Whole World of Wishes

Chapter 7 (Jinx)

Mom was getting married, and the weddings was in a few monthes. Great. Just one more thing that I have to worry about. I hated the idea of Joan getting married, and looking at Max I can tell he doesn't like it either. Anyway Joan had explained to us that we would live in this fancy castle for the rest of our lives, that was the only good part about this whole arangent. But we still had to go to school the next day.

I was lying in a green pasture, I look over and see a willow tree on top of the hill, I see a little girl and her Dad playing together.
" I wish I had that " I said to my self. Then all of a sudden they start walking towards me, the fluffy white clouds disappear and are replaced with rain clouds. I try to run away but I can't, then everything starts to fade away. I scream as I'm thrown into a world of darkness.

It was all just a dream I say to my self. I feel wet an cold, my hair was soaked in water. That's when I realize that I must have poked a hole in the water bed. We got our rooms yesterday, Joan said that they have a bunch of water beds that they weren't using. She sais that we shouldn't be greedy,
She thinks we should be thankful for what we already have. So that's how I have a water bed, but that didn't matter now since I had broken it. My guess is that it was my bow, I wore it to bed. My first thought was that I should fix the bed, but then I realized that I was going to be late for school. I jump out of bed soaked, that'll be my shower for today I thought to myself. I change out of my zebra striped pj's and into some normal clothes. I quickly tie up my greasy blond hair and hurry down the stairs, by the way I rode the rails, in my mind that's just a lot easier that walking down 100 steps. I found out that we can't use the elevators because their for business reasons. when I get to the bottom of the saris I jump of the rails and sit down breakfast. But I don't have time to eat anyrhing, so I just grab some toast and run. Our house was a maze,yesterday I got lost and Terance had to send a search party to look for me, I feel like he's hiding something from us. But today was going to be different, last night Max and I spent three hours going over the map, I've memorized everything. luckily this time it only takes a few minutes to get outside. I start walking and see Max in the distance. I run over to him and see him eating toast while leaning against one of the poles holding up the wooden bridge. No one uses the bridge since it was so unstable and you would never know the you were going to fall into the jagged waters below. Everyone uses the helicopters, we have 21 and counting. But Max and I are the dare devil type so we loved the rickety old bridge.
" Hey " I say
"You ready I cross the bridge of terror"
He smiles then nods saying nothing. I go first, I start by grabbing the rope and then carefully step on the wooden plnks, the bridge makes a creaking noise. I take a few more steps then Max follows, with one hand on the rope the other one holding his toast. All of a sudden I hear this cracking noise, I look back at Max, that's when I see that one of the pieces of rope holding the bridge together breaks.
"Run" yells Max, he drops his toast, lifted me up and runs us over to the other side.
" That was close" Max sais with a little laugh. I look back and see Joan and Terance running towards us.
"Are you okay "
"Yeah" we yell back. I never thought that would be the last time I would see Joan in over a decade.