The Vibe

“VROOM VROOM” went our old gold van.

Start, come on start as I yelled as I was walking down the driveway. Crunch, Crunch went my feet in the snow. Man, I thought. It snowed a lot last night.

“Daddy!” I yelled. “How are we going to get to the ice skating rink now?” I asked with my winey voice”.

“Hold on”, he yelled.

When I got in the car. I quickly buckled my seat belt and held on. Suddenly we lurched forward with such force that my head hit the back of the seat in about a half of a second. Then we were on the highway flying down the road. After about fifteen minute of driving like a maniac, we reached the mall. When I jumped out off the car and screamed

“yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

 “Sweetie, I think you should toe it down notch” my mom said.

“Yeah, stupid” my sister chimed in.

“I know you are but what am I” I screeched back. “HEHE” I laughed.

 She must be dumb struck that I came up with such a good come back I thought. Suddenly my sister interrupted my fantasy by saying I am rubber you are glue whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you.

“I know you are but what am I” I screamed back angrily.

 After a while my parents got sick of us fighting so my dad yelled

“Be quiet, we are almost at the ice skating rink and this is Julianne’s first time here so be good”

After he said this me and my sister fell silent. It was almost as if everyone were mice, because the only sound in the whole mall was the sound of people’ heels slapping against the tile “Slap, Slap, Slap”.

         Finally we reached the skating rink. But I took a step back. A big blast of cold air hit me. It was almost as if someone ran a cold finger down my spine.

         I looked around me. Above me was a huge sign with a giant talking penguin on it.

Welcome skaters, please step inside and have a look around. But before you do, take off your shoes and give them to the man at the snowy Ice skater shack. He will give you a pair of ice skates the same size as your shoes.

         When my dad was finished reading the sign, we walked over to Snowy’s ice skate shack and there stood the ugliest, greasiest, and fattest man I had ever seen in my life. He an a uno brow, and his shirt was soaked through with sweat. He also had 10 chins and a roll of fat coming out from under his shirt. His face was unbearably ugly. He had at least 20 pimples and warts. He had beady eyes and a huge fat nose. I thought I saw it jiggles. He had a beard and a mustache. But worst of all, he smelled of hot dogs and beer. His head was lopsided and his eyes were unfocused. I guessed he was drunk.

         When he finally seemed to notice us, he forced a smile on his face and said

          “Welcome to Snowy’s ice skate shack. What’s your shoe size?”

         “Well”, my dad said “The little one is a size 12. I am a size ten and a half. Then she is an eight and my older daughter is a 2 and a half.”

“Okay, here you go” said the man.

After we turned the man started to mumble to himself but the only word I caught was “stupid” Whatever I told myself. He’s  a meany.

         We all walked over to a table and sat down. They put on their skates in silence while I watched. When I finally looked at my skates I screamed

“DADD”

When my dad looked over I told him my skate has laces.

“What?” he said. He took my skates in his hands and took a good long look at those white lace skate. When he finally looked up he smiled. But in his eyes I could see worry and that he was annoyed.

“Oh, it’s Okay” he said with his fake smile still on.

“But yours all have straps and mine has string.”

         “Well, that’s only because you are figure skates and ours are hockey skates.”

“Oh”, I said as I was considering it whatever I told myself.

“Mommy, will you lace me up, please?

         “Okay, hold on. I have to get Alexises shoes on.”

 When she came over she put the skates on my so fast that I never ever had time to say please. Once I was laced, we went on the ice.

         I fell. I got up. I fell. I got up. Once again I fell. But my ankle twisted so I started to cry. I sat down as people went rushing by.

         I could feel the icy coldness sleeping onto my butt and pants soon my Dad came over to see what was wrong.

“Nothing”, I told him.

         “Wait, actually my ankle hurts.”

 “Okay” he said.

He picked me up and skated around the rink as fast as she could. (Which was really fast). I was having a blast. He asked me if I wanted to go around again or be put down. I told him to take me around again in his arm.

