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

eyes. I was surprised because I have never seen my brother cry. I touched his arm to try to comfort him but I can tell that it isn’t helping so I moved my hand from his arm and sat down in the chair that was in the corner of the room. A few minutes passed and everyone is crying including me and than my mom got a phone call, it was my Uncle Robert. She went out into the call the take the call and didn’t come back in for what seemed like forever.

She walked up to me and my sister who is now sitting beside me on the chair and bent down to speak to us. “You guys have school in the morning so you are gonna go stay the night with you grandmother tonight while your brother, John, and I stay here with grandpa tonight” she said. “No. I want to stay with papa tonight. That’s not fair that John gets to stay and we don’t” I protested. “You are not going to miss school Amber but right after school I will pick you up and bring you back here to see him okay?” she asked trying to reason with me. “Okay” I agreed even though I know she won’t go through with it because she is flaky.

After Tessa and I said our good byes, we left the hospital and headed to my grandmothers house. When we got there our mom didn’t even bother to take us up to  front door. She just dropped us off in her drive way and waved and said “I love you girls” and sped off. We didn’t bother to say it back because she wouldn’t hear us anyways so we just waved back. When she was out of sight we walked into our grandmothers house. When I opened the front door my grandma and her mom was sitting at the big round dinning table. “Hey grandma” I said while giving her a big head and a kiss on her cheek. “Hey sweetie” she said and I sat down on her lap while Tessa did the same.

“Do you girls want a muffin?” She asked while lifting me and Tessa off her lap and standing up.  “Oh yes” I said while Tessa just nodded her head. “What kind do you want?” She asked both of us while going over to the cabinet and taking out the small box of different kind of muffins. “Banana” my sister said in a excitement, with a big smile upon her face. My grandma just nodded her head and turned her attention towards me and pulled out the kind that I always have. “Chocolate chips with double chocolate?” she ask and I nodded.

She handed us our muffins and told us to go to the living room to watch some T.V and we did as she said. When we got to the living room I hoped on my couch while Tessa hoped on her’s. “I’m bored” Tessa announced. “I am to” I said. “Wanna go outside and see if we can find any snakes?” She asked exactly. “Sure” I answered with bored ness in my voice. “Yay. I’ll go ask Grandma” she said while jumping off the couch and running down the hall and into the dinning room.

Within seconds she came running back and ran outside, so I followed after her. We walked around in the tall grass that looks like it hasn’t been mowed in months. “Found one!” she hollered while reaching for a stick to poke it. “Don’t touch it. You’ll make it mad” I yelled at her while running over to take the stick out of her hand but I was to late. She was ready poking it and sure enough it got pissed and started to hiss at her. “It’s going to bite you” I warned her while putting my hands on my hips in a sassy way.

“No it won’t. I won’t let it” she said back in a confident voice. “Whatever” I said while rolling my eyes. I took a few steps toward her to look at the snake. It was green so which meant it was a garden snake so I walked closer to it. “It’s going to bite you” Tessa said in a mocking tone. “Shut up” I said while giving her a bitch stare. “You aren’t aloud to say that” she said while running back inside to tell on me but “I didn’t care” I hollered loud enough that she could heat me but I actually cared a lot more then what I led her to believe.

After taking another glance at the snake I walked back inside because I was bored and it was hot outside. When I walked through the door Tessa came running down the hall and grandma was right behind her. Oh boy I thought. “Amanda did you tell your sister to shut up?” She asked with her arms crossed. “Yes…” I answered. “Amanda ray you know better. Now go stand in the corner” she demanded.

I walked over to the corner but before I put my nose to the wall I turned around and said “I only told Tessa to shut up because she was poking at a snake.” “TESSA! How many times have I told you to not mess with snakes!” My grandma yelled at her and Tessa didn’t say anything. She just looked down at the floor. “Didn’t I tell you right before you went outside to not touch any wild animals?” Grandma questioned her. “Well yes….but…” Tessa started to say but grandma was already taking her by the arms and showering her to a corner to. “Amanda you have five minutes” she said.

