Allie Diner

Allie Diner

By: Emma Ladner

Chapter One

One night at dinner Mr. Diner decided to tell his family some news. “I’ve been fired.” Said Mr. Diner. “Ted that’s horrible.” Said Mrs. Diner. “Don’t worry I found a job,” said Mr. Diner. “Oh that’s real good Ted.” Said Mrs. Diner. “It’s in Tennennesse.” Said Mr. Diner. It was quiet at the table. “Tennennesse? Oh that’s very good I can finally make my own,” But Allie Diner interrupted her. “Tennennesse?” asked Allie. “Yes Allie, Tennennesse.” Said Mr. Diner. “Dad why Tennennesse?” asked Allie. “Allie it’s a very good job I assure you. You’ll be going to a private school.” Said Mr. Diner. “A private school?” asked Allie. Her older brothers, Jessie and Ben snickered. “Yes that’s for Jessie and Ben too.” Said Mr. Diner. “Fine with us.” Said Jessie. “As long as there’s hot girls.” Said Ben, flipping his brown hair. Jessie flipped his blond hair. “Oh boys stop it!” said Mrs. Diner. “What about Claire?” asked Allie. “Claire will be going to a regular school.” Said Mr. Diner. “Why?” asked Allie. “Come on Allie, give it up. There’s no way dad’s going to change his mind.” Said Jessie. “Shut up!” said Allie. “And I’ll be making my very own garden and a few weeks after we move in we can go to Lowes and buy nice paint. And if we need them, windows and doors.” Said Mrs. Diner. “What about Jack?” asked Claire. The Diners looked at their precious golden retriever puppy, Jack. “Jack will come too.” Said Mr. Diner. “Dad do they even let on planes?” asked Claire. “Of course they do! Dad wouldn’t make us leave Jack on the streets.” Said Allie. “Ted when we get there can we get a cat?” asked Mrs. Diner. “I don’t know dear. The house is very large.” Said Mr. Diner. “Will I have a walk-in closet?” asked Allie. “What’s a walk-in closet?” asked Claire. “It’s like my closet dear.” Said Mrs. Diner. “Ooh! I want a walk in closet too!” said Claire, clapping her hands. “We better start packing.” Said Mr. Diner. “Why?” asked Allie. “We leave the day after tomommrow.” Said Mr. Diner. “Sweet hot girls riding horses in just two days.” Said Jessie. Jack parked. “Boys make that three days remember we have to ride a plane there.” Said Mr. Diner. “Can’t we drive?” asked Ben. “Tennennesse over the Pacific Ocean!” said Allie. “Couldn’t we borrow a submarine from Uncle Chris?” asked Ben. “Uncle Chris is in Boston.” Said Mrs. Diner. “That’s nice.” Grumbled Allie, wishing she too were in Boston. “Well it’s settled then Tennennesse it is!” said Mr. Diner, clapping his hands. The next day at sunrise Allie woke up at six o’clock. Although it was summer time Mrs. Diner wanted everybody to wake up at six o’clock to start packing. When Allie went to the bathroom she could hear Jessie and Ben snoring from downstairs. When Allie left the bathroom she took two pairs of clothes and set them out then she took her I Phone and called her friend. Her best friend was in Paris. But when Allie realized she was she immeadtly hung up. Allie put her phone on her desk and dragged a box out and slid all her Nancy Drew books off the shelf. Then she dumped her clothes in. When Mrs. Diner came in and saw the mess she shook her head. “Allie you need to put the books in nice order. Not in a big mess. I don’t want the neighbor to think we are maniacs.” Said Mrs. Diner. “Good luck to Jessie and Ben then.” Said Allie. Mrs. Diner stacked her books up into two even piles in the box and then she folded Allie’s clothes. While she did that Allie got a text from her friend who was in downtown visiting her grandparents. Hey what’s up? –Ashley Allie texted back I’m moving to Tennennesse! =( When she sent it she began putting all her shoes in when she got another text. What?! Why? =( Allie wrote Because my retarded father got a job in Tennennesse. Allie didn’t get another text from Ashley. Allie soon got onto her Macbook Pro and went on to video chat with her best friend. When her best friend picked up Allie grinned. “Hey!” said her friend. “Hey what’s up Sina?” asked Allie. “Nothing but Paris is great!” said Sina. “Show me the Eiffel Tower!” said Allie. Sina turned and Allie saw a tall building but in front were tons of trees. “Wow Sina!” said Allie, as Sina’s face reappeared. “You’re so lucky!” Then Allie sighed. “What’s wrong?” asked Sina. “I’m moving.” Said Allie. “Well that’s alright if we aren’t next door neighbors. We can still see each other at church and school.” Said Sina. “No I’m moving to Tennennesse!” said Allie. “That’s over the Pacific Ocean!” said Sina. “Exactly we leave tomommrow.” Said Allie. “Well I’ll be home at midnight tonight.” Said Sina. “We leave at 3:00 in the afternoon.” Said Allie. “That’s sad.” Said Sina. There was a yell. “Sina put up your computer!” said the voice. “Are you going on a Wi-Fi plane?” asked Sina. “Hold on.” Allie turned around. “Mom are we going onto a Wi-Fi plane?” asked Allie. “What’s Wi-Fi?” asked Mrs. Diner. “Wireless Internet!” said Allie. “Yes.” Said Mrs. Diner. “Yea.” Said Allie, turning back to Sina. “Ok bye!” said Sina. And Allie closed her computer. “Hey mom come see this!” hollered Ben from downstairs. Allie and Mrs. Diner went downstairs to see Allie’s youngest sibling, Ken, banging pots together. “Ken!” laughed Mrs. Diner. Claire came in. Mrs. Diner took the pots away from him. “Allie help me with pots and pans.” Said Mrs. Diner, taking a box. She dumped pots and pans in. Allie put bowls in, cups in, plates, and silver wear! When they finished the kitchen Mrs. Diner ordered Chinese food. “Now eat up!” said Mrs. Diner. As the Chinese food came. “We still have tons of packing to do!” She poured Jack so food and he yelped as Ken pulled his tail.