         So he raced around again, once we got back, he put me down and held my hand so if I fell he would keep me up. We did this for about an hour until I finally asked

“ How did you learn to skate so well?”

 He told me that in high school and college he loved to play hockey.

“Were you on your college team” I asked.

 “No” he said. I was on the umo I’m not sure.

It’s okay. I don’t care”, I said.

         “Oh, and one more thing”.

 “Yes” my dad said.

“Can you teach me how to skate?”.

“Sure” he said his face brightening a bit.

         “Okay, first lesson” he said. “ If you fall, you want to fall forward so you can catch yourself with your arms and you don’t hit your head. Now you must push your feet out like this”

         “Okay, I can do it” I told him.

“Let’s go” I yelled.

He let go. It was as if I was flying lala lalalalala. Soon I reached my sister. You’re stupid I told her before she could reply. I skated back to my dad.

“Daddy,I am hungry” I told him.

“Okay, let’s get some food”

We hopped of the rink and hobbled over to the food court. We bought 3 slices of extra cheesy pizza and 2 Cokes. Yummy! I ate everything but then I got sleepy.

         By that time, my mom and my sister had eaten. We were all wet, tired and cranky. We went back to Snowy’s ice skate shack and said

“Hello, we are here to get our shoes back.”

“Yeah whatever” said the fat guy under his breath.

My dad heard him and gave him a hard stare. Once the man saw the stare he straightened up, gave us our shoes. He cleared his throat and said

“Have a wonderful night. Come back soon.”

         Once we put our shoes and left, I saw the man giving us the middle finger. Since I didn’t know what it meant I told my dad.

         Once he heard, he marched back, punched him and told him he was a jerk. He also told him to get a life and a job freak.

         When we got to the car we drove until we got home.

“Stupid” my dad frailed.

I took a nap at home. I dreamed about angels skating and what a middle finger meant but it must have been bad because my dad got really mad about it.

         When I woke, I smelled chicken. I walked out and gave my mom and dad a hug. Thank you for taking me to skate. I love you.

I carefully went inside to my own, new room.

      “Wow!” I shouted.

The door was made by light-brownish wood with orange-and-yellow glass decorations on. When the lights shined, it glittered and the atmosphere turned into orange and yellow. The glass decorations were also half visible so that I could saw the hallway.

      Six years ago, I moved to a new apartment. Sebastian Bolski Prospekt Don Ppisishap Bosim. This was my new house address.

     “Lena,” shouted my mom, “could you unpack all of your stuffs?”

“Sure,” I replied.

I brought my baggage to my room and started to unpack things. My dolls, the beach ball (which was my favorite ball but lost it at Norway after 1 year), my books, and so on.

The whole time I was cleaning up the room, I started to think about my new school and my neighbor.

“Is my next-door neighbor a girl? What if I don’t have any neighbor as my old house? Is the school going to be fine? Who’s going to be my friend?”

When I finished cleaning up my room, I went to the living room with my favorite beach ball and started to play the beach volleyball with my dad. I stood right next to the gate and my father sat on the green couch, which is where we could play the volleyball. First, I took my ball to my right hand, threw in one arm, and served it to my dad. Then my dad, and me, and dad, and me again…. We served the ball one times each.

Finally, it was my dad’s turn to serve.

“Are you ready?” asked my dad.

“I’m always ready,” I replied with the red face.

Ding dong!

We both quickly halted a moment and I went to the gate to open the door.

There was a white-beard, tall grandpa holding a white, rectangular-shaped dish that was filled with fresh red cherries and delicious walnuts.

“Zdravstvuyte,” he said in a low, gentle voice.

      “Zdravstvuyte,” I replied back.

      My father heard me and quickly ran out of the couch and stood right next to me.

       “Zdravstvuyte,” my father said.

       “My name is Mr.Petdrobich,” he said in Russian, “nice to meet you.”

       My mom held the basket and my father and Mr. both shook hands.

       “Kkas bas zabutt?” he asked.

       “Basha,” my dad replied,” and this is my daughter, Lena.”

