Chapter 1
Waking up to the smell of pancakes in the morning, I knew that today was going to be a great day. I woke up and stretched my arms and legs high to the sky and could see the sun rising just beyond the horizon. The radiant and warm rays of lights hit my red curtains and embodied the room in red like hot fire.
My mother came in the room open my curtains and said “breakfast is ready, wake up” her soothing voice almost rocking me back to sleep.
Any other Saturday I would have put my sheets over my head and fallen back asleep, but today was the day that me and my family go to California for the summer. We would go every year during the summer since here in Alaska it was freezing during the winter. We decided five years ago to go to California during the summer to escape the cold and enjoy the beaches and great weather.
I had just finished changing into my clothes when my mom shouted “you’re going outside in that with this weather”
“Ouí” I replied with my best attempt at a French accent.
My mother was half French and her mother had taught her it to her as she did to me but I always like to put on my best French accent when I talk to her, but unfortunately it came out to sound more British than French so my mother would reply back in British accent English.
“Well In that case I hope you freeze your ars out so when you get to LAX we can just leave you at the hotel to thaw while we enjoy ourselves” my mother said while we were going down the stairs to go eat breakfast.
