There was a boy who grew up in a poor neighborhood in santa ana. He’s never been outside of that city and his neighborhood is all that he’s ever known. His dad died before he was born and it’s just been him and his brother. His mom wasn’t around at all. This boy loved riding bikes because for some reason there were always stray bikes just laying around and he would always get them and would start riding them.

Me and my friend always hang out in this one neighborhood, and there’s this weird store that we never go in. We rarely see people coming in and out of the store, just the owner. We’ve never been inside it so I convinced my friend to go in just once. I was kind of nervous myself but just as curious. We went in and it was a pawn shop. But with the worst lighting you could think of. We could barely see anything in there. A tall man with a big appearance stepped forward and asked if we were looking for something in particular. We just said we’re just looking around. When we were in there we kept noticing him staring at us. At that point,  me and my friend got out of there fast. 

I was walking down this sidewalk and for some reason I paid attention to every little thing around me, even if it didn’t matter. There were different colored leaves on the ground. Cars moving back and forth on the road. The bushes next to me. The sun was starting to set. There was a Reese’s candy wrapper on the floor just blowing away in the wind. For some reason I was paying attention to all these little things. Why? I’m not so sure.

One of the nicest, most underrated things to do is looking at the sky. At night or during the day both are nice. At night you can see all the stars and during the day you can a big blue sky why big clouds and a bright sun. I feel like it hits better at night. I feel like it’s relaxing. Just looking at everything. Realizing just how small you are compared to space and whatever else is out there. For some people it gives them hope, some people get scared. But you can’t deny, looking at the sky is always nice and brings out different emotions for different people.

Me and my friends were walking at an outdoor mall, you know just chilling. And we saw someone we knew. Someone horrible. We all hated him. He was with his other friends that we hated. There’s a lot of history between us and them but we just ignored them. We thought it was kind of funny but we were a little pissed. I mean we were out for a break but we just saw something that agitated all of us. And you don’t want to be agitated when you’re hanging out, but it is what it is.

Me and my friend were walking down a sidewalk in a rough area. Not very safe, homeless everywhere, and just really dirty. I wasn’t really that worried but my friend was terrified. I never really worry about stuff that much. As long as you don’t look rich or don’t do anything stupid, you’ll be fine. But looking rich is worse than doing something stupid. When you look rich you’ll get robbed for sure. But both of us were in like sweatpants and stuff so we were good. So we were just walking and out of nowhere, we hear an empty plastic grocery store bag flicking behind us. And we turn around and it’s a homeless guy flicking it. Of course my friend got terrified and the homeless guy kept walking. When he was walking passed us he turned around and told us to watch it. For the rest of the walk home we were both kind of on edge, but that’s just life I guess.

I was out with my friends and we were all tired. When we got back home my parents were asleep in their room and it was like 1 in the morning. We were all absolutely starving. Starving beyond belief. My friends were going to sleep over that night so we were all chilling. We looked in the fridge and there wasn’t much in their, so we doordashed some food. We doordashed some mcdonalds breakfast and it slapped. I feel like breakfast foods taste a lot better way later during the night than for actual breakfast. If you’ve never had pancakes at midnight or something, try it. It’s an out of the world experience. So after we ate we chilled and fell asleep. We all woke up and my friends had to go and they left. And that was that.