My Brother, Cupid Part 10

I can't believe it! Part 10, we are finally entering double digits. This is post is an important one. If you can't remember, Todd just joined Dewey's household. In this post we'll learn more about Dewey, and who he really is. Get ready for part 10!

"So I don't blame you for being annoyed with Chase. But why are you exactly?" Dewey asks.
"He shot me with an arrow," I say.
"Right," Dewey says, "I knew that. You told the entire Holiday Council." Dewey also is on the holiday council. He represents the holiday of Halloween as Dracula.
I nod. "So yeah, that's basically it."
"It must be more then that, or you would have come here soon-"
He was cut off by his doorbell. He rose to go get it. I waited on the couch, he soon came down with two identical twin boys. They looked at me confused.
"I'm Todd," I say.
The boys don't respond. Instead one sits as far away as he can from me on the couch and the other sits on the piano bench.
"Todd," Dewey says taking a seat in his chair. "You can use the guest room, second floor third door to the right. Why don't you go make yourself at home."
"Thanks," I say. I make my way upstairs to the guest room and open the door. The room has the same eerie feeling the rest of the house has. There's a phone next to the bed. I realize I should call my mom and tell her where I am.
After a few rings, she picks up the phone. "Hello?" she says.
"Hi Mom," I say.
"Oh, Todd. How are you? Where are you? My cellphone didn't recognize the number."
"That's actually what I called about," I say, "Is it okay if I stay at Chase's friend Dewey's house for a few days? It okay with him."
"Well . . . I don't know. I don't know Dewey. Can he be trusted?" she said with hesitation in her voice.
"Yeah, he's Chase's friend. And he teaches piano. And he loves kids."
"Can I talk to him?"
"Well, he's actually teaching piano right now. But I'll have him call you back later, kay mom?" I say bringing my ear away from the phone for a few second.
She sighs. "Okay."
"Love you, mom."
"Love you too."
"Bye."
"Bye."

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My Brother, Cupid Part 9

A few minutes later I arrived at a large house looming over a large threatening yard. It was quite frighting house. I ring the doorbell which sounds like a short song you'd hear in a horror movie.
He finally arrives, he opens the door and glares at me. "May I help you?" he asks.
"Hey, Dewey," I say. "I'm a little annoyed with Chase, can I stay here for a few days?"
"Of course," he says. He opens the door more so I can get in. Then he turns to yell down the stairs. "Victoria! I don't hear anything!" That's when I hear a few simplistic notes on his piano.
"Thanks," I say.
"Don't be a nuisance," he says, leaving to go downstairs.
Absent minded I follow him. He sits behind a small girl playing the piano who looks terrified out of her wits. She quickly finishes the song she's playing jumping every time she makes a mistake. She can't be older then eight, her hair is put up in a pony tail with a small flower on top of it, and she wears a yellow dress. She looks very out of place in this haunted house.
"Very good, Veronica. I think I'm going to have you practice that one a little bit more this week," he says making a few marks in a folder.
I turn to Victoria. I lean in and say, "I'm Todd." I hold out my hand for her to shake.
She jumps and screams. She wasn't expecting me to talk to her. Dewey laughs a little. "Sorry, I'm Veronica. Do you have a piano lesson after me?" she asks still catching her breath.
"No, Dewey's a family friend of ours. I'm going to stay here for a few days," I say.
Her eyes grow wide as she looks around. I can tell that she's thinking how awful it would be to stay in this house for more then an hour, which is probably the length of her piano lesson. "I'm so sorry," she says.
"I'm not," I say. "Want to know a secret?"
She nods leaning in.
"Dewey's not really as scary as you think he is," I whisper loud enough that he can hear me.
"Darn it, Todd, you've ruined my image," he says laughing. "Didn't I say not to be nuisance?"
"Sorry," I say also laughing.
Then the doorbell rings again. Dewey gets up to go it. A few minutes pass and he yells, "Victoria, your mother is here."
She grabs her stuff and practically trips herself trying to get out of the house.
Dewey joins me once again. "You're not really mad, are you?" I ask.
"Of course not, the way I loose most of my customers is because they're terrified of me. Sometimes, I just can't help myself though," he says.

