The Secrets of The Old House

Buzz..buzz...buzz. Arrgh waking up to the alarm for school. Truly and sincerely I hate getting up in the mornings. I got up out of the soft, warm comforts of the bed. My feet hit the unwelcoming, old, pale, floor. It's winter time here in Colorado. Looking out the window to see the beautiful snow. Haha beautiful snow? Have I lost my mind? Walking over to my closet I grab a pair of jeans and a long sleeve shirt that has ACDC written on it. What is that annoying sound? Buzz….Buzzz….Buzzz. Oh ya it's my alarm clock. Silly me I walk over to the alarm clock feet padding on the floor. The alarm clock was sitting on a dark wooden night stand next to my also dark wooden bed that had blue covers. “Belladonna, are you awake I have breakfast!” Shouted my mother. “ Yes mother be right down.” I grabbed my bag and rushed out my door and down the cluttered hallway and to the mahogany staircase that lead into the kitchen. “ I’ve got eggs and bacon want some?” “ Sure Ma.” I sat down and piled my plate with food. My younger sister came running down the steps “ Ma does this look right?” Her name is Ophilia and she is 6 years old. “ Yes dear that looks delightful. Come sit and eat your breakfast.” I have 2 older brothers named Bylaine and Blake are the older twins. Aidoneus the eldest of the boys in the family was walking in the house from the wilderness as I called it, but from hunting with dad in the woods the twins were old enough, but dad didn't think they were mentely old enough to handle a g*n. I am the oldest of the girls in the family but I’m the fourth eldest in the house not counting Ma and Pa. The youngest was Amnesty and Absinthe, the youngest twins. I say mom always had a cool way of naming us, and there are 9 of us. “Put me doooown!” Screemed Livitia at Blake. He came down the stairs with her on his shoulder. “ Aidoneus! Livitia has a boyfriend, what should we do?” Blake sang and halfway screamed I never knew that was possible. When Adoneus heard this “ Hahahah! Who knew this before me?” He laughed as if it was some kind of joke. Lightly giggling as my cheeks turned aflame. I knew this was going to happen some time and nothing gets past him. “Be-ll-a k-nn-eee-wwww” She cried out as Bylaine was tickling her, which made it hard for her to say things like words or even sentences. I gasped and stood up fast my chair flew backward “ What!” I exclaimed “ I knew nothing of this if so I would have told Adoneus. I know that rule well to not get it wrong.” I stood a good distance from everyone. Adoneus turned toward me and gave a lopsided grin. I have to get out of here. I ran over to Ma and kissed her cheek. “ By everyone I have to get to school!” I sang and took off to the door but you could hear the pounding of feet behind me.. Well that's my family….. My name is Belladonna and this is my story. Just wait and see what happens. I have big dark brown eyes that can't choose between light brown and dark brown so it's normally a swirl of those too but sometimes I have just one color just depends on my emotion at the moment, second my hair is a reddish brown and finally I have tan skin from the glorious hot days of summer. I love summer, I hate the cold. Just you wait, my day is about to get even better. Back to the story now…. I can feel the door handle in my hand but the nervous sweat on my palm made it slip as I flew backward into my big brother's chest. Once caught with no way out my face cringed at the thought of getting tickled. I looked up giving him my incontent eyes with a quivering lip. He looked down at me and gave me a small sad face but turned into an evil grin. He tickled me mercilessly not even when I yielded. I never surrender to anyone that's how low he made me stoop. I bucked in his arms to get away but no he let me wear myself out struggling. Once I made myself go limp he ceased to tickle me more. And put me on the couch. Livitia sat down next to me as if she knew she wronged me the wrong way. I turned my head toward her and mouthed ‘You owe me girlfriend’ She gulped in fear as to what I might want or do, but all I wanted was an apology. I looked up to Ophilias eyes filled with worry “ Hey bear boo it's okay I am fine.” I cood. Her nickname was boo bear because she could be like a bear, but also be a softy. She softly walked around the couch and crawled on top of me to be held. I hummed softly as I heard the back door open which usually meant Pa came in. He was in the kitchen with mom. He has been secretive lately. After a few minutes of them talking mom came out with a smile on her face. When Adoneus saw this “ You're not having another