Life is Well

Chapter 10

    “How much money do you guys have to pay?” Jeremiah wondered.

    “They want us to pay $700,” dad answered.

    “We could give you guys the money we earned from our work,” I suggested.

    “Oh no honey, you guys worked so hard for that money,” mom interrupted.

    “We did it for you guys. Please take it,” I pleaded my parents. Mom and dad glared at one another and then mom turned to face me.

    “Okay,” mom gave in. Esther stood up and in a flash she was upstairs in her room and when she returned she had a small wood carved box in her hands. She settled the box down onto the table and opened it. Inside held nearly $1,000. Came from my gardening, Jerry’s mowing, Zechariah’s tutoring, and Esther’s cashier job at Burlington. I could say our hard work paid off really well for just two weeks. Esther took all the money out of the box and placed inside of our mom’s hand. But unexpectedly mom took some bucks out of the pile and gave it back to Esther. “You guys should at least keep $100,” mom said. We were refusing to grab it. “Take it you guys deserve it.” We prayed then ate our dinner. When we were about to scurry off to our rooms our parents stopped us.

“Thank you guys so  much,” our dad cried with thankfulness and gave us big hugs.

“You’re welcome,” I replied on behalf of the quad squad. Then we left. I could barely sleep. I was too worried about what’s going to happen tomorrow.

Woke up with chest pain that’s probably because of how much I was worrying last night. Throughout the whole school day, I was swimming on the waves of the ocean, Father God let a miracle take place. That’s what I was constantly saying inside my head and heart. That’s the house that carries all of my memories that I treasure. It carries the carpet where I took my first steps on. Our house was where our Grandpa Matthew and Grandma Sarah lived. They raised our mom, Angelica at that very destination. Then,grandpa and grandma gave the house to mom, even though mom told them she would buy her own house. Then, mom met dad and had us. That house carries our history, it is our history. Without it their would be a huge hole in it. We can’t lose it.