       “Ah, zdravstvuyte Lena,” he said.

“Zdravstvuyte, Mr. Petdrobich,” I replied. I didn’t know what to say, so I just stood there, looking at my feet.

      “You can call me Mr. Pet,” he said, “welcome to your new house. And you are always welcome to my house.” He smiled.

“Oh, thank you,” I replied back.

“I must go now,” he said, “bye.”

“Bye,” I replied.

Then, he went to his own house.

 When Mr.Petdrobich left my house, I felt really happy. I had met my new neighbor, and was not alone anymore. How lucky I was to have an openhearted man as my neighbor!

          The brakes hissed, I got my backpack on my back and got of the bus. The engines revved. The bus pulled of leaving friends headed for the woods.

The rangers greeted us in Thai and told us the rules about not dos and dos.

“The rangers mentioned something about hunting” Sahil said.

“ Oh, they said no hunting,” said Ryan. A look of disappointment crept onto Sahil’s face.

“Lets go inside,” advised Jing. We started to go to the woods, the wind blew and leaves rustled creating a great scene for trekking. I saw Basit packing lots of double stuf oreos in his bag and some cokes.

“Dude, we ain’t gonna’ go into that woods for a day y’know? Y’ don’t need that much food.” I told him. “ ya’ gonna’ share that with us?”

“Sure, dudes. Although you have loads already.”

“I’m packin’ all the oreos” said Jing. The ground got wetter and  softer, but we’ve come prepared: mud boots is what we’ve got. The air got damper and the ground got muddier.

“We’ve been in here for one kilometer and we start to see mud,” complained Ryan. Basit unpacked his oreos ad shared one for each of us.

“There, that should take care of Ryan,” said Basit with a mouth full of oreos.

“ When do we stop to eat?” asked Ryan.” I’m tired and hungry” We’ve only one 1.5 km and Ryan is hungry. We walked in silence climbing over obstacles, bypassing too big obstacles until we heard air escaping from a can: “Aaaah” said Sahil as he opened his coke” Nothin’ beats a coke after a tirin’ walk.”

“ Our trek isn’t over yet Sahil,” I corrected

“ Good point” Said Sahil intoxicated by his coke.

We walked in silence once in a while we heard coke cans opening.

I opened my mixed nuts bag and ate peacefully for about 200m.

We sat down for a rest, we chated about what we were going to do next.

We came across a fallen log saying: Bridge ahead.

“I like bridges” said Ryan randomly

“Well, we all like crossin’ bridges” I said. We got to the bridge and we crossed it, the bridge was a suspended one, which wobbled a bit when we crossed it. We walked on until we saw a big log, which was muddy, and we had to climb over.

“Now, we’ve crossed the log and found ourselves muddy.” Basit told us.

“Well, at least we crossed it” Jing said trying to be reassuring.

“I’ve got fungus all over me!” whined Ryan.

“I think when its plural, its fungi” I said.

“So, we gonna’, y’know stop to eat now? Ooh! Look there’s a nice spot.”

“Sure” I said.

The place we selected was a rocky ground with rapids flowing through it. We ate our sandwiches and talked about random things.

“Okay,” Jing broke the silence” time to go”. We meandered our way out of the rocks and back on the trail. There were some directions and milestones now.

“How many more kilometers left?” Sahil asked

“ ‘Bout 2” I replied reading the mileage stone. We walked non- stop for about 500m and then we stopped to stare specifically at a lizard type dude. It’s probably an iguana or a monitor. After that, we ran most of the way occasionally stopping to stare at animals. We sometimes took a rest because our packs were heavy. After we got out, we met the teachers who asked us questions and told us to go have dinner and wait with the others. After dinner, in our cabins I felt like I was in heaven, because I was out of the jungle trail in one piece.

After that day I felt grown up and independent because the trek made me change my view of things, I’m able to walk home from the car now.

I was running, ahead of my mom.

“Slow down!” I heard my mom shouted.

