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I was backstage reviewing my plan to make sure I knew what I was going to do. I was very nervous and my heart was palpitating. I took a deep breath and exhaled, relaxing myself and trying to get rid of my nervousness. But that didn't help much, and before I even knew it, Albert told me, "It's time Ronald, your time has come,". And then I grabbed the puppet and head out to the front of the stage. As I slipped out through the stage's red curtains and into my puppeteering booth, I looked at a crowd of about one thousand people. This was the moment of my life that I had gotten most nervous and excited, yet I felt a shadow of sorrow and mischief crawl over me while I dropped by head down knowing that, I Albert the puppeteer, was about to hypnotize some one thousand people. But then I raised my head, took a deep breath, and started the show, the way as I had planned, and soon, within no time, the audience was hypnotized. When the show finished, I was relieved to be done and I had a good amount of adrenaline in me because of presenting in front of so many people. Then I glanced at Charlotte, the governor's daughter and thought to myself, "She looks like a quite fine lady,". She had warm blue eyes, and silky brown hair that seemed to blow in the air without the use of wind. That night, she wore a long red dress, with sparkling diamond earrings that looked quite expensive. After that first impression I decided to head over to her. As I was only a few feet away from her, I heard Albert say, "Sorry, we had a deal, nothing's for free, and your time is up," "Wait what do you mean!?" I cried totally clueless of what he meant. Then right after that, before I even knew it, my body started to slowly shrink, and went through a whole physical change. Each inch I shrunk, I seemed to be getting harder, which theoretically was happening; I was becoming a puppet while Albert was becoming human. As I became a puppet I went through a lot of pain, a very strong back pain that didn't seem to want to calm down. I glanced to see Albert, but instead of a puppet I saw a young, muscular handsome man, and when I looked back at myself, I had seen an old, dirty puppet. Once I had turned into a puppet I felt paralyzed; completely stiff and unable to move. It felt as if somebody had drained all of my energy and that I was so weak I couldn't move. Albert started talking to Charlotte in a flirty way, which really set me off the hook. Then I heard Albert say to Charlotte, "Hold on dear, I have some business to take care of, I'll be there with you in a moment,". And right after that, Albert snatched me carelessly off the ground and then threw me in a garbage dump that was in the old smelly alley behing the theater. The alley had three garbage dumps, which was the source of the smell, and had a scary feeling with the dark foggy night. Then right after Albert threw me into the garbage dump, he left, that was the end of Albert.

-Saunon 2nd Draft

Rafael M -1 draft: Ronald sees charlotte approaching in slow motion with her hair waving and her eyes sparkling with the stage lights. Ronald starts drooling and nervous but at the same time worried because he was getting uglier and uglier, when he looks in the mirror he doesn’t know who it is because he wasn’t like that. Minutes before charlotte arrives in slow motion Ronald starts talking his nerves out to Albert but Albert has a weird sinister look so Ronald stops talking and asks him “what happened Albert?” “You really don’t know?” “Why do you think your getting uglier….” Said Albert in a sinister way “What are you talking about Albert, what is happening?” Said Ronald in a worried voice. “okay ill explain it to you, I’m not just a puppet like you noticed, but there is something else, I was human before but this weird stupid girl wanted to kiss me and I didn’t let her and she through a cast on me and I turned into a puppet. She said that one day a man would pick me up and the only way to return to human was absorbing his energy as he touches you and you will be a handsome man again and he will turn a puppet. With only you touching I absorbed your energy and you turned uglier and I turned handsome. In a matter of seconds you will turn a puppet and I will turn human, sorry bro.” said Albert. Suddenly Ronald turned an ugly puppet and Albert a handsome man. Just when charlotte arrived Albert was human and started talking to her, they fell in love and Albert invited her to dinner. Just before leaving Albert picked up Ronald and through it to the streets.

