Bøger af Lindsay Anderson

Dear Journal, It has been two years since the "Mallory Dean" cast and crew have been together. Sure, all of us are good friends, and have kept in touch with each other. However, it has been two years since we have been all together. Well, journal, that changes today. Later this morning, the cast and crew of the movie trilogy will be reuniting later this morning and will beginning the process of filming the second Mallory Dean movie.

"Thank you so much for inviting me to go with you to Sam's pool party with you!" I exclaimed."Are you kidding?" Landon smiled at me. "I am so excited and glad that you agreed to go with me!""Me too!" I smiled back. Sam (Lana's longtime boyfriend, and a longtime good friend of Landon and mine), holds an annual end of the year pool party at his mansion on the last day of school. It is definitely a party that everyone looks forward to every year. Not only is there a large indoor pool with a water slide and diving board, but there is also fun games and good food. Truth be told, it is a good time had by all.

As my sisters, best friend, Coach Ella (Our wonderful and amazing gymnastics coach), and I made our way to the competition, I thought about what an amazing year our gymnastics team has had. We had won every competition that we had competed in. We had even won State back in December. If we won today, it would mean that we would be the best high school gymnastics team in the U.S.A. With this said, all of really want to win!

It is so obvious that Daniel likes you, Trista." I smiled, as Dylan, Dana, Trista, and me received pedicures. "Why else would my brother have asked you out on a date?""To be nice?" Trista asked, thoughtfully. "I don't know why Daniel would be into me in that way.""I do." Dylan and I smiled in unison."Me too." Dana smiled, thoughtfully, Turning to Trista, she said, "Tris, you are awesome, amazing, and beautiful both inside and out.""T, you are that and so much more than you give yourself credit for." I said, sincerely. Giving Trista a sincere smile, I said, "Instead of asking yourself why my brother would be into you, you should be asking why he wouldn't be."

I truly wouldn't blame my friends if they were wondering why I was crying. After all, they had just given me such amazing affirmations. After being given such affirmations like the ones that I had been given, one would usually thank the people that gave them. Unlike me, they wouldn't start crying.However, my gratitude towards these awesomehuman beings for being such amazing friends was the exact thing that brought me to tears.I have never known what it was like to have best friends who are loyal and who actually care about your well-being. Furthermore, I have never had a boyfriend who makes it his mission to treat me right. Even though I had people like this in my life at one time, I did not. I had been blind-sided by their act.My boyfriend and friends, however, make me feel like a star every time I spend time with them. That, in itself, is the best feeling in the world.

"I have been waiting for this day for a long time and am so excited about getting away from LA for a month, going to summer camp, and, for once, being able to actually be a teen-ager!" Seven-teen year old Keverly Donner piped, as the limo escortedher and her mom from Albu-querque Int'l Sunport to Camp Dono-van, which was located in a tiny town located one hour outside of Albu-querque. For as long as she could remem-ber, Keverly had wanted to attend this summer camp. After all, it had a great repu-tation. Now, due to the fact that she had finished filming the sixth season of her show and did not have to be back in LA to begin shooting the seventh season until July 5th, Keverly was finally able to go to camp!"Sweet sweet, you know that it is going to take time for the other campers to get used to the fact that you are there, and that their first reaction will be excite-ment?""I am prepared for that, Mom, I prom-ise." Keverly smiled. "On a different note, I am looking forward to slowly making some new friends."

"And cut!" Hannah called, at the end of the final scene. "That's a wrap, guys!"Instantly, everyone began cheering and hugging one another. The first movie of the trilogy had completed filming. Even though filming had been a hard and tedious task at times, it had also been fun and oh so worth it!

Home for me had always been here in Orlando with my parents, best friends, and plethora of good friends. Even though living in LA had been awe-some, and had brought me new and amazing oppor-tunities (Ones that I will be tackling head on when I move back to LA after I gradu-ate home school in May), it was not the same as being here in Orlando.

