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    Meeting Angela
    Meeting Angela
    Meeting Angela
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    Meeting Angela

    By Jim Wagner

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    Angela was new to the neighborhood. She had no friends until she met Alex. He was not too keen on being friends with a girl. His friends, Tommy, Johnny and Richard absolutely refused to have anything to do with her.
    Angela and Alex begin to do a few things together because Angela keeps showing up at his front door. They wander into the rain forest and Alex is amazed and impressed with how much she knows about the plants and the animals that live there.
    Angela is very annoyed with two greedy men who built an illegal road that destroyed a huge chunk of Nature. Alex becomes angry with them too, and they take action against them, which gets very nasty, very nasty indeed.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJim Wagner
    Release dateDec 6, 2014
    ISBN9781921947506
    Meeting Angela
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    Jim Wagner

    I was born in Cincinnati and grew up in the American Mid-West. I graduated from the University of Notre Dame and received a Masters in Education from the University of Cincinnati. I became a teacher and found a job teaching English and Film and Television at Trinity Bay State High School in Cairns, Australia. As a teacher I wrote many One Act Plays that students enjoyed performing in. I became the Rugby coach at the school and began writing novels that my students could read, relate to and understand. I decided to publish the novels under the name of Teen Friendly Books. At present I have 24 written and 15 published. My plan is to write many more books for teens to read and enjoy.

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      Meeting Angela - Jim Wagner

      Meeting Angela

      Jim Wagner 2014

      This Edition published by Teen Friendly Books at Smashwords

      Copyright 2014 by Jim Wagner

      This ebook is licensed for you personal enjoyment only. The book may not be re-sold or given to others. The book remains the copyrighted property of the author.

      A Teen Friendly Book

      New friends open eyes

      to new worlds.

      Chapter One

      The Game

      Tommy started spinning first. He spun around six times and tried to walk a straight line. He took two steps and fell over.

      The three of us laughed.

      Richard said, I can do much better than that.

      He spun around very quickly and fell to the ground after five spins. When he tried to stand up, his head looked like it was glued to the ground and his nose was sniffing every blade of grass.

      The three of us all laughed and laughed and laughed at his attempt to raise his head off the ground.

      Johnny said, Those efforts were pathetic. I can spin a lot longer and walk much straighter than both of you.

      He started slowly spinning. He went around eight times. When he stopped he walked a very straight line that was drawn on our driveway.

      It was my turn and I decided to do the quick spin method and to see what happened.

      I made it to ten times spinning around and around and around, but when I fell to the ground and tried to get up, I couldn’t. I tried again, and I couldn’t. I tried three more times and had no success.

      All the boys looked at me and laughed at me and laughed at me and laughed at me as I tried to stand up.

      Tommy and Johnny laughed so hard that they fell to the ground with me, still laughing.

      After we all recovered, and we were able to stand up and were not laughing, Tommy suggested a new game, Let’s all spin together.

      Richard added, Yeah, we should all do the same number of spins.

      I finished by adding a challenge, If we spin enough times, we will all fall down. The winner will be the one who can stand up first.

      Good idea, Johnny said.

      Let’s spin around fifteen times. That will be really hard. None of us even made ten, Richard proposed.

      Fifteen spins is going to be really ugly, I stated.

      But it will be very funny, Tommy said as he giggled.

      Okay, I agreed, But we all have to spin around at the same speed, and we have to count as we spin.

      They all liked the idea and we all agreed to the rules of the challenge.

      Is everyone ready? I asked.

      Yes, they all shouted.

      One, two, three, GO! I yelled out.

      So we all started spinning and chanting, One spin, two spins, three spins, and we all spun our way and counted our spins up to fifteen.

      I was the only one to make it standing to fifteen spins. The others fell over at eleven, thirteen and fourteen.

      As we crawled and rolled on the ground, we were all very loud. We were laughing and shouting and moaning and yelling at ourselves. We all tried to stand up, but we all kept falling down.

      Each of us had drifted to different parts of the front yard.

      I found myself out by the road, next to the trunk of the big tree. I tried to stand up and crashed into it. I fell back down in a big mass of clothes, bones and a very dizzy head.

      I tried to get up six times but kept bumping into the tree and falling back down.

      I didn’t care. I was laughing and was enjoying my unsuccessful attempts to stand up.

      I heard Tommy and Richard and Johnny laughing. We all seemed to be enjoying ourselves as each of us tried to stand and each of us kept falling down, which kept the laughter coming.

      I lay on the ground looking up at the clouds and they began to spin around and around and around.

      I wasn’t able to focus on any of them, and that kept me laughing along side all of my friends.

      I heard a voice, a new voice, a different voice, a voice that I had never heard before and it shouted at me, Hey boy! Are you laughing or are you crying?

      I hope I’m not crying, I thought as I sort of saw a fuzzy face of a young girl standing over me.

      I laughed and said, I’m laughing, and then I giggled.

      You stupid boy, this is not funny, the voice yelled at me, you almost fell onto my dog!

      I looked up and with some effort I was able to focus on the face and the eyes of the new voice. I immediately saw that they were angry.

      They were shooting fire in my direction.

      I did not feel like laughing after I felt the anger in those eyes.

      Chapter Two

      The Voice

      This is totally unacceptable behavior, the new voice yelled at me.

      I decided to ignore the new voice and I looked at the tree.

      I felt good looking at the tree instead of at the girl, but that did not last. The new voice roared at me with a lot of volume and repeated the message. This time it was shouted in my ear very loudly, You cannot behave like this!

      Who tells me how to behave? I asked myself, and I answered my own question, my mother and my teachers, certainly not some new girl in the neighborhood.

      The girl shouted at me again, Do you always act like this!

      I was in no mood to be yelled at, and especially by someone that I did not know, so I asked in a pleasant voice, Who are you and what are you doing in my front yard and why are you yelling at me?

      The girl boldly shouted back at me, I’m simply out walking my dog, Prince. When he stopped to do a poop, you almost landed on top of him.

      I guess that I am lucky that I didn’t, I replied.

      You’re not that lucky, she answered back.

      Why? I asked her.

      Because you missed Prince, but you landed in his poop, she informed me.

      That’s when I my nose told me that she was indeed correct. I did not smell the best.

      I staggered to my feet but because I was still dizzy, I fell over again.

      You did it again, the girl shouted at me.

      What, almost fell on Prince? I replied from the ground.

      No landed in the poop, she advised me. Why do you keep doing that?

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