The Holy Family

Home sweet home

"Happy 17th birthday Jenna!" my mom and dad jumped on my bed. They gave me some waffles, our family birthday tradition. "Today is moving day, honey!" my mom said. Great. Moving day on my birthday. It couldn't get any worse.

So, we moved to a different planet and of course we couldn't just go off and walk into a different planet. Even if we would fly it would take us hundreds of years. So instead we told the king of our little magic world that we wanted to move to earth. When we asked him this, he stared at us weirdly. He would've never think that we wanted to move to earth. Neither did I. We had a month to pack all our stuff and he would open a magic hole from Burndon to earth. He warned us that once we arrived on earth, we would never be able to return to Burndon. Everyone, except for me, agreed with this. Then today, on my birthday, it was time to go. I told all my friends goodbye and they all gave me some presents for my birthday and souvenirs from our world. I couldn't hold back my tears and didn't stop hugging them for at least another hour. My mom was mocking about the fact that we had to go, so i left them with fear in my eyes. They told me I would be ok, but that didn't help me at all. My mom and the rest of my family dragged me to the meeting with the king.. He opened up the stupid gate and warned us again that we could never return to Burndon. We walked through the gate and I realized I would never see my friends again. That's where our story on earth began.

We fell onto the earth. And we fell hard. My earth best friend always tells me that I fell down out of heaven. "And it sure felt like heaven." is what I told her when she first told me this. I was so happy when I met her. She was the only one who understood me and still understands me. She makes me happy and she is the only one. That's why I could tell her everything.

The first thing i noticed on earth, was that it smelled weird around here. Later I found out that it was oxygen and that people need this to breath. My eyes started watering from it and this reminded me of crying in front of my friends a few hours ago. I thought about what they said and I thought about all the things i couldn't do with them anymore. How I wouldn't be able to fly with them anymore.

As I was getting lost in my thoughts, I accidentally started flying. My mom pulled me down. "You can't fly anymore now, Jenna," my mom said, "people can't know we are different." Awesome. I can't even do what I love to do most. Fly. High up in the sky, where I can look down at the forests and fly with the birds and butterflies. Sigh. We looked around if nobody saw us fell down. "All clear." I said and started looking for something called a 'taxi'. Our king told us we had to do that and wave at it. He also gave us the address from the house, which he bought for us. When we walked into this town, where all weird iron things drove around, the first thing I heard was: ''Look how weird they are dressed, mom." I saw the little boy staring at me and I started back at him with an angry face. I looked at the iron things and saw one of them had a nameplate with 'taxi'. "Look mom," I said, "this is what we need." The guy in the taxi brought us to the address that we gave him. We stared at the big house for a while. I have been noticing that earth is very different from our world. Some things look the same, like the houses and streets, but I still didn't figure out how these iron things were made. They obviously were made to bring people to different places. And all these poles with flickering colors on it. Or just random poles without anything flickering. I was losing my mind. But oh well, I would figure out more soon.

We walked into our new house. Our new home. But it felt so different, so weird. It didn't feel like home and it still doesn't feel fully like home. We started walking around in the house and claimed a bedroom. I wanted the biggest one, so i could close my curtains and fly around in my room, so nobody could see me fly. I started unpacking my bags and gave all the presents that I got a nice place. When I was done unpacking, I took my favorite book and started reading it again. It got later and later and all of the sudden it got a little dark outside. I thought that was a little weird, but I ignored it, it was probably going to rain soon. I kept reading but then all of the sudden it got so dark outside, that I got scared. I started to panic and ended up crying. I threw my book on my bed and ran downstairs. "MOM, why is it getting so dark outside?!" i screamed loudly while balling my eyes out. I had never experienced this kind of fear yet.