Chapter Two

The next day the house was empty. The fireplace had logs in it and everything was packed in boxes. At 2:45 the moving truck came. “Ok, furniture is upstairs and downstairs.” Instructed Mr. Diner. “Now be careful!” said Mrs. Diner as they carried boxes out to the moving truck. They all put boxes in one by one. Allie looked in the driveway and didn’t see Sina’s car. She sighed. Maybe they wouldn’t make it. When the last of the furniture came in it was 2:59. “Everybody in the car!” said Mrs. Diner. The moving men climbed into the moving van and Jessie climbed to the van. Then Ben, and Claire. Mrs. Diner buckled in Ken and as Allie began to climb in she heard a yell. “WAIT!” Allie turned and saw Sina running. “WAIT!” Ashley followed her. “Sina? Ashley?” asked Allie, jumping off the car. “WAIT ALLIE!” hollered Ashley. Sina hugged Allie and Ashley hugged Allie. “We want to give you this.” Said Sina. She gave Allie a present. It was half a heart. It had the letters Best. “What’s this?” asked Allie. Sina showed the middle of the heart and Ashley showed the end. They put them together and it spelled Best Friends Forever. Allie felt tears. “Allie don’t cry!” said Sina. Sina and Ashley began crying too and they hugged. “Come on Allie!” hollered Jessie. “Yea let’s go!” said Ben. “Kak!” said Ken, clapping his hands. Claire was playing her DS. “I’ll face time with ya’ll every day!” said Allie. “Make sure you video chat with us on the plane and at your new house!” said Ashley. “Yea don’t forget us Allie.” Said Sina. “Forget ya’ll? How on Earth could I ever forget?” asked Allie. They hugged. “Come on Allie!” said Mr. Diner. “Bye guys.” Said Allie. They hugged and Allie climbed in and closed the door. She rolled down the window. “BYE!” hollered Allie. Sina and Ashley grabbed their bikes and rode after the car. “BYE!” they hollered, still pedaling. The girls stopped at the corner and Allie saw them disasspeared from view. Allie grabbed her I Phone and pressed face time and pressed the contact ‘Sina’. Sina didn’t answer the first time but she answered the second time. “I miss ya’ll all ready!” said Allie. Sina laughed and Ashley faced appeared. “We do too!” They laughed.

