Short Story: Ohio Vs. Living In Ohio

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Novia was feeling sick to her stomach with such boiling rage and self pity, she was different from everyone else at school and she didn’t need reminded about it. It was a problem she faced every day but back at her old home there was people who accepted it, but now she has to go through the whole process again! Mr and Mrs Stevenson decided to move to Ohio from New York with their three kids Novia, Braxton and their newborn Piper. Novia thought living in New York was hard already especially being Muslim but now she has to start school in a new place with people she doesn’t know. Living in Ohio is different than living in New York for so many reasons than she could explain beut the main reason is that they now lived in the middle of nowhere. “Honey your gonna be late for school” Mrs. …show more content…
By the end of the day everyone was asking Novia if it was true if she lived in the house and if it was really haunted by the old lady. Novia denied all of these questions she didn’t want to believe them especially not after last night, and worse of all it was in her closet.
Noah came up to Novia
“ So I heard that you live in the house by the woods and I also want to apologize for the question i asked yesterday it as rude, I have to go I’ll talk to you tomorrow”
Novia thought to herself did I maybe actually make a friend. No, Novia made two new friends. Maybe Ohio won’t be as dreadful as she thought it would

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