Glimpses of Magic
Margherite Overlander Age 11
Truly the Best Summer Ever Chapter 1 SLAM. The car door shuts behind me as I jump out of the car and stumble onto the soft green grass. I look up and see a decent sized light blue house. It has white shutters, a shiny new black door, and a white fence bordering the whole thing. It looks as if a big plane just dropped it off from a factory shiny and new, like a brand new coat of nail polish. My fingers run against the word “Sold” on the sign nailed in the front yard as I go to take a closer look. The air is nice here; it smells of sweet flowers and nice fertile, green grass, like that good September smell. “JANA, get over here. Let’s start getting boxes out,” my dad says in his “let’s hurry up” voice. “Trust me, Dad, I want to look inside as much as you do,” I say back in my voice. And so, we start unloading the first of the boxes. “This one’s for the front room, Jennie Bean,” my mom says as she hands me the box. “I know how to read, Mom,” I say as I look down at the box label. “And stop calling me Jennie Bean.” The day goes on, box after box after box after box until the first moving truck is all unloaded. As I bring boxes up the stairs, I get a couple glances of my new room, but I want to get the whole experience. I take a deep breath in as I turn the doorknob and look inside. “OMG MY ROOM IS GORGEOUS,” I shout across the house. It is painted a very light blue with white hexagon shelves on one corner and on the other is a big bed with decorative shelves over it. At the foot of my bed is a dresser and mirror, and then across from that, there’s a desk. And to top it all off, between my bed and the hexagon shelves, is a huge window with a window seat. I have never been in such a cute room. So on I go curving around boxes and packing paper, unpacking my stuff. These go on my shelves, the alarm clock goes on the storage above my bed. One thing at a time until I have most stuff unpacked. “Let’s stop here,” I say to myself. I look around my new room, and I’m happy with my progress. It looks great, except for some moving boxes in the corner.
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