Chapter 6 Part Two I celebrated my sixteenth birthday with Emily and a few other people. I didn’t really consider the other people in our group as friends. They were around because they were Emily’s friends, and since I was also Emily’s friend, I spent time with them too. I knew that since Mr. Bates…
Chapter 6 Part One Not even a week after Mr. Bates’s funeral, my parents were already trying to sell his things to make a quick buck. They were mad because Mr. Bates’s lawyer, Mr. Stevens told us that all of Mr. Bates’s money and property were passed to an anonymous person. Mr. Stevens told us…
Chapter 5 Part Two After eating my fill, I was finally ready to go to bed. We still had a lot to do at the house and it was already late. The thought of having to do more work tomorrow made me sigh heavily. I should have known better than to expect my family to…
Chapter 5 Part One We made it to the hotel pretty quickly since the roads were empty. When we first got to town yesterday, we only planned on staying one night and then sleeping at the house. But since everything seemed to be more complicated than we originally planned, we had to extend our stay….
Chapter 4 Part Two Warning! Strong language. On my eleventh birthday, Mr. Bates hired a few men looking for work to help out on the farm so we could take the day off. There was a local fair that I wanted to go to, so he took us. No one knew where my dad was…
Chapter 4 Part One After Miles and I finished cleaning out my brother’s old room, we thought we’d call it a day. It was spotless. No trash, no cobwebs, and no dust. I would need to repaint this room and hopefully, that would brighten up the place. Maybe even replace the wooden floors with carpet….
Chapter 3 Part Two About a week later, I heard my mom screaming at my dad. It was the middle of the night, and they were downstairs in the office, but I could hear them clearly. I checked on my siblings, who were sound asleep, then made my way downstairs. I saw the light coming…
Chapter 3 Part One After Miles and I finished with our pizza, we quickly discarded the empty box into the dumpster before heading back into the house. The sun was high in the sky and the light breeze was welcomed. It was a hot Spring day, and without the help of AC, the breeze from…
Chapter 2 Part Two I expected Mr. Bates to get angry and yell at me, but he didn’t. Instead, he rushed over and picked me up, dusted me off, and told me it was going to be okay. He apologized for scaring me and checked to see if I had broken anything. There was just…
Chapter 2 Part One One day, when I was nine, my mom got a new job. We had been struggling and my dad was unreliable. Suck in a single-bedroom apartment, my mom was finally able to support us again. After about a year, my mom moved us from our apartment and into a small house…
