The sky divided with the crash of lightning. The ground rumbled, making the towering boxes stacked in the McBride’s new apartment make a tremendous fall to the floor. It could clearly be mistaken as the end of the world.
The McBride family was new to the jammed packed city life where the air smelled of smoke and pollutants, and anywhere you went, there were tons of people. New York City was going to be Aniah’s fifth home in the past year. She was familiar with California. She’d lived in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento. For the past couple of months the fourteen year old had been used to the quietness of Utah. Unfortunately, her father couldn’t hold a job and money was tight, so being flexible was the only way to make life seem …show more content…
Please take these boxes up to your room and come back down when you finish, we have a lot of work to do.” Aniah’s mother kindly demanded, hinting she was panicked. The young girl didn’t own very much; just the first two Harry Potter series novels, eleven unfitting outfits, and a few knickknacks collected through her travels. The fourteen year old grasped onto her two small boxes, and reassured her mother addressing “I will, don’t worry. Love you.” Aniah was eager to see her new room for the first time, but every step she took was followed by a loud creak. It was like every new home she moved into was 50% of the previous; 50% in size, 50% worse, and 50% blander. Aniah pretended not to notice this around her parents, for they always give an empathetic look towards her if they realize she isn’t …show more content…
There was no closet, so Aniah rested her limited clothes into an unaccompanied corner adjacent to the sheetless bed. Checking her watch, Aniah discovered it was six o’clock; she’d be called downstairs for her father’s supper any minute now. A quick decision caused her to jump onto her springy bed and...well...wait. The songs of birds chirping were well missed, all she could hear were cars beeping and people yelling. It wasn’t that big of a deal though, Aniah has always wanted to live in a big city, and her family was lucky to find such an apartment for a good
The McBride family was new to the jammed packed city life where the air smelled of smoke and pollutants, and anywhere you went, there were tons of people. New York City was going to be Aniah’s fifth home in the past year. She was familiar with California. She’d lived in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento. For the past couple of months the fourteen year old had been used to the quietness of Utah. Unfortunately, her father couldn’t hold a job and money was tight, so being flexible was the only way to make life seem …show more content…
Please take these boxes up to your room and come back down when you finish, we have a lot of work to do.” Aniah’s mother kindly demanded, hinting she was panicked. The young girl didn’t own very much; just the first two Harry Potter series novels, eleven unfitting outfits, and a few knickknacks collected through her travels. The fourteen year old grasped onto her two small boxes, and reassured her mother addressing “I will, don’t worry. Love you.” Aniah was eager to see her new room for the first time, but every step she took was followed by a loud creak. It was like every new home she moved into was 50% of the previous; 50% in size, 50% worse, and 50% blander. Aniah pretended not to notice this around her parents, for they always give an empathetic look towards her if they realize she isn’t …show more content…
There was no closet, so Aniah rested her limited clothes into an unaccompanied corner adjacent to the sheetless bed. Checking her watch, Aniah discovered it was six o’clock; she’d be called downstairs for her father’s supper any minute now. A quick decision caused her to jump onto her springy bed and...well...wait. The songs of birds chirping were well missed, all she could hear were cars beeping and people yelling. It wasn’t that big of a deal though, Aniah has always wanted to live in a big city, and her family was lucky to find such an apartment for a good