A little boy walking home from school! A mom a worry wart! A Group of guys with knives! Can you picture what will happen next? A gang called the baby skulls hang out and stab people every day because they messed with the wrong person.

Jimmy was walking home from school when a man ran passed him with blood dripping down his shirt. Then man collapsed in front of him and Jimmy ran for help! He told the cops everything he had seen leaving out a major detail. That night Jimmy was sitting at home when the power died 4 doors simultaneously smashed in and they killed Jimmy.

Jimmy’s parents were called because they were both at work. They both rushed home as fast as possible. Jimmy’s dad didn’t make it home for almost three days because of what he does. Jimmy’s dad is a special agent for the United States government. He is trained to kill in ways that would make you think. When he found out about his sons death he went crazy. Mark set out to find his sons murder.

Mark went down town killing every one that even looked like a gang member. He finally found who was in charge and pinned him down and asked why he killed his son! The man in return said “It is only business kid” In return Mark put a bullet in his head. Mark could not live with him self with all of the people he had killed and the loss of his son. Mark put the gun barrel to his temple and recited the soldier’s creed then pulled the trigger.

The Light, The Crow roaring! Sound like another story? It is always the way band stories start off. Draggle is a local band from Sparta Wisconsin and hoping to upraise like every other band. Jason Moore, Jimmy Goodman, Jeremy Schroeder and Me Nathan Nichols are all the band members of Draggle. Most people know me as they gay kid, or the fag, or pretty much any word a person could call someone could call someone when they do not like that person. I had a ruff high school experience. When I was a freshman I was always picked on and beat up! At the begging of my sophomore year someone wrote Nathan Nichols "IS GAY" on the class shirt and IT GOT PRINTED!!!

I lost all my friends because everyone thought it was funny and made fun of me! I didn't know what to do! This is the time I learned about computers! I spent every moment at home on a computer! Tearing it apart, putting it back together, reprogramming it, pretty much anything you can think of! I even tried building a server but failed fast when my mom was without internet! I finally got to know how to build it internally then add the internet but it was a lot of upkeep. Plus I really did not know Very much about it. I cut down to a 500 gig storage device and a network printer.

After all of this computer finessing I went my whole life to music! Without very many friends at all I put all of my time into it! One day I was approached by Jason to play drums for his band he has called Draggle! We jammed almost every day and got really good. We applied for a contest called Launch Pad! This is sponsored by the solo ensemble of Wisconsin! The winners of the whole contest get a 45 minute spot in summer fest and recording time! I would have never had said it when I didn’t have any friends but I am glade now that I didn’t. I would have never done the two things that I love if I had!

Music?

Why do people have to be judgmental on other people’s music? Artist creates multiple types of songs for the reason that not everyone likes the same music. My best friend and I have different views on music. She enjoys listing to screamo and I am more of an R&B person. I do like some songs that she enjoys but most of them I do not. Because I do not like these we fight about it and her best friend doesn’t like me. Again why does friendships have to based on stupid music? Can anyone and not you ALI why music matters?

This is a really long story!!

This is a really long story!!

Why do I just get pushed aside by everyone I like as if I don’t exist in that aspect of life? I love not like love two girls more then anything in this world and they both know it. I talk to them everyday and I am both their best friends. I would go out of my way to do anything for them. Personally I try to act strong for them and stand up to help them but a person can only be so strong.

Personally I do not know what about these two girls I love so much. I love different things about them but equally. I know at this age you aren’t supposed to know who you want to spend the rest of your life with but they make me feel like I do. Both of these girls have liked me at one point and still do deep down, but for some reason find reasons not to be with me. It is enough to make me happy as I ever can be all day then when I get home I cuddle in a corner and cry. Cry to release how I am wasting my life chasing after two people that will never be with me.

I try to tell them both how I feel everyday but I cannot. I tell them that I love them and I tell them that I will always be there when they need me, but that is a best friend. Nothing ever sets in as me actually in love. No one really understands how I truly feel about them and I am guessing they will never see it!! Or care!

Wow Life hits in a tough pole and sometimes I really do not know what to do! what happens when the person with all the answers needs an answer?



