Becoming, the next in the Building Hope Series

...The ending of Changes

I can't remember anything else that happened that day, because either I close my eyes or...


I strangely wake up, thinking I'm dead, but I'm not. What had happened? I see my right wrist covered in swirls and symbols. My friend Zarah tells me that we were at the festival, and the symbols appeared, so I ended up passing out on the street. Calypso is saying how the symbols and swirls start on my right cheek, going down my neck and twisting around my right arm. I don't see my Ontarian friend, and the room is blurry, but that's normal, I don't have my glasses on. I put my glasses on, and I can see so much better, it's unbelievable. I'm having a vision suddenly, and I see my friends and I walking in an afterlife where we still have our normal bodies and still remember everything, but it ends there. Zarah is telling me that she's seen these symbols before when she went to visit Brazil. She's saying that they symbolize someone of great power, over the elements and over humans, like a queen, and the ones with those symbols were the most respected gods, besides for the Christain god, God. I get a little bit drowsy, so my friends leave my room, and just as I'm about to fall asleep, the Ontarian, strangely, kisses me on the forehead.

I fall asleep.

Now it's about 3 in the morning and, or course, if you haven't guessed already, I'm listening to my music, music is my life. I'm listening to alot of songs from Linkin Park, "Crawling" to start with, followed by "New Divide" and "In The End". I fall into a light sleep on "Iridescent" and wake up on "What I've Done". I barely slept that night, but oh well.

Symbols on my body, visions, drowsiness, light sleep, sometimes no sleep at all.
I'm starting to think this is getting really wierd.

But I don't know what's happening to me!


.......................................Author's note.....................................................


What are they becoming? Tell me on http://www.buildinghopebook.blogspot.com/.

Changes, the sequel to "Building Hope"

... The ending of "Building Hope"

What changed?

The fact that I hadn't seen my friend in a very long time gave me hope. I hadn't realized how much I missed them until I saw them. Even in the short time I knew them, we had become best friends, and even if we're 5 hours drive away, we are still always there for each other, just like my friend Calypso, even if we do live closer than 5 hours. They were my inspiration for my music career, without them I wouldn't have gone on learning how to play bass guitar, just like my friend Zarah did for my writing. It made me realize that you don't know what you have until it's gone!

I still had my earphones in and, of course, I was listening to songs from my favorite band, but the one I was listening to at that moment was called "Papercut", so it was quite interesting.We're walking the small town, and I hear street music, but I already knew that there was a huge festival going on. I see my friends there so we go join them, party-ing with everyone else. I start to wonder what they're doing here, considering they live farther away than my small city. I can't remember anything else that happened that day, because either I close my eyes or...


...............................................Author's note..................................................


What do you think happened? Tell me by commenting on http://www.buildinghopebook.blogspot.com/


All characters, and events aren't real and never will be unless a miracle happens!!!

All bands, lyrics, song titles, websites, food names, places, -er and -ain titles (like Ontarian and Quebecers) are real, though!!!

Building Hope, A short story sequence

The sad music was playing as I started reading the black book that sat in front of me. At first, I didn't know what it meant, until I made it to the very last word, "hope". Was it possible? That a black book ends with "hope"? I didn't know why, but that song from my favorite band "Linkin Park" was somehow playing at that point. It was saying something like "Do you feel cold and lost in desperation, you build up hope but failure's all you've known, remember all the sadness and frustration, and let it go, let it go" I think it was, but I began to loss sight as my eyes fell for me to sleep. Typical, for a teenager, 4 in the morning is early.


I wake up and I notice the music was still on as I think "I must have kept it on repeat", so "Iridescent" (the song that played before I slept) was still playing. I put in my earphones and head upstairs for lunch. I said lunch because it was 1 in the afternoon. I'm alone as always, my little brother at school and my older sister with her friends, while mom and dad work. I go on the Internet and log into Facebook when I notice the date, completely forgetting it was my best friend's birthday, so I sit there, hoping for them to come online, but I take a quick glance out the window and I see them. Wait, they live way to far. I clean my glasses and look again, and they wave at me. Running outside, I jump into their arms.


With them there, I wasn't going to let 4-5 hours drive go to waste. I welcome them to my crappy community, considering they're Ontarian, and I bring them around my city. A really big crap hole, I know, but I've always lived here, so deal with it. I figure, might as well teach them a little bit about a Quebec lifestyle. Start with a good poutine, a mix of french fries, cheese curds and a special sauce, a steamed hotdog and then show them what real quebecers do, PARTY!!!! But instead, I ask them how long they're going to be in town for, and they say "I'm moving in!" I start daydreaming again, but that's just me.

Just then, I realize something. Usually, I don't have this much hope for the future.

What changed???



..........................................................Author's note...................................

To recommend what changed for it to be the beginning of the sequel "Changes",  visit http://www.buildinghopebook.blogspot.com/.



All characters and events aren't real, and they never will be unless a miracle happens.


All bands, songs, lyrics, websites, places, -ian + -ers titles (like Ontarian and Quebecers) and  food names are all real though!!