AEL-Alexandra+P.

= = Hi, my name is Allie, I'm 11, and though my mom is from California I was born and have lived my whole life in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I have a little one-year-old dog named Jalif (strange name right? my brother chose it) and a three-year-old cat named Whitey. My favorite hobbies are to read, write, and act. My dad (who is also from Argentina) is the president of a section of the bank, so he is super good at math, my brother also loves math, though, as I said I stick to reading, and writing. I aslo love to play soccer, boogie board, surf, body surf, or just swim in the ocean with my dad. I also enjoy singing, drawing, going to the beach, rock climbing, watching good movies, traveling, camping, skiing, snorkeling, scuba diving, and going on long hikes with my family. My grandma was my chef, so my mom is crazy about cooking and baking, and we never have the same thing for dinner in at least a whole year! I know, pretty crazy right?! = = My story, draft one,

Chapter One, __Conspicuous__

I had to think fast. "Think of a name, think of a name!" I told myself. I couldn't wrap my brain around a good enough name for my character. "What are you waiting for, begin!" The alien king ordered, leaning towards me, making his order sound like a threat. A single bead of sweat ran down the back of my neck, I thought of all the most known actors, book characters, movie characters, and then, then I had it! The perfect name! "Umm, alright." I choked out. "There was a six-year-old boy named Luke, Luke Skywalker, and his twelve-year-old sister Sara Skywalker. If anyone looked at Luke and Sara, they would never, ever believe they were siblings. Luke had light blond curly hair, deep blue eyes, and freckles covering is nose, and a bit of his cheeks. He always talked allot, and never seemed to be quiet. Sara on the other hand had long, straight light brown hair, and deep green eyes. Although she also had freckles, she usually kept to herself, and spent most of her spare time reading and writing. Right now, Sara sat cross legged on an airplane seat, her nose in a thick novel, waiting for the plane to take off. Luke sat beside her, wearing his thumbs out on his red Game-boy. He didn't have his seat belt on yet, and kept jerking his legs, hitting Sara, and occasionally muttering, "Take that!" or, "No!" or other things like that. They were going to Miami to visit their grandparents for summer vacation, and Sara already wasn't having a very good time. She had wanted to go skiing with her uncle, and they had had everything planned out, until her grandma had broken her hip. She was completely fine, but their mother had insisted they go visit. "Quit it Luke!" Sara exclaimed shoving him hard with her shoulder. "Hey! you made me loose my game!" Luke screamed angrily. a couple people turned to look at them. “Everything alright there?" their dad said from the seat behind them. He had stood up and was now walking towards their seat. He was tall with curly brown hair and blue eyes, and was wearing a blue V-necked T-shirt, Dark blue jeans, and worn out gray sneakers. "She ruined my game!" Luke whined loudly. "He kept hitting me! It's not my fault!" Sara exclaimed. Their dad sighed. "Can't you guys spend five minutes without fighting?!" Suddenly Luke's expression changed, from mad to worried. "Dad, dad, I think I forgot my back-pack in the airport!" Luke cried out.  A couple more people turned to look at them. Their mom suddenly stood up and leaned over Luke's seat. She had long blond hair, green eyes, and wore a green blouse and light brown Khaki shorts. "Are you sure honey?" she asked. Sara and her dad, who had remained quiet with shock, turned to look at him. "Yeah, I'm sure" Luke muttered. "Luke! We had snacks for the plane, books, a water bottle to fill up on the plane so we wouldn't have to ask the flight attendants for Water, my ipod, and a couple of your game-boy games in that bag!" I exclaimed. "You think I don't know that!" Luke grumbled loudly. "Alright guys, that’s enough!" their dad exclaimed, "Now I'm goanna go and get the back-pack, Luke, were did you leave it?" Luke was about to say something when Sara cut in, "Wait dad, can I go? I want to stretch my legs before the long plane ride." "Umm, I'm not sure, you could get lost." He said. "Dad, I'm twelve! Come on! Do you really think I'll get lost in an airport this small!?" Sara exclaimed. "I guess not." He said slowly, "But if you do go I want you to take Luke with you so he can show you were he left his bag and there is no chance you get lost." Sara's mouth dropped open. "WHAT!?" She almost screamed. The last people who weren't looking at them in the plane turned to stare. "That’s my condition." Sara's dad said calmly. "I have no trouble going." Luke said with a grin. "Of course he doesn't" thought Sara, "he would do anything to bother me." Sara took a deep breath, and knowing the only way to go was to take her brother with her, started walking towards the plane entrance, pulling her brother by the sleeve behind her. She knew that she would have a bad time walking to the airport with Luke, but what she didn't know was that only the action of getting of the plane would change her life forever.

