Week - 220 Downhill by ruff_zette

Description: I remember the day perfectly. So perfectly, because it was the least perfect day of my life...

Week - 222 Sleeping Beauty: Part One by ruff_zette

Description: I squinted at the mirror. Yes, I was still the ugly, purple Uni I had been when I'd gone to bed. I had those orange splodges on my cheeks...

Week - 223 Sleeping Beauty: Part Two by ruff_zette

Description: I took a deep breath and shook my head. "Oh, Honey. Why can't I be beautiful?"

Week - 224 Sleeping Beauty: Part Three by ruff_zette

Description: Where were we going? Suddenly I was wide awake. We were going to Neopia Central! I practically sprinted across the corridor...

Week - 225 Sleeping Beauty: Part Four by ruff_zette

Description: Neoschool. I couldn't go. I just couldn't. I had to think of a way to get out of it - and fast. "I can't," I moaned. "I'm sick."

Week - 226 Sleeping Beauty: Part Five by ruff_zette

Description: I hopped out of bed and walked straight to my vanity desk (just like always) and stared in horror...

Week - 227 Sleeping Beauty: Part Six by ruff_zette

Description: I grunted and looked bleary-eyed at the note. There was a part that I must have skipped over the day before...

Week - 228 Sleeping Beauty: Part Seven by ruff_zette

Description: "Leave me alone, Sparkle," I mumbled to the Royal Gelert standing in the doorway. "Why are you waking me up on a Saturday, anyway?"

Week - 257 Failing by ruff_zette

Description: "Hello," she said breathlessly. "Welcome to Hidden Treasures, the shop that's got all the..." She trailed off miserably...

Week - 264 Succeeding by ruff_zette

Description: "You know, if you showed a bit of energy, people might be a bit more tempted to adopt you." The blue Zafara in the cell opposite her was leaning on the bars. He shrugged. "Just a suggestion, of course..."

Week - 266 The Hardest Goodbye by ruff_zette

Description: Fern was a green Uni, and I saw her every day. It was quite a long walk to her house, but I didn't mind. I wish I had paid more attention to the feeling inside me that was screaming for me to turn around and go home...

Week - 269 The Hoarders: Part One by ruff_zette

Description: "I just can't afford to keep four pets anymore. I know we had a lot of money, but it just kind of drifted away. But I figured you're older, so you'd cope with this better..."

Week - 270 The Hoarders: Part Two by ruff_zette

Description: Garbage littered the road, and the tiny houses were rotting away, the doors swinging from one hinge. "What is this place?" she asked her silent companion. "Is it, like a ghost street or something? Has it been abandoned?"

Week - 271 The Hoarders: Part Three by ruff_zette

Description: "Time to get up," the other pet replied, already slithering down off the platform. "If you're going to live with us, you'll have to live like us, too. And Cane sent me to get you. It's time for you to start..."