Story Of My Life by Dawn Leagers (little bear else holmelund minarik .TXT) 📖

“BANG!!!!” I wake up to a loud noise and my grandpa yelling. I slowly find my way out of bed and to my bedroom door. I put my ear the the door and quietly listen to hear whats going on. “I CAME TO GET MY KIDS!” I hear my mom yell from the dinning room. “Whats going on?” I hear a voice coming from behind me.

I turn around to see my little sister sitting up on the bed rubbing the sleep from her eyes. “I don’t know. I think I hear mom arguing with grandpa” I saying in a quiet voice so the adults don’t hear me. “Why is mom here?” she said still rubbing her eyes. “Shhhh be quiet. We don’t want grandpa to know we are awake. He’ll get mad.”

“Why is mom here?” she repeated but in a lower tone. “I don’t know. Thats what i am trying to find out” I push my ear back to the door while Tessa crawled out of bed and joined me. “GET OUT OF MY WAY!!!” I heard my mom yell. “GIRLS!! GIRLS GET OUT HERE! WE ARE LEAVING!”

My sister and I looked at each other with fear in our eyes, not sure if we want to risk getting in trouble with our grandpa. “IF YOU GIRLS COME OUT OF THAT BEDROOM YOUR GROUNDED!” My grandpa yelled after. “I don’t want to be grounded but I want to go with mom” I whispered. “Me too” she replied. “Okay get your shoes on, we’re leaving.” We both walked to our closet and started to dig for our shoes in the dark.

“Why don’t we turn on the light so we can see?” Tessa suggested. “I don’t want papa to know we are leaving. He might try and stop us” I answered and she nodded in agreement. “Found them” she announced proudly. “I found my shoes before you did haha” and then I found a pair of my shoes wile she was mocking me. “brat” I said quietly while slowly put my ear to the door to see if i can hear anything.

“Anything?” Tessa asked in a questioning whisper. “I cant hear anything” I replied a little worried but didn’t let it show because I wanted to keep my sister as calm as possible. I slowly opened the door enough to let a stream of the dinning room light shine in and held my hand to my lips gesturing for my sister to stay quite. mother said in a smooth voice trying to keep my sister and me calm. “Look what you’re doing dad, your scaring my daughters. Now move out of our way.” he didn’t say anything but stand there blocking the door with his eyes locked on my mom. “Fine dad if you want to be that way ill put them back to bed and come back with the police” she said while turning around and walking us back through the hall way but didn’t go to our room. She picked us up and ran through the laundry room and out the back door. When we were a block away she put us down and told us to keep running.

“SMACK!” A loud noise came through the wall and my mom comes around the corner with tears in her eyes and holding her cheek. She saw that I was awake and pushed the door further open to see if my sister is awake and sure enough Tessa was standing behind me in her pink night gown that matched mine. She looks down at our feet to see if we had our shoes on and she smiled.

 “So you guys are gonna come with me huh?” she asked while kneeling down so we are face to face. I looked back at Tessa and she looked at me. “Yeah” I replied answering for the both of us. “Okay girls. Lets go and hurry” my mom said while taking both of our hands and leading us out of our rooms and through the hall and into the dinning room. “You are not going anywhere with my grandchildren” my grandpa said in a growling voice. Tessa ran up behind me and wrapped her arms around me in fear.

“They are my children and I will do whatever I want with them now move!” my

"Where are we running to?" I asked mom. "I don't know yet." We ran for another half block and we stopped and started to walk. "Okay girls, listen up. If the cops pull us over and ask us whats going on just say that I came over to see you and I was planning to stay the night and grandpa got mad and slapped me and chocked me okay?" I looked over at Tessa and she nodded her head in agreement and so did I but lucky no cops showed up.

 I woke up in a new room, in a new bed with different blankets laying on top of me. "Where am I" I thought to myself. I turned over to see if my sister and mom was in the room with me. I only saw one little lump under the blanket so that meant that Tessa was only with me. "This isn't the house I fell asleep in last night. I fell asleep on a couch in a one bedroom house." I was about to scream for my mom but my mouth started to water and my sniffer was telling me that there is eggs being cooked somewhere in this house. 

