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As I was laying in my soft, comfy, warm bed I heard the dreaded sound of the infamous alarm clock. BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! As if it was saying, "GET UP YOU LAZY BUM! GET UP! GET UP!" 

"Ugh, you piece of loud metal and plastic! Curse you for plucking me out of my beauty sleep and dreams!" 

I rubbed my eyes to wake myself up. I then looked in my mirror and winced at my rat's nest of a hairdo. Somedays I feel like I'm taming a beast when I'm combing my hair. Like I'm fighting off a dragon with my noble hairbrush.

Dragging my feet I headed to the bathroom. Once I arrived at the powder room I took a long hot shower while thinking of the summer vacation ahead of me. I thought of the many possibilities, I could go out and be social, or frolic through daisy meadows like in the movies. Though the reality of summer vacation would probably be staying home and sleeping in til noon. I exited the shower where the cold Antartic-like air struck me like an arrow. 

"OH! The horror!! I've been hit!! Go on without me!! I'll be fine!" I yelled at the bathroom.

After the hollywood scene in the bathroom i ran, with a towel around me, to my room. I got dressed and sat on my bed with my iPod to check this writing site called "wattpad" online. I recently found it and loved reading the stories. Currently I was reading a story about food. It was about favorite foods and how to make them, so it was a recipe book basically.

My mind then drifted off to thinking about snacks, cookies, M&Ms, chocolate, cake, gummy bears, cherries, Toblerone, Hershey's, candy bars, mmmm, yum! You see I have this obsession with snack foods. Every week or so I have a new junk food that I'm in love with. This week it's Cheetos. And just to inform you, last week was Chips Ahoy Cookies! But they are still pretty aweso-

"KYLAA!!! GET YOUR JUNK FOOD BUTT DOWN HERE NOWWW!!!"

Ugh, that's my mom. Just to warn you she's pretty craz-

"KYLAA NOWW!"

"Coming mom."

As I trudged down cold wooden stairs to the family living room thoughts filled my mind. What did I do now? Oh! Maybe it's because I put the cat in the dishwasher? But that's a whole different story that will be told later. I glanced over at ugly couch that my mom was half-laying half-sitting on. It is the most ugly couch ever. Imagine a puke green mixed with the most unfashionable yellow, that's the couch. And get this, it happens to be my mom's favorite couch.

As you might have already guessed we are about as different as... chalk and cheese. She is the most unfashionable crazy mother ever. And i'm, well, FASHIONABLE! Then she interrupted my mind babble,

"Kylaa I bet you are wondering why I called you here sweetie?" She said in the most fake nice-voice in history.

"Well, I thought it might be about that time when you asked me to wash the cat and I told you I didn't want to. So you yelled at me, and then I stormed off to my room and grabbed the cat. I then proceded to stuff the cat in the dishwasher and turn it on. After the cycle was done the ca-"

"KYLAA! You know how upset mommy was about that! DO NOT speak of it. EVER AGAIN! Okay darling?" Mom said while spit was flying from her mouth.

"Yes mom." I replied sheepishly.

"Anyways," said mom with a very fake smile painted on her face, "I would like to talk to you about what I wanted to tell you in the first place. I wanted to announce that you got a letter in the mail for a trip to Minnesota. How great right? You can go and hang out and get jiggy, or whatever it is you young folks do."

"Umm, sure I guess that would be- wait, why were you reading my mail?!"

"Well it was in my mailbox, wasn't it?" Pointed out mom.

"Nevermind. So what do I have to do to take that trip away from this crazy house?- I mean this house."

"Well, fill this out," mom handed me an application form, "after you fill it out, you have to mail it to Minnesota, and see if you get picked to go."

I stared at the form like it was gold, it was a ticket out of this house, out of this state! The trip might change my life.

"Kylaa, what are you waiting for? Go fill it out!"

"Okay, I was just going to do that, see ya later."

 I practically sprinted up to my room, so excited to fill in all the blanks! When was I ever excited to fill in blanks? Never. I grabbed a pen and started to write as fast as possible. 

I finished and drove to the postoffice, where I mailed it. 

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