Hi everyone!:)
GO TEAM PEGASUS!XD Here's my story.:) Misty, I included the team mascot, the Pegasus.:)
Julia tried not to stare, but her
grandmother was so not how she had pictured her. Her grandmother had
pure white hair and wore a black bathrobe that went down to the
floor. Her face was taut and serious, and her eyes were filled with
knowledge far beyond what Julia could imagine. Her hawk-like nose
pierced outwards and the way her eyes squinted as she stared at
someone made everyone uncomfortable.
“So, you're my grandmother?” Julia
asked.
“Obviously. Foolish questions such as
that are not welcomed in my home. You don't see any other old women
here.”
“Sorry,” she whispered, running her
fingers down the handle of her suitcase and staring at the Pegasus
pin pinned onto her denim jacket. Julia's eyes wandered across the
house, taking in the minuscule details of it, down to the way the
seams on the couch were frayed.
Her grandmother began to give her the
run down on rules and her schedule. Really, her grandmother wasn't a
mean person, but she was abrupt, giving off the feeling of crossness.
“I don't want you in this room. It's
mine,” her grandmother said, pointing a long, wrinkled finger at a
door with a chipped frame.
“Sure,” Julia agreed, feeling a tug
of curiosity, but fanning it away after looking at the rest of the
house again. Everything was so normal, except for the shock that her
grandmother wasn't a cookie baking old lady with bad joints and a
walker. That room was probably off-limits just so her grandmother had
some privacy.
“Gotta have some privacy,” she
added and her grandmother gave her a curious glare, as if saying in a
sarcastic way- Sure...
“Now that you are starting at the
'prestigious' private school down the street, your life will be
revolving around school. I expect A's. B's are the lowest I allow.
Your parents want you to have a good education I will not be letting
you slack off,” her grandmother stated and Julia grimaced.
The only reason her parents were making
her go to a private school, which was conveniently near her
grandmother who lived the next few cities over, was because she was
failing drastically at her old school. “B” wasn't a letter she
had seen since elementary school.
Once the mini tour was completed, Julia
prepared her bed, pulled out her phone, and called Natalie, her best
friend. Her grandmother had retired early, but surprisingly, didn't
go into the off-limits room. So it wasn't her bedroom. Hm.
“Hello?”
“Hey!”
As soon as Natalie heard her voice, she
burst with questions until Julia brought up the mysterious room.
“I thought it was her bedroom, but
when she went to bed, she went into a completely different room!”
“That is so weird,” Natalie's voice
said. “You have to check it
out! I'm so curious now!”
“I don't think I
should. I don't want to get her upset,” she replied.
“Gosh, Julia, you
have to know!” After more convincing, Julia finally relented.
“Okay, fine. But
I'll only peek inside really quickly, I won't even go in.”
“Yay!” Natalie
squealed. “Text me what's inside!”
They hung up and
Julia immediately felt the doubt creep in, but, having promised to
tell Natalie what was inside, she sneaked out of her room and into
the living room. She passed the kitchen and came to the door. She
studied the split wood, splinters flaking away. It was so exciting.
Julia put her ear
to the door, making sure that her grandmother wasn't in there
somehow, then with a quick glance to the door across the house where
her grandmother was, opened the door.
Although she had
said she wouldn't go in, she slipped inside so in case her
grandmother came out unexpectedly, she wouldn't be seen staring
inside.
Snapping
the door shut, she flipped the light switch on and an orange hued
light filled the space. First of all, it was as if she had entered
another living room, the room was so large. But it wasn't impressive.
It was just another boring room filled with used furniture and boxes.
Julia was about to
go back to her room before she got caught, when something stopped
her. A dusty, leather bound book lay in the corner of the room,
untouched for years. She didn't know why, but she was drawn to it.
Before she knew it, she was lifting the large book onto a couch and
opening it.
The Scrapbook
of the Hayes Family.
She flipped the
pages, seeing black and white photographs of people she had never
heard of before. It was chalked full of family photos, it seemed to
be a scrapbook of the family tree, stretching back to the early
1900's. Julia went to the very back of the scrapbook to more recent
members until she began to recognize faces. Her father's brothers and
sister. Her father's aunt, father, mother (the grandmother she was
staying with), her cousins, everyone she had ever heard about. Then
she flipped the page, excited to see her mother, father and herself.
And an unfamiliar face in a photograph next to her own.
Sean Hayes, born December 3, 2000.
Julia's eyes
widened, her brow furrowed, and her mouth went dry.
December 3, 2000.
Her birthday? It couldn't be possible.
If this was true,
then that meant she had...a twin brother....and he was still alive.
***
BWAHAHAHA! Cliff hanger that will never be answered!
*evil laugh*
...
*again*
I really liked making this story, it was so much fun!:)
Let's go Team Pegasus!!!!:)
-Emma-
