The Richardsons: A Short Story

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Most of the Richardsons didn’t have the best luck even to the point of their death. Mrs. Richardson had been working on her garden for five years now and never got a s ingle plant to grow or stay alive and the plummer wouldn’t come out to their house so every time a pipe broke. After two years of living in the house all but one pipe stopped breaking and it was the same pipe that broke over and over again. The two kids were twins and went to second grade their names were Jake and Jessica. Mr. Richardson’s first name was Zebryan and Mrs. Richardson’s first name was Cole. Mr. and Mrs. Richardson both worked at a pet store on the east side of town. Mrs. Richardson’s mom Granny Jone lived with them. Granny Jone had …show more content…
Cole didn’t want to put Granny in a nursing home because people seemed to die faster in there. Zeb’s dad was put in a nursing home with an expected two months to live and he had died the next day. Jessica was obsessed with pandas and always had a headband with panda ears on them even if they didn’t match her outfit. Jessica was a 2’9 ft. girl with blonde , long, curly hair and hazel eyes with a silver ring around them. Jack was 4’1ft. with short blonde curly hair and pure green eyes with a little bit of a blue tint to them. Neither Cole or Zeb had blonde hair and were mid height not too short nor to tall so they didn’t know why either had blonde hair nor whe Jessica was so short or why Jake was so tall. They both had dark brown eyes and their children didn’t. Not to mention Jessica had a few medical problems. She had growing pains but didn’t ever grow any taller and her hair grew really fast. Her and Jack both had seizures and she had to had surgery because her achilles tendon in both of her legs were too short so she had to walk on her tippy toes all the time. One day while the kids were at school the pipe in the house broke and Zeb died trying

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