DAVoyeur

The ancient temple was buried in sand. The issue, however, was the heat. One could literally cut through the haze with a knife. This did not stop Zoey’s sense of adventure or Sophia’s sense of “if I don’t tag along, my friend is going to do something stupid”. The two plunged in through the sand falling over the doorframe to be greeted by absolute darkness. Zoey reached out towards a sconce and removed the aged torch from it. Lighting it with the pack of matched in her back pocket, the hallway illuminated.   Along the sandstone brick walls were etchings and drawings, all preserved from the arid, sandy weather. As

Fortune was not on Laura's side. Her experience with the mean girls only seemed to worsen over time. Each time they had gym class, they would find her in the locker room and strike. They would wedgie her with the ferocity of a wild animal. Each day, ruining another pair of her underwear, assuring Laura that she needed some more "grown-up" panties. One morning, Laura opened her top drawer to discover only a few pairs of underwear remained. Most of which were from her middle school days that she simply had not thrown out. They were just slightly too small for her now, but she didn't care in the slightest if they got ruined. She reached in and

Laura was quiet. Laura was kind. She was also very shy. Laura, sadly, was a target. In middle school, Laura found she was picked on for silly things. She was too "average" or too timid. The other girls would tease her. The worst name she had received was "loser Laura" and only a few girls called her that. Once she hit high school, things escalated. The girls would run past on the hallways and give her wedgies. They would tell her how childish her "granny panties" were, the irony not being lost on her, and start bets over what color they would be or if they'd have an embarrassing print on them. Plain white was the safest bet, but prints were

“Wait” said Ali with a somber tone of hesitation, “No one said we were gonna explore the house. We just have to stay the night, remember?” “Well I wanna do some adventuring through this old place” replied Sophia, “We might as well seeing as we don’t have much else to do.” Sophia and Ali finished setting up their tent inside the large, main room of the house. Moonlight soon filled the cracks in the ceiling that the sunlight occupied what seemed like only a few moments ago. Sophia began removing the top layer of her clothes. She was always into sports so her attire matched this. She remove