Anna (ON HOLD)

The New Place

Gretel's POV

I was really excited about grandpa's countryside house, I had always heard that it was a beautiful mansion like building which was just like houses of old times with vintage colors, long pillars, a huge library with old books and maybe even a secret garden. Some even say its haunted as its called "Whispering Woodlands House" and the fact is my mom, she seems to get terrified by the thought of it or may be the countryside but now we are going to live there, in grandpa's old house!!! 

It was a five hour drive away as the driver was an old, cautious man, almost feeble. He drove at a very low speed and the ride was not at all what we could call fun because he would not let me turn on the FM Radio neither my playlist in the mobile, and the most irritating part is that my ear phones were also damaged, by the way, how am i going to get them fixed in the countryside, oh no!

We went inside tired and exhausted by the ride, my father was just wanting to rush and I don't know how those great gates couldn't be seen by him. He blindly ran and hurt his head from the great iron rods of the massive brown main gates, as we went in, we could see how beautiful the garden was with roses, daisies, sunflowers and beautiful tulips and daffodils full of colors and old trees which we could climb up and sit and wonder how lovely the world looks from such height. I run on the grass and then to the inside which is even more wonderful than i thought, I understand, My grandpa's sense of style must be quaint and nice unlike my mother, she is NEW.... I might be something like my grandpa though, I like vintage!

Inside there was a big door for the inner house entrance, it was white in color and covered in dust. It was prettily patterned though. And then came a long hallway, with walls on either side covered with black and white pictures in fancy frames and complicated paintings. The corridor separated at the end into two passages and they were really narrow, still i liked them. Just at the intersection was a painting of my grandfather himself. I had never seen him in my life as he passed away two years before I was born, I am sorry for that but I cannot help it. My mother led us through the passage on the right and we discovered a huge room with a radio, most probably not working and carpets and curtains and comfy sofas which my mother disallowed me to sit on, they were dusty and I could get an asthma attack. I am an asthma patient, unfortunately. She showed father their room and I was given the room, once my mom used to live in because it was settled that way, it was all pink and purple with rosy lamps, pink bed, pink curtain, pink carpet, pink cupboard (with black edges) and all so pink. I didn't love my room. I am not so much of a girly person, I am more of a left winger, hippie and nerd type person. I can be alot of things but not pinky. Well, I am also creative and I can bring changes to this room. It is however, somehow lovely! It has big windows to let the sunshine come through easily and a very big tree branch can be climbed on just from the window. The outside view is beautiful as this room is on the top floor. I was extra excited for school and I was extra excited for my school mates. Socializing is so my thing and I would just love to make new friends, only that the sad part is what happened next.