The Romans Necklace: Short Story

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The Romans Necklace

Pale white windows open to the world able to climb through. Wind tracks through the open pale windows blowing everything over and knocking thing to the floor. Pieces of glass shattered and smashed all over the floor. Gashes from falling glass covered the back of the leather couches. A brown coffee table standing tall and still with a shining sparkling turquoise crystal hovering in circles above. I turned to the left only to find a guy lying there with blood covering most of his face. “Ella is he dead!?!” screeched Hailey standing in front of my favorite purple vase but, this time the vase was purple dust. Hailey was just staring at the vase hoping that it could be fixed. Then in the corner of my eye I saw the guy began
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I didn’t want to do anything at that moment so I told her that I was going to tell her what happened to it when they got to the …show more content…
“Put in the trash but, the trash hasn’t been taken out yet.”. She looked at me like she was about to explode and she did. She began to yell, “YOU DID WHAT!!!!”. Ella ran over to the tall silver trash can and looked into but, nothing was in their. I looked into her dark brown eyes and she stared into my light green eyes. Standing their we were panicking in our own minds. Then we dug up the whole house and the place soon began to get trashed. After looking for hours Ella and I had no clue were anything would have been after digging up the whole house.
¨HAILEY WE WOULDN'T BE IN THIS MESS IF YOU STOP MESSING WITH THINGS THAT AREN'T YOURS!!!¨ shouted Ella at the top of her lungs. We left our tiny apartment and started walking down to the park looking for the necklace.
¨So, Ella why is the necklace so important to you?¨ I curiously asked Ella. Ella looked at me but, gave a reason, ¨Well my grandma was giving it to me because it has a valuable crystle on the end. It ran through my Family for centuries and it has been in my family since the roman times. They had enchanted it and kept passing it on.¨. While we were walking we managed to find a shortcut back to the apartment. When we walked in we stood their like cats looking at

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