Assignment 12- Ella Franklin

Ella's vintage coach purse sleeps hanging, like a bat, by the shoulder strap from a drawer knob on Ella's weird entire-wall closet. She's been sleeping here since she came home from the antique store and she likes sleeping their. She knows that "vintage Coach purse" sounds pretentious, but she isn't pretentious. She's the opposite. Truthfully, she's kind of a dirty old purse. She has scratches and little mystery marks and loose threads and needs to be conditioned once a month so she looks presentable. She isn't nice. She's like an old shoe. It's broken in, it's familiar, you've worn it so many times that it has basically molded to the shape of your foot. It's just nice.

She starts the day in the passenger seat of Ella's car. She knows from experience that Ella tends to be a little reckless when driving alone, so she always holds on tight for those sudden brakes. Ella's car doesn't have ABS, so sometimes stops are a little rough and a lot of times it's a close call! Sometime she falls from the seat into the floor, but it's ok. All in a day's work. Ella always puts her purse over her right shoulder and crossing her body, because putting it on one shoulder messes with your balance. Then she puts her backpack on, because if you put the purse on after the backpack it gets all tangled an awkward. It truly is a science.

During school, vintage Coach, sometimes called Coachella by her close friends, usually balances on Ella's backpack. Depending on the classroom, this can be difficult. In first hour, Ella's backpack is under the desk and the purse is leaning on it. It used to be in the aisle, but there were a couple close calls where Mr. Cain almost fell on them and he didn't say anything but Ella could tell it frustrated him, so she moved her under the table. There were even sometimes where Mr. Cain actually moved the purse over a bit, which wasn't what Ella likes for people to do but it was fine. She's just very protective of the purse and doesn't really like it being touched by other people.

In second hour, the shoulder strap tends to get really tangled up in the rolly chairs. There also isn't really a place to balance the purse in the island, so she just kinda falls over and gets dragged around and all that stuff.

In third hour, AP Physics, Ella sits next to one of those shelf counter things Ms. Gill has in the back of the room. That's where the purse sits. She really likes sitting their, because it's comfortable and she gets a break from the backpack, and anyone who knows them knows the Coach and the backpack can only be together for so long, so that midday break is helpful.

From fourth through sixth hour the purse pretty much just goes through the rounds, not much happening. On Friday, in French (sixth hour), Mrs. Harpole moved the purse from the aisle onto her little bookshelf close to where Ella was sitting. Ella then moved it over to the seat next to her. It just didn't feel right for the purse to be that far from Ella and in the public domain, if you will.

The vintage coach takes a good beating everyday. The halls of Henry Clay aren't nice to a little old purse like her, but she's seen a lot, and she can weather any storm. She would also like to take this opportunity to apologize for blocking any aisles. She knows it's annoying but it's a habit that's very hard for her to control.