Miley Cyrus

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Chapter 1

I swing my legs over the side of my cot, and watch as my mother cradles my younger sister, Lace, in her arms, as if protecting her from any harm. I lace up my leather boots noiselessly, and my eyes find my father’s cot, empty, as it has been for the last six months.
I throw another log onto the fire, to make sure that my mother and Lace are warm for the while that I am gone and grab a couple of coins from the surface of our small wooden table that my father had carved himself.
Plating a kiss on Lace’s forehead I turn to leave, but a worried voice escapes from behind me.
“Blythe?” I stop in my tracks and turn to face my sister, who has somehow managed to crawl her way out of my mother’s grasp without awakening her. Lace’s white nightgown falls over her fragile figure, and her light brown hair falls in loose tangles to the small of her back.
“Where are you going?” she asks, rubbing her blue eyes, and gazing at my fully dressed body.
“Just going to buy some food from the market,” I lie, showing her the coins in my palm. “Go back to sleep.”
“But you went to the market yesterday,” Lace states suspiciously, standing up.
“I forgot to get some things. It’s really early, just go back to sleep.” I watch as she hesitates, but she slides back into my mother’s arms and purses her lips.
“If you’re not back when I wake, I’m going out to find you.” I nod at her, and turn before she changes her mind. Grabbing my black bag I leave our home without another comment.
Walking the empty roads of our village seemed to be somewhat of a routine for me. I would wake up early in the morning, usually Lace didn’t awake, and I would escape into the woods, where I am able to think to myself, without any interruptions.
I pass several huts and houses, no visible light inside, except for the glowing of each fireplace, which keeps us warm, since our village is no where rich enough to afford any sort of electrical heating.
Pausing at the entrance of the forest, I run my hand along one of the trees, feeling its rough texture and taking it all in. Green foliage surrounds me, and I close my eyes for a brief moment pondering if this was the place I wanted to go at this exact moment.
Without giving my mind the time to make a decision, I take a step into the forest, and hoist my black bag onto my shoulder. I quickly glance behind me, making sure no one is able to see me. When I am fully aware that no one is acknowledged of my being here, I enter the forest.
Running now, I pass several trees whose branches are bent in impossible angles and bushes of sweet golden berries. Halting to a stop, I stare at the trunk of my father’s favourite tree. The willow. I’ve always wondered to myself why my father loved this tree so much. With its giant trunk and bent figure, it only seemed to make me sad.
I trudge towards the tree and grab on the lowest branch, pulling myself up effortlessly. I place my left foot on her next branch and so on, until I am sitting on my branch.
Placing my black bag on my lap, I pull out the contents and place them in front of me. Parchment paper, a cartilage of blue and red paint, and small pieces of charcoal I had stolen from the market. Placing a clean sheet of paper in front of me, I cross my legs and get ready to draw. I pick up a piece of charcoal, and run it along the sheet of paper, making a line the color of ebony. I continue making line after line, not exactly trying to draw something specific, just trying to empty my mind.
I wipe my hands on my pants, leaving smears of charcoal, but I hardly notice.

Please tell me what you think of my writing. Is it well written, brutal honesty is always the key. If it sucks, then is sucks. If its okayy then good.

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How to calm down after drinking 2 energy drinks.?

I drank two monsters like 5 hours age and i forgot that i have to wake up early for a job. So i need to go to sleep but I cant im tired but cant sleep any ways for calming me down/ getting to sleep after two energy drinks. Thx for the help

What should i do???? help!?

i moved out of my moms house because me and my stepdad were having problems and so i moved in with my sister but yesterday she got a notice on her door saying if we don’t get rid of my dogs that we will be evicted because pets are against our contract agreement and my sister just flat out told me the dogs had to go or I’d have to go but i don’t have anywhere else to go, i mean i can find a place but its hard to find anyone who wants me and my two dogs except my mom who said i could but idk if i can handle my stepdad anymore. I’m 18 i go to college and work part time and my stepdad expects me to always have the house spotless and if it isn’t he’ll wake me up at 1-2 am (even tho i have to wake up early for school) to ask why it isn’t even if i just accidentally left my shoes by the couch and lecture me for an hr two and tell me that my dad didn’t want me and he took care of me and my sister and my brother and mom and all he asks is that i help out. What should i do? I love my dogs more than anything. If i got rid of them would they miss me/each other? one of my dogs doesn’t like men or small children so nobody really wants him, should i take him to a rescue? Please help i try to talk to my friends /family but they think I’m just being overly dramatic they don’t understand how much letting go of my dogs hurts.

P.S. before anyone suggests it i can’t afford my own place if i could I’d already be there.

Does it bother you….?

Does it bother you that people who aren’t Christian go out and celebrate Christmas. Like they put a tree up and wake up early to get presents from ‘Santa.’ Is it weird to you?

Weird sleeping patterns?

How do I have a normal sleeping pattern and how can I actually get up in the morning at the time I need to? Whenever I sleep late (12:30am past) I wake up early, but when I sleep early (12:00ish yeah I know not that early haha) I wake up waaay late. How can I fix these terrible habits?

Which opening paragraph is better?

Which paragraph is better to start my book with?

just some background: In the first and second they are camping on the beach. In the third they are at home and Bri breaks a vent. Its an adventure story about them losing their parents.

1)The waves rocked steadily against the shore, pulling sand into its salty hands. I stood at the edge of the water and I could make out the faintest etching of a ship on the horizon. I stumbled into the water and I began to kick towards it with an odd sense of urgency. All of a sudden, the waves began to rise around me, they lurched and collapsed onto each other and I was tossed under the water. I was beginning to panic when I saw a pinprick of sunlight above the water. I tried to pull and kick myself towards it but it moved upwards with me, I felt the air slipping away from me and the edges of my vision began to darken.