At the airport Allie turned off her phone and began charging her phone. She placed her bags and boxes on some place and then they placed Jack in a kennel and a woman took him and put him on board. Allie unplugged her phone which was fully charged, grabbed her computer and followed her family to the doorway. They handed their tickets and got on the plane. Jessie and Ben began a song called, “Kiss me all you want.” It went like this; Kiss me all you want baby! I want your soft lips on me! After that verse Mrs. Diner said it was inapproiate to say around Claire and Ken. Then Ken said, “ON me!” Mrs. Diner grimaced at Jessie and Ben. Allie took her computer and went to video chat. Seeing her friends weren’t on line she texted Ashley and Sina Hey what’s up guys? Then she sent it and waited. The pilot to the speaker. “Hello this is flight 165 to Nashville, Tennennesse!” said the lady. “Thank you very much and please fasten your seatbelts we will leave in exactly five minutes!” said the woman. Claire turned around. “Allie?” Allie looked up. She was still waiting for Sina to text back. “Have you ever rode a plane before?” asked Claire. “Once I was going to camp in New York.” Said Allie. “Couldn’t you take a car?” asked Claire. “No Mom didn’t want me to.” Said Allie. Her phone finally rang and her message read Nothin but we r still crying our eyes out. Have ya’ll left yet? Allie replied No And then looked up at Claire. She was messing around with her Barbie Fashion Designer. “Mom,” said Allie. Her mother was asleep. “Mom,” said Allie. She shook Mrs. Diner. She woke up. “What is it Allie? Ken’s gone.” Said Allie. “What?” asked Mrs. Diner. “Ken is gone.” Said Allie. She looked around. She looked at Mr. Diner. “Ted have you seen Ken?” asked Mrs. Diner. Mr. Diner shook his head. “Ma?” asked Ken. They looked up and saw Ken in the storage apartment. “Ken my baby!” said Mrs. Diner, unhooking her seatbelt. “Come here Kenny. Come to mama!” said Mrs. Diner. “I stay!” said Ken, clapping his hands. “Yummy!” he said. He reached back and came back with a chocactle chip cookie. “Hey those our mine!” said Claire, who had taken her attention off her Barbie. Mrs. Diner picked up Ken and sat him in her lap and fastened her seatbelt. Ken began sucking his thumb. “Nice going Allie.” Snickered Jessie, who sat beside Allie. “Yea.” Said Ben, he sat by the window. “We’re taking off in two minutes people!” said the pilot. Allie got a text Look out your window! Allie turned and looked out her window. She saw Sina and Ashley and their families waving signs like We’ll miss ya’ll! Or Hurry on Back! Allie smiled at Sina and Ashley’s sign WE LOVE YOU ALLIE! They both wore big smiles. “One minute!” said the pilot. Allie texted back. That’s so sweet but back up and hurry the plane is fixing to take off! She looked out the window again and saw Sina looking at her phone. Ashley still held her sign. She showed it to her mom and they backed away. Sina and Ashley waved. Allie wished she could wave back but they wouldn’t people to see her. The windows were black! Allie snuggled down and began crying. “Stop being a puss Allie.” Said Jessie. “Toughen up; I can’t stand having a sister that’s a puss.” Said Ben. “Hmm I haven’t heard that one before.” Allie said sarcastically. Jessie and Ben sneered at her. And she sneered back. “WE ARE TAKING OFF IN TWENTY SECONDS! PLEASE BUCKLE!” shouted the woman. Allie buckled up again and Allie noticed a little kid running down the aisles. Then he climbed into one aisle and sat in a woman’s lap. “FIVE, FOUR, THREE, TWO, ONE!” The plane suddenly began zooming and lifted into the air. Allie saw Chicago disasspeared and she got a text Bye Allie! Allie felt tears and ignored Ben and Jessie’s comments about her crying. That was until one of them slapped her face.

After a few hours a woman came down with a cart. Allie asked for a pack of peanuts and paid her five dollars. Jessie started asking her ‘Will you go out with me?” and the woman replied, “I’m engaged for your information. And you are too young for me.” And she went off pushing the cart. Jessie got up. “Move.” He said. “Where are you going?” asked Allie. “To the bathroom.” Said Jessie, pushing past Allie’s legs. At five they served everybody pizza and cokes. After Allie’s dinner she got on her computer and asked the woman for the Wi-Fi password. She said ‘Admin’ and Allie suddenly typed it in. When she typed it in and went on video chat again. Nobody was on. So Allie began playing Angry Birds, Jessie began snoring along with Ben, Ken began slurping his thumb, Mr. and Mrs. Diner fell asleep, and Claire began playing Babysitting Mania on her DSI.

When they got off the plane the next day it was around two in the afternoon. “Let’s go out to eat after we bring our stuff to the house. When the car was loaded off a boat, they dumped all their bags in and took Jack out of his kennel. He went right to sleep in Allie’s lap. They began driving and Allie stared out the window. They passed many houses. They were all the same; old. Finally Mr. Diner slowed down. “Here’s our house.” Said Mr. Diner, stopping in front of a gate. He took a key and unlocked the lock on the black gate and pushed them open. Allie heard a honk and turned around and saw the moving truck. When Mr. Diner got back in he drove in. Soon a big fancy house came to view. “Wow.” Said the Diners. “Fancy isn’t it?” asked Mr. Diner. In the middle of the yard was a big old oak tree and around the house was a fence that had left over paint that was white. The house was the same as the other houses; old. Allie got out with Jack and put him on the ground. Jack went to the restroom right away. Mrs. Diner unbuckled Ken out and set him down. Ken began crawling around and sat by Jack who was now investigating the house yard. “Perfect isn’t it Allie?” asked Mr. Diner. But Allie was on the porch. She opened the door. The house looked like it hadn’t been in for over a century. There was a chandelier and dust webs hung from it. Mr. and Mrs. Diner walked in. Along came Claire, Ken, Jessie, and Ben. “Sweet, freaky house.” Said Ben, sitting his bag down. “This place is junk mom.” Said Jessie, looking at Mrs. Diner. “Oh what do you  boys know? It just needs some paint, some dusting, sweeping, mopping, curtains,” But Jessie and Ben interrupted her when a very long sigh. “Mom that’s going to take weeks!” said Allie. “I like cleaning up.” Said Claire. “You don’t even like cleaning your room.” Said Jessie. Claire was quiet. “Ok kids let’s just bring our furniture and boxes in. And in thirty minutes all the furniture men were gone, furniture was in the rooms, and the boxes were stacked on top of one another. “First things first let’s get the beds fixed.” Said Mr. Diner. And everybody fixing the beds and screwing them up. Then the boys hauled mattresses onto the beds. When they placed Allie’s down, Allie took her blanket out and made her bed. “Allie, I’m going down to Lowes to get paint, what kind of paint do you want?” asked Mrs. Diner. “Get me lime green.” Said Allie, placing her pillows on her bed. When her bed was ready Mrs. Diner was back and Allie spent the rest of the hour painting her room. Then they went out to eat at Raising Cane’s. When they got back Allie’s walls were dry and Allie painted an extra coat over it. Then she went downstairs and helped her mother mop the floors. When the floors were mopped Allie went around gathering the shoes everybody had taken off and put them in a basket and placed it next to the door. Mrs. Diner and Allie rolled a mat out in the front of the door outside. Outside, Allie swept the floor and Claire mopped it. Jessie and Ben, during this time spent their time putting furniture where their mother instructed them. Mr. Diner was helping them, Ken was taking a nap, and Mrs. Diner was putting up pots and pans. When Allie went back upstairs the walls were dry and Allie pushed her bed across the floor towards the wall. Then she pushed her desk to the other side and stacked her books on her bookshelves. She hung her clothes in the closet and fixed her window seat. She put up everything and took her phone and sat down and went to face time. Still nobody was on. Allie texted Sina and then she went downstairs. Mrs. Diner was cleaning the table. “Allie, can you put clean the counters?” asked Mrs. Diner. Allie went over and cleaned the counters and then helped Mrs. Diner cook dinner. The boys and Mr. Diner, however were hooking the TVs up. Then after dinner Allie did laundry. Then she helped her mom roll out rugs. By midnight Allie was tired but they had finished the house. Allie went to sleep quickly that night and didn’t have one problem going to sleep.

