Oscar and Alphonse

  November 18, 2005, Miami, Florida,   My name is Oscar Williams. I’m 12 years old. I live in New Orleans. I go to Northridge Middle School. 3 of my brothers go to Northridge High School. The other 1 go to my school. I have 4 brothers, Noah (16), Liam (15), Jacob (14), and Mason (13). All of them are mean to me, except for Mason. He helps me with my homework while the rest play football, he tutors me in math and language arts while the rest watch WWE. But one day, it all changed. This is the story of how I meet Alphonse. I remember it like it was yesterday. The next day, after school me and Mason got picked by Noah, Liam, and Jacob in Noah’s 1980 station wagon. It had fake wood on the side and yellow almost everywhere. “Hey loser. Get in the back, NOW!”yelled Noah like a tiger to us. I yelled back, “OOOKKKKAAAAAYYYYY. You don’t have to yell.” Noah gave use the big eyes and I knew exactly what would happen if we didn’t, so we got in the car before he could say it again. As me and Mason got in the car, Noah put some bags in the back. “What’s all this?”I asked Noah. “None of your business loser’s,”screeched Noah louder than a eagle.       We got home when I found a caterpillar on the grass of our front lawn, so I picked it up and got it inside before my brother’s saw it. “Mom, can I keep him. PLEASE?! I will do better in school. I’ll get A+++ instead of an A++.”I begged my mom to keep the caterpillar. “Fine, only if you feed him, water him, and make sure your brother’s don’t touch him,”blabbed my mom. When I finally got away from my mom and escaped to the wonderful island called my room. Even though I live with 4 brother’s, I still get my own room. It has my favorite color, PINK, I have a pink bunkbed with a bed on the top and a desk on the bottom. My desk has a 1980’s computer with a binder full of study sheet’s, school books and a caterpillar cage with food and water and everything a caterpillar needs, a big book shelf full of ‘Time Warp Trio’ books, and a super big bean-bag chair next to my ,and big mirror with a hem lace on the edges. “I’ll name you, Alphonse. Yeah. Welcome to your new home Alphonse, I’m Oscar!” I explained to my new pet. “Hey loser. Whaddya got there, a pet? So you’re some kind of kind of, FREAK! Hahaha,” laughed Noah. “Hahaha,” copied Liam and Jacob. Then I saw Mason. ‘Should I join in, or stand up for my sister?’ Then I saw Mason come up to me and did the unthinkable.       “Hahahaha loser. So you’re a caterpillar person, that means you must be a caterpillar,”Mason said to (for some reason) empress his older brothers. I was sad and confused, so I asked Mason,“What was that for,” “Come on Oscar, don’t be such a wet blanket.” said Mason loud and proud. “Besides, they finally like me!” whispered Mason as soft as a mouse. I was so mad at him for being something he’s not so I yelled,“I THOUGHT YOU WERE MY FRIEND AND MY BROTHER, but I was wrong!”       The next day at school, “What was all of that yesterday Oscar. It’s like you hate me now?”Mason related to the ‘incident’ yesterday. I, on the hand, didn’t say a word. I was very frustrated at him. The only time he was mean to me, (and not trying to impress Noah, Liam, and Jacob), was when we were 3 years old and I took his books by accident. “Why aren’t you responding to me. What did I do wrong!?”Mason yelled at me. Ring As I heard the bell I told my brother, “Sorry, I need to go to math and I do not want to be tardy,”       When I got home, I went straight to my to my room to do my homework, when all of a sudden, I got a email from the national weather center saying, In 1 week, there will be a severe hurricane will stick the gulf coast. So people who live in New Orleans, Georgia, Mississippi, or around that area, be prepared. I was so afraid I had to tell my mom, so I went down stairs to see my parents look at me with the sad eyes. Then they told me something, “The hurricane will hit Cuba, and your family do not have enough money to protect their houses,”My mom told me. My dad called my brothers down stairs. As they came down, my mom started to tear up. I told them about the storm and our family in Cuba. Since I was born in Cuba (It was a family vacation) I was really worried, but my brothers didn’t care that I was sad.   Ten minutes later, “Oh Alphonse, what am I supposed to do. The hurricane is going to hit my home country in 1 week, my brother/best friend betrays me for our BROTHERS!!!”I cried to Alphonse about my problems. Of course Alphonse said nothing. Then I went to get ready for bed, thinking about what the hurricane is going to do. All of that worrying made me fall asleep.     The next morning, “Morning sweety,”my mom said doing her work on our marble kitchen island. I was not in the mood to talk so I said,“Morning mom” Then I saw the Fabulous Foursome a.k.a Noah, Liam, Jacob, and backstabber (Mason). “Awesome shot dude, Radical man, Total score bro, See you on the court,”they screamed down stairs. I rolled my eyes and checked the clock, 6:45am, so I ran upstairs to my room to get my school uniform. White and black. I saw our yellow school pull up to the bus stop, so I ran downstairs and got on the bus and sat next to my other best friend Ashley. Ashley was the 3rd smartest kid in school. I was the 2nd, and mister betrayer was the 1st.       When we got off the bus, I went to the principals office to ask her to switch my locker to be away from my brother. “I’m sorry, Ms.Williams, but you have the closest locker to your homeroom. And I can’t do anything about it. I’m sorry,”Principal Rabinoff said. I was very disappointed to hear that but I kept my chin up and said,”That is okay Principal Rabinoff,”       After the talk with my principal, I went to my locker before the warning bell could ring, but then all of a sudden Ashley came up to me panting. “I’m sorry to say, but Mason made me, but our older brothers came. RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!!”yelled Ashley as she ran for her life. Then out of nowhere, I saw Noah come up to me with the ‘mad’ face. “OSCAR, YOU COME HERE, NOW,”screamed Noah. Then he did the unthinkable, he hugged me. But I didn’t care.       The following Saturday evening, me and my family were in the basement with all the things we needed to survive. I brought Alphonse with us. I could feel the vibration of the hurricane. We all held on to each other. I looked at Alphonse, he became weak and gray. As soon as I could tell my parents, Alphonse turned into Alphonse’s! The hurricane was over and a lot of houses did not get destroyed, we were one of them. 1 week later, we were all in the backyard playing. I took Alphonse’s outside. I knew it was time to send them back. The caterpillars wiggled in her hand, spelling out “goodbye”.   The End