Does this sound alright?
It's the first chapter. I need comments on it. Don't be 2 harsh.
Sari and Khris entered the gym. They were both still heated from what had happened in 6th hour after they both got assigned partners for the “About Me” project and cussed at each other, which was 2 hours after Sari was kissing Sean, Khris’s crush at lunch time.
When fully, completely in the gym they both started searching for their friends, Khris ran to Natalie who was walking around in circles.
Sari found her clique, standing nearly against the wall. When Sari approached Carrie ran her pedicure finger skimpily along the peach colored wall of the gym and announced, “These walls have gum disease.”
They all laughed, even Carrie who didn’t mean to be funny.
“So, how did it go?” asked Heather, kicking the wall.
Sari sighed and said, “We got off the hook with a ‘warning’.”
Carrie, Heather, and Kimberley eewed.
“I know she was still wearing that skanky Oscar dress!”
They laughed again but harder.
“The cool thing was the whole time…”
The gym teacher burst in and everything became quiet.
“Against the wall!” he ordered in demand.
Sari stood there imagining her actually against the wall. It was horrifying! She stood like 2 inches in front of it.
“I am Mr. Taylor and I expect respect.”
Sari rolled her eyes, and then looked at her friends who rolled their eyes too. While Mr. Taylor explored gym rules she looked around for Khris.
Khris was sitting at the end of the line wrapping bubble gum around her finger.
Sari retched.
“And no cell phones.” Mr. Taylor stood in front of Sari. She looked around like he was supposed to talking to someone else.
“Well, I don’t even have one.” She lied. It was in her back pocket. She closed her eyes for a second then opened them, praying her phone wouldn’t vibrate.
Then the gym door opened and Sean stepped in running to the gym teacher to give him a late pass.
“Take a seat.” Mr. Taylor clipped the yellow pas to his clipboard and moved further down to discuss dressing, not salad dressing or whatever.
Sean stood in front of Sari and looked at her eyes not sure what she was doing until he looked at them long enough to see that she was signaling him to stand next to her.
“Didn’t I just explain the rules about gum?” solicited Taylor.
Khris shook her head, “No, you just explained the rules about dressing. By the way, what kind of dressing do you like? I, personally, like Italian or Ranch.”
Sari snickered and bounced on her toes. This was getting exciting. Sean presses down on her shoulder to make her stop and grabbed his hand in hers. She tried no to blush but failed, so she quickly looked toward Khris still smacking on her gum.
Taylor sighed.
“But before that I explained the rules about gum.”
“Well, I didn’t hear from all the way back here.”
“Go spit the gum out. This is your only warning, next time it’s a lunch detention.”
Khris got up and walked to the trash can to throw her gum away. She rolled her eyes and said, “Big deal.”
When she got back to her sit Natalie hinted, “He may even make you eat a ‘fit’ lunch.”
They chuckled. But on the inside Khris was still hurt by what had happened during lunch and when she saw Sari and Sean holding hands and being goggled eyed. Well, Sean was anyway.
Taylor came back from the storage holding a box of volleyballs.
“You know Mr. Taylor is kind of cute,” suggested Heather standing on her toes to get a better view.
“Yeah for a gym teacher who needs some dressing rules of his own,” Sari told her friends.
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May 21st, 2010 at 7:06 am
Good Job! Okay, now you might want to only switch points of view between chapters, such as: 1st chapter - Sari, 2nd chapter - Khris. I have done this before in my stories. It makes people want more. When they read something from one person then all the sudden you switch to another person, they’re hurrying to read farther to see what happens to the other person. So, I suggest that at the end of each chapter (if your doing the switching views idea) leave it in the air. You know, such as: "Sari turned the corner, looked up, and couldn’t believe what she saw. 2nd Chapter: Khris: As I was heading home….". Get the picture? I have other advice, and if you’d like more, just email me from my profile. Hope I helped!
May 21st, 2010 at 7:06 am
decently okay
May 21st, 2010 at 7:06 am
kinda good
kinda bad
May 21st, 2010 at 7:06 am
omg you touched my heart with this one!!! will you date me? wait- r u a woman cause i only date people of the same gender!
May 21st, 2010 at 7:06 am
the first sentence is too blunt to open the chapter, something seems like its missing if you no what i mean.
the second sentence is way too long.
the third sentence how you say ‘when fully’ doesnt sound right.
i didnt read anymore, but i think youll probably need some more editing.
May 21st, 2010 at 7:06 am
Odd
May 21st, 2010 at 7:06 am
i LOVE it!it makes me want to read more!!
May 21st, 2010 at 7:06 am
I enjoyed it, and think it could work well in any story, but pick one tense and stick to it. It has to be past or present. Read through and you will see what i mean, but I’m otherwise impressed by you.