Chapter Three

The next morning Allie woke up and smelled bacon. She heard the clinking of plates and cups and she heard Cartoon Network. Allie got out of bed and went downstairs. Allie didn’t see Jessie or Ben but she did Claire, Ken, and Mr. and Mrs. Diner. “Morning Allie.” Said Mrs. Diner. “Morning.” Said Allie, she opened the sliding door. Outside there was a large backyard. There was also a bayou. “This is so beautiful.” Said Allie. She saw a tall oak tree and saw a ladder. Allie ran down into the middle of the yard and looked up. Up in the tree was a old tree house. Allie gripped the ladder and climbed it and up into the tree house. In the tree house there were windows and a little porch and a door. Allie looked around and didn’t see anything but a piece of paper. It looked like it was from a composition book. Allie took it and read it;

January 19^th, 1921

Dear Reader,

By the time you read this I’ll be dead. You should notice this is a tree house by now and I should tell you something. I had many fun times with my friends in here. We sat here and play with rag dolls our mothers made us. I hope you will love this place as much as I did.

Love,

Mary Andrew

Allie took the note and put it in her pocket. Then she went down again and ran inside. Inside Mrs. Diner was flipping pancakes and Jessie and Ben were flipping through the channels. “Mom do we have any leftover boxes?” asked Allie. “Yes one is in the closet.” Said Mrs. Diner. Allie ran upstairs, grabbed the box, and ran into her room. She took some paint and a paint brush. She took a big picture of her, Sina, and Ashley and dumped them into the box. She took her furry green carpet and then she took a jewelry box. She put a flash light, matches, and a note pad. She dumped that in too. Then she ran downstairs, and out into the tree house. In the tree house she painted the walls green and turned to take the carpet out when a sticker pricked her. “Ow!!” said Allie, grabbing her foot. She took and saw a sticker. She pulled it out and then climbed out and went got a knife and a broom. Then she grabbed it and she brought it up into the tree house. With the knife she took all the stickers or blisters out of the floor and swept them out. She did the same thing to the porch. Then she laid the carpet down. She took her jewelry box and placed in a corner. Then she put the picture of her, Sina, and Ashley on a leftover nail and then looked around. It would work then she remembered her old two bing bags. And ran inside. She asked Jessie and Ben for their help and they brought the bing bags in and then left. Allie placed the bing bags on the ground of the tree house and went into her room. She saw a small table for her old tea parties. She took it and brought it into the tree house. She took her laptop, phone, I Pad, and brought it into the tree house. Then she took her breakfast and brought a plank with two holes. She took a rope and tied it to both sides and saw down and held the breakfast in her lap and pulled herself up and climbed over the railing. Then she took her breakfast and sat down and began eating in a tree house. On her phone she took pictures and sent them to Sina and Ashley. Allie ate her breakfast and began making plans with what to do with the tree house to make it easier to bring things up. First off she had made the pulley and then she thought about a bucket with a rope to put things up and down. So that got her busy, making her invention work. Finally she heard her phone ringing. Allie ran in and saw it was from Ashley with face time. Allie grabbed it and answered it. Ashley and Sina’s faces popped up. “Hey!” they said. “Hey!” said Allie, grinning. “You’re room sure is green.” Said Sina. “Oh no I found this tree house in my backyard. The backyard and tree house is pretty decent.” Said Allie. “Show us the house!” said Ashley. Allie brought the phone out on the porch and showed the house. “Wow!” she heard them say. She turned them back to her. “That’s pretty awesome Allie!” said Sina. “Yeah!” said Ashley. “I miss you guys.” Said Allie. The girls smiled. “Us too.” “ALLIE!” hollered Mrs. Diner. “Got to go.” Said Allie. “Bye Allie.” Said the girl. Allie didn’t hear from them for the rest of the day.