Ronald sees Charlotte approaching in slow motion, he hair waving with the wind, her teeth shinning from brightness, her eyes glooming with the moonlight and finally her seductive body walking towards him. Ronald started drooling non stop, he was nervous and didn't know what to say to her. But the thing that most worried him was that she wasn't going to like him. He was feeling much bad and uglier since a year ago. His back started giving him pain, he couldn't run fast and his knees were killing him. Every time he looks in the mirror he doesn't know who he is looking at or why he is like that. He thought maybe is his age or that he wasn't doing so much excercise or sleep. Minutes from Ronald and charlotte meeting, albert came up from behind him and stood next to him. Ronald started talking to him to shake his nervs out. But the wierd thing is that Albert wasn't paying so much attention to what Ronald was saying and besides he had a wierd look in his face. "Albert whats going on, are you okay?" Ronald asked in a worried voice "I'm ok, but are you okay..." Albert replied sinisterly "What are you talking about" " Haha you really don't know right. why do you think your getting uglier huh?" lauphed albert" "okay the i'll explain it to you. I'm not just a puppet like you noticed, but there is something else, something weird. Years ago i was human, one of the hottest persons you could ever see. I had girls around me everywhere. But there was this girl, this ugly girl that wanted to kiss me. I didn't want to, her teeth were dirty, she had a punk style with her painted spiky hair and her lips were all purple and weird. I denied to kiss her and that got her mad. She got so mad that she through a cast on me and said i was going to turn into a puppet, at first i didn't believe her but at the end it happened. She took me to a store full of stuff and left me their. Before leaving she said "The only way to return human is by absorbing the energy of another human by touching him. After one year you will return into a normal and handsome man and the man...into a puppet" She left afterward, but ill never forget those words. Well a year has passed... Oh yeah you should be asking that how did i absorb your energy if i never touched you. Well at night when you went to sleep i sneacked up at slept next to you. Buahahaha" Said Albert in a victorious voice. While Albert was giving that long speech ronald was getting smaller smaller and getting less sence of his body nervs and Albert was getting taller and taller. just when they switched Charlotte appeared. Albert playing as ronald saluted her and invited her to dinner so they could talk and know about each other. Rafael Matera-2 draft

I saw Charlotte approaching in slow motion, he hair waving with the wind, her teeth shinning from brightness, her eyes glooming with the moonlight and finally her seductive body walking towards me. I started drooling non stop, i was nervous and didn't know what to say to her. But the thing that most worried me was that she wasn't going to like me. I was feeling bad and ugly since a year ago. My back started giving me pain, I couldn't run fast and my knees were killing me. Every time I looked in the mirror i didn't knew who i was looking at or why i was like that. I thought maybe is my age or that i wasn't doing so much excercise or sleep. Minutes from Charlotte and i meeting, albert came up from behind me and stood next to me. I started talking to him to shake my nervs out. But the wierd thing is that Albert wasn't paying so much attention to what I was saying and besides he had a wierd look in his face. "Albert whats going on, are you okay?" I asked in a worried voice "I'm ok, but are you okay..." Albert replied sinisterly "What are you talking about" " Haha you really don't know right. why do you think your getting uglier huh?" lauphed albert" "okay the i'll explain it to you. I'm not just a puppet like you noticed, but there is something else, something weird. Years ago i was human, one of the hottest persons you could ever see. I had girls around me everywhere. But there was this girl, this ugly girl that wanted to kiss me. I didn't want to, her teeth were dirty, she had a punk style with her painted spiky hair and her lips were all purple and weird. I denied to kiss her and that got her mad. She got so mad that she through a cast on me and said i was going to turn into a puppet, at first i didn't believe her but at the end it happened. She took me to a store full of stuff and left me their. Before leaving she said "The only way to return human is by absorbing the energy of another human by touching him. After one year you will return into a normal and handsome man and the man...into a puppet" She left afterward, but ill never forget those words. Well a year has passed... Oh yeah you should be asking that how did i absorb your energy if i never touched you. Well at night when you went to sleep i sneacked up at slept next to you. Buahahaha" Said Albert in a victorious voice. While Albert was giving that long speech i started feeling different, I couldn't feel my fingers or move my eyebrows. At one point i was looking at Albert up. I knew what have happened and i wanted to cry but i didn't have tears in my eyes. Charlotte arrived and i wanted to talk to her but Albert grabbed be and closed my mouth with his hand. Albert invited Charlotte to dinner and i was looking with nothing to do. Finally Albert through me and left forgetting about me. But just that moment i remembered of everything, since i bought him till now. All the great and weird moments we had. Suddenly a cleaning man picked me up saw that i was all horrible and made a disgusting face. -rafa m 3 draft

