"and that's the way the cookie crumbles" by Alexis C.

It was a rainy foggy morning in Neverland. She was watching the rain on her window fall from the roof top of her castle. She watched as each rain drop became bigger as another drop joined into it. Penelope was a 14 year old girl with long straight red hair, blue eyes as blue as the sky, and skin as white as snow. Penelope just wanted to be free her room. Her parents didn’t want to let her to the outside world. They claimed she was too delicate and that the outdoors. All her life she’s been in her room finding things to do like invent, learn several instruments and teaching herself how to read and write.

One day, while she was laying in her pink king sized bed and thought to herself “I wonder what the outside world is like.” She had a talk with her parents over dinner and asked for them to let her out of her caged up room. They refused and told her it would be deadly dangerous for her to go outside of the castle. She argued for a more reasonable answer on why they keep her locked up but they gave her the same answer. Penelope stomped upstairs furious. She went to her room and grabbed her journal. She began to plan a way to get out of what she called a “Dog Cage”. She decided with her silky bed sheets she’d use it as a rope. She tied the sheets to her bed legs then she climbed down. On her way down she started to cough. She felt her muscles tighten. Pieces of her hair started to fall off. In seconds she let go and landed on the grass below. She felt lost and scared in an environment she never been in. She went ballistic and hollered for help. She screamed as if she was running from a mass murderer. She looked up and finds her parents looking upon her from her bedroom window. She cries and begs for help. Her parents close her windows that she escaped from and continue on walking away from their helpless daughter. She didn’t know what to do next. Penelope walked to the front gate of her castle and begged for her parent’s forgiveness back. Her parents accepted her apology. She went back into her room and waited for the right moment to leave home.

The message in this story is to be patient.  Many teenagers try to leave home because they don’t agree with their parents rules. They think with one job they could survive on their own. They think they’re stable but as life goes by, the harder it gets for them. Eventually as time passes they can’t pay their rent, food, or bills. They come running home to their parents for their support. In order to become successful you need to make several sacrifices. As life goes on you will decide what path you will take and how successful you choose to be.