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Catching Fire: Analisis

I find the Hunger Games very symbolic of different things in todays society. Different things make me really think about how life is today. This is especially in Catching Fire, the anger I felt while reading this book was so real. I really got into it.
President Snow - Slavery: President Snow was such an awful person. He would torture innocent people just to make sure they knew that he was in charge. I feel like this could be a symbol of slavery. Before the Civil War broke out, slave owners didn't even see their slaves as humans. They provided resources and money and thats all they saw. This is the same with the districts, the capitol was taken care of by them but didn't see them as anything more then resources. That's why President Snow was scared of rebellion, he knew he would loose his resources. He did the same thing slave owners did with slaves, they made sure that rebellions would not ever happen by inflicting fear into the districts hearts. He would do this with Peacekeepers and the Games. The slave owners did it with whips and making their burden harder.
Peeta and Katniss - Celebrities: One thing that I found definitely around in modern society is the relationship between Peeta and Katniss was fake. They were pretending to be in love just to get sponsors. This is not too different from how fake our celebrities are, what extreme will they go to just to remain famous.
The Games - Reality TV Shows: The most obvious symbol that they have is definitely have is the relation between the Games and Reality TV Shows. The Games was a Reality TV Show. But the symbolism goes much deeper. How many of us enjoy watching Reality TV Shows? I do. They're very popular. We are much like the capitol in that way, we enjoy watching people being publically humiliated or doing things we'd never dare. How often do we actually see people getting along on these shows? Not very often. Sure nobody dies in our Reality TV Shows, but how the capitol can watch and not even flinch is the same of how we can watch the contention and not even care.
The Peacekeepers - Modern Day Problems: The peacekeepers are not only symbolic but ironic. Their names are peacekeepers and they are certainly not peaceful. From whipping, to killing, to enforcing stupid laws they are definitely the opposite of keeping the peace. They're similar to modern day problems like the current state of the economy or maybe even the IRS. They're not there to help us, they're there to inflict us.
These are just a few symbols that I found in Catching Fire, there is many more.

My Brother, Cupid Part 8

The students ran to the front of the room, who couldn't resist free chocolate. They would shove it in their mouths and then pause for a few moments to realize they had just tasted a small piece of heaven. It's the love magic in the chocolate, I think. Hadn't I just specifically asked Chase not to do this exact thing? Why doesn't he ever listen?

"Chase!" I yell.
"Did she like them?" he asks running down the stairs.
"No, she wouldn't even eat them," I say.
"What?! Is she allergic?" he asks.
I ignore that last question. "Didn't I ask you not to use any love magic?"
"Nope. You told me not to use arrows."
"Because of the love magic, Chase! I didn't want Haley to fall in love with me!"
"Are you crazy? Why not?"
"Because I knew it would be fake!" I yell, "If she falls in love with me, I want it to be on her own terms not yours!"
"Oh. I don't understand."
"No of course you don't. You're an idiot," I say.
"Hey. C'mon be nice," he says.
"Forget it. I'm through being nice. I'm sick of you. You've gone way too far." Then I went to far when I yelled, "Sometimes I hate you!" I immediately regretted it.
Hate was my brother's number one no-no word. He wouldn't let me use it to describe anything: food, tv shows, situations, and especially not people. Ever since he became Cupid and decided that love was the source of all happiness and all things good in life he decided that hate was the devil. He even got mad at my mom once when she used it.
So needless to say I knew I was in trouble. I wasn't sure what he was going to do. "Hate?" he squeaked, "You hate me?" That wasn't what I expecting.
I was about to apologize, but I was still too upset to act on this notion. Instead I went along with the whole hate thing. "Yes," was my answer, true or not. "I do. You're way annoying, and super weird, and-"
I was about to go on but he started to sway back and forth and started to whimper and I knew I had to finish fast.
"And . . . I can't stay here with you anymore," I say as my big finale.
He looks like he's just seen a ghost and doesn't answer. A small part of me tells me that what I'm doing is tearing him up and I should stop but another part of me is enjoying the revenge. To make my point clear I stomp out of the house. He doesn't even try coming after me.
Then to make my point extra clear I make my way to my brother's worst enemy's house.

