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Authors: Christiane Shoenhair, Liam McEvilly
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hair is styled in a similar way as mine but she still looks like the girl next door. I know I could never pull off that look, but Chelsey does it with such ease.
The way I look has given me that extra spring in my step that little bit of extra confidence I need to text my Mom.
To: Mom
Something very strange happened
t o me again this week.
I’d really like to talk to you soon,
A bout everything. To say that
I am confused would be an
u nderstatement.
Hope to hear from you soon,
Love you too,
Trish x x x
7:35 pm
I leave my phone in my room as tonight is meant to be about celebrating being alive and not thinking about what happened. We head out the door to Trish’s car for the twenty minute drive to the party. Both of us as happy as we had ever been, perhaps when we return here tonight we will both have boyfriends.
We arrive at the address Eddie gave us for his grandparents’ house a little after eight, fashionably late. We pull up the long driveway. Surprisingly, for it being out in the middle of nowhere, the grounds are immaculate. The driveway ends in a horseshoe shape in front of the house, in the center of which lies a fountain, it is absolutely stunning. Half a dozen stone cherubs surrounding it, each of them are squirting water out of things that they are holding. There is such detail in the little statues, if I didn’t know any better I would say that they were little children that Medusa, the Ancient Greek monster with snakes for hair, had frozen for eternity.
There is one cherub that really catches my attention; it is made of white and blue glistening marble with its face turned up to the moon, as if it were in prayer and raising a golden goblet, as if in a salute.
T here are only about twenty cars parked out front, maybe people car-pooled? I look up at the colossal mansion for the first time, it’s beautiful!
The mansion itself is made out of a dark red wood, maybe redwood, the tall tree which this area of California is so famous for. It’s a huge house. It makes me thing of ancient Rome, and the villas they used to have with the huge columns out front, all I’m missing now are the gladiators fighting in the front yard for their Lanista. All of it is absolutely breathtaking. I didn’t know Eddie’s family were so wealthy, the brand new Mercedes was beginning to make sense now.
The remainder of the grounds are just as impressive. The darkness now eliminated by spotlights at the front of the house. I can see that there are beautifully sculpted hedges everywhere; they’re the shapes of animals. They litter the lush, green grass. I can make out an elephant, lion and a giraffe the rest of them are too far away for me to see by moonlight alone.
The moon is full tonight; we had a great view of it and the stars twinkling in the clear night sky as we drove through the darkness to get to the house. There must have been about five miles between the nearest sign of civilization and here.
As we pull slowly up the driveway, both in awe of the house, (I can tell Chelsey was impressed as she was silent) we realized that Eddie has a valet, a young dark haired college student opens Chelsey’s door and offers her his hand to help her out of her old Subaru. He takes her keys and hands her a ticket, which she stuffs into her pocket as we walk up to the house, and knock on the huge wooden door using the heavy brass knocker.
While I was half expecting an English butler to open the door and call us ‘Madams’ to my pleasure it’s Keagan who opens the door and stands in the doorway, just staring at us for a full 20 seconds before finally opening his mouth. “So you two actually made it!”
He has the dark, brooding look on his face again and all the joy and excitement I felt driving here seem to disappear. Trying to make him smile I give him a hug and kiss, that he barely reciprocates. “Everything alright?” I ask. He can only shrug in reply.
Chelsey is not as easily
The way I look has given me that extra spring in my step that little bit of extra confidence I need to text my Mom.
To: Mom
Something very strange happened
t o me again this week.
I’d really like to talk to you soon,
A bout everything. To say that
I am confused would be an
u nderstatement.
Hope to hear from you soon,
Love you too,
Trish x x x
7:35 pm
I leave my phone in my room as tonight is meant to be about celebrating being alive and not thinking about what happened. We head out the door to Trish’s car for the twenty minute drive to the party. Both of us as happy as we had ever been, perhaps when we return here tonight we will both have boyfriends.
We arrive at the address Eddie gave us for his grandparents’ house a little after eight, fashionably late. We pull up the long driveway. Surprisingly, for it being out in the middle of nowhere, the grounds are immaculate. The driveway ends in a horseshoe shape in front of the house, in the center of which lies a fountain, it is absolutely stunning. Half a dozen stone cherubs surrounding it, each of them are squirting water out of things that they are holding. There is such detail in the little statues, if I didn’t know any better I would say that they were little children that Medusa, the Ancient Greek monster with snakes for hair, had frozen for eternity.
There is one cherub that really catches my attention; it is made of white and blue glistening marble with its face turned up to the moon, as if it were in prayer and raising a golden goblet, as if in a salute.
T here are only about twenty cars parked out front, maybe people car-pooled? I look up at the colossal mansion for the first time, it’s beautiful!
The mansion itself is made out of a dark red wood, maybe redwood, the tall tree which this area of California is so famous for. It’s a huge house. It makes me thing of ancient Rome, and the villas they used to have with the huge columns out front, all I’m missing now are the gladiators fighting in the front yard for their Lanista. All of it is absolutely breathtaking. I didn’t know Eddie’s family were so wealthy, the brand new Mercedes was beginning to make sense now.
The remainder of the grounds are just as impressive. The darkness now eliminated by spotlights at the front of the house. I can see that there are beautifully sculpted hedges everywhere; they’re the shapes of animals. They litter the lush, green grass. I can make out an elephant, lion and a giraffe the rest of them are too far away for me to see by moonlight alone.
The moon is full tonight; we had a great view of it and the stars twinkling in the clear night sky as we drove through the darkness to get to the house. There must have been about five miles between the nearest sign of civilization and here.
As we pull slowly up the driveway, both in awe of the house, (I can tell Chelsey was impressed as she was silent) we realized that Eddie has a valet, a young dark haired college student opens Chelsey’s door and offers her his hand to help her out of her old Subaru. He takes her keys and hands her a ticket, which she stuffs into her pocket as we walk up to the house, and knock on the huge wooden door using the heavy brass knocker.
While I was half expecting an English butler to open the door and call us ‘Madams’ to my pleasure it’s Keagan who opens the door and stands in the doorway, just staring at us for a full 20 seconds before finally opening his mouth. “So you two actually made it!”
He has the dark, brooding look on his face again and all the joy and excitement I felt driving here seem to disappear. Trying to make him smile I give him a hug and kiss, that he barely reciprocates. “Everything alright?” I ask. He can only shrug in reply.
Chelsey is not as easily
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