How do I breathe yeah
How do I breathe yeah
Feels so different being here
I'm so used to being next to you
Life for me is not the same
Theres no-one to talk to
Don't know why I let it go too far
Starting over it's so hard
Seems like everywhere I try to go
I keep thinking of you
I just had a wakeup call
Wishing that I never let you fall
Baby your not to blame at all
When i'm the one that pushed you away
Baby if you knew I care
You never would’ve went nowhere
Girl I should have been right there

[Chorus]
How do I breathe
Without you here by my side
How will I see
when Your love brought me to the light
Where do I go
When your hearts where I lay my head
When your not with me
How do I breathe
How do I breathe

[Verse 2]
Girl I'm losing my mind
Yes I made a mistake
Thought that you would be mine
Guess the joke was on me
I miss you so bad I cant sleep
I wish I knew where you could be
Another dude is replacing me
God this cant be happening
I just had a wakeup call
Wishing that I never let you fall
Baby your not to blame at all
When i'm the one that pushed you away
Baby if you knew I care
You never would have went nowhere
Girl I should have been right there
and I wonder

[Chorus]
How do I breathe
Without you here by my side
How will I see
when Your love brought me to the light
Where do I go
When your hearts where I lay my head
When your not with me
How do I breathe
How do I breathe

[Verse 3]
I should have bought my love home, girl
Baby I aint perfect you know
this girl has got a tight hold
girl come back to me,
Cause girl you made it hard to breathe
When your not with me

[Chorus]
Tell me
How do I breathe
Without you here by my side
How will I see
When Your love brought me to the light
Where do I go
When your hearts where I laid my head
When your not with me
How do I breathe
How do I breathe

Tell me
How do I breathe
Without you here by my side
How will I see
When Your love brought me to the light
Where do I go
When your hearts where I laid my head
When your not with me
How do I breathe
How do I breathe

Top 10

Why is it that I can help people get together in a relationship but I can create one of my own? When I finally do get into one it crashes down like the world trade center crushing my heart. No matter how much I try I cannot find someone that I like and stay with them, or when I find someone I like and am willing to fight for, for a long time doesn’t want to be with me. Well I think people’s views on girls are all wrong! High school kids and all their in love stuff truly don’t know what it means to be in love. What do you look for in a Girl? Or even a male (ladies)? Here are the top 10 things I look for to help people or even my self in a relationship.

10. Parents

9. Voice

8. Fighting (no or yes)

7. Jokes (inside)

6. What she thinks of me!

5. How much I know

4. Time spent

3. Personality

2. Comfort

1. Eyes

These are my top 10 things I look for! What are yours? I think they work for most people but not me. I do not understand why either. When someone uses the other person is like “aww how sweet”, but when I use it they are just like “oh it is just Nate”, I don’t not understand at all! Please leave comments on your top 10 things you look for in a guy or girl and tell me what I am doing wrong! Why won’t the girl I like take this as being sincere and not just Nate?

The whole time Nathan lived in Sparta he was amazingly good friends with a girl names Susan. He liked her on and off but never really had the interest for her. He loved her yes! She was one of the friends he would do anything for. Sophomore year oh high school Nathan Started falling in love with her but they stayed friends.

Nathan Went threw all of the stuff with Maggie and Susan was always there for him. Susan finally found someone she really liked and his name was Fred. To be honest no one really liked Fred except Susan. Fighting started happing between them and everyone else around with Susan. She was blinded by love. Nathan finally after all he has been through finally found some he truly loved. SUSAN!! See the problem? She loves Fred and just pushed Nathan aside. Will Susan ever open her eyes? Will she ever see that the best for here if right in front of her face and she isn’t even seeing it? Only time will tell but the sad thing is, Nathan leaves in less then 6 months for 8 years. Then it will be to late.

NATHAN!!

Kids prepare for collage in unusual ways and some don’t. By time most kids reach high school they do not know what they want to do with their lives. Kids study for excessive hours to get to collage to not know what to do. High schools really do not prepare you for collage they only give you the education leading up to it.

At Sparta High point this is different. The students here plan and manage the time to get the things they need done. If they do not get it done they do not have the teacher there to say, oh well turn it in late or do this for extra credit. Here is just a sample of one story written by a student who attends high point. It is different from what you are normally used to from a student but the harsh reality is that the high school is worse then people think.

