The Boy In The Spotlight

Chapter 6

The next morning we unpacked the majority of the boxes, though we still had a lot of things that had to be done. Dad left with Nicole and Cecil to go grocery shopping. Mom told me that she was going to go downtown to get a few things and that dad was going to meet her somewhere downtown.

"Are you sure that you'll be alright on your own for a few hours?" she asked me before she left.

"Yeah. Maybe I'll go visit the neighbours and make some friends," I told her.

"Okay, but stay out of trouble and stay away from the river," she smiled at me as she closed the door behind her.

I pulled my phone out of my pocket and texted Cecil, asking him if I could borrow his camera. After a few minutes, he responded and said that I could. I decided that I was going to film a house tour for YouTube. I looked through three different boxes until I found the camera and the tripod stand.

I turned it on and then set it on a counter in the kitchen, on the stand. I hit the record timer button so that it would start recording in a few seconds. I sat on the counter directly on the other side of the room from the camera. That's when I started the video.

"Hey guys, welcome back! I am officially in Canada, yayy!!" I laughed and threw my arms up into the air for emphasis, "A lot of you have been commenting on my other platforms that I should do a house tour, soo... that's what I'm going to do!" My arms were still in the air and I grabbed the handle to one of the cupboards right beside my head, not realizing which way that they open. I went to bring my arms down and the cupboard door opened and whacked the side of my head. "Oooh... Oww, that hurt!!" I made a pouty face but it didn't last because I started smiling and laughing, "I'm such an idiot," my side started to hurt from laughing.

"Well, on that happy note," I snickered, "Let's get into the video," I hopped off the counter and took the camera off of the tripod so that I could carry the camera around. "So, this is the kitchen, very fancy, I know," I turned in a slow circle so that the camera could pick up everything in the room. The kitchen looked like an average empty, non-fancy kitchen, there was nothing expensive looking in the room at all. "Next, we will have the entry room where there is a door, and a closet," I walked out of the kitchen and into the entry room where I then showed the front door and the closet. I opened the closet door and stepped in, closing the door behind me.

"As you can see, it is very dark in here, it's a spooky closet," I opened the door back up and stepped out and stood at the doorway to the living room.