Misti+R.

Let me introduce myself: My name is Misti Reynolds. I am a freshman here at Ball State. I work at Fazolis here in Muncie and have worked there for almost two years. I am currently getting promoted to management. I have 7 siblings, all of which are younger than me. I love to write poetry and my own songs. My major is elementary and special education.

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=Misti's Multigenre zero draft =

Misti's Writing Experiences

Throughout Misti's middle school career, she participated as school editor for their newspaper. In her spare time, she enjoys writing her own songs and poetry that reflect her personal life. Although she doesn't think she will pursue a career in writing, she does like to help younger children with learning how to write.

Interviewed by: Morgan Crouch

My Zero Draft.

It was April 3, 2010 sometime in the morning. I remember waking up next to Briston. How long had I been living there? A couple weeks? I remember him and I got into a fight. But what was the fight about? What started the fight? I know we were watching 16 and Pregnant. Who was the episode about? Ebony, I think. I made a comment about how guys do not want to have to grow up and become fathers and take on that responsibility. That's when he said if you did not want the baby and want her to get pregnant to just hit her in the stomach and that will solve the problem. That made me sad and mad to hear because Briston and I were engaged and had talked about starting our own family. We had tried getting me pregnant. I remember he kept asking me over and over again what was wrong. But did he ask this before we were watching the show or after? I knew i was tired and sore from work because I had closed and gotten home really late that night and i had a headache. Next thing i remember is wanting to organize and rearrange the bedroom so i could fit some of my stuff in there. I remember just wanting time alone to be alone but he would not give that to me. He kept getting mad and coming into the bedroom and would just sit in my way. Then I remember he would turn up his music super loud and I asked him to turn it down and he refused to so i went and turned it down a little bit. He grabbed my arm flung it back and told me to stop. This kept going on. I asked him if i could listen to some music of my own for a few and he said no because it was his room and his cd player. I remember telling him just to get out and give me my space to calm down and stuff. He kept refusing saying it was his room. Sometime when the fight was going on he found out i was talking to one of my ex boyfriend's who i have been friends with since elementary school and got mad so he took my phone took it downstairs and deleted every single one of my contacts. I could only remember my sisters number. His best friend, crap whats his name??? Skyler yeah Skyler came over and came upstairs and i asked him if he could get briston away from me for a few so i could calm down. Briston then went off on Skyler telliing him he was not going nowhere. So i walked off to his sister's room that was right around the corner from his. I sat in there for a few and then i remember asking myself why? why were we always fighting and having all these problems? what happened to us being so in love? he came into his sisters room saw me crying and said mocked me by saying the poor baby was crying. The fight just blew up from there. He started pushing me down on the beds and stuff. he pushed me down so hard on his sisters bed that my foot went right through the bed and got stuck and became bruised and swollen and i could barley walk on it. I had this wooden bat that my grandma and grandpa had bought me in Dollywood on our last family trip with my grandma before she passed away. He took that bat and started hitting and breaking all my pictures. I had family pictures, pictures of me and him, he just started breaking them all with the baseball bat. He started to tear apart some things i had. next thing i know he pushed me down on his sisters bed again and just whacked me in my right side with the bat. he tried to deny he did anything until i showed him the marks. it instantly swelled up and was black and blue. I was having a hard time breathing and was in a lot of pain. I remember thinking i need to get to the hospital to make sure nothing is seriously wrong. i did not have anyone's number though. So i txted my sister and told her i needed my best friends number. Deanna got teh number from our mom and i called kimberley crying my eyes out. Her and her boyfriend rushed right over. Right about the time Kim had pulled up and called me Briston told me i was not going anywhere. I told her that he would not let me go and she began to run inside the house. I remember him looking at me and me just crying begging him to let me go. He said he just wanted to know one thing and asked if i was cheating on him. I told him no i wasn't and then he said i swear if you tell anyone about what i did to you i will kill you or find someone else to kill you. My mom, sister, and Kim were all at the hospital with me. My mom found a cop and said we wanted to press cahrges. That is when Officer Robbins? came in the hospital took pictures and asked what happened. While i was at the hospital briston had tried calling me twice once from his house and once from his grandparents. I remember Officer Robbins calling the Officer incharge of letting people stay in the YOC and stuff. We waited for him to get back to Robbins on whether or not they could take briston into the YOC where he would stay for at least the weekend. Once he granted that, officer robbins had a fellow police officer go to Briston's house looking for him. When Briston called me from his grandparents they looked up the address and picked him up at his grandprents. I heard the other officer radio to robbins that they caught him and that his grandpa walked him right outside. Briston changed his story 3 or 4 times on what actually happened. We went for a protectin order hearing where I had to tell Judge Pierce? a brief statement of what happened and why i wanted to get the protection order. The judge granted the order til November of 2010. Briston had his own hearing at the YOC where he plead guilty to breaking my things but still swore hitting me was an accident. Next we had a fact finding hearing. At the hearing the prosecutor showed me the pictures that Robbins had taken at the hospital and asked me to verify and explain some of the marking i had on my body. I again had to state what happened. The judge found Briston guilty and we had a sentencing hearing June 22 of 2010. Briston was put on probation and has to serve some of the time in the YOC or detention. Him and his family also have to pay my hospital bill.

=//My reflection of my memoir:// =

Statement of Purpose for Open Letter:

The reason I am called to write about this particular subject is because it was an experience that I dealt with not that long ago that still effects me and the type of person I have tried to become. Also, I am worried for my friend. She doesn't talk to any of our friends anymore including me partly because the guy she is with don't like her talking to us. I see similar things in their relationship that I saw in mine that let to the experience I had to go through back in April. In this letter I plan to accomplish my concern for her. I plan to tell her things I see in her relationship and in mine. Plan to point out things to her that she pointed out to me. I am going to tell her I know what she is going through and I understand how hard it is to leave someone you think you are so in love with. I am going to reassure her though that I will be here for her no matter what. I am planning on writing to my friend Kimberly. I know she is not going to want to hear what I have to say. She is going to be very defensive at first but hopefully she will look at it and it will amke her start to think and she will want to come to me and maybe talk about what she is going through.

MSH: This sounds good. Remember that you are writing for a public audience. What do you want to do for your other readers? Also, you will have to consider how to write to and about Kimberly in this public way.