Heidi2850
June 5th, 2008, 03:26 AM
Hi my story is 38 pages long and I will post one page so that you can tell me if you like it and if you want me to post the rest of it.
Where The Heart Is
“We couldn’t be like every other normal family and just move to another suburb, could we?” whinged Katie as she watched familiar landmarks rush by on the other side of the car window, which to her was acting as a barrier, holding her captive and leaving her helpless to stop the tragedy that was unfolding before her.
She could see the popular shopping mall coming up on the left side of the road.
“Can we please stop for just a minute? Who knows when I’ll see civilised shops again! I could really use a few more clothes.”
“Sweetie, we’re moving to the country, not another planet.” Katie’s mum said soothingly. “There’ll be shops, I promise.”
“Besides, isn’t three suitcases full of clothes enough for you?” teased her dad. Katie rolled her eyes and rested her head on the cool window beside her. She hated to think what kinds of clothes she would find in country clothing stores. Probably cowboy hats and those scrappy looking jeans the cowboys wear in movies. At this horrifying thought, Katie turned up the music on her ipod, and tried in vain to block out the reality that was her life.
Katie’s parents, Mike and Jenny Freeman, had always talked about moving to the country. Katie could recall them talking about it from as early as when she was five, but it never happened. Now seventeen, Katie had assumed she was safe. She had grown up on the Gold Coast in Australia’s sunshine state, Queensland. Her skin was a perfect bronze colour from countless weekends spent at the beach with her friends, and her sun-bleached hair sat in well-kept curls that just brushed her slender shoulders. She was a city girl through and through so why, when she had great friends and a drop dead gorgeous boyfriend, had her parents decided to pack up their belongings and drive six hours into the middle of nowhere? Couldn’t they have waited a year or two and given Katie a chance to find a place of her own? Apparently not or she wouldn’t be stuck in this stuffy car, bored brainless, and heading towards a small country town with a population of just one hundred.
Where The Heart Is
“We couldn’t be like every other normal family and just move to another suburb, could we?” whinged Katie as she watched familiar landmarks rush by on the other side of the car window, which to her was acting as a barrier, holding her captive and leaving her helpless to stop the tragedy that was unfolding before her.
She could see the popular shopping mall coming up on the left side of the road.
“Can we please stop for just a minute? Who knows when I’ll see civilised shops again! I could really use a few more clothes.”
“Sweetie, we’re moving to the country, not another planet.” Katie’s mum said soothingly. “There’ll be shops, I promise.”
“Besides, isn’t three suitcases full of clothes enough for you?” teased her dad. Katie rolled her eyes and rested her head on the cool window beside her. She hated to think what kinds of clothes she would find in country clothing stores. Probably cowboy hats and those scrappy looking jeans the cowboys wear in movies. At this horrifying thought, Katie turned up the music on her ipod, and tried in vain to block out the reality that was her life.
Katie’s parents, Mike and Jenny Freeman, had always talked about moving to the country. Katie could recall them talking about it from as early as when she was five, but it never happened. Now seventeen, Katie had assumed she was safe. She had grown up on the Gold Coast in Australia’s sunshine state, Queensland. Her skin was a perfect bronze colour from countless weekends spent at the beach with her friends, and her sun-bleached hair sat in well-kept curls that just brushed her slender shoulders. She was a city girl through and through so why, when she had great friends and a drop dead gorgeous boyfriend, had her parents decided to pack up their belongings and drive six hours into the middle of nowhere? Couldn’t they have waited a year or two and given Katie a chance to find a place of her own? Apparently not or she wouldn’t be stuck in this stuffy car, bored brainless, and heading towards a small country town with a population of just one hundred.