AN: Someone's comment on my last story made me want to change this around. They said most of my story was quotes and I realized they were right so I'm trying to calm down on my quotes fetish.
I quickly walked out of the hotel, purposely ignoring the doormen who were warning me about the storm. Only an idiot couldn't recognize that we were in for a big storm. There were huge dark gray thunderclouds covering the horizon and occasional flashes of heat lightning that played across the sky. I sighed, inwardly, in delight as I was swallowed by a stiff, warm breeze that swirled around me, flinging my hair around.
I quickly walked over to the Tidal Basin excited to be engrossed in the beauty of the storm and the cherry blossoms. When I reached the Tidal Basin I gasped in surprise. I had seen it in pictures, but the sight took my breath away. The cherry blossoms were in full bloom and they were surrounding the basin. They were filled with pink flowers with petals that got swept up in the wind and seemed to fly away.
I walked around the basin taking in the beauty, walking towards the Jefferson Memorial where my mom was going to meet me. I walked up the marble steps and I heard laughter bouncing off of the walls. Some kids a few years older than me were skateboarding in the monument.
"Who do we have here?" One of them asked when he saw me.
"Someone who will kick your ass if you lay a finger on her," I replied coolly.
They all laughed at me, "I like them feisty," one of them said.
They began to advance on me and I got ready to kick some idiotic ass. They made a circle around me still laughing, looking like depraved piranhas who just found a good meal.
One of them lunged at me and I grabbed his outstretched arm and flung him across the circle into another one of his friends. They both fell to the hard marble floor making an "oomph" sound. The rest of the kids now wary of me continued to circle around.
Two more of them lunged at me and I rolled out from under them, making them ram their heads into each other. I grinned evilly at the last guy standing and he made a run for it leaving his friends.
"Allegra (AN: not related to the one from Chastity)!" I heard a familiar voice yell, "What did you do now?"
I looked over and saw my mom running up the stairs, worry etched across her face. She flipped her blonde hair over her shoulder, the way she did when she was worried about what I did. And I saw her flip her hair a lot.
"They tried to take advantage of me so I showed them how I take to being bullied," I explained, knowing that my mom would forgive me.
"Well, I guess that's okay," she replied slowly, "but from now on you do not leave my sight. Okay? I do not want the cops to arrest my fourteen year old daughter."
"Fine," I sighed. Now I would have to spend the rest of my vacation with my mother following me around.
We walked the rest of the way back to the hotel. We walked into the fancy hotel, looking totally out of place, just like when we first entered. We had won a contest for a week in D.C. at a five-star hotel even though the fanciest restaurant we go to is T.G.I Friday's. No one seemed to pay us particular attention, but I knew that they all noticed our ratty clothing and our lack of jewels.
I ditched my mom after we got to our room, quickly changing into my bathing suit and heading down to the pool. I reached the pool and jumped in. I had never been a big fan of water, but I was going to do anything to get away from my mom. I swam around for a bit when I saw a strange man watching me swim back and forth. He was probably one of those child molesters who thought he was going to touch a wimpy little girl.
I climbed out of the pool and dried off. I wrapped the towel around me and walked over to the man. I probably looked really wimpy because I was wearing a white cotton towel and a polka dot bikini top.
"Why are you staring at me?" I asked looking at the man suspiciously.
"To make sure that you are the right one," he said menacingly and then he slowly began to shrink.
He was slowly withering and turning green and I saw that bleeding cheeks, huge nails, and hair that was so dusty it looked like no one had touched it a century had replaced his normal looks.
I did what any sane person would do, I ran. I burst through the pool door and I started to sprint down the long hallway. I stopped at the elevator and I began to frantically press the button. I turned at saw the…… thing hopping down towards me and cackling evilly (have you ever seen the word cackling referring to something good? I didn't think so). Finally with a Ding the door slid open and I began to frantically press a random number.
The doors began to close when the thing reached me and wrenched the doors open, making a horrible screeching sound. It stood in front of me grinning and then with no warning it pounced. Time seemed to slow down around me and without thinking I rolled under the hag-like monster and ran down the hallway.
I began to turn around when I realized I had run into a dead end, but the hag was right behind me. I ran all the way to the end of the hall and looked out the window. I definitely could not jump out; I was about twenty stories above the street.
The hag jumped at me again and this time I fell to the ground and using my legs I kicked the hag out of the window. I heard a horrible ear-piercing screech as the hag fell out of the window.
I turned around to go back to my room to get my mom, but she was already at the end of the hallway, staring at me in horror. She had a deer in the headlights expression as she quickly ran towards me and made sure that I was okay.
"Mom, do you know what that was?" I asked.
"We have to leave," was all she said as she wrenched me down the hall in a death grip like she was afraid that I would run away from her after a hag attacked me.
AN: I finished my Social Studies report!! And now I really wish that India was still under British control because then I would be free of that stupid report. Well tell me what you think.