I slowed down. I entered my school with my mom. A teacher who was at the track pulled me to the group. I was one of the members in the new student group, so I stood on the soccer field, surrounded by parents. Then, I looked around. There was a small playground that has a bunch of monkey bars, a stage with a microphone, and a soccer field where everyone were standing.

I saw a crow, crying, in the sky. I made a face. Then I turned away from the crow and blocked my ears, tight, full of disgust. I felt a weird feeling, nervous, excited and also glad. Just then, a teacher walked up to me.

She said, “Congratulations!” and gave me lots of prizes. I got a beautiful flower, a library card and a nametag Christy. I also took a black & white photo with my mom. I felt like I was a grown up then.

“Now, you may go to your classroom!”

I was feeling pretty annoyed listening to the principle’s announcement. He was standing on the stage, having an announcement about an hour. After the celebration of my new school, I went to my first 1^st grade classroom, marching with other kids. The classroom was clean and quiet as the library. It had a big black board in the front, with the teacher’s desk on the middle. There was another board.

“A show board?” I talked to myself. Then, I kept on reading under the board. “Press the button.”

Well, that time, I was young, so I thought if I press the button, an elevator would come up and kidnap me! So, I didn’t press the button.

Then, I turned my head and looked at my teacher’s desk; two long whipping sticks. They were shining. 

‘ I must be careful,’ I thought to myself, shivering.

In the class, I made my first 1^st grade friend. Her name was Seo-woo. She had a long hair. It was black.

“You know, room #6 teacher is very strict, that students say he KILLS students!” Seo-woo told me.

“Who told you that?” I asked.

“From my sister in grade 5.” Seo-woo replied.

Like I thought, my teacher was strict, too, but friendlier than room #6 teacher. I liked everything that my teacher did, exempt…

“Tomorrow we’ll have Korean, math, science and social studies test. So, you’ll have math 1 to 30, Korean 1 to 60, science 1 to 30 and social studies 1 to 50.”

… She gave too much homework!

This year’s gonna be hard, I thought to myself, making a face.

Ding dong, ding bong!

The school bell that was in front of the school rang. My teacher took us outside that blow a cold, icy wind. Unlike in the morning, there was no one waiting for us. Just than, my teacher spoke,

“Bye, everyone! And finish your homework, or else…” My teacher finished the school day, just like that. Her voice was serious, as if she was talking to the principle, who’s mad, because of her mistake.

Too much homework, I thought, way too much.

Seo-woo agreed. We walked slowly. Back home, feeling pressure about today’s homework, and wondering what would happen the next day.

Well, one thing was for sure, I thought to myself, we’ll have tons and tons of homework and will have to study a lot!

But, I took a deep breath. Then, I let it out, because I knew that this homework with common senses was going to help me until I finished collage.

I was sitting on the chair, feeling like I was alone in this entire world. Chair was blue; hard and felt bad. I grabbed my pencil really quickly, and put the pencil tip on the paper. I stopped. I put down the pencil really slowly. I touched and rolled the pencil. I made a face.   

I was making something for summer vacation homework, but I didn’t have really amazing ideas. Doggy ears? Nope, probably, someone did that. Big pencil? Nope, that’s too normal. I sighed, really dip. I scratched my nose.       

    Suddenly, light turned orange to white. I stood up like jumping. I could see that a light came little bit darker. I felt little bit nervous.

“Wha… What’s going on?” I felt confused.

    “Ha… What’s going on, really?” I asked myself, with really nervous tapping foot.

Tap, Tap, Tap!  Then, the light blinked. I couldn’t believe my eyes.

‘I never saw this.’ I thought.   

    Suddenly, the light turned off. I was pretty nervous. I was holding my tiny and orange pencil. I couldn’t see anything except shimmering stars in the sky. Room was cold; even it was a summer night! I was pretty surprised. I stood up a little bit fast and fumbled to find doorknob. I felt that I’m touching something. It was hard and cold. I stared it. It was doorknob. I quickly turned doorknob and went out.

