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GrumpyXSunshine
"let kindness spread like a wildfire."
Opal Clemens is a bubbly outgoing girl with a big heart. She loves to make people happy and has a positive outlook on life. Her constant goals are to make the people around he...
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O P A L
I roll my shoulders, readjusting my grip on the two pails in either hand. I place one on the wood fence, opening the gate to the chicken coop, tossing all the feed on the ground as they come running for their food. I stack the buckets together, picking them up with one hand.
The strap on my maple suede overalls loosens, falling to my back.
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I reach for the strap but am unable to grab it. I shrug it off and walk into the giant, rusted brown barn. I rake off a pile of hay and toss it into the goat pin. Polli wipes her forehead with her sleeve, sitting on an old stool, milking one of the goats. "How's it going Polli?"
"I'm on the third one, then Leelan's going to come do the other three. I feel like I have old man hands I've been doing this so long. I'm going to get arthritis at the ripe old age of seventeen."
I grin, "I feel like I already have it, imagine how mom and dad feel though."
"Yeah, those oldens, their so old."
I cover my mouth with my hand and giggle, "Their not that old, only in their fifties, and looking good."
"Yeah," She nods, her faded red hair in a braid laying on her back. "They do."
"I'm gonna go see if dad needs help with anything else."
"Okay Opal."
I hike up the withering hill and through the back door. I glance at dad on the couch, pulling his prosthetic leg on. "You okay dad?" I ask, sliding the door shut.
He glances up at me and places one of his sweet smiles on his face. "I'm great."
"Is the new one hurting you again?"
"I just can't get it to sit right."
"We should take it back then, it's been bothering you since you got it and we could really use the money."
"Yeah, you got a point there. I need you and Marci to head into town and try to sale a few things, just hang around for four hours then head back home."
