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Ciasia is a fourth grade student at Case 

Elementary School. She enjoys riding her bike, 

playing with her dog Meeha, and hanging out with 

her little cousin. 

Ciara is walking down a dark, skinny alley. 

She can smell the garbage in the 

dumpsters rotting. She hears cats screech 

and she sees the dim light flickering from 

the street lights above. The bulbs are 

almost dead.   She is walking down the road 

thinking to herself “What am I doing?”- all of 

the sudden her thoughts are interrupted by a 

loud noise coming from the alley. 

She looks down and there he is...

Chapter 1

“Are you excited to start your new school 

tomorrow?” Mom asked Ciara. Ciara and her mom 

had just moved to Brooklyn New York from North 

Carolina. It wasn't hard to tell that Ciara was not 

excited but she didn't want to let her mom down. 

Ciara was missing her two best friends Briahna 

and Miah. She started to bite her nails 

and then quickly stopped before 

her mom noticed. “Yep I'm so excited 

I can hardly contain myself” Ciara 

told her mom.

Chapter 2

        “Leave my feet alone!” Ciara yelled she 

was talking to the most popular and meanest 

two girls in the whole school. Miriah and 

Monique were talking about her cartoonishly 

large feet.

    “Ha! What size are you anyway? A size 22 & 

½ or something” said Monique. The hallway 

roared with laughter. 

    “This is the worst day of my life” said Ciara.

Chapter 3

    The next day was picture day and Ciara was in gym 

class. Before class, Ciara changed into her gym clothes 

and left her picture day clothes in the locker room.

    “27 left, 13 right” She said. She heard a noise kind of 

like footsteps, but she didn't pay attention to it. In gym 

class they played girls basketball. Ciara was very 

sweaty and tired but ready to get her picture taken 

because it was picture day. She went to get her clothes 

before she hit the showers but when she opened the 

locker, her clothes weren't there! Then, outside of the 

locker room window she heard a noise. When she 

looked out the window there were her picture day 

clothes, sitting right in the middle of a big mud puddle!

    “I can't take this anymore!” Shouted Ciara, as she 

stormed out of the locker room.

    On a warm August night, Ciara Michaels 

was in her room feeling horrible about going 

back to school the next day. This was her 

second week at Williams View Middle School.  

Miriah and Monique were still bullying Ciara. 

They took her lunch money, talked about her 

outfit, and stole her picture day clothes and 

threw them in a muddy puddle. The day got 

even worse when she got home and found out 

her mom had started smoking again. She went 

up to her room and she grabbed her emergency 

money. She had $200 saved up. She packed her 

bag and snuck out the back door.

Chapter 4

             When Ciara got out of the house she 

started walking downtown to find a cheap 

motel just for the night. In the morning, she 

would start heading south, back to North 

Carolina to live with her dad. She walked in 

front of lots of apartment buildings, there was 

a small space in between two apartment 

buildings and she could hear loud noises 

coming from that space. 

Chapter 5

        She looked down that 

alley to see what the noise 

was and there she saw a big 

man with a crow bar. He was 

trying to pry open a window. 

She wanted to run, but she 

was drawn to him because she 

was so curious.

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