=**Chapter Two, The mistake**=

"Great going you dummy!" Sara said elbowing Luke in the ribs. Luke ducked out of the way and laughed. Sara couldn't help herself. She laughed to. On the way out of the airplane, Luke and Sara had asked a middle-aged flight attendant if they could go to the airport quickly and get a forgotten bag. She had smiled and said that she didn't know if we were allowed to. Luke had asked if no one had asked her to go out of a plane to get forgotten luggage and she said no one had. Luke had looked surprised and actually said "Oh, I thought someone would have asked you since you look like you're like ninety years old or something, and I thought you worked here a long time." The flight attendants mouth had drooped open, and Sara's face had gotten as red as a tomato. Luke just looked confused. After about ten seconds the flight attendant had composed herself and said they could go, but Sara had a feeling she was trying to get rid of them.

They were now walking back from the airport, Luke's back-pack over Sara's shoulder. "There it is!" Said Sara pointing at an airplane. "That’s our plane!" They trotted the rest of the way to the airplane and climbed up the silver steps leading to the entrance. "I hope the flight attendant isn't there" Luke whispered to Sara. Sara nodded, and they both breathed a sigh of relief when they saw there was no flight attendant standing at the entrance. They quickly ran to their seats. "Wow, the plane got really packed while we weren't here!" Luke murmured as they slid into their seats. Sara could here faint snoring from the seat behind them. "Hey dad," Luke said turning around in his seat. He was about to get up and walk over to their parents seats, but Sara stopped him. "Cant you hear their sleeping, let them rest!" Sara whispered. Luke pouted, but stayed in his seat. After a minute he took his game boy from the pocket of the red sweater he had on, and began playing. "Put your seat-belt on" Sara murmured. And then, leaning her head back against the seat, she fell into a deep pool of unconsciousness. "Sara, Sara, wake up!" Sara cracked one eye open and saw Luke's worried face. She cracked open my other eye and yawned. "Oh!" she exclaimed, the plane was still, and empty. "Are we in Miami already?" "Uh, just come!" Luke stuttered. As Sara's eyes started to focus she noticed Luke had his back-pack slung over his shoulder, and her book in his hand. That caught her up short; he always whined about carrying stuff from the plane and always refused to even then touch it. He must have really been in a hurry to get of the plane. "Where are mom and dad?" she said standing up. "Just come!" Luke repeated. "Luke," Sara was going to complain, but when she saw the look on Luke's face, she stopped. His eyebrows were creased in worry, and he looked like he was about to cry. She sighed, and then let Luke pull her to the plane entrance. There was a young flight attendant in a blue and gold suit with blond hair and blue eyes standing there shuffling some papers. She looked up. "Oh, I see you woke up!" she said sweetly to Sara as her brother pulled her down the shiny silver steps that led of the plane. After reaching the bottom of the steps they reached a thin red gravel road where people were walking, talking loudly, and taking photos with cameras of all shapes and sizes. Sara grudgingly let herself be dragged to the side of the road where there was a tall, bright, gold sign. "I saw it from the plane window." Luke said, "Read it." Sara sighed and began to read. "Welcome to L.A. the city of angels, Hollywood only a couple kilometers away!"

