The Contagion Curse®

Life With My New 'Nana'

Oh, how peachy it was to be waiting in the blistering heat that summer has to offer. I swear, I don't know how people do it in the south. My tattered clothes with cheese holes were extremely embarrassing, I remember that a car drove by, I didn't really know what car she was driving, a nice small blue one and they rolled down the window and a driver yelled. "Get a real shirt on!" And knowing bad luck, he threw trash at me and kept driving.

A good forty minutes passes and Nana arrived! I've never seen her before, white long shoulder length wavy hair with bangs with that beautiful platinum tint, her eyes were like mine! We both have heterochromia, a genetic disease, of course I read about it, when the iris, the super colorful part of the eye, is multicolored; but we have a type called central heterochromia where the different color make a ring around the pupil. In our case we have a green, amber central heterochromia on a ice blue eye base. She was little ways taller than me, which is usual and had the skin of an angel, whiter than my light skin and freckles all over my cheeks (the cheeks on my face, just to be clear)

She got out of her ancient red 60's mustang, ran and hugged me.
"Oh! You don't how long I've been waiting to see you!" She chimed. "So sorry I am late, I went to the other school." She chuckled.
"Thanks, Nana. I am super excited to see you too!" I panted, she hugs like a bear.
"Well? What are we waiting for! Let's ride!" Nana skipped all the way to her car door. I got in the car, wondering if she was a crazy axe lady. She didn't seem like it, but you never know.

I looked around as she started the car, so weird that a rich grandmother could have such a poor granddaughter. Everything in red velvet and black leather. You could smell the fresh lilacs and daisies. She put her hand on my shoulder and the pain I felt was gone. I never felt so safe.
She glimpsed a giggling grin at me, I couldn't help but laugh.
"What?" I giggled.
"Oh nothing, just how much you look like me. Ha! Just kidding I got this for you," Nana pulled out a pillow and purple blanket. "and" A bag of MickLenards, the best fast food in all of Cincinnati.
"It's gonna be a long drive, you're a kid, it's" Nana glanced at the clock. "9:55 and you need some sleep. How long did you sleep last night?" She asked at a stop sign in the intersection.
"I have a hard time falling asleep in my room, so I normally read til it knocks me out." I responded. She frowned as she was flooring the car to pass the intersection we've been at for five minutes.
"Well, better start sleeping now it's going to be a long ride." I started to get settled to sleep, and closed me eyes. "But" one eye opened. "Eat your lunch first" I sat up to eat the best bacon burger in all of Ohio.
"So, you think of me as a stranger don't you?" I was stuffing my face with fries when I nodded. She her hand on my leg and she had faint smile.
"You're such a terrible liar" she grinned.
"I mean, yeah I was suspicious." I explained.
"Was?"
"Yeah, but my mom did say a couple years back that she didn't like the folks she came from. I guess, now that I'm thinking about it, it makes perfect sense why my mom didn't want me to get my hands on that letter." I looked down.
"Oh, I see." she looked at the road signs, hurt.
"Hey! Look, We are now leaving Cincinnati" she smiled.
"Hey Nana, why were you in Cincinnati?" I asked.

"Well, I had to go and meet a friend and a meeting" she was mumbling, she was worse at lying than me.
"Mhmm" I hummed.
"I was, it was a senior thing." Nana went through her purse and threw me a dollar bill.
"Go to sleep now and the dollar is yours" I snatched it and drifted off. I didn't really think of it at the time, getting paid to sleep is awesome.

In my dreams it all started with bunnies with antlers and wings. Then horses with antler, wings and a really big feathery butt. Then it was in an open meadow, you could feel the warmth and happiness, there was a giant brick and timber fort all in the front of it. The sign on the entrance said 'Wiese Gnadenlos' translated it means 'Meadow Merciless' or 'Meadow Mercilessly', but I'm pretty sure it was the first one. The land had to be more than at least a hundred acres, covered in lilac and poppy fields. It's smelt like cookies (for some reason) pollen and fresh grass. It was great! You could feel the sun rays as much as you could see them. And the breeze could lift you off your feet at just right. I looked all around, play with the animals a bit found a giant lake with two waterfalls. It's like nothing else could fall into place, get it? It was a joke? And then there was this giant timber house, almost as high as the trees, almost as long as the fort. When I walked in the house/barn thing there were these rooms, one of a certain color. Red, pink, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, white and black, there was a room for each!