2)Basil Audentia awoke to the sudden grasp of cold water on his bare toes. Half-awake, he turned and reached across the mattress but felt only the soggy blanket under his fingers. Looking around, he realized he was completely alone. He scrambled to his feet and hurtled out of the tent. The tide had come in, and the small plastic tent pitched on the beach was drenched in a few feet of frigid sea water .Picking his way through the floating remains of their campsite, he scanned the horizon for a glimpse of his sister, Brigitte. He began to panic; she was nowhere to be seen. Basil was ready to shout her name when a hand wrapped around his ankle and pulled.

3)The waves rocked steadily against the shore, pulling sand into its salty hands. I stood a safe distance away, cautiously observing the pounding surf. Without warning, the water surged, heaving like a crazed animal it lunged at me. I tried to run but the sand fell away from underneath me and I began to slip towards the churning water. Just as the black waves began to collapse onto me, I heard a muffled crash.
I sat up in bed, nauseous, damp with sweat and confused. I looked over to see if my sister, Brigitte had been awoken by the crash. She was nowhere to be seen. Putting two and two together, I hurtled out of bed. It didn’t take me long to find her, I walked straight through the centre of the thick cloud of dust that was billowing in the hallway. BY the time I reached the source, the dust had settled, and I could make out the scene before me.
An aluminum vent had crashed through the ceiling and was lying crumpled and twisted on the floor of the small room. Brigitte stood ankle deep in plaster with a look of confusion, shock and guilt on her dusty face. Before I could ask what had happened, she began stammering an apology.
“I am so sorry Bas!” she said “I saw the vent in mom and dad’s room last night, and I thought that I could fit in it!” I sighed. I knew where this was going.
“So, this morning I woke up early and I thought I would give it try, you know, just to see where it goes and I went a long way Bas! It’s really amazing in there. So I got up here and I thought I would crawl over to mom and dad’s room and wake you up, but I guess I took a wrong turn and…” she gestured to the heap of metal “I am really sorry… I’ll make sure mom and dad know that you had no part in this” I sighed again, it was a huge mess and it would take us ages to clean but she looked so upset I didn’t have the heart to be mad at her. “Go get cleaned up” I said “we’ll clean up after breakfast”

GUYS: Boyfriends behavior is confusing me?

I’ve been with my boyfriend for 7months and everything seemed to be going good until recently. I feel like I’m the one who wants to have sex, like who is always initiating it. Like he acts like he doesn’t want to do it sometimes either because he says he’s tired or needs to sleep/wake up early. I’m wondering if i’m looking too much into this, and he really is just tired, that maybe i’m smothering him and need to calm myself or hormones down. Also his affection level is a problem with me, he rarely tells me he misses me, and he hasn’t said he loved me yet (which is ok, i know that comes on his own time when he’s ready) but like i asked him yesterday if he ever misses me and he said yes. And then I asked him why he doesn’t tell me and he said he doesn’t know why. He said he’ll feel like he misses me but stops himself from telling me. When I asked him why, he said he doesn’t know why and that’s just how he is. Is his behavior normal for a guy and should I back off a little? Give him some space?
He’s not the cheating type, i know that much…we were good friends for about 4yrs prior to us dating so i know him fairly well

how to wake up early for school?

Its been almost 3 weeks and I’ve been absent 2 times and tardy 3 times. I’m a senior and over the summer I was so used to sleep at 6 am and wake up at 5pm. Now its flipped, and I can’t find a way to sleep early or wake up early. Its kinda important to me to be on time since school starts at 9am. So I gotta be there earlier say 845-850. How do I stay asleep? Because when I go to bed at 11pm I can’t sleep, and I end up sleeping at 2 am. And its kinda been like that for 2 weeks. Also the days when I do sleep early I still wake up late. I got an alarm clock that charges your ipod and stuff I tend not hearing it go off…. It sucks!! Maybe I deep sleep too much.

Was that the right thing to do to her?

First of all, I used to be EXTREMELY shy but long story short I went to therapy and I’ve changed a LOT. I was on a small vacation with 2 other friend and we were on our boat drinking coffee and talking and suddenly I saw the most preppy girl from my school walking up to us. She used to torture me because of my shyness and she didn’t see how I changed so she though she could embarrass me again. She stud in front of me and without a word spilled my coffee. Usually I’d stand up, get a new one, and lock myself in the bathrooms. But that REALLY got on my nerves because its was 10am (meaning I woke up early) and I really was in a mood for coffee. She was about to walk away laughing and I grabbed her shoulder and said “B*tch, you better make your fake barbie face go get me a new coffee” and she said “Um, like, what did you say” and I said “You heard me. Get me a new coffee or I’ll break your face and shove it in the toilet” and she was just staring with wide eyes like she just say a ghost or something and then went and got me my new coffee. I kind of treated her like she used to treat me. But now I feel slightly guilty. And I’m really not a morning person so it was already very easy to get pissed off. Was that the right thing to do?

I want to better myself and exercise, but it\’s way too hot to even think about going outdoors. What can I do?

You’ve seen in the news about this crazy heat in the middle of the country, right? Well, I live around that area, so it’s way too hot to go outside and exercise. The closet gym is 20 to 30 miles away, we have a swimming pool, (not big enough to swim in though) but it’s in direct sunlight, so all of that’s out of the question.
I need something to do (inside) that’ll help me burn calories. Billy Blanks Tae Bo is amazing, but I need something else to do. Please help. Btw I try to wake up early to got for a walk, so please don’t suggest that. Also treadmills and stuff like that are out of the question. Thank you!