The Great Gatsby Creative Writing

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It all began with a simple phone call one night after dinner. “Joe,” my father hollered up the stairs, “it’s for you. It’s Jackie and she sounds upset.” As I came downstairs to pick up the phone, I was not happy. I was tired and looking forward to a nice quiet evening at home, not another one of Jackie's wacky adventures. I barely got a word out over the phone when my best friend Jackie cut me off, “I’m on my way over. See you in 10.” Thirty minutes later, however, Jackie’s silver, self-modified hoverbike floated into our landing strip, and she was leaning on the horn before the bike even came to a full stop. She got off her bike as she took off her helmet and her long blonde hair flipped back and forth. Then she strutted up to the front door, seeing her I Grabbed …show more content…

Radley shows us to the living quarters and we settle in. The room was like the usual dorms at the academy with a common room in the middle and bedrooms joining on the sides. It was very bland and only had one window, that wouldn’t shut and one couch adjacent to a bare wall. Laura is disgusted by the brown and gray wallpaper and everything else so she waves her hand and the entire room starts to fill with color, my heart filled with joy. I'm in awe of what she just did. “That's not all I can do, I can do much more,” she walks over to the window fashions a windowsill and flowers and dirt start to appear out of nowhere. After that she says that she has been out of practice and needs her rest so we all retire for the night. I couldn't fall asleep because my mind tends to wander so I decided to get up to get a glass of water. I walk into the commons area and to my surprise I see a woman dressed in black with long black hair standing by the window staring at the storm rolling in from the distance. Touching the plants under the window seemingly making them grow. “Laura?” I asked “Yes?” the woman

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