kid right Ma?” mom gasped “ Is that what you see of me young man when I have good news?” He instantly withdrew if he had been stung. Ma is the only one we are scared of other then dad but when Ma is mad run and hide it's World War III “ Of course not Ma. What is the good news?” “ We are moving to Maryland!” cried Mother excitedly. All of us stood frozen in shock. Dad walked in to see our faces and we turned toward him checking if it was true. “ Indeed we are packing our bags, you won't be going to school today we are leaving by tomorrow's rising sun.” Dad stated gruffly. We all walked to the stairs with our heads down but the youngest twins were in the living room with mom. Dad followed in behind Livitia because I was carrying Ophelia. “ Arre” yawn “ We… leaving for Marylan?” “ Yes we are, we need to pack, we will go to your room and start. Okay?” “ Okay… we leave to marylan! Yahoo! Imma grab Decota!” Dakota is her stuffed wolf. It is all black with blue spots and silver eyes. We got to the second floor and went to our rooms. Dad was watching us so we didn’t complain about moving houses and packing bags. Ophelia's room was the last door on the right while mine was the last on the left. We walked into her room and packed the clothing that she would hopefully need, as she gathered her stuffed animals into a pile to be packed together. Once done I find Ophelia on the bed and looking at me with sad, brown eyes. I rush over to her thinking the worst such as stubbing a toe. I looked around the room for blood and checked her body for any cuts or a bruise, but nothing was there. Her mouth opened when I got to her “ Why do we have to go? I like it here. Does Ma and Pa not like it here? I don't want to go, don't let the monster take me.” She screamed. “Hush boo bear it's gonna be fine no one will ever hurt you on my watch. Now one ever will take you from me like that. I will not go down without a fight, I will make sure you are safe, you hear me. How about you stay with me in my room instead of livitia huh we could have sleepovers and more.” Oh god please let there be no more crying. I hate to see her sad and hurt. She took a breath “ Okay you promise? Pinky swear on your heart, hope to die?”I linked my fingers with hers “ Pinky swear on my heart, I hope to die .” Making a promise like this won't hurt right? This is nothing to dwell on at the moment. We heard a knock on the door. “Come in!” I shouted. Walking in all his pride filled glory was Adoneus “ Hey what was all that crying and screaming with a sudden word promise in it?” I turned my head to look at my older brother and back to Ophelia “ She was scared of moving homes. Were you listening to my conversation?” I stated with little to no expression, but sympathy was held in my heavy lidded, brown eyes. When the realization hit me smack right in the face “You were! You were! Eavesdropper!Eavesdropper!” I exclaimed. I got up and walked right over to his face, got in his bubble and boped his nose “Hahaha you're an eavesdropper!” He only sighed and walked over to Ophelia's bag I packed and picked it up without a word. Strange he is quiet but then I saw why. Dad was at the door with a solemn expression. He swooped into the room and sat next to me and Ophelia. “ I understand that you two dont want to move but we must do it. There is not enough room for all of us in this house. We wish you to have your own rooms so no more fights will happen between all of you. As you get older you will understand but pack your stuff up but your pillow, blanket, and clothes for tomorrow. Understood?” His voice was rough but held softness in it. It sorta sounded like a deep grumple of thunder from the sky but was not as loud. “ Yes, understood dad.” He turned his head toward Ophelia “ Yes Pa.” He kissed my head and likewise to Ophelia “ Your cousins will be living with us when we move.” I smiled at the thought of my cousins, my crazy prankster cousins that mother dislikes us to the core. Uncle Jakliver is the one who loves his wife but doesn't share the same opinion. Aunt Evangeline thinks we are wild animals that should be sent to finishing school like her kids. Our cousins are sent there but that never stops them from acting out. Oh no did Aunt Eveangalina convince mom to send us to finishing school and have mom brainwashed to send us to one. I get up and walk out of ophelia's room and into mine to start packing. Beep Beep Beep “ The moving truck is here hurrying and get your stuff!’ hollered out mom. I quickly put stuff in bags and hoysted them to the top of the stairs and that when the boys came up the stairs. “ Here's our stuff thank you so much for taking it down for us.” I smiled hoping it would work. The girls behind me smiled at what I was doing to get work done faster. Blake looked at the stuff and back up to us “ Well I don't know if we can take it dear sister we worked our backes off taking our stuff down I think we need a break. Catch me dear loving sister!” He then made a dramatic fall. His aim was off. I thought he would have fallen on the stuff but he lunged for me last minniut and made me topple with him. “ get off of me you bozo!” “ But I am so tired to pick up stuff because my back is in pain.” Blake wined. “ Stop roughhousing on the top of the stairs, let's get the stuff down and in the truck!” Boomed our dad. That made us all straighten up and move along. Pushing and shoving our way to the truck made Bylaine drop something and a loud shatter! When the shadder was heard. Mom came running out of the house to see what happened. “ Holy mother of jesus my snow globe.” She wailed.” Thank the lord you kids are safe and stay away from the glass. It's okay. Bylaine accidents happen.” She started and kissed him on his head. We gave our stuff to the strange looking moving men. Mom was back in the house cleaning and picking up stuff to put in the truck. The moving men were a pailish color with purplish coloration around their skin in certain spots. Wow look at their nails they are sharp looking.” It's not nice to stare at a kid.” Spoke one of the men. It sounded like a hiss almost how he said it. “You're just odd looking people that I have never seen before. Where did my dad hire you from? You're not from around here.” I started with a hard stare. The second man looked at me “ You better get going now kid. Spend time with your family before it's all gone.” I blew my cheeks out with a huff and walked off to move the rest of the stuff. What did he mean by that ‘You better get going now kid. Spend time with your family before it's all gone.’ Strange men say strange things. I walked through the open front door and I heard clanging of pots in the kitchen. . I’m going to help mom out. Walking into the kitchen to see mom on a chair struggling to get to the top shelf that had pans, with her already balancing pans on her arms. “ Mom, do you need some help? Even if you don’t reply I will help.” “ I can’t reach too short.” I gave a small grin to that mom is only 4’6. She is short for a woman but none of us have that yet. I am 5’7 my brothers eldest to youngest are around 7’7, 7’1, and 6’10. I grab the pans in her arm and take them to the open box she was filling. Hering a foot hit the floor ment mom was done trying. “ Belladonna, can you get the pans down while I finish up here?” “ Yes mom I will do that.” After getting done helping in the kitchen. By helping I mean getting the pans and pots down from the top cabinets along with the plates and bowls. Putting them all in boxes and carrying them out to the truck. Dusting my hands off from the last box I walk in to see if mom needs any more help. But I see dad help sweep the non existent dust off the floor, so I turn and walk up the stairs to my room. Once I reach my room I shut the door and start putting my books in a box. I love these books. I have a lot of mystery books, spy books, Percy Jackson books, Cirque Du Freak collection including Larten Creepsly series, along with the Demonata series. I love horror books and movies as much as I love mystery books. Mystical beings always catch a good fantasy novel. Quickly packing my room up but a blanket pillow and tomorrow's outfit included Pjs for tonight. A knock on my door brings me out of picking up and moving boxes to the door. “ Come in!” I shout as the door opens to Livitia and ophelia.” Whats up?” “ Can we sleep in your room tomorrow when we move?” “ Of course you are always welcome in my room. Is there anything wrong?” “ We are sleeping with you tonight. I heard the new house is furnished with beds.” Livita spoke. “ It looks like a castle, an evil vampire castle!” Exclaimed ophelia, she watches horror movies with me. She is in absolute love. “ Where did you hear this from?” “ The movers were talking about how creepy the house looks!” Hmm strange that adds to my suspicions on how they talk about things “ Did they say anything else about the house?” Ophelia went into a pout while she was thinking. Livitia looked at me “ Nothing that we know of and jumped onto my bed. “ I can't wait to see the house! Will it feel scary? Will it look awesome? What can we do in the house?” “ We will have to wait and see. I am overly excited now that it looks like a spooky house and all my friends are going to be jealous.”