"Girl, this place is HUGE!!" Sicily exclaimed. "How long have you and your family had this beach house?""Ever since I was born!" Spencer replied. "My parents bought it a couple of years before I came around.""Well, it is beautiful, and the view is amazing!" Looking out of hers and Spencer's bedroom window, Sicily continued, "The beach is beautiful! I have never seen such white sand and clear blue water in my entire life!"Before Spencer had a chance to say anything, the girls hear a car door shut from outside."That's the twins and their parents!" Spencer smiled, grinning from ear to ear!Moments later, the girls made their way out of their room and downstairs.

Dressed in my bikini, flip flops, and swimsuit cover, and carrying a basket of yummy food that I had made, I quietly made my way out of the beach house and to the beautiful, white sanded clear blue watered beach that was located in the back of my family's and my beach house. Moments later, I was joined by Andy."Happy birthday, Andy." I smiled, giving him a big hug."Thank you, Ana." Andy said, gently, giving me a big hug. For his birthday this year, I had asked Andy what he wanted to do. To this, he had said that he wanted to do something just the two of us, Instantly, I had come up with an idea: a breakfast picnic at sunrise. When I had mentioned this to Andy, he had liked the idea.As we prepared for the picnic, and set out everything, I could not help but feel excited! After all, I had been looking forward to this for awhile now!

"It's so great to have you ladies home after all this time!" Dad smiled, as he, Mom, and I made our way home from the airport. "What is even more amazing is God's miracle of you being cancer free.""I agree." I smiled and sighed, leaning my head on Mom's should-er, and closing my eyes. "I never gave up on God, and He never gave up on me.""That's correct, precious girl." Mom smiled, kissing the top of my bald head.

Dear Journal, Tonight is the first dinner of our vacation that the Marcus' and my family will enjoy together. For dinner, we are going to Lindsay's Café. After all, it is a well liked and long time tradition that we eat at this place the day that all of us arrive!-Caralee

Much to my joy, tonight was my last show of the tour, and it was being held in Los Angeles, California. One of the reason that I was excited about the show being held in Los Angeles was because it was located twenty minutes from my hometown of Anderson Cove, California. With this said, my parents and I would officially be returning home after the concert! This made me very excited! One reason returning home made me excited was because of my best friend and lifelong secret love interest, Phoenix McAndrew. I had not seen him since leaving for my tour in May, and I missed him greatly. With this said, I was truly, truly excited about getting to see him soon.

"How excited are you to be getting out of the hospital for a little bit to-night?" Jemma, my won-derful older sister by one year, smiled and asked, as she helped me into my black legg-ings, and pulled the silver spa-ghetti strapp-ed, shimm-ery, eleganbaby doll top over my head."I am definite-ly excited!" I piped. "It has been a while since I have been out of here, at school, and dancingon stage with you!""I'm excited, too!" Jemma piped. Giving me a thought-ful look and smile, she contin-ued, "Thank you so much for dancing with the team and me on stage tonight. It means the world to us, as well as definite-ly to me.""It is truly my pleas-ure." I smiled back. After I wrapped my shimm-ery, black head wrap around my head, and put on my black ballet flats, Jemma and I made our way out of my hospital room.

The time for Juliet, Johnathan, Jamie, and JoAnna to start there career at Anderson-Pulman University, and they could not be more pumped! With new adventures headed their way, who wouldn't be? In the ninth installment of the Juliet Larsen book series, follow this group as they navigate through their first week at APU!

As soon as the bustling and talkative campers made their way into the worship room, I took a deep breath behind the curtain. The campers had no idea that I was behind them and about to give them a surprise perform-ance! Truth be told, I was very excited beyond words!After Daphne, the worshipdirect-or, as well as a great friend of my parents and me, she piped, "Every-one, I give you Jocelyn Arm-strong!"Instant-ly, the campers began to cheer, the music began to play, and I began to smile and confi-dently sing!

