Beneath the oak tree. Beneath the oak tree lie many secrets, secrets of summer. Secrets only you know, secrets and memories that touch your soul with its warm embrace. But of corse, these moments don't last forever. Just for that one season that comes once a year. Summer is different for everyone. A chance to get a tan; a vacation, or for me, unexpected.

It comes round like every time, "summer's going to be great!" you hear people talking about it on the streets, "have you booked your hols yet?". But for me, it came round as if it was a surprise or a gift i had always wanted. I was nothing special, an average girl with nothing to lose. I didn't care much about the way i looked because I knew I couldn't change my ugly appearance whatever i did. I didn't have many friends either because nobody talks to 'losers'.

I swung. And swung. All day and night on my tyre swing my grandfather had put up when he was only young, like me. I guess it was his way of showing respect and giving me a chance to be free.

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Only a short story i wrote in my spare time to let people know that everyone is beautiful even if your not what they look like in magazines or about what people call you.

This is about a young 13-year old girl who goes through this having been called 'loser' by a number of her so-called friends. She ventures out to her and her grandad's old place, where she meets a suspicious new character. They share lots of things and he helps her realise that she was beautiful on the inside even if people didn't see it that way.

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Later on in the story she see's pictures of what her grandad looked like when he was her age and realises that he's the spitting image of her lost friend Sam. I hope people pick up on that Sam is her grandfather as a ghost that has come back to cheer up his grandaughter because she was low on herself. I supose if you didn't get that by reading it on yourself then that's fine it just means you need to read back on it and pick out on the details.

I realise this story isn't the best but it was just for a little competition i did for a local newspaper and i had a limited amount to write in so that's why its not long. If anybody's wondering, i did win which was great!
Please tell me what you think (:

updated Aug 1 '09 by Fantasize