I saw my family room. NO LIGHT.

    “Huh? Computer? Computer!” my dad shouted in his computer room.  “I almost finish my work!”

My dad stamped on the floor. When I open the door, dad was arguing with himself!   

 “I thought, save the text!”  Dad shouted. “But you know? I couldn’t!” my dad shouted.   

I was bit frightened and I walk as fast as I could, to the dark family room. 

When I closed computer room door, there was a screaming in my cousin, Yeon-Ju’s room.

“What the” I murmured.

I covered my chin with my hand and made a face. Yeon-Ju screamed. I closed my eyes. Yeon-Ju screamed again. I opened my eyes. I opened her room door. The door was old. C-R-E-E-K!

“Wha-t!” Yeon-Ju screamed. She was pinching her chin.

“What’s wrong, and could you please stop screaming?” I shouted and defied to my cousin, who is 16 years old. She glared at me. Than, she started to scream again.

“It was night! I have to do my boring, boring, and boring summer vacation homework!” exclaimed Yeon-Ju.

I shook my head really fast. I wished that this all things were just a nightmare.

    Suddenly, the rain began to fall. “Tik-Tik-Ta-da-da.” It sounds like footsteps. There was no sound except loud, noisy raining sound.

    Then, a big lightning made me jump.

“Kwa-Kwang!”

     I felt that our house was a little bit shaking. Then, I was hugging Yeon-Ju and screaming together like choir. Then, the light made the weird sound.

“P-I-C-K.”

Computer, TV, and the lights slowly turned on. I jumped. I felt really glad. I smiled. I ran to my room. I opened the door. Light was bright like moonlight in dark night. I sat down on chair. Chair was hard and felt bad. I grabbed the pencil and put the pencil tip on the paper.

    “I got an idea! The lightning! My homework is done by itself! Lightning ruined me, but now, lightning gave me an idea!” I said.

Moon was glowing and it shined on me. I drew, drew and drew, until the shining stars went falling off the sky.

Sometimes, I remember about this day. And I realized I should think POSITIVE.

                -THE END-

“Sniff, Sniff,” every one of my relatives cried because my mom died. I wanted my mom to be alive not the other way around, but that would be impossible. I just wished this didn’t happen, but it did. First I thought mom wasn’t dead, but after I saw everyone cried I knew. I thought it was my fault because in the hospital I hugged my mom. I thought she did because of her arm, but I’m not really sure. Maybe because something happen to the blood.

I didn’t cry because I didn’t wanted to cry in front of my relatives. When I sneaked outside, it was cold. It was cold as a frozen heart. Then I walked slowly to a rock wall. It had the names of who died. I saw there was a big stone. I didn’t know what was a stone for. There were also graves. I knew my mom’s grave wasen’t there because she was in the coffin. I remembered the coffin going in to a red place. I thought it was fire because it was red. I notice there were two rock walls that listed the people who died. Also I my mom ‘s name was on the rock walls. I was surprised and sad. I stood there and looked at it long time. Then I was wondering who would take care of me while my dad went to work.

When summer was over, I was back to Bangkok. I started to cry and shake in the middle of the night about 10:00. Now that time my maid was taking care of me instead of my mom. It was hard for my family to live without my mom. Still I know that it will be much harder if my dad died. When I thought about that I shake more then the beginning. Even though my mom is dead I know she is in my heart.

Boy vs. Wave

“Yes! Oh ho! Oh yeah!”

 I was so happy about the one week of holiday. I was also jumping on my bed doing dance moves in the air.

”Mac, stop that right now before you break it” my maid Maria said

 “Fine” I said.

 “You can go play computer if you want” Maria said.

Oh yeah, I promised to meet Zach on Runescape so I jumped off my bed and went to play computer.

“C’mon Doodbridy4 you can do it, you can do it” I yelled. “You did it! I ran away from a knight”.

Suddenly rrriiinnnggg I picked up the phone. It was dad. “Mac, you are going to China on Monday, at 9:30am.” said dad.

