” his dad said. Then all of a sudden he woke up. It was 2:36am in the morning. He thought that he was crazy so he went back to sleep.

When he woke up in the morning he was getting ready for school and it was just like the day before. What he was doing that day. Well, he wasn’t going to do the same things; he was going to do different.