Jumping on my indoor trampo-line, I kept waiting for my legs to go from under me. How-ever, they did not. Once again, me being able to jump on the trampo-line, as well as being able to walk after all of these years, hit me like a ton of bricks. Thanks to the plethora of surger-ies and physical therapy appt's, I am able to walk again, as of this morn-ing!

"How does it feel to be back here after these couple of years?" Sicily asked, as she and I made our way up to our cabin. "Does it feel weird?""A little, but it also feels really good." I smiled at my best friend. "I've truly missed this place.""It, as well as everyone else, has missed you, too."Up until the summer that I moved to Los Angeles, I, along with my best friends, would attend Oceanside Christian Camp, a church camp for students in grades 5th-12th who had learning differences. It was truly a place that I considered a second home. After a couple of years of being away, I am finally back, and ready for an amazing week of worship and fun!

Moving on, let me tell you about tonight. My best friend, Valerie, and her twin brother, Vincent, (my best guy friend, and long time secret love interest), have their school's home-coming tonight. Tonight, I am going to surprise them and make a surprise appear-ance at it tonight! Truth be told, I am super excited about this!After putting the finishing touches on my makeup, my wonder-ful and amazing Mom smiled at me and asked, "Rea-dy?""Oh, yeah!" I smiled, standing up from the chair

"Please tell me that you are joking!" My lifelong best friend, Paula, exclaimed, as we made our way to first period Eco-nomics. "You are seriously not going to prom on Friday?""No, I have too much studying to do.""That's bull, and you and I both know it." Paula said. "What is the real reason that you are not going?""Even though I have gotten a plethora of invites, I have not gotten the one invite that I truly want."This was true. I have always been one of those girls who had guys begging on their knees to go on dates with them. However, Sean, Paula's and my best guy friend and the fraternal twin brother of my other best guy friend and Paula's longtime boyfriend, Scott, as well as the guy that I have been secretly pining for since middle school, hasn't been one of those guys. As Prom night approach-es, I now more than ever wish he were.

For a moment or two, I tried convincing myself that what I was witnessing wasn't real. My boyfriend could not be making out with someone else. He loved me. He was supposed to only have eyes for me.My eyes filled with hurt tears, I made my way over to where Kenny and Naomi were standing.Clearing my throat, I got Kenny and Naomi's attention. Stopping their make out session and Looking at me, their faces paled. It was obvious to them that they had been caught.Not giving them a chance to say any-thing, I looked at Kenny and said, "Kenny, I hope you and Naomi are happy together, because we are done."Wrapping their arms around me, Laurel, Ashley, and I made our way out of the cafeteria. It was truly the last place that Laurel, Ashley, and I wanted to be right now.

"Thank you so much for letting me go tonight, Janet!" Elysia piped, as her wonder-ful and amazing Mom, Linda, put the finishing touches of her daught-er's makeup on her face. "I really appre-ciate it!""My pleas-ure, honey!" Janet, Elysia's awe-some, main nurse, smiled, standing in Elysia's hospital room's door-way. "Remem-ber, your curfew for tonight is 11:30.""Yes, Ma'am." Elysia smiled. Standing up from her bed, and letting Linda zip up her black strap-less, a-lined, dress with the pick bow sash wrapped around the middle of the dress, Elysia asked, "How do I look?""Like a prin-cess." A familiar and kind male voice said from behind Elysia. Smiling, blush-ing, and turning around, Elysia became face to face with her hot, sexy, kind, and genuine longtime boy-friend, Jeremy.Walking over to Jeremy, Elysia smiled and wrapped her arms around Jeremy. After the two love birds broke apart from their hug, Jeremy present-ed Elysia with one of the most beautiful wrist cor-sages that Elysia had ever seen!"Okay, I have to get a picture of this!" Linda smiled, going over to her purse, and grabbing her phone

Turning to L.J., Levi frowned and asked, "L.J., are you okay? You haven't said much since you sat down.""I'm fine, I promise." L.J. smiled. "I have something that I want to ask you that will definitely impact your summer.""What is it?" Lila asked, gently.Smiling at her best friends and taking a breath, L.J. asked, "How would you guys feel about going on tour with me this summer?"