“AAAAAAAAAAAHHH!” I can’t help yelling,

“Please, please, please dad anytime but Monday is doomsday and bad luck day.” I yelled.

 “ But Mac it says Monday on the ticket” said dad.

I hung up the phone madly. I banged my head on the wall 50 times.

Monday went very fast. I felt like it took 1 hour to go to my mom’s house. When we got there, my mom suggested that we should go to the beach.

“Please, mom please, anywhere but the beach” I said.

 “No, we are going today. I haven’t gone to the beach for years” mom said.

But after all the deciding I still had to go to the beach on Monday. I also felt like it took 5 minutes to go to the beach, but mom told me it was one hour or more.

Soon we were at the beach. There were not many people there because it was not holiday in China. The waves there were big. The biggest one I saw was around one meter tall.  So I decided to find out what is the best way to destroy a wave. First, I tried to charge at the wave.

Attack! I thought. Whoosh! That was big, I thought. Oh no, this one is bigger. Whoosh! Later, I decided it was not good and I thought of hitting it with something. Just then I saw a water bottle full of coconut juice. So I went over, drank it and made a plan.  But after a while of trying, I didn’t really make progress so I decided it doesn’t work. Then I thought of punching the wave and I tired it out. I found out that punching was the best of all against the wave.

I played for two hours. I got tired and rested lying in the sun. After 30 minutes, I had to go to my mom’s hotel. I went there and packed my stuffs. I went to the bar my mom owned. I drank 2 cups of beer. It was really late at night when my mom and I finally went home. It was around 10 o’ clock. I went home and slept because I was tired today.

Five days went very fast. It felt like one hour was 2 minutes. I had to fly the plane back to Thailand with my dad.  Tomorrow school starts. I felt like time went very fast too. Soon I was back in my class. I’ve always wanted a Monday like in China.

 At one Sunday lunch time; my mom was cooking the lunch for my family. I felt hungry and happy.

“Oh mom, I never see any snake before!”

I remember I told my mom last night, but I want any snake at my house, never!

    “Everybody, have a great lunch.” my mom said to my family.

 I sat down at the chair. Then my mom walked to the kitchen, got the bowls and spoons.

    My brother went to the kitchen, too, because he wanted to get some drink. Also, he found something at our backyard.

“Hey, is snake!” my brother shouted to every body,

 I was feeling terrible, and my mom ran out to sit at the chair, because she very hated snakes. “Ah!” my mom cried, I thought she was feeling scare.

     “Where, where?” my mom cried again,

 That moment was scare and horrible to me. “Go to check the windows!” my mom shouted to me, and then I quickly ran up to the rooms, to check the windows.

“All the windows were closed.” I answered to my mom,

 Also I said don’t worry to her. Later, my daddy had one good idea for that snake, “call to the office, told them we have snake at our backyard.”

My dad called to the office, but nobody answer the phone, I thought it was a lunchtime, so nobody answered the. Now, it is 12:30.

We stilled ate our lunch, we were talking about that bad snake, “Oh, I hate that snake, I’m so scary!” my mom screamed.

 1:00, my house cleaner was coming, “Be careful and remember close the door and windows!” because the house cleaner will go to the backyard.

Soon, my parents went to take a nap. My brother and I were playing the computer. “The snake!” my maid cried.

 when she was washing the bowls, my brother walked to the kitchen and asked her what happen, “I saw the snake!” my maid said, she looked like not very scare, she just told to us. I thought my brother will call to the office, but he did not. “You don’t need call to the office?” I asked,

 “I want to wait our parents wake up.” My brother answered.

30 minute ago, my parents woke up, we told to them, we saw the snake again, my father quickly ran to the telephone, and called to the office. I felt excited and glad, because the office people can help us about that bad snake.

“Hello, I need help, we found the snake at our backyard!” my dad said to the office people, “Ok, just wait a moment.” The office people said. 10 minutes ago, the guard was coming. Now, it is 3:00.