The doors open to the first day of school and a kid names Nathaniel LaVern Clemens walked threw them. The first day of 8^th grade is always the best. Meeting new friends, not knowing who to hang with is always the though part. 8^th grade for some kids is a good start. Nathaniel on the other hand wasn’t so good of a start. All year he was working on making friends. He found a click to role with and they ditched him then hated him. He didn’t ever do anything except be himself. It took the harsh school to show a young new kid how to make friends and at this age in life means not being your self. Lying is the essence of friendship. As so everyone thought.

Nathan Finally found the friends he needed as so the girl friend the thought he did. Her name was Kim and he thought they would last forever. They were on and off for almost 4 years. Nathan was so in love with Kim no one really understood. Kim her self really didn’t know. See Nathan had some anger problems but never toward her. She still seen this and kept losing her interest in him. The dated many guys in the time Nathan and her kept breaking up. Nathan loved her so much but a person can only take so much. After the last time breaking up Nathan ended it for good a new girl came into his life. Her name was Maggie and she was amazing. He got reminded of everything Kim had but with the stability of not breaking up. That was a joke, Nathan and Maggie fought because of her friends all the time. None of them liked him. The relationship went really well for a couple of months then things started going downhill. Nathan had fallen for Maggie and felt that he loved her more then anything in this world. Maggie had made new friends with a kid names Kyle and Nathan was so jealous. Finally Maggie left him and he was devastated. He tried everything to get her back. She was running for Miss. Sparta and took 1^st attendant spot. She had a party afterwards and Nathan had showed up. He walked in and seen her kissing Kyle. To this day he doesn’t know if he really seen her, or wanted to. He turned around and left. Burned out around every corner leaving and finally went home. He was crying so hard he could barley see. He got in his car and drove to his mom’s house. He didn’t make it. Nathan wanted all the sadness to end and his car went off the road. The grass grabbed the wheel and a loud band roared. The car hit a pole pushing the car to the side over a 10 foot drop. This cause the car to fly over a fence and land 47 feet away from the road, when the car had hit the pole it penetrated the passenger window only two feet from Nathan’s head.

The cops and firemen and everyone showed up to the scene. Nathan was rushed to the hospital and then chaptered 51 for attempting suicide. When Maggie found out she rushed to the hospital were here was and tried explaining everything. He held her for hours and finally she had to leave. The next day Nathan was released and went back for the last day of school.

Nathan and Maggie tried working things out and only had a few fights. They worked with each other all summer and were turning out like nothing had happened. School started again and they were starting to fight again. One weekend came and she didn’t call him and she told him she would. He tried calling her everyday for a week and no answer. Finally he went to her house and talked to her. They ended there. Fighting went on and harsh words went threw for about 3 months after that and now they do not talk anymore.

Nathan was helped getting over Maggie with the help of his friend at the time Ali. He thought she was amazing. She had the most amazing eyes, they could talk about anything and he fell for her. Some mind games were played and they just because amazing best friends.

TO BE CONTINUED…..

I'm Not Gonna Cry- Class of 08

This is our senior class song! When you listen to it, it really gets to you. This song tells how things really feel. We are all leaving the place we have spent the last 18 working to stay at. We all say we hate school but the harsh reality of it is, we will miss it when we don’t have it. I know when we have breaks and days off it bugs me. I love hanging out with my friends and learning new things every day. But they also say the students sometimes teach the teachers just as much. To be a parent is to be a teacher. When you are in school you cannot be a parent (you can but not good). I do not know how life will be out side of school and working full time but I do know one thing. That is that this song does make me cry knowing I am leaving all the people that I truly care about for the army! To make something of my self, to serve my country, I love you all, Thank you all for being there for me when I needed you!

As this year rapidly comes to an end and we are rushing to get our final projects in I only have one thing to say. Class of 08 will truly be a memory that will never fade.

