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My Mini Saga  The 6 girls were working as as they could. If they tried any harder they would pass out. If they stopped they would be beat. What should they do? Try harder said the nasty coach. They just couldn't go any farther. They were headed to their doom all together.

Them by Madi Smith   They didn't know what to do. They couldn't go any farther, but they had to. They had to make it. They knew it would all pay off. They couldn't stop there. Their coach just wouldn't let them stop. Will they ever make it? They were Savannah, Katie, Tianna, and Madi. Hi my name is Madi, I am one of “them”. Yes, my introduction may sound gory, but this is really truly not. I live in Charleston, South Carolina. My friends, Savannah, Katie and Tianna all live in Charleston. We are all on the Charleston Aquatic Team (CATs). Our coaches’ name is Marla. She is the best coach you could ever have. Even when she pushed you so hard you broke. One day, we were at our small apartment. We had a perfect apartment on a perfect street with a perfect view. We were all sitting on our couch watching TV. When, in the middle of our program, an announcement came on. The Olympic swimmer, Julia Stentule had been in a major accident. In Charleston, that was big news. Julia had grown up in Charleston and she trained with us. Our coach, Marla, had helped get her to the Olympics. Julia was like a big sister to me and my friends. The next day, there was news that Julia was transported to Charleston hospital overnight.

Once she got to the hospital, we went up to see her. The doctors said that she could go home the next day. Julia asked Katie, Savannah, Tianna and I if she could stay with us. We immediately went home and prepared her a room. She said that once she was better, she would go back to the Olympics, but she didn’t want to yet. Her and her family had been so nice to us, we welcomed her with opened arms. She was one of our biggest role models. The next day, Katie, Tianna, Savannah and I went up to the hospital to help her gather her belongings. When we got back to our apartment, we made her right at home. We all quickly adapted to our different living space. Tianna, Savannah, Katie and I showed her around and we showed her the rules and schedule. Since we all had our own rules already on our doors, she made up her own and she made her own schedule. When everything was sorted out, we decided to call our coach and ask her to meet us at the pool. We met at the pool and discussed the practice schedule and the workout situation. All 5 of us then went back to our apartment and went to sleep. In the morning, we went to the pool for a fun workout. We went on like that for a few weeks. We were living in perfect harmony. We would win every meet we went to even though it was only 5 swimmers. Every time we would win Marla would say to us “all swimmers are good, but some are better than others.” We would wake up in the morning and go to practice. Then we would come home at night and eat then go to bed. Our days revolved around swimming, swimming, swimming.

One day, we woke up and everything felt wrong, very, very wrong. We would just think of what it might be then it would just slip from our minds. We lived like this for many day or even weeks, no one knew how long it was. No one talked at home, at practice, at all. Finally, Marla got worried and called a meeting. She said that if we didn’t straighten up, then she would just leave. Practice was cut short that day and we all went home early. The next day we woke up feeling like we felt the night before when we went to sleep; frazzled. We went to practice and tried to put on a happy face. Marla said that she had some good news. Last night, she got a call from one of the Olympic coordinators. He said that we had all qualified for the Olympic Trials at the last meet we swam at. Then, she noticed that there were only 4 of us. Julia was gone! Marla asked us if we had seen Julia yet today. None of us remembered if we had seen her yet today. We all started panicking. We decided to go out and look for her. When we first went out, we had hope. Once we were convinced that she wasn't there, we went back inside. We all changed quickly and split up. We searched for many hours. Once it was too dark to see anything, we all went home. It was decided to meet back at the pool at 6 the next morning. The four of us went home and right as we were getting ready to go to bed there was a knock at the door. We opened it and there stood Julia. Wet, cold, and mad. She came in and told us what happened. We took her to our coaches house and we lived happily ever after. THE EN