Chapter Four

After a few weeks after moving in Mrs. Diner went to sign the family or in this case [Allie, Jessie, Ben, and Claire] up for school and Mr. Diner decided to go to Lowes to buy some new wood for some swings and a nice barn. Every Monday Mr. Diner reminded the family after a month of school if you got good grades you got to go pick out a horse. Allie, knowing she would have no problem with this, counted down the days till the day she could buy a horse would come. Jessie and Ben, however spent their time playing Mario Kart on the game cube and watching Adult Swim every night. Claire, spent her time playing with Barbies and Baby dolls and Ken spent his time doing the thing babies always do. Mr. Diner began getting busier and busier. A few days before school started Mr. Diner decided to working on the barn since that would take a while. And since Mrs. Diner was going to work on the porch everybody went out front expect for Mr. Diner. Allie, wanted to play in her tree house like she always did. Instead she brought her phone and computer. Her I Pad was getting charged upstairs in her room. Allie heard voices and looked up. She saw a boy ride down the street on a skate board and do an olley jump. “Sweet!” hollered Jessie. She thought he had seen the boy but when she looked at Jessie he was talking about him winning a championship on his Mario Kart came on his Nintendo DSI. Allie sighed, closed her computer, and pocketed her phone. “Mom I’m going for a walk.” Said Allie. “Ok but don’t go far Al.” said Mrs. Diner. Al. Allie smirked. Despicable she was alright with it as long as her parents did call her that around her friends. Allie walked and left the front of the house and spotted the boy. He skated and turned the corner olley. Allie jogged and turned the corner. She saw the boy but he was not alone. There were thousands of boys on skateboards. And past the boys were four girls, sitting on the ground talking. Allie turned back and slid down to the ground and looked at her clothes. She was wearing blue jean shorts and a nice t-shirt that was white with brown stripes. She was wearing black sneakers too. Allie stood up and then she walked casually down the street. The boys did not notice her and Allie began to worry. Was she nothing to them? Allie walked over to the girls. Allie saw they were crowded around a Macbook watching something. “Hi.” Said Allie. “Go away Matthew.” Said one girl. Allie turned and only saw some houses. “Excuse me?” The girls all looked up. “My name is Allie, Um I’m new.” Said Allie. “Oh yeah you work for Jim!” said one girl. She stood up. “Hi I’m Alice my father works for Jim too.” She said. The three girls stood up. “And that Marla, Darla, and Sara.” Said Alice. “Hi.” Said the girls. “Um who are they?” asked Allie. The girls looked at the boys. “They call themselves the cool birds, honestly they really aren’t.” said Darla. “Yeah.” Said Sara. “And the worst part is.” Said Marla. “Is that my brother, Matthew is the leader.” Said Alice. The boy Allie saw earlier ran over. “Hey Alice, can you get me a drink of water. “You have two feet get it yourself.” She said. He ran over and grabbed it and stopped at the sight of Allie. “Who’s she?” he asked. “That’s Allie Diner, you know works with Jim?” asked Alice. “Sup? Name’s Matthew.” Allie nodded and he flipped his hair and ran back to skate more. “You’re brother and his friends are show offs.” Said Allie. “Yeah.” Said Marla, licking her lips. “But one is super cute.” Said Darla. “Oh guys no!” whined Alice. “His name is Cody.” Said Sara. “And Alice is in love with him.” Said the girls. A boy with brown hair came over. “Hi Cody.” Said Alice. “Hey Alice can you get me a water?” asked Cody. “Sure!” said Alice at once. She ran over, grabbed him a water, and tossed it to him. “Thanks.” He said. He looked at Allie. “What’s up?” he asked. “Nothing, my name’s Allie Diner. I moved down the street.” Said Allie. “Cool.” Said Cody. “Hey Cody! Come on!” hollered a boy. “Got to go.” Said Cody. He took another gulp of water and then sped off. “That’s the longest Cody’s ever talked to a girl!” said Sara. “You mean he hasn’t ever had a girlfriend?” asked Allie, watching him and his friends skate board. “Oh he has. Actually he’s had tons! But they really didn’t like him expect for this one girl in fourth grade… but,” Allie looked at Darla. “But what?” asked Allie. “She died during a car accident.” Said Alice. “Horrible!” said Allie, turning her attention to back to Cody. “Yea the whole community were bringing gifts to her parents. Cody didn’t want to go near school. Mostly the gym.” Said Marla. “Why not the gym? Don’t most guys like-“ Alice interrupted her. “Of course he loved gym! But in the gym that’s where he asked her out. And on the track…” “That’s where they first kissed.” Said Sara. “Sad, horrible…” said Allie. She didn’t know what else to say. “Hey you have a phone!” exclaimed Marla. Allie looked down at her I Phone. “Oh this? This is nothing, I’m fixing to get the white I Phone and the I Pad 2.” Said Allie. “What’s your number?” asked Darla. She had also pulled out a phone; a Verizon wireless I Phone. “Oh 228-548-3456.” Said Allie. She saw all the girls pull out their phones and began typing her number in. While they did that Allie turned her attention to Cody. But then she noticed they were sitting down across from them, drinking water, and talking. “Hey.” Said Sara. Alice was wondering off into Wonderland. “You might as well contiue your dream of dating Cody. He likes girls like you.” Said Sara. “What’s so different about me?” asked Allie. “First off, you’re rich. Plus you are pretty.” Said Marla. Allie looked at Cody. He was staring over at them. “And plus,” Allie turned her attention back to them. “He always stares at girls like that if he really likes them.” Said Darla. Alice came back into the world. And then there was a holler. “Come on guys I made lunch!” hollered a woman. The girls ran in and some of the boys ran too. But Cody took his time and gathered up his stuff. Allie texted her mom, Having lunch with friends. Then she pocketed her phone and began walking. “Hey wait!” hollered Cody. Cody came up beside Allie. “What’s your number?” asked Cody. “Um… what?” asked Allie. “Well I noticed you were well… giving numbers out to the girls and,” He looked at everybody hurrying inside. “I wanted to know yours. You know it’s a guy thing.” Allie nodded. And repeated her number. Then she raced inside.