Sunday Shoes, Cap and Gown
The whole town gathered around
Waited 18 years now it's all coming down to this.
I scanned the crowd and it fills my soul
My best friends all here in rows
No turning back, Now its time to walk that line
This tassel is gonna turn
But when the moment passes by
We'll just walk away
Then slowly grow apart

But I'm not gonna cry, no
Not one sad or happy tear
I've waited my whole life
Now I'm gonna fly right outta here

It's a bittersweet goodbye, but I'm not gonna cry

Friday night, football games,
First loves and first heartbreaks,
It didn't matter who won or lost,
Only how we played,
Memories as good as gold,
Tearin' up those mountain roads,
racin' out 53, to old Georgetown,
sure we made a little trouble,
but learned from every mistake,
so theres no regret,
we've done the best we could

so I'm not gonna cry, no
not one sad or happy tear
I've waited my whole life
now I'm gonna fly right outta here

these have been the best years of my life
so I'm not gonna cry

its been a lonely, winding journey
and we've lost a few along the way
still we've hung in there through the tribulations
now its time to celebrate
its our graduation day

so I'm not gonna cry
not one sad or happy tear
I've waited my whole life
so I'm gonna fly right outta here

this has been the best day of my life, so I'm not gonna cry

its a bittersweet goodbye, I'm not gonna cry

In To The Dark- Were is Jimmy?

Jimmy!! Jimmy!! A search crew yells. This country is in a state of emergency and Jimmy is the only person who can help. Do you remember Jimmy Nickolas? Of course you don’t. He held the key to the bomb that the terrorist were going to use you blow up the country. You say why can’t we find the bomb and disarm it? We can’t because this bomb is not able to be stopped. It will blow up if even moved too much. The only way to stop this is use a finger print and a key. This is where Jimmy comes in. It is his finger print that is to stop it. Jimmy was found on the streets shortly after he went there and they offered him $200 bucks to use his finger print.

Now that Jimmy is gone how can we stop them? The country goes on a rampage to find him. Jimmy finally comes out and is found under a bridge in Manhattan, New York. Jimmy goes threw and tried to help the u.s as much as e could. They got the bomb deactivated and the country is saved.

The government covered the terrorist conspiracy up and Jimmy was never recognized. He was offered money to keep his mouth shut and he started working again. He got a job threw the government and was living high life again. After 12 years of living on the streets anything was good. Jimmy was leaving his apartment to go to work when a van drove up and grabbed him. The slit his neck and threw him on the steps of the organization that stopped the bomb.

Jimmy faded in to every ones memories again with fear the terrorist are still here. Everyone forgot about him again and he was dead.

The worlds savior was killed no one even knows.

An anonymous tip was given to the news channel about the bomb and how Jimmy saved the United States. They did a story on him and even held a funeral were almost the population of New York City attended. He went down as a national hero. To bad no one knows how made the tip. See people do fade away , no one remembered his mom.

Fade In To The Dark

Memories are hallucinations that the mind just recalls to set your present mood. People can be forgotten and left behind, can be thrown aside in this world. This feature was given to us by god to live our life to the fullest and not to be held down.

Millions of kids in this world go to school growing up, all meet and have friends. 10 years after they graduate how many of them think about the people from 6^th grade year. We let go and don’t. Those kids fade into the dark. You grow up, get married, have a stable job and maybe have kids. This isn’t the lucky way for every one.

Jimmy Nickolas a 30 year old man living on the streets under a bridge and no one even know he is there. He has faded into the darkness like a shadow on a gloomy day. He was the popular jock in high school, everyone liked him and he had almost a solid 4.0 GPA.

There was a group of kids fighting in the hall way when he was walking by and he tried stopping them. A gun was pulled on him and he attacked the guy who pulled it. A ear blistering crack echoed the halls. Jimmy had control of the gun and the kid attacked him. This caused him to fire the gun unwillingly killing his best friend that was walking up to see what the commotion was.

Jimmy was expelled from school and was taken to court. Jimmy got off from the charges but was still kicked out of the school. His mom couldn’t handle the news about him killing someone so she kicked him out of her house. Jimmy was on the streets all alone.

Jimmy stayed on the streets for as long as anyone knew. He tried getting a job but people looked at the criminal side of him. He couldn’t get anything. Jimmy faded into the dark like the 6^th grade memories.

Like is a miracle that the ultimate being gave us. You may say “well I do not believe in god”. That is your choice. God gave you the choice to believe in what ever you wanted. But life is seriously taken for granted on a daily basis. We eat and waste more food then we have to, we waste power and fuel. We are the richest country in the world and yet we are in debt. There are people out there that get to even have the chance to forget the memories we do. But this message will just fade, Fade into the dark. Just like Jimmy!!