Friday, September 4, 2009

The Streak

Jamie  Farrell misses a shot during a big time basket ball game and it changes his reputation. His best friend, Froggy, believes his luck changed from good to bad but then switches around to bad to good. He called it a streak, the number of bad things that happened will be the number of good things that will happen before his luck goes back to normal. Jamie missed a shot and he couldn't see what he did wrong. Everyone started treating him differently, like he was a big failure. Froggy wasn't into sports, so he didn't really know how to relate to Jamie. Froggy's advice was to forget it and move on, but even worse things started happening. The second incident was when Jamie dropped his glass bottle of Wonder Ade on the locker room floor. Everyone in the locker room had to tip toe to get to their lockers.

On the next day, Jamie and Froggy walk to their biology class together and on their way to class they stop in front of a Junior Dance poster. As they were staring at the poster, Celia Evora slaps the back of Jamie's head. She was angry at him for missing the shot. In biology class, Jamie broke the slide he was suppose to use for his project, which counted for 25 percent of his grade. He tried to explain to his biology teacher, Mr.Willis, but he didn't believe any word that came out of his mouth. Mr.Willis put a big red 0 next to Jamie's name. He wanted to give up, he wanted to go home and hide under his bed until the year 3000. Froggy tried to convince Jamie about him being a Streaker, but Jamie kept institing that he did not believe in luck and "the streak". The bell rung for the next class and Jamie grabbed Froggy's milk carton and threw it at the center of the can, but it ended up on Maurice DuPre's lap instead. Maurice had a height of 6 feet, and he had more fingers and toes then his IQ number.  Once Maurice stood up, Jamie was out of that cafteria before he could touch him. 

Jamie ran home as fast as he could, but on his way home he stopped by a fast food place and ordered. His food was cooked, but when he was getting his wallet, he suddenly remembers putting it in his locker after lunch. He tried to argue with the lady, saying his food was no good, and ran. When he arrived home, he ran up to him room, and locked the door. As he was sitting in his room he receives a call from his english teacher, Mr.Bradley, but as he rushed to the phone he hit his ankle on a dumbbell. Mr.Bradley called to inform him that he failed his English test, big time. His luck was turning really bad.

Jamie went downstairs to the kitchen to get some ice for his ankle, when his sister, Ellen, came home. Ellen and Jamie fought all the time, but during their fight Jamie's luck turns backwards. He went to the fridge to get an egg to throw at his sister for being so annoying, but instead tosses it in the sink. The egg doesn't land in the sink, but in the egg carton. His luck suddenly went from bad to good, so he called Froggy and they counted how many bad things happened. They counted 7 minus the egg was 7. He had 7 good things coming his way, his priority was asking Celia to the dance before his luck ran out.  His luck was starting to go away, he had only one good luck left, and he used it on a basketball game to make the winning shot. He was so sad, because he wasn't able to ask Celia to the dance. But Celia shows up at the dance and asks Jamie to be her date. His luck was not going away after all. 

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