After lunch all Allie’s friends came over to Allie’s tree house. “Ashley and Sina look nice.” Said Alice. “Yeah, they were sisters to me.” Said Allie. They were sitting down in bean bags playing Go Fish. “Hey look!” hollered Marla. The girls got up and ran over to the window. Jessie and Ben came outside. Followed by Matthew and Cody and their friends. “PULL UP THE LADDER!” said Darla. The girls ran over and pulled up the ladder. They pulled up the pulley and swings and then looked down as Cody and the guys came to the tree and looked straight up. Allie noticed Cody was staring at the bayou. “FORGET IT!” hollered the girls. The boys hooted. Jack came running out and began chasing the boys. “That looks like fun!” said the girls. They climbed down the ladder and spent the afternoon running around being chased after Jack.

Chapter Five

On the day school started Allie got up extra early. She g0t dressed in her blue jean shorts and a red shirt and brushed her hair. She put on her socks and black sneakers. Then she went downstairs. Mrs. Diner was eating, along with Claire, Jessie, and Ben. Allie sat down and ate.

When Allie arrived at school she went to homeroom. In homeroom was Cody and Matthew. When Allie sat down the teacher came in. “Welcome to a brand new year at Nashville Middle School!” said the teacher. “I’m your teacher, Mrs. Crumpet.” Allie heard people snicker at the word Crumpet. “Anyways today we will start off with our English. Now I will pass out the books. And you are to keep these books for the rest of the year!” said Mrs. Crumpet. Five minutes later everybody had a big huge English book. Mrs. Crumpet turned to the board and wrote down something. Allie noticed some kids were playing around and when Mrs. Crumpet turned around they stopped. “Work on pages 15-20 while I run out.” Said Mrs. Crumpet. And she left without another word. Allie finished her page in five minutes and Mrs. Crumpet wasn’t back yet. Allie began to worry. What had happened to Mrs. Crumpet? Allie turned and saw Cody playing with Matthew. They hadn’t even started yet! Allie looked up and closed her book. Then a paper airplane came soaring and landed on Allie’s desk. Allie picked it up and opened it. Out came a small envelope. It read; Will you go out with me?

Circle Yes or No

-Cody

Allie thought for a second. She had a craving to date Cody. But what about Alice. What would she think? Allie suddenly, without thinking, circle yes and slid it back to Cody. Then the teacher came in. “I want you to remember-“ she coughed. “That cheer leading, soccer, football, and swim team try outs are today after lunch.” Coughed Mrs. Crumpet. “Time to switch.” She said. And she coughed. Allie gathered up her stuff and walked towards the door. On the way there Cody came up. For a little they were quiet when they left the room. “Well what are you trying out for?” asked Cody. ”Girls variety soccer team,” said Allie, opening her locker. “Swim team, and cheerleading.” Said Allie, turning. “I’m trying out for the boy soccer team and football.” Said Cody. “Hey Cody!” hollered Matthew. Cody turned and looked at Matthew. “Come here mate! Got something to show you!” said Matthew. “Bye Allie.” Said Cody. And Cody dashed off over to Matthew. Sara, Alice, Marla, and Darla ran over. “What’s the news?” asked Darla. “What do you mean?” asked Allie, taking out her Science Book. “We heard there was some news!” said Marla. “Ok well you guys have to swear that you won’t be mad.” Said Allie. “Swear.” Chanted the girls. “Cody and  I are going out!” said Allie. The girls cheered. “Girls no cheering! This isn’t a happy place!” said a man. And he stalked off. “Who was he?” asked Allie. “Principal Berman.” Said Sara. “Oh…” said Allie, nodding. The bell rang and the girls dashed off running off to their classes.

