Middle School Stories - Part Five

Welcome to part five. Phew, we have been at this for awhile haven't we? Yeah... I wrote a lot in middle school. It slows some in high school and even more as college rolls around and into my adult life, but that's ok, we'll get to all of that later.

I shifted gears some in this next story and wrote something a little different than the typical fantasy. There were still some fantasy elements to it, but there were no vampires or werewolves to this one. It returned back to my contemporary roots a little. It also was the start of my first Pen Name.

The story called The Experiences (And yup I know, that is spelled wrong on the pictures, why? Cause as I mentioned before... I was horrid at spelling and still kind of am) followed three friends: Hope, Joy, and Faith. They lived together in a tent in the back end of a campground. (You guys will see the pictures of these girls and ask why their clothes are so fancy and my response to you will be... well fantasy, duh?)

Anyway, one day they meet three guys, who I believe are high school friends at a nearby school, Brian, Mark, and Matt. The girls are trying to keep the secret from them that they live in this tent, but do tell the boys they aren't in school, so the boys tell them to join them in school and they say alright and begin to attend school. (Again... how they just sign up for school without parents is past me... likely the fantasy aspect right? It was the 90s, how much was people really paying attention then?)

Things get weird as stuff begin to happy to the girls during school. I believe this was my first attempt at witches. As I'd just watched The Craft... so be fair, I don't believe I ever do call them witches, or the guys witches... but I think that is what I was going for.

It was pretty sure, about 8 pages, single spaced, hand written, double sided on wide ruled lined paper. I think this is one that I do have still somewhere, though I am not positive. (I really do need to dig around my old file folders).

I fell in love with the name Faith at this time, I am not positive where the name came from, likely the baby name book... and at the time I wanted scarlet colored hair (Black hair with scarlet bangs to be exact) so I began to sign my stories - Scarlet Faith. Which is where my first pen name came from.

You will notice - Faith does not have the black hair and red bangs though... :) And there was a reason for that. Faith was based off me... where as Hope (the one with the black hair, scarlet bangs) was based off what I wanted myself to be.