My maid told to the guard, because they Thai. But I stilled never see the snake. The guard was looking the trees at my backyard, then he had a special action, he called to the other guard, I thought he needed another guard to help him. Later, another guards were coming, they started to catch the snake, they used the special tools to catch the snake, “pong, pong, pong.” They made some noise when they were catching the snake, “Caught already!” the guard said to us, “Hooray!” every body said. But I stilled never saw the snake.

The guard needed across our backyard, because they needed to go out, they holding the special tools, snake was on the tools, ”I saw the snake!” I said, but when I was saying this sentence, nobody felt happy about this sentence.

My father said thank you so much to the guards, every body were feeling joyful and better than before.

I put my hands on the black handles, and put my feet on the pedals then I started peddling straight. As soon as I was on my 5^th round “CRASH, BOOM, OUCH” I fell and trembled to the hard ground, and injured my knee bones. Blood dripped down my leg as I slowly went to the white door, opened it, and pulled a brown chair to sit down on.

I was in the dining room sitting all alone blowing smoothly on the blood. As I was doing that I was feeling disappointed, determined and scared. Then I grabbed a tissue to wipe the blood of my leg gently, but not on my exact injury or it would hurt much more then I had imagined. (Maybe)

There was a long time of silence, but then suddenly the computer door opened and “Click, flick” and out came my dad carrying his laptop and resting it right near me.

My dad stared at me and said” Maryum I thought you were outside learning how to ride bike.”

I took a breath and replied very quickly “Well I was riding my bike when I fell and trembled then I hurt my knee bone ,so you see I had to come in.”

My dad said a long “owwww” and focused his eyes on my blood. Then suddenly he went to the kitchen (where my mom was cooking food) with out saying a word after “owwww.”

“What is that for?” I asked him. He kept quiet and bent down to -.”Stitch” I closed my eyes and bit my lips. When I opened my eyes which was after a few minutes the big Winnie the pooh bandage stuck on my injury tightly.

While the bandage was on my knee it hurted , but I knew if I wanted to ride my bike confidently I had try to forget about my pain on my knee.

         My dad took me outside and seated me on the bike.

This is it I said to myself and I was ready to go and bike. My dad was behind me. His hands were on the bottom of the seat and his feet were next to the wheel surrounding it. At that moment I was repeatedly saying in my head “I can do it if my sister can do it, I can do it if my sister can do it. “After saying that I felt confident, brave enough and secure from the support of my dad.

“CLISHK, SQUAQ, CLISHK, SQUAQ.” The noise of the bike went. ”Ash” I was turning around my head to the front I felt my dad had let go because I felt a push and when I looked back I was right.

As I was turning my head away he went far and far and far from me. My eyes widened and I was trembling as I went farther and farther away from my dad. I thought to myself that I wished I were never at this moment in my life. My heart pounded faster and I freaked out as I reached to the tree in front.

“Clack, swish.” I turned left from the tree and headed toward the grass where my dad was standing.I thought that was a close one or I would have gotten hurt. As I took a blink my dad yelled, “Hip-hip-hooray, hip-hip-hooray” I just couldn’t understand what was going on. Here I was outside being scared and- I put my brakes and rubbed my feet on the ground.

Wow!” I yelled as loud as possible. I had started to bike. I was so happy that I couldn’t express myself and because of that happiness I yelled, “Mom, come and see me ride my bike!”

Later that day I was happy but also I learned a very good lesson.

Chapter 1

Houses

 “Mommy, why do we have to move?” I asked one sunny summer day in the heat of Texas. We were in our red car, trying to find a house to move into. I was four years old so my patience was going over the edge.

           “Remember, we want to move into a bigger house so Grammy can live with us,” Mama said.

           “When could this nightmare end?” I asked myself.

About five minutes later, my Mom jumped in her seat like she just sat on a pinecone on fire or something. She scared my Dad and I half to death.

“I almost forgot, Chloe you have Maddy’s Birthday party today!” Mom said.

“You mean the Maddy that has two pony’s!” I squealed.

“Yep” said Mom.