I slowly and quietly slid to the side of the mattress that was laying flat on the carpet floor and flung my legs off the side of it. I looked back to see if I woke my sister but she was still sound asleep. "I wonder when she fell asleep. I know I passed out before her" I thought to myself. I lifted myself off of the mattress and tiptoed to the door and slowly cracked it. I opened it far enough that I could hardly slip out. I looked down the long hallway not sure which way to go. I took a left and followed the wonderful smell of the cooking eggs. 

I walked into the kitchen to see my mom standing over the stove singing and dancing to some music. "MOMMY!" I screamed louder then the music. She jumped a little because I startled her. She walked over to the radio and turned down the music. "Good-morning sleeping beauty" she sung in a cheery voice. "Im hungry mommy" i whined. "Well lucky for you I am making a yummy breakfast. Go wake your sister and tell her its time to eat" she said waving me out of the kitchen. 

I walked back down the hall and slowly opened the second door to the right. I poked my head in and saw my sister still asleep on the mattress. I opened the door all the way and ran to the bed to hoped on top of her. “Time to wake up Tessa! Mom’s making food!” I hollered close to her ear. She didn’t even move a inch so I took her by her feet and started to pull her off the bed. “STOP!” she yelled in a tired voice.

“Mom told me to wake you up so if you aren’t in the kitchen in five minutes mom is going to come in here herself” I warned her.  I walked back into the kitchen and sat down at the table. “Where is your sister?” my mother asked not taking her eyes off the food. “I woke her up and told her to come eat but I don’t know if——“ I said but got cut off by my sister walking into the kitchen while rubbing her sleepy eyes. “Hey baby. Hungry?” Mom asked to Tessa while giving her a hug.

Tessa just nodded her head and took the seat that was across the table from me. After a few minutes of sitting there and listening to the radio my mom finally gave us our food. I slowly ate my food and went to go take a shower. After I got out of the shower my mom picked out some cloths for me and sat them on the mattress. I got dressed and laid back down to take a nap. I dozed off when my head hit the pillow. What seemed like a few minutes was actually a few hours. My mom came barging into the room and told me to get my shoes on and run out to the car. She looked scared so I freaked out and picked up my shoes and ran to the car.

I didn’t even bother to put them on. A few minutes passed and my mom, and her boy friend and I where in the car waiting for my sister. She finally walked out the house and slowly walked to the car. “Hurry your ass up” my mom hollered at her. When she hopped in the car next to me mom sped off. “Why are you driving fast ma?” I asked with fear in my eyes. “I’ll explain everything when we get there Amber okay?”

“What’s going on mom?” I asked again. “Amber not right now” she said sternly. I didn’t ask her anymore questions after that. Maybe a hour passed and we were at the hospital and that’s when my mom turned around in her seat and told me the horrifying incident that changed my life forever literally. “Your grandpa had a stroke and they don’t know if he’ll ever be able to walk or talk again” she said to me and my sister. Tears stings the back of my eyes and my vision became blurry with in seconds. After a few minutes of everyone crying we pulled ourself together and walked into the hospital.

When we got up to his room he was laying there with his eyes closed, not able to move a muscle or make a single sound. I went over to my mom and pulled her by her shirt gesturing for her to bend down so I can tell her something and that’s just what she did. “Do you think he can hear us” I whispered to my mom making sure I was quiet enough that nobody else could hear me. “Yes sweetie, he can hear us” she replied. Than she went up to my grandpas bed and held his hand and kissed him on the forehead. “Hi daddy. I hope your awake so know that I am here with you” she said. Tessa walked up next to her and starred at our grandpa while I went to the other side of the bed to hold his other hand.

“Hi papa” I said because I wasn’t sure what was appropriate to say. I moved over so my brother, who was already at the hospital, can hold his hand too. I look up at my brother to see that there was tears filling his