WORSHIP

CHAPTER 1: New place

Day seven of the seven day travel to our new home, I've been sleeping for most of the way but a speed bump made my head hit against the car window. I looked out and all I saw was the color of sand combined with dirt. I immediately got sick, I was used to green and trees with squirrels running around and bird chirping. This place was just silent with barely any color.

"Wow! This is a MUCH better place than California!!" I exclaimed.

"Now, now don't judge this place already. You'll see! This place is going to be great! Besides with my new job, you'll get all the things you want!"

"Can I get a new doll daddy?" said my little sister actually believing him.

"Of course you can honey" he responded

"When are we getting to this WONDERFUL new place dad?" I asked

"Almost there, around twenty minutes left to go!"

I really did not know why he was so excited; he was going to be a secretary, sure he was going to make a couple extra bucks but not enough to buy all the things I want, and that's not a lot.

"Daddy, why are we moving to this place? I liked it back where we were" asked my little sister

"I told you honey, it is a business thing you are too young to understand" responded my dad

"Did daddy get fired mommy?"

"No honey it's just something happened at work that made daddy lose his job ok sweetheart? Now play with Mr. Bunny"

Mom was trying to avoid telling my little sister that my dad's boss committed suicide after losing a 3.5 million dollar deal with the Germans. With the boss gone and no one to take over the company, it was shut down putting thousands of people out of work.

"OH! This is going to be one beautiful place to live" said my dad

I think he was trying to convince himself more than us.

I put in my headphones and started to listen to Papa Roach but right then we stopped.

"Everybody listen, we are here for a quick bathroom break and to pick up some snack so here is some money now go buy a snack and drink while I put in gas all right?" said dad

When I was handed the money, I just put it in my pocket and sat in the car.

After the five minutes we kept moving.

"Daddy what does our new house look like?" asked my sister

"Oh you will love it sweetie! We have a pool a back yard and plenty of neighbors so you will have someone to play with"

She seemed happy but I knew it would disappoint her, for some reason dad has a tendency of being disappointing to the whole family.

After a few minutes we pulled into a very poor looking house. It was entirely made out of wood, there were shingles missing on the roof, the front porch was falling apart, and the door was crooked.

"This?! Were going to be living in THIS??" said my mom about to explode.

"This place sucks!!" said my little sister

I was amazed that a 5 year old could say something like that.

"May, don't use those words" said my mom

"She's right though" I said

"Well, everybody go in and pick a room" said my dad

"Hopefully this place doesn't fall apart" I whispered to myself.

"Liam, take your little sister to a room"

"Sure mom, c'mon May, well get you a good room"

"I think all the rooms are gonna suck"

"Me too, but don't say that in front of dad he'll take Mr. Bunny away"

As I walked my sister up the stairs to the bedrooms I noticed that this place went at least 20 years without having people live in here. There were many spiders and a bug, even a few rats, amazingly May wasn't scared of them.

I let May pick a room but she didn't like any of them, not even the master. I just let her decide on her own while I picked mine. My room was all right, decent space for all my things, and a good sized closet. As I looked out my window onto our empty pool, I heard May scream.

I ran with full speed to her room which was at the end of the hall, and saw May sitting at a corner of her room.

"What happened?!" I asked

"I saw something" said May with a horrified look on her face.

"What was it?"

"WHAT HAPPENED!!" my mom said as she came running to the room.

"She saw something but she won't say what" I answered

"Honey, are you ok? What did you see?" asked my mom calmly

"I saw a man….with blood on his face"

"Where?" I asked

"Out the window. The house right there."

I looked out there and saw him…