__CHAPTER 3.__ Sara staggered backwards. "L.A.! We're in California! How did we get here?!" I cried. "I think we got on the wrong plane after we got my bag." Luke said looking down at his sneakers, his hands stuffed in his shorts pockets. Sara suddenly realized that now was the time Luke needed her to be his big sister, they were lost in California, they weren’t even in the same state as their parents, and Luke needed her. She went over to him and put her hand on his shoulder. "It's ok Luke, we're going to be fine, we'll go to the nearest police station and tell them what happened, they'll take us to mom and dad, we'll be just fine." Sara said trying to comfort him. He looked up at Sara, a glint of hope in his eyes. "Really?" He asked. "Yeah!" she said trying to sound cheerful. Suddenly sara caught sight of somethig flutterring in the wind.It was really colorful amd looked like a folded up paper. "A map!" sara gasped running up to it and jumping upto catch it. She quickly opened it. "Yes! It is a map, and here's the airport!" Said sara excitedly. Luke ran up to her. "Let me see, let me see!" Luke exclaimed. "Wait up luke, I'm trying to find a police station, one that is close to the airport." Said Sara,tracing her fingers on the map. "Got it!" She said triumphantly. Luke looked up at her impatiently. Sara turned around and pointed to a couple mountains in the close by infront of them. "The map says that people go hiking up those mountains a lot, and that there are a couple ranger posts there." She delared."What are rangers?" Luke asked. "Rangers are kind of like police."Sara said. "We're almost there!" Exclaimed Sara pointing at a little booth about thirty meters away. "See that sign next to it?" She asked Luke. Luke nodded. "It says Ranger Booth!" Sara said. "I know how to read." Luke grumbled. Sara sighed. She was trying to not be agitated about the situation she was in, but Luke's temper was ruining her mood. Sara consoled herself by ignoring her pouting brother and looking at the booth and around it. It was made out of wood and was fairly small. There was a dusty window, and a door of course. Next to it was a little brown car that looked a lot like a golfing cart with only two front seats and a small space in the back in wich Sara guessed was used to put stuff. There was a rusty silverish key in the egnition, and a small candy raper on the dusty seat. After walking a cuple more steps sara took her water bottle from the bag and took a swig. After Luke had had a drink thay walked the rest of the way up and knoked on the door. Dust fluttered everywhere making Sara and Luke cough. "Wow, looks like this place needs a serious clean-up." She choked out, brushing dust of her shirt. Sara and Luke waited a while, but no one answered. "Maybye the ranger guy fell asleep on a chair or something inside." Luke said jumping up and trying to look through the window. It was way too dusty and he soon gave up. "Maybye it's unlocked" Sara said hopefully. She tried the knob, and sure enough the door swung poen with a loud creek. The small dusty room they were now looking into was compleatly empty. "What! Why is no one-" Suddenly Luke was cut of by a blood curdling roar. The sound was coming from the dense foliage of trees infront of them. Sara and luke were completely paralized with fear. "Wha, What is it?" Luke asked his voice trembleing grasping Sara's arm. There was suddenly no need for Sara to answer. A Gigantic, huge, feirece looking grizly bear apered roaring froom the shelter of a thick pine tree. Though everything happened so fast Sara felt as if she was having an adrenaline rush, and everything was happening in slow motion. She didnt think, she just grabbed on to luke, picked him up, and raced to the little shariff car,dumping him in a seat, and jumping in. Dust flew every where, and a furious roar rang out behind them. Sara stepped on the gas pedal as hard as she could. The car shot forward. "What!? When?! What!?!?" Luke screeched holding tight to the car seat so he wouldnt fall off. Sara Pushed down the pedal as far as it would go, and steered, trying to do what she had seen her parents do effortlessly millions of times. Driving was deffinetly not as easy as it seemed to be. Sara looke behind her shoulder, the bear was charging torwards them. Still looking at the bear she pressed harder on the gas pedal. The bear suddenly stoped. Sara quickly turned to look infront of them to see why the bear had stoped. She didn't even have time to widen her eyes in horror, before the little car flew off the side of the cliff.

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