Flash Back

It's A Brand New Day !

It was an early spring morning. The flowers were blooming,the sky was blue, not a single clouds in the sky, and ....and...... achoo. The allergies. I was deep in the thought about how I was gonna start my morning. “ So lets see, i can start with a nice heart warming breakfast hmm maby bacon and eggs, or maby....” just then my annoying brother Sam called on me. “Summer mom and dad said pack your things” he yelled with his annoying high pitch voice. (Sigh) When is he gonna hit puberty. How could I have forgotten. Moving day is today. Better go and pack.

As I packed my favorite snow globe I saw something unusual. Something that I had never noticed before. On the globe it had the letters H.E.L.P. Help? That was weird I had that for what seemed like forever and no way was that there unless... “Sam stop messing with my things!” I yelled real annoyed at that boy. Oh how he gets on my nerves. “The moving truck is here”. Yelled mom. “Coming!” I yelled back. I was happy and sad at the same time that I was moving. Moving means leaving good memories behind, and leaving your friends but then it also means new friends and new adventures. “Summer”! This time there was anger in her voice. I ran down with all my things and took one last look at my old house and waved goodbye to my friends,then I went and took a seat in the car Only 3 more hours in this mini van. Since we were a small family that meant we had a small car. So I was stuck with Sam and his annoying voice yelling out every 5 minutes or so “are we there yet?” Finally, after what seemed to be forever , we made it. Something didn’t seem right though. Don't get me wrong. There were lots of trees and nice stores, and schools, and parks. It was just this one store. Something about it didn’t seem right maby it was the way it was built. It was tilted like the leaning tower of pizza. And the color was a faint dark rusty brown.” Looks more like a haunted house then a store” . Sam said trying to be funny. No one laughed though mom did a little chuckle for support. “Here we are!” My dad said real thrilled. “What is this”. “Yeah.” Said Sam agreeing. “Is this a joke”. “No” dad said in confusion. “The house looks like its 100 years old.” “Actually 39 years old.” I gave him an annoyed look. “OK OK”. He said. As we walked in an old guy who looked like he was in his 60'S came up to us. He had this weird look on his face like he had seen a ghost or his cat got ran over. “Ah you must be my new neighbor.” “Um yeah.” dad replied “And you have children. Not too many people on this road have children?” It was beginning to get cold for some reason. “Its already happening.” “Whats happening ?” Sam asked. “Shes here. Have to go. Hide or you'll see what happens next. No matter what do not talk to strangers. Especially ones” .... and he ran off.” What was that ?” I asked? “If we shouldn’t talk to strangers then we shouldn’t be talking to him.” We both laughed. “Whose up for pizza tonight”. “Me!” We all yelled.

“wow! What a pizza” . I said with a loud burp. “Excuse me.” We all laughed. Time to go home I guess. I said. “Can we do this again tomorrow night?” Sam asked. “No can do bud. School is the day after tomorrow and we have a lot to do.” “Great first day of school and I have nothing to wear on Monday.” I said disappointed. “We'll go shopping tomorrow right after breakfast. “There’s a great mall that I read in a magazine before we came here. Lots of good things there.” She said it as though she was very proud with herself.