AmeliaParker

The Better Grade (Part Two) "Oh you've got to be kidding me…" Helga mumbled as they walked outside of the restaurant. For as the two opened up the door to what should have been a smolderingly hot night in the middle of July, they instead were met with a sudden and unpredicted downpour, blocking their way to the car. Helga backed away from the street a bit more as the spatter from the street suddenly threw itself upon her legs. Arnold groaned lowly under his breath, hiding his head in his hands as gave her a small glance from the side of his eye. Helga turned to him; her head dropping as she waited for him to speak whatever it was that

HA: Hunger Games The Train Ride Arnold You're going to be ok. That's all anyone said when they came to visit. I just nodded, playing along, not sure if they actually meant the words or if they were just trying to comfort me. Of course I wasn't going to be ok…I was going to the games. I knew what was ahead of me, I knew that in all likeliness I was going to die- and I was alright with that. If me dying meant that a child could live even just another year I could die peacefully. There was no family for me back home, no one to bury my body if I was to be sent home. Perhaps for a few months my closer friends would cry- but it would be no

The Better Grade (Part One) "Helga…HELGA!" Harold's gruff voice shouted from across the auditorium. Helga jumped to her senses, her hands still tightly clasped onto her whistle as she suddenly blew on it, making the high ring echo through the ice rink. All of the boys had already stopped doing their rounds, but they all turned to the blushing girl in confusion. "Helga are you alright…?" Sid asked sliding over to her. Helga glanced over at the clock; she had been spacing out the entire practice round, but a good ten minutes had already passed without her direction. Helga gave out a heavy sigh, rubbing her head as she skated into th

HA: Hunger Games Offering Helga No…please no…anything but this…anyone but him. I closed my eyes as tight as I could, willing the boy away, but his heavy footsteps continued to step closer and closer to me. I know that the camera's are watching but I can't help but fall apart, anyone else, anyone else and I could have killed them in my sleep if it meant living- anyone else but him. My father comes up from behind me and pinches my stomach, making my eyes shoot open, I cast an angry glance at him but he motions towards the camera crew who seem very interested in my pain. I know that he's right and that I need to toughen up, bu

HA: Hunger Games Reaping Day Helga The sun was startlingly bright for such a dark day. I remember thinking that it was odd for the sunlight to be waking me up, for my father usually did that far before it had the chance. Chores wouldn't wait he'd remark, taking my hand and pulling me out of my covers. But today, I'd slept in far beyond noon, that's when I knew that it was the day of reaping. I suppose normal people know when it's coming far before it actually arrives but we don't really have much of a need for calendars here; the routine is daily and never changing. We know when the spring comes for that's when the flowers bloom, and wi

The Advise Everything went by far too quickly…the way that he laughed whenever she tripped over her own words, how though she scowled, his laugh didn't make her feel self conscious, how she wanted to make him laugh more and more until that beautiful smile was plastered over his face. But of course it ends- and she's painfully aware of it. All those brilliant smiles couldn't erase the bigger picture, the fact that this was all a charade, that he was doing it as a way to get to lila- to practice… And though that wretched her heart in two- she didn't regret a moment of it. "So how'd I do?" Arnold asked, taking a bite from his hambu

The First Date "Calm down old girl…he'll be here…of course he'll be here, he wouldn't cross me- he knows what will happen if he crosses me." Helga found herself muttering to no one as she paced nervously up and down Main Street. Her fingers, calloused and worn from her misadventures in life, rubbed against her skin, anxiously awaiting his arrival. She felt bare and exposed standing here on her own. All she could see around her were happy couples, oblivious to the world around them- and that only hurt her more. What was she doing here? Helga sighed dropping down onto the park bench. This was ridiculous. Why couldn't she just be s

The Investigation "That's great girls! Let's try it one more time from the top!" A chipper voice echoed out through ice rink as she floated gracefully across the rink's ice covering. With a gentle twirl she skated back into position, holding her hands above her head in the starting position. She closed her eyes, freeing her body of any tension as the song's beats whispered throughout her ears. Her body moved on its own, twisting this way and that as her partner's manipulated her limbs. Lila fell limp; falling back into her partner's arms as she nearly threw her to the other side of the rink. With controlled limpness she twirled, a blur agai

The Three Step Plan "…and you said yes?" Helga whimpered covering her face in embarrassment and shame as her best friend sat cross legged on her bright pink covers. Refined with a mature face far beyond her years Phoebe pushed her silken black hair behind her ears, the navy blue eyes taking in the information as she pushed up her glasses. Helga turned to her, hoping for an answer of some sort as Phoebe placed her hand to her lips, deep in thought. The sun shined through Helga's window, playing against her hair as Phoebe sighed, glancing up at her best friend. Helga gulped, knowing full well what Phoebe was thinking. She held up her ha

The Date? Eight o clock. Arnold watched anxiously at the clock as the seconds passed by, ticking with an almost mockingly slow pace.  He closed his eyes quickly taking in long breaths. There was no need to be nervous after all. All he could do was try to ignore the irregularly loud pumping in his chest as the minutes passed by. At eight thirty he and Lila Sawyer would be on a date, something that he had been waiting for pretty much his entire life. Perhaps that was an exaggeration…but it didn't feel like it. Arnold had felt this way ever since he was a child. Her gorgeous smile and kind eyes had hooked him right from the beginning. She