Narrative Essay On Moving Day

By: Gracie/la Davis

You wake up and jump right out of bed; you cannot believe this day has finally come, the day you've been waiting your entire life for: moving day. Your name is Betty Lagware and you are eight years old, you have light brown hair and deep blue eyes like the ocean. Well that is how you describe them because you love the ocean. In fact you didn't eat fish for two years once. You are moving from Paulina, Oregon to a small town in the state next which would be Seabrook, Washington. Your new house is walking distance to the beach and docks. One more thing you have not been to your house but your parents have; you have not even seen pictures of your new home.

Your mother yells, "Come on Betty, we're leaving!" You throw on your second best summer dress, it has green flowers on a bright pink background and the trim is blue lace. As you speed walk down the stairs you see your older sister, Ruth crying;still crying,she has been crying for the last month or so. You don't see your father, older brother Ned, or younger brother

Homer. Once you get down to the kitchen your mother passes you an egg sandwich and says, "Eat it in the car your father and brothers already left in the moving truck." You grab your backpack and notice a note on it which says, "You're next!!" But you don't have time to figure it out, you hop in the station wagon and there is a scratch on the seat that you didn't see the day before.

You are awoken by a big bump and eye a sign that states, "5 miles to Seabrook." To pass the time you read your favorite book, but you pause when your mother pulls into a long winding driveway with a moving truck and an old spooky-looking Victorian style house at the top of it.

The house is lime green, (which makes it seem sort of bright) with triangle windows, and blue shutters which is nothing you have ever seen before; you have never even imagined a house like that. Now you spot your father and brothers unloading the truck: the couch, Homer's dresser, and a box marked Fragile "Must be the tea cups" you think to yourself. When you get inside your house you tell Ruth who is still sniffling, "I bet this house was just painted." She replies, "Mother told me that Rollec was built in 1884" "What did you call this place?" you ask. "Ro/lee. That is its name because the original owner's last name was Rolleca." Ruth

answers.
Then she says, "Nice place." "Spooky" you say.

Then your mother shows the boys their room, and Ruth hers (both on the second floor) and you wonder where yours is. Then your mother brings you up this winding staircase (that made you very dizzy) to this little door probably 4 feet 6 inches in height. When your mother
opens the door right away you see this eleven foot ceiling a loft bed with a decent looking desk

beneath the bed, but no ladder. So you ask your mother, "How do I get up to the bed?" She replies, "You step on the desk and hop up." So that is exactly what you do after you finish unpacking and you fall asleep.

The next day around 9:30 someone rings the doorbell so you answer the door you see this women with a basket, a two year old looking boy, a boy Homer's age, a girl your age who looks like she really does not want to be there and a boy Ned and Ruth's age (they are twins),

and lastly a tall man holding a pie. You say, "Hello I'm Betty, me and my family just moved here from Paulina, Oregon ." The woman replies,"I am Mrs. Brach, we are your new neighbors. This is Colten he just turned two, and Thomas who is six, Lily she's eight, and Robert who is fifteen, and this is Mr.Brach. Welcome to the neighborhood." You say, "Why thank you, please come in." You introduce everyone and then go on a bike ride with Lily but when you were getting a bike you find another note that says, "You're Next" in red ink; well you think it is red ink. You slip the note into your pocket and ride down the driveway with Lily. One thing she tells you is, "See that ledge up there? People fall off that thing all the time and there is always some sort of note that we find in their pockets." Your heart starts pounding.Then you say, "Um,
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!!!!!!" Thump! You see these ghosts grabbing you.

Then you wake up your in your old home you rollover look at your clock and see that it is 6:50 so you get up and tell yourself it was just a dream. Well you are correct right now, but when you get downstairs your parents tell you that the family is moving to Seaport, Washington.