At lunch, Allie sat down by Sara, Marla, and Darla. Cody watched as Cody sat down by her and Matthew sit down by Darla. Matthew put his arm around Darla. “So how about it babe?” asked Darla. “Uh no way.” Said Darla. She grabbed her  trey and Sara, Marla, and Darla left. “I’m sorry Cody… but I kind of need to go to them.” Said Allie, standing and taking her trey. “Bye.” Said Cody, pounding his fist. Allie sat down by Sara, Marla, and Darla a couple of tables away from Cody and Matthew.

After the bell rang Allie ran off to the try outs. First she went to soccer try outs. “First, we will go by dribbling the ball and shooting into the goal. Go!” and the coach blew the whistle. Allie took her ball away and shot it into the goal. Followed by many other girls. “Now we shall dribble away from our oppents.” Said the coach. Boys came out onto the field. Allie grimaced and tightened her fist. The coach blew the whistle and Allie took off. The boys noticed the first move and ran towards Allie. Allie came to the first boy and dribbled around him. He turned and came after her. Allie dribbled around boys and then one came where he was too big. Allie acted like going to the left. And when he moved to the left Allie, twirled and went to the right. Then she came to the goalie. He moved to the left. Allie sneered and acted like she was going to the right. The goalie dove to the right and Allie shot to the left corner. “Defense!” hollered the coach, blowing his whistle. The boys and girls switched. Allie came to defense. A boy came and Allie kicked it out of balance. Then when it was Allie’s turn as goalie she blocked ten goals. The last one got by her. At the end the coach called them together. “Ok now there’s two things. One there is the one team that will be team members and play at games. The other one will not play in games but will fill in with a player is out or sick.” Said the coach. “For the ones that will play in games.” He grabbed shirts. “Diner!” he barked. He tossed her a shirt. “Good job mate.” Said the coach, patting Allie on the back. Allie grinned and walked towards the swimming pool. At the swimming pool  the coach blew a whistle and everybody dove in. “Hello coach.” Said Allie, placing her soccer shirt down. “Hello Allie. Here’s a bathing suit.” Said the coach, tossing Allie a navy blue swim suit. Allie went into the gym bathroom, changed, and then went to swim. Allie climbed on the first diving board and many others joined. “When I blow my whistle you will swim hundred yard free style.” Said the coach. She blew her whistle and Allie dove in followed by others and kicked to the surface. Then she came to the surface and began swimming free style. After her third round the coach said, “Everybody out of the water.” Everybody climbed out. “Now Allie, from what I heard you’re pretty good at swimming.” Said the coach. Allie nodded. “Ok, now Diner I want you to dive a nice froggy dive into the water.” Said the coach. She blew her whistle and Allie dove in. She felt the water hit her skin, and knowing water hurt her eyes, opened her eyes. It didn’t hurt. Allie did froggy stroke up to the surface and took a deep breath. “Not bad for a Chicago girl!” hollered the coach. She was grinning and clapping. At the end the coach gave Allie a bathing suit. Allie smiled and everybody went to take showers. After Allie changed into her shorts she headed over to the football field. Out on the field Cody was practicing football. He ran and kicked. On the back it said ‘9’ Allie grimaced and ran over to the cheer leaders. “Ok, now first off girls I want you to do splits.” Said the coach. Allie did a split but few girls could not. They were kicked out. “Now do a cart wheel.” Said the coach. Allie and eleven girls did cart wheels. Five girls were kicked out. “Back flip.” Said the coach. Allie did a back flip. Four girls left. “Well girls, here you go.” Said the coach, tossing some uniforms. Allie looked at them. There were red with black words. It said; Bulls Allie stuffed them into her bag and smiled at the coach. “Well that’s all for today. Now you might want to go get your homework from your locker and that’s all.” Said the cheering coach. Allie headed to her locker, bag in hand, and swung open her locker door. There was bang and a yell. Allie immeadtly closed the door. She saw Cody, holding his forehead. “Oh Cody! I’m… I’m so sorry! I didn’t-“ Cody held up a hand. Allie closed her eyes. She was ready for the words ‘We are over’ but instead Cody said, “It’s alright.” Allie opened her eyes. “Really?” asked Allie. “Sure…” said Cody. “Oh thanks!” said Allie. She opened her locker again and grabbed her binder and took her book bag out. Allie’s phone began to flash. Allie grabbed it. It said Call from Mom. “Sorry I got to take this.” Said Allie. She grinned and answered. “Hello?” “Hey Allie!” “Hi Mom.” “Guess what daddy just got you?” “What?” “The I Pad 2 and he got you the white I Phone!” said Mrs. Diner. “Great Mom, now I got to go. I got to get on the bus.” Said Allie. “The bus?!” hollered Mrs. Diner. “THE BUS SHOULD BE LEAVING IN TWO MINUTES!” Allie hung up. And threw her stuff in her bag. Then she locked her locker and kissed Cody on the cheek. “Bye.” Said Allie. Then she began running. Suddenly her science book fell out. Allie ran back, grabbed it and began running. “WAIT!” hollered Allie. The teachers stopped giving the signal to go. Allie ran to bus 5350 and got on. She handed the bus driver her address. “Go on.” Said the bus driver. And she closed the door. Allie made her way to the back seat and sat down. Then she shoved her book into her bag and waited to arrive at her house.