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Percy Jackson: The Movie

If you have ever read the Percy Jackson books, never go see the movie. It is a disgrace to the book. It is nothing like it, the plot line is completely different, they cut out some of the most important characters, and overall it is just plain different. To put it in comparison they are about as similar as foxes and cats. Sure they have similar things about them but over all they are two very different things. It made me mad how different the movie was from the book, Percy Jackson is one of the best series I've ever read, why wouldn't they want to make that into a movie. Perhaps it would have been better if it wasn't called Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. If they had given it a different title and didn't claim it was "based off the book" (which it totally wasn't) then maybe I might have actually been able to watch it without wanting to kill the writer. The IDIOT perhaps is a better term. The least he could have done is actually read the book or have not have written the script while under the influence. All I'm really saying is now he has a ton of upset fans who wanted to see their favorite book turned into a movie. It was a waste of money, and it made me mad.
The movie itself, on lighter terms (even though I don't know if there is any to describe this movie), was boring. At least to me it was. I'm not into action very much and couldn't sit all the way through Transformers because I got so bored. That's mostly what it was, is action. I actually stopped paying attention and was about to walk out before the movie was over. That was until I realized that they were still torturing us with that awful movie.
Now look, maybe if you've never read the book you'll like it. I don't know. Sometimes I like movies that are different from the books (rarely) like Ella Enchanted. But most of the time I feel the same way I did about Percy Jackson, I don't like them. Like for instance I couldn't watch even half of "A Walk to Remember" because the book was so different and so much better. It almost made me cry, how different it was.
So anyway, don't watch Percy Jackson. It sucks.

My Brother, Cupid Part 7

Guess what! It's almost Valentine's Day, and despite the fact that I wasn't invited to Sweethearts, haven't got a date yet ever, or am no longer in Elementary School I'm still super excited. The reason why: My Brother, Cupid! What a great way to celebrate Valentines Day with my longest blog story!!! Don't be surprised if February is the month of Cupid.
If you don't remember (because I certainly didn't) and don't want to go back to reread the last part (because who actually wants to go through all that trouble) the last thing that happened was Todd was once again mad at Chase, Haley told him off about his behavior, and Chase promised that he would make things right with his brother. Or will he? We'll find out in the latest part of My Brother, Cupid.

I had a hard time going to school the next day, without Haley I didn't see the point of going back. But still I managed to crawl out of bed and pull myself to school.
I hadn't talked to my brother at all since I yelled at him, but that didn't mean he didn't try talking to me. I mostly just ignored him.
Well tried to ignore him. I was walking to school when he pulled up in his red car. "Hey," he said. "I hate seeing you this way, Todd. Let me drive you to school."
I didn't respond.
"C'mon, I know you're mad but talk to me, please," he said, "C'mon, let me drive you to school."
"No," I said. "I can walk."
"Yeah, but . . . Look, I know you're upset but you're making it really hard for me to make it up to you."
"Don't care."
"I've tried sorry, I've tried everything, what more do you want me to do?" he said.
"Nothing. Go away," I said.
"I could -"
"I said go away," I said finally loosing my temper.
"Got it." And he drove off, just like that.
I shook my head and stumbled the rest of the way to school and my first class, then fell into a chair waiting for the class to start.
That's when Haley walked in obviously mad. Her friends were holding a box of chocolates and stuffing our face. "I thought I told you to leave me alone," she said.
"I did," I said.
"I don't call sending me a box of chocolates leaving me alone," she said grabbing the box from our friends.
I glared at the front it said, "Cupid's Chocolate." My brother's chocolate company. "Chase," I mumbled.
"What?" she asked.
"Nothing," I said. "Uh, sorry about the chocolate."
"Well, I'm not eating them. I told you to leave me alone, so I'm not even going to touch them," she said.
My teacher who was eavesdropping interrupted her, "Maybe you'd like to share them with the class." Haley's friends groaned.
"Sure, whatever," she said.
The teacher opened the box Haley left in her hands and took out of one of the chocolates. She bit in and then froze suddenly a large smile spread across her face, "These are the most delicious candies I've ever tasted."

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Hunger Games

If you want to read an amazing book, and don't know one I highly suggest the hunger games trilogy. This series was amazing. I honestly thought I wasn't going to like it and I loved it. You've probably heard of it before, about a thousand people recommended it to me. What they are saying is true! It is a good book. Unless they don't like it, then I think they are insane.
I would tell you the plot line, but it makes it sound very undesirable. That's why I didn't even read the summary before I started reading. Oh, and on that note the main character is a girl. If I had read the summary I probably would have known that before she mentioned that her name was in the girl bin.
The only real problem I'm having with the Hunger Games right now is they're super addicting. If you have things to do, don't read them. Don't read them right away anyway, the third book isn't out yet and my friends say that the the second book (I haven't read that one yet) has a serious cliff hanger. I would start reading in August, they told me that's when the third book comes out. Too late for me.
So in conclusion: really good book, really addicting, don't read it yet.