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Hey! I'm Allison. I'm not actually planning on being an author, but an elementary school teacher. I like to write sometimes, though. I'm currently working on this story about a girl coming back to high school after being isolated from the real world during the COVID pandemic. It's in her POV so you get to read how she truly lost touch with the outside world.

oooh cool

ooooo
that sounds so coooolll

Thank youuuu!
Would you like to read some of what I have so far?

yesethsssss
you should post some :)

just make sure not to post too much but little bits are fine

Oh my god, I thought I lost the doc for a minute..

Fair warning.. it's supposed to be weird and it isn't even close to being finished.

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Sophomore Year- August 11, 2021

The first day of school was a blur. All I remember looking back was the huge school, the familiar faces, and the strange ones, and the overwhelming amount of stairs I had to climb. I don’t remember my last first day of school at a new school. Probably because I was in kindergarten. I should’ve been here last year, but COVID sucks. Online schooling was a special kind of torture. Never again, never again.
I’m sitting next in the back corner in geometry, I’m surrounded by boys, too. Freshmen. I heard freshmen suck, so I’m not going to talk to any of them.

October 1, 2021

I talked to one of them. Okay okay, don’t be mad! He was playing snake and then at the end of class he asked Mrs. Madison a weird question. I just had to comment. I don’t know his name, but we’ve been talking ever since I asked about the weird math question. It helps that we have lunch together, especially since we’ve got to eat in the classrooms this year. Side note.. I got Amy’s number and we’ve been talking a lot. It’ll be homecoming week soon. I think we’re dressing up as “fire and ice” for Twin Tuesday. I was joking with the freshman guy about what to be for Celebrity Wednesday. Billie Eyelash. Hah.

November 4, 2021

Remember when I mentioned COVID? That little thing that slightly destroyed my life. Heh. And you think I'm exaggerating.


Let me give you a play-by-play of what happened today.

Earlier that morning in class..
Amy: I think I’m going to be quarantined. My sister is super sick.
Me: *thinking: I’m going to be so lonely without you. * I hope not. Hopefully it isn’t anything bad, like COVID, or something. That’d suck.
Amy: Yeah.
Later at lunch, over text,
Amy: Just got quarantined. See you in two weeks!
Me: Oh no! D:

“Amy just got quarantined, George.” (Did I mention I figured out the freshman’s name? Well, it’s George.)
“Oh n-”
Intercom: “Can I please have Abbie Stacks to the nurse with all her belongings please?”

I didn’t need George’s future recollections of this moment to know my face paled as my jaw dropped. He doesn’t know that the first thought that floated across my mind was where the nurses office was. As I walked out the classroom with my bag, and eventually found the nurse, I held back tears. Everyone was going to forget me while I was gone. I knew I was being quarantined. Why else would I be going to the nurse? I walked into the nurse and checked in. Answered questions. No. No. No. No, I haven’t done this, no, I haven’t done that. I sit down to wait for my mom and open my computer to email my teachers of the news. Sitting in my inbox, a glowing message, a message from George of all people.

Abbie,
This is George from geometry. This is my number: 338-291-3284
Text me if you need anyone to talk to. Stay safe.
George Waterman

Within seconds of reading the email, his number was put into my phone. I texted him. He texted me. I responded. He responded.

Looking back now, what if I would’ve ignored him? It would’ve saved me so much trouble. (hide spoiler)]

That's probably too much. Sorry Dovey, I saw your comment after I posted. I'll edit some out.

Allison wrote: "That's probably too much. Sorry Dovey, I saw your comment after I posted. I'll edit some out."

it's just a precaution so no one can steal your work, if you feel fine with posting a lot then you can. Ruqayyah explained it better somewhere lol

Lol, if someone wants to steal my work, I'm flattered, because it means they think it's good enough to steal. I'm not planning on publishing this at all!

I loved it! Especially how it's like a diary.

(and that is like the most terrifying feeling ever)

Thank you! <3

oooo it's so cool, i love it :DDD

trouble?? :000000000000 what did george doooo

Thank you so much, Maryyy
I'm not sure yet
I'm still working on the plot line, but I'll probably have more written by tomorrow.

<3333

slaaayyyy, good luck :)

Thankss <33

you got this!

Thank you, Dovey!

Oo! That's intriguing and add as so many struggled with Covid, this will be like a homage to them and prove how they got out of it eventually.
You left us on a cliff hanger!

Lol Dove- I explained it better?

Here it is- (2nd comment)

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

No more cliffhanger... :)

maybe..


November 17, 2021

Look at me. Back at school.
Look at me. At a pep rally.
Who would’ve thought?
Who would’ve thought I was going to be this excited to come back.
Who would’ve thought George and I were going to talk so much over the time I was quarantined.
Barely anybody is here today. The volleyball team is going to the playoffs. So most people are at the playoff game. Why it’s during school? I don’t know.
I’m going to be seeing George for the first time in a week in about… 4 minutes?
The entire school is about to go outside for some kind of pep rally.

Later

You know those super cliche moments in the movies when a girl sees a guy and she drops everything to run to the guy.
I didn’t know I could be so cliche sometimes.

December 21, 2022

It’s the day before Christmas break.
The people in geometry think me and George are dating. We’ve had to tell them twice now that we are just friends. I think George is getting more and more angry at them. He’s told me multiple times what he’d rather do than date me.
None of which are enjoyable.

January 6, 2022

I failed a geometry test today. George hugged me.

January 9, 2022

Him: I can’t be seen with you.
Me: What?
Him: I mean, we can still text and stuff. I just can’t be seen with you anymore.
We were walking out of geometry class and going down the stairs. So you know what I did? I walked down the stairs faster and faster and faster and I wasn’t seen with him for the rest of the day.

January 18, 2022

One word to describe our friendship after the incident is forced. I had never been betrayed more with six little words than when he had said them.

February 8, 2022

I returned to school today after another week-long hiatus. It’s been a while since I’ve seen Amy and George. I know they had to have both been worried about me. It isn’t like I have my phone to text them anymore. It broke over Christmas break. George corners me at lunch. “Guess what?” He said quietly, obviously not happy.
“What?” I asked, confused.
“I’m single again.”

February 14, 2022

It was the end of the day. Me, George, and one of my old friends from middle school, Ginny, were walking our normal route to the bus lane. George and Ginny were shushing each other and they wouldn’t tell me what was up. When Ginny left and it was just me and George, I asked him, “What is going on?” We were walking down the hall, getting closer and closer to where I normally left. So I stopped by the trophy case. “What’s going on?” I repeated.
“I’ll tell you when the time is right.” He said, pointedly looking everywhere but at me.
“George, what the heck? We tell each other stuff don’t we?”
He went quiet.
Maybe it’s because he thought I’d be mad at him if he didn’t say anything. Which I would’ve been.
Maybe it’s because he decided the time was right.

“I think I have a crush on you.”

If I had a time machine, this is where I'd go. I'd make this moment never have happened.

I didn’t read the first part, just that last comment and it’s so good! I really like the writing style, it’s simple yet really hooking and intriguing.

Oh, thank you, Jaedon! I really appreciate it!

Maybe not a cliff hanger but I am interested in what will happen next!

Thanks!
I wasn't really going for a cliffhanger to be honest, just kinda found a stopping place.

It happens but keep it up!