Chapter Six

“So how was school?” asked Mrs. Diner. Allie had plopped her bag on the sofa. “Great. I made all the teams.” Said Allie. She opened the fridge and grabbed a Root Beer. “What have you been doing?” asked Allie. Mrs. Diner was wearing a brownish, whitish apron. Her hair was in a bun and she was wearing shorts. “Gardening.” Said Mrs. Diner. Allie drank some of her Root Beer. “Good gardening.” Said Allie. She finished her Root Beer and then grabbed her I Pad 2, her I Phone, and her white I Phone and went outside to her tree house. Allie put it in the pulley and pulled it up, hoisted it out and went inside the tree house. Allie began with her I Phone and began adding everything. Then for her I Pads and then she sat down and wondered what to do. Suddenly she ran inside, and sent her I Pad to Ashley and her I Phone to Sina. They would want them. When Allie came in she did her homework and then passed out on the couch.  

When Allie woke up  she got a text message; if you want us to still be your friend, break up with Cody. Allie had no idea what the problem was so she rode over to Alice’s house. Cody and Matthew were skate boarding. “Hey what’s with this message?” asked Allie, showing the message to her friends. “Cody’s being more of a jerk every second!” said Marla, standing up. “Yeah he shoved me on the ground and said ‘Allie likes me more than you.’ And then left!” said Darla. “And he was smooching Gracie Heavens.” Said Alice. “You have no proof.” Said Allie. “Allie come on are you going to believe us or what?” asked Sara. “No, I’m going to believe Cody.” The girls gasped and then Alice said, “Well give you three days Allie Diner. And if you don’t break up with Cody you can talk to us but we will ignore you.” Said Alice and the girls walked away. “Hey.” Allie turned. Cody was jogging over. “Hey Cody.” Said Allie. “Hey what were they talking about?” asked Cody. “Something about you smooching Gracie Heavens.” Said Allie. Gracie Heavens road past them. “Oh… Gracie Heavens huh?” asked Cody, unwrapping his arm from Allie and staring at Gracie. “Yea…” said Allie. “That’s stupid!” said Cody. “Come on, let’s go.” Said Allie. They walked inside. “Yeah… let’s go.” Said Cody.

The next day at school Allie bumped into Gracie Heavens. “Oh… hi I’m G-Gracie.” Said Gracie. “Hi Allie.” Said Allie, helping her up. “Look I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to do what I did.” Said Gracie. “Do what?” asked Allie, grabbing her books. “Say yes to Cody’s question of going out when ya’ll were dating.” Allie froze. “See I guess I kind of liked Cody but then I heard ya’ll were dating-“ But the rest Allie did hear. Behind Gracie stood Cody his arm around the other girl. He looked like he was flirting! “See I never meant for that to happen.” Said Gracie. “Look at Cody.” Said Allie. Gracie turned and gasped. Cody had kissed the girl on the cheek. “CHEATER!” shouted Allie and Gracie. “A-Allie… G-Gracie!” said Cody. “Get ready for our hundredth day kiss.” Said the girl and she walked away. “W-What are you guys doing here?” asked Cody. “To do this!” said Gracie, stomping on his foot with her heel. “AND THIS!” hollered Allie. She slapped Cody and it echoed. He fell to the floor. Allie’s friends came running over. “Come on let’s ditch.” Said Alice. Allie nodded. “Allie Diner, Cody-“ said Allie, lifting up Cody’s face. “Has back and,” she dropped his face. “Has just broken up with you! Because she believes her friends more!” said Allie, grabbing her friends hands. Cody got up and ran over to his friends. “Good job Allie!” said the girls. They went to their lockers and out slid a note from Allie’s locker.

Dear Allie Diner,

I love you and I hope you love me back… I wanted to know if you wanted to go out probably?

Circle Yes or No

Return this note in locker 245.

Love,

Luke Thomas

“WHAT?! LUKE THOMAS!?” yelled Alice. “That’s not fair.” Said Maria. “I guess…” said Allie, circling yes. She went to locker 245 and then left. She had friends and a school, a home and maybe a boyfriend.

The End” Said Maria. “I guess…” said Allie, circling yes. She went to locker 245 and then left. She had friends and a school, a home and maybe a boyfriend.

The End