The bus drives past the Henley Beach sign, and I feel happiness running through my veins. I have been away on tour for over two months, and now I am finally home. Don't get me wrong, I love touring and performing. It's just that I miss my family and best friends, and it gets lonely sometimes. As of today, I don't have to be lonely anymore. This is because, after two and a half months of touring, I am finally coming home. This makes me so excited and happy!

Dear Journal, Four years ago, I left my family and best friends back home in Houston, Texas, and moved to Los Angeles, California, to live with my favorite Aunt Ida, and to start filming the show that I am the star of! When I had started filming, little had I known that the show would be a huge hit (Four years later, it is still just that!)! Most importantly, however, little had I known that the wonderful and amazing cast, Jenna, Tom-my, and Eric would quickly become my good and genuine friends. On a personal note, little had I known that my co-star/ and lifelong favorite actor, Tom-my would become my wonderful and amazing boyfriend (We have been dating for the past two and a half years)! Moving on, I am very excited about today. Not only is it the last day of filming before our week long Christmas break, but I am going to ask my cast if they would like to spend Christmas with my family and best friends back in Houston (It was my family's and my idea that they come down) for Christmas! I am going to ask them today, and I hope that they say yes!-Giuliana x

The day started off at 6:30 am with the girls treating me to a morning at the spa, where we received mud baths, citrus facials, massa-ages. After we took good and amazing showers in the spa's luxor-ious women's shower room, and got dressed, we received our mani/ pedis. After wards, the limo escorted us to IHOP to enjoy a good break-fast. While there, the girls present-ed me with their gift: A Louis Vuitton set that included a wallet, key-chain, and purse!Hours later, we find our-selves on our private jet that is escort-ing us to my home-town of Houst-on, Texas, to surprise my twin sister, Kalani, and our best friends and good friends at her birthday sleep-over party and spend the night! Due to the fact that I have not seen my family or best friends in a long while, I am truly excited!

Even though I love touring and singing and traveling around the world, I missed my parents and being with them and the Cole's at the beach house during the summer.Before I started singing, I would be with all of them at the beach house every summer. Even though my parents had gotten to come up here and spend time with the Cole's during the last three years, I hadn't. After all, I had been on tour However, that had all changed when I became a singer. On a different note, this summer is different. This summer, I get to actually spend time at the beach house with my parents and Cole's. I am truly excited about relaxing this summer and spending time with my family and best friends!

For as long as I can remember, my family and Shea's family have gone on vacation to Henley Beach, Florida. We have gone there every August as an "End of summer" vacation. This vacation is truly the highlight of my summers.On a different note, my family and Shea's family are on a flight now from Albuquerque to Orlando(Henley Beach is located 20 minutes outside of Orlando). I am so excited about this vacation, that I can barely stand it!

"I don't like coming to this appoint-ment each year." I said, as I anxious-ly awaited for my name to be called. "I am always worried that Dr. Torres is going to tell me that the cancer has come back.""I can appre-ciate where you are coming, sweet sweet." Mom said, gently, gently rubbing my back."How-ever, what evidence is there that it has? After all, you have been on remiss-ion since you were 14.""I agree with your Mom on this one, girlie." Jerica, my best girl friend in the entire world, added. "Based on past evidence of past history, I have a feeling that it hasn't come back."Before I could respond, my name was being called.

"It's so great to have you home, girl!" Brie exclaimed, giving me a side hug. "You were truly missed this summer!""I missed you guys, too!" I exclaimed, hugging Brie back. "Even though touring this summer was awesome and amazing, it does not compare to being home with everyone."This was very true! Even though I loved touring and being on the road, it was nothing like being home with my parents, good friends, and best friend! After all, they meant everything to me! Speaking of my best friend and good friends, I am especially excited about tonight! Tonight is my co-ed welcome back sleepover! I have been looking forward to this for weeks, and now it is finally here! As Brie and I prepare for tonight, I cannot help but smile. After all, tonight is going to be epic!