New Home -
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Pari Tailor, Grade 7
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Short Story
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2022
It was a warm, sunny afternoon, Mia was at her friend Leyla’s home. Leyla and Mia were eating lunch when Mia’s mum knocked on the door. Leyla’s mum went to open it and she came inside and they had coffee together, while Mia helped Leyla pack her bag for the sleepover. When Leyla was finished, they ran downstairs and hopped into the car. While driving mum talked about the new house, that she went to see with dad. She told Mia that they are thinking about buying the home but want her and Kate to see it first. Mia wasn’t sure that she wanted to move to a new house.
The evening went on and it was the next day, Kate, Leyla, and Mia got ready to see the house. On the drive to the house Mia kept mentioning that’s she didn’t want to move but her little sister, Kate was excited. Leyla told Mia that having a new home can be fun and exciting, Mia understood and was then excited to see the house. They reached and the agent opened it up for them, it was huge, the girls ran upstairs to see the upstairs bedrooms. The rooms had big windows with light beaming through, they were really spacious, all the rooms had walk in wardrobes and one of them had a bathroom. They wandered off to different rooms, Mia and Leyla went together into the master bedroom and Kate went into a bedroom with the smallest wardrobe. When Kate entered the wardrobe, she saw a little door in the corner. She was curious and called, Mia and Leyla, they all went towards it and Mia opened it!
Slowly they all crawled in, Mia used her phone as a torch and found a light switch. Switching on the light, Kate felt like being tucked into bed, it was huge, there was a living room with a tv, a kitchen with food inside and four bedrooms. The bedrooms had soft mattresses and the comfiest blankets, there was a tv and a bathroom in one. After looking around they crawled out of the secret room and went straight downstairs and told them that the house was amazing. Kate and Mia’s parents bought the house, and they all started to pack to move in. A week went by, and they got the keys to the house. Mia told Kate that she could have the room with the secret door and Mia would choose another one. It was late and the girls went to bed, BANG BANG BANG, the noise was coming from Kate’s room, she was scared and didn’t know where on her room it was coming from.
Mia soon woke up too and followed the noise to Kate's room. They didn't want to go down, but they had no other choice, Kate opened the door and they both went in. They entered and found a cat, Mia slowly picked it up, Kate crept into their parents room and they got to keep the cat.