“Perfect” I thought as the final curtains had closed, “that has been my best show yet”. “Ughh, why do I feel so sluggish” I wondered as I got up, ever since the day of the new puppet, these movements just seem harder and harder. I kept wondering when my mind froze. There she was, the love of my life, the one who would soon hold my hand in marriage, Charlotte. She hadn’t seen me yet, her back was turned so I decided to sneak up and surprise her. I got up and winced at the sound of joints cracking,”what is happening to me” I asked myself as I started to walk. Every step I took towards her was painful. Every little movement like a foot coming up or hand swaying seemed like it needed so much force. I felt as stiff as one of my marionettes, like I would become immobilized. But I fought through, and kept on walking towards my beautiful charlotte. When I was close enough to her that I could smell her shampoo, I felt like I would black out. I could see black on the corners of my eyes and as I fell I heard my puppets voice calling “nothing is free, Ronald, everything has a price” and then it was gone. When I finally regained consciousness, I was sitting on the floor, in the puppet room. “Why am I here” I wondered “And why are all of my puppets so big”. I was just going to get up when I heard footsteps at the door. I heard my charlotte laugh, and say “Oh Ronald, you’re so charming and handsome” “But I’m right here” I wanted to scream but nothing came out. Then I heard a new voice, probably who she was talking to,” thank you my beautiful princess, I’ll go join you at the restaurant but let me take care of some business first”. “No” I thought as she left, “what has that puppet done”. But I couldn’t dwell on it for more, because I heard the sound of the door creaking, a flood of lights and saw Albert’s face as a human, pick me up. Santiago 1st draft

“Perfect!” I thought as the final curtains had closed, “this has been my best show yet”. I tried to get up and barely managed the simple movement. “I must be getting old” I thought, but I knew this wasn’t true. A few weeks ago, before I had found the puppet, I had been lifting tons of wood, and now, I could barely stand up. I knew this was crazy, but I thought my sudden aging had to do with the puppet, and was just about to go and ask him when I spied her, and everything stopped. There she was, the love of my life, the one who would soon hold my hand in marriage, Charlotte. She hadn’t seen me yet, or recognized me, because we had never really met in person. I had sent messengers, but today I felt the courage to speak to her in person. As I got up, I winced at the sound of joints cracking, all over my body. “What is happening to me” I asked myself. I took a tentative step forward, and almost fell. Every step I took towards her was painful. Every little movement I made, like a foot coming up or a hand swaying, seemed to take an enormous amount of force. I felt as stiff as one of my marionettes, like I would become immobilized at that second. But I fought through, and persistently, kept on walking towards my beautiful Charlotte. After what seemed to take for ages, I smelled her fresh orange shampoo, and was about to greet her, when my vision went black, I felt like I was falling in all directions, and I heard Albert’s voice cackle as he said “Ronald, boy, everything comes with a price, and your time is up”. When I finally regained consciousness, I was sitting on the floor, in the puppet room. “What just happened” I wondered aloud. Then all of the memories came flooding back to me, the puppet my aging, and all of what happened until I had collapsed. I looked at my hands which confirmed my fears…I was now the puppet. Outside, I heard the shuffling of footsteps and my beautiful Charlotte laugh and say” oh Ronald you’re so charming, of course I’ll go to dinner with you.” I had a sliver of hope she was talking to me when Albert’s voice replies, “then its set, I’ll meet you right after some business.” My hopes collapsed. I wanted to shout to Charlotte to come and marry me but I couldn’t do anything. I was then interrupted by the creaking of the door, and the flood of lights as Albert walked in. he had taken form as a handsome young man, strong and tall. He came towards me, shot me a sinister smile, and picked me up. -Santiago Neira 2nd draft