The White Fox

by Gwennivere Black

hey this is my very first book and i thought i would publish it. so sorry if it is a little raw. it is a story about a girl who lives in a place called mitten. her name is Clara, Clara's life has always been utterly boring and normal. until she is forced to take a journey to blood river when her parents and hers farm failed after a terrible drought. everything will change.

1. Chapter 1: Questions

Chapter 1:

Question's

Clara never knew her life was one big secret. She lived on a farm with her father Robert and her mother Jennifer they lived in a beautiful little blue house it the countryside in cork county. Cork county was the poorest county in mitten, but Clara and her family some how always seemed to pull through a tough spot. they had about five acres of fields in which they grow wheat, corn, and soybeans, but this season the fields were dry as a bone. It had not rained in five months. The only few crops that survived was some small ears of corn that would only last a week. Winter was coming and they need to stalk up on food and supply's if they are to survive the winter. Clara was always a curious girl well at age fifteen that was expected. Clara had bright green eyes the color of a crisp summer grass, her hair was pitch black and pin straight. She had never really thought about it but her mother Jennifer had gentle blue eyes and blonde almost white hair and her father Robert had the same eyes and hair as her mother, and until a few days ago Clara fully started to wonder where did she get the black hair and green eyes. So one night at supper Clara asked her parents where she had gotten her green eyes and black hair. Clara's mothers emotions and feeling were easy to read, and Clara could tell that her mother was uneasy, and nervous. So, when Jennifer glanced at Robert, and Robert looked at her like saying no. Clara said,"OK, what is going on? Mom just answer my question!"

Jennifer replied,"sorry, sweetheart it's just you get your hair and eyes from your great grandmother. We don't like talking about her."

Just the way Jennifer spoke told Clara she was lying, but Clara played it off like she believed her mother and said,"well thank you for actually answering my question."The rest of supper was utterly silent.

When dinner was finished and cleaned up Clara proposed that she would be taking a trip to blood river so that she can fish and hunt for salmon, bear, and beaver. so, that they would have supplies for winter. It would be easy because Robert had taught Clara everything about hunting and fishing and the best seasons, it was also salmon's best season and beaver season, so it was just perfect.

At first Jennifer insisted that Robert go to blood river instead of Clara. Clara's mother was frightened that Clara would get hurt, but Robert had plans of his own. He was planning to go to town and work at the plasma mines, so that they could use the money for even more supply's for winter so Clara would have to be the one to go to blood river. Robert was completely confident that Clara would be fine, but his wife was obviously not the most keen about the idea.

Clara argued with her mother for hours, and still lost, by the end of the argument Jennifer had put her foot down and said "me and your father will talk about this and will give you an answer in the morning, now go to you room and go to bed!"

Then Clara played her last card, and screamed as she stormed up the stairs,"I hate you mom! I hate you more that I have ever hated anyone ever before! I'm going to blood river whether you like it or not, with or without supply's." at that Clara ran to her room, and slammed her door shut. Clara then crashed down on the bed and instantly fell asleep.