“And you” she said to Tessa while pointing at her “you have fifteen minutes for not listening” she said and than walked off. When she was out of the room Tessa said in a whisper “Tattle tail.” “You tattled first” I said back in a whisper. After that we were silent. Five minutes passed and I heard “Amanda your time is up.” I smiled a big smile at Tessa and walked away. I sat on the couch and turned on some cartoon. When Tessa heard the T.V she tried to peak to watch too.

“No looking at the T.V. You’re in trouble” I remind her. Tessa then turned back around and a few seconds later she tried to peak again so I ran down the hall and told on her. “TESSA, GET YOUR ASS IN HERE NOW” our grandma yelled from the dinning room. Tessa turned around and sticked her tongue out at me. “GRANDMA SHE STUCK HER TOUNGE OUT AT ME!!” I hollered down the hall. “TESSA” grandma yelled in a pissed off voice. Tessa walked into the dinning room and after she turned the corner, I started to walk down the hall so I can hear what kind of punishment grandma was about to give her.

“You are going to stand in that corner for thirty minutes. You are not going to be hatful” grandma said in a stern voice. I heard Tessa starting to cry and I started to laugh. I put my hand to my mouth because I didn’t want grandma to know that I was spying on them. “Amanda” grandma said. “Are you spying again?” I walked around the corner and nodded my head. “Go to the corner for another five minutes” she said while pointing to the corner that she wanted me to go to. I hate you I thought to myself but I wouldn’t dare say it out loud.

I walked over to the corner and stood there for five minutes. “Okay you can go now Amanda but behave yourself” grandma said in a stern tone. “Okay” I answered. I walked back down the hall and into the living room to watch more T.V. I laid my head down and sleep consumed me.

 

(TO BE CONTINUED)

 

CHAPTER THREE: Sleep Over

I woke up to my grandma waking me up for school. I got up and slowly found my way to the bathroom. I was still 95% asleep so I wasn’t sure what I was doing at my grandma’s house. After a few seconds of dwelling on it, it finally hit me. My grandpa had a stroke and he’s at the hospital. All the memorized of him laying in the hospital bed hopeless brought tears to my eyes and I fell to the grounded and hugged my knees and started to rock back and forth. Knock-knock. “Sweetie are you okay?” my grandma asked while slowly opening the door.

She saw me sitting on the ground and immediately cuddled next to me. My sister walked into the bathroom to see what all the noise was about and when she poked her head in she had tears rolling down her face. She came to join  us in the hug and we sat like that for what seemed like hours. “I don’t think you guys should be going to school like this” my grandma announced. My sister didn’t say anything we just nodded our heads in agreement. “Go back and try to get more rest while I call the school and explain everything to them” grandma told us. Tessa and I stood up and walked back to our couches and laid down while we enjoyed watching T.V. After a few minutes of just laying there I started to miss my grandpa and tears stung the back of my eyes.

I closed my eyes to try to keep them from coming but that seemed to make it worst and tears rolled down my face. Tessa heard me crying and she moved over to were I was laying to comfort me. She laid behind me and put her arm around my waste while I continued to cry. After a few minutes of crying sleep consumed me. When I woke up the sun was peering through the blinds and into my eyes. I looked over to my sister cuddling up next to me while sleeping. I turned my attention to the cartoons on T.V and waited till mom came to pick us up to go see out grandpa like she promised she would. Don’t get your hopes up I told myself.

After a few hours of just laying there Tessa woke up and went to her own couch. “I’m hungry” I announced. “Me too” Tessa agreed. I stood up to go to the dinning room to get some food and Tessa did the same. I took off down the hall way and sat down in my seat and Tessa sat down in her seat that was next to me. “Hungry?” my grandma said while lifting herself up from her chair and walking to the kitchen to fix us some cereal. We both said yes at the same time.