My eyes open to see the warm morning sun shinning through my whitely
painted bedroom window.
"Hhaa." I yawn and stretch as I look out the window. I can see a robin
feeding its chicks out on a branch on an apple tree. Wait, an apple
tree? Since when did mom get an apple tree? Anyways I didn't go in the
back yard for like a month now so that's probably when mom got it.
She seems to never tell me about things since the day dad died in a
car crash about eleven months ago.
I get up and slide my window open to here all of those pretty birds
singing and also to let the fresh spring air flow in. I love spring.
Wow I feel like I've been sleeping forever because my whole body is aching.
I go to my dresser and bend over to open it and that's when I realize
that something is really wrong. My hair grew about a foot over night
and is now wavier than it used to be. At least it's still the same
dark brown color.
I am startled because of this so I stand back up and look in the
mirror to see my new hair.
As I look in the mirror with my eyes and mouth wide open, I see a girl
staring at me, she also has her eyes and mouth wide wearing a shocked
expression.
Her eyes are a mixture of hazel and a blue color with a beautifully
tanned skin I never had before and amazingly long eye lashes. She
looks like she is about twenty years old.
This is not me! Who is this girl starring at me in the mirror? Did I
sleep so long that I am five years older now?
All of my thoughts are washed away when I here a loud knock on my
brown bedroom door. This is probably my mom coming to wake me up so I
reach for the door knob to show her my new me that's not me.
"Mom, look at meee..," I say as I look into the eyes of someone who is
not my mom but a man who looks like he is about forty years old with
light brown hair and wearing a suit that includes a red shirt, a white
tie, and a black pair of pants and jacket. "Who are you?" I say to him
in suspense.
"Good morning Princess Maria," He says to me giving a slight bow. "And
I am Bartolo one of your loyal servants here to help you."
What is he talking about? Princess Maria and Bartolo one of my loyal
servants? "What do you mean and where am I." I say back to him seeing
that the hallway in our house grew about three times longer with a
staircase at each end and the floors changed to a dark blue carpet and
walls that glow like a giant light bulb with a white sealing.
"Princess, you are to come with me to your mothers' bedside and we
shall talk about everything you need to know." He says to me speaking
with a calm voice.
"Bu..." I say but he quickly cuts me off.
"Follow me." Is what he says and then he starts walking down the hall
toward the staircase to my right. I don't trust this stranger but I
think if I even want to see my mom again I would have to follow him.
I start to follow him and then I realize there is another man
following me around thirty-five also with the same uniform as the man
ahead of me, he must have been standing by the outside of my door.
"Who's this?" I say to the man ahead of me.
"This is Antonio, another of your servants." He says back to me
turning and pausing to talk. The man behind me gives a slight bow and
I nod back and then we keep walking.
There is something really wrong in my life right now and I don't know
why this is happening, first the back yard is different and then my
house, these strange people and even MYSELF!! What am I supposed to do
about this?
We're at the top of the staircase now and the dark blue carpet and
glowing walls are everywhere in my now huge house. We are standing in
an enormous room with doors everywhere and another staircase to my
left.
Bartolo knocks on the closest door to the right and I here what sounds
like an older woman's voice say "Enter." As he opens the door and I
peak my head in to see who it is, I see an older woman lying in a bed
with her eyes closed. She looks like she is so old that she is about
to die.