 A little while later I looked out the window and I could see trees and trees. When out of the blue a huge house turned up. Well at least I thought it was a house. It looked like the president’s summer home. We pulled into the driveway and got out of the car.

 “Woo hoo hoo hoo hoo!” my Dad said as if he was Tigger in Winnie the Pooh.

“Will we live here?” I asked.

“Probably not, it’s too much money,” my mom said

We walked up the long skinny sidewalk and opened the door. The room was as empty as empty could get. I looked around when I saw a big wide door. I walked slowly to it, step by step. I placed my hand on the doorknob, and turned.

Chapter 2

Backyard of cries

 The door led to the backyard. My eyes scanned the room. There was a porch with two chairs and the rest of the backyard was grass. There was also a tree. A tree so high no one could climb it. On the tallest branch there was one rope hanging down and on the end of it there was a little disk that looked like a Frisbee, but thicker. “Daddy there is a swing!” I shouted. My Dad and I walked to the rope swing, and I got on.

Higher, higher, higher went the swing and I. Higher … OOPS! I slipped and fell off the swing! The last thing I saw was the steel pointy black fence about ten feet below.

         Then everything went black. It was like I was just floating there. Everything was peaceful when …BOOM! I hit the ground. I opened my eyes. I had landed on grass.

         “Did I faint in the sky?” I wondered. I closed my eyes. Tears streamed down my face.

“Why, why did you fall? My tears called to me “why?”. I couldn’t help myself, I just started to scream and took deep, deep breaths and hesitantly let them go.

Chapter 3

Drive of doom

        The first time since I started crying I opened my eyes. All I could see was the sky, clouds, and the leaves and branches swaying in the breeze. I turned to my right. I saw my Mom. She looked worried and scared. I turned away. My Daddy placed me in the car then they seated themselves.

         “Can you move your arm?” asked Mama

         “WAAAAAAAAA?”

         “Guess not” Mom said. We were driving for about 20 minutes (but it felt like 2 hours). We finally got to our house. We pulled in the driveway. My parents hopped out of the car and then ran into the house.

         I was left ALONE in the car. The car was still and quiet. I looked out the window. I saw two kids throwing a ball to each other. I looked painfully away. About 5 seconds later my parents came hurrying out of the house. Dad opened the door and placed a bag of frozen green beans on my arm. Then we drove off.

Chapter 4

Hospital

 Finally, we arrived at the hospital. My Dad carried me across the whole parking lot. Me, yeah, my face was all red and wet and I was trying to hold on to my Dad’s neck. I peeked over to look at my Mama. She looked pretty worried. I squeezed my eyes shut and imagined how I looked like. “WOW!” was all I could think.

         We all walked into the hospital with Daddy carrying me each and every inch. When we reached the front desk, my Dad quickly said

         “I think her arm is broken, can we see someone?”

         “Well …” the lady dully began.

 I looked at her with my “sad” face then looked away.

         “Right this way” she said. She led us to the X-ray room.

         My Dad carefully placed me on a huge table that was part light, but the worst part was that it was freezing cold! Because of that I was bawling!

         “SIT STILL!” the X-ray man said sternly and within 2 seconds he was finished.

         “She broke her wrist,” said the man to my parents. “You are going to have to wait two hours for them to make your cast then they will put it on you then you can leave. We walked two hallways then turned right and sat down.

         I was crying in my Dad’s shoulder and he was half asleep. My Mom had her eyes closed and was breathing deeply like she was in yoga class trying to drain her stress. About 10 minutes later the nurse walked in and called my name. The room we were in was cold and smelled like metal and sanitizer. This lady started to wrap my arm and wrist in a weird material. Finally we walked out of the hospital.

Chapter 5

Drive of happiness

My wrist was feeling better already and I was so relieved. We were in are car when a horrible thought occurred to me.

“M-M-Mommy, will I still get to go to Maddy’s party?” I said. There was a silent pause.

“Yes,” said Mom.

“Yes!” I thought.                                                                      

The End