Jack! Jack! What's wrong Jack speak to me! Kate ran to the phone and dialed 911.
"Hello?" a gruff male voice rasped, "please! My uncle, I don't know what's wrong please
help me!" Kate exasperatedly stumbled over her words. "Calm down" the voice calmly
rasped into the speaker phone. "Where are you right now?" he asked. "150 Tansgrove"
she yelled into the phone. "How old are you?" he rasped back. Why was he asking her
all these unnecessary questions? She fumed " Fifteen" she practically
screamed. "Is there anybody else in the house?" the voice asked. "NO!"
she screamed. "Sit tight an ambulance is on its way" he said extremely calmly. They
arrived four minutes later, but to Kate it felt like hours. She would never forget that day.
Jack Andry Brown, read the tombstone above her uncles grave. It had been a month ago when it had
happened. Kate would never forget it. "Come on Kate!" her brother Josh yelled, "We have to go!" Kate shed
one more tear then she turned and ran to the car. It would be a month till she visited his grave again. She
looked at the grey moving van that held all her families belongings. It was a bright sunny day. It was very
hard to cry meanwhile looking at the sunflowers and the golden fields. "Toronto here we come!" Her father
yelled in a greatly obnoxious voice. Kate just sighed and looked at her uncles grave for the last time. She
then jumped into the car, slammed the door, plopped into her seat, jammed her earphones into her ears and
fell asleep looking at the passing fields, as if they where singing a sad lullaby just for her.
Kate woke up two hours later to the yell of her brother "Kate! Kate! Wake up!" He
exclaimed "were here!". She looked out the window. There was a road with cars zooming down it. It must be
rush-hour she thought, then looked at her watch, no it was to late to be rush-hour. She quickly dismissed
this thought. Kate turned to look at the house. The driveway was black and the sidewalk was grey and so
was the house. She looked desperately for a tree even a blade of grass, but there was no vegetation in
sight. Kate took a deep breath and jammed her earphones back into her ears and turned the volume all the
way up. She laid back on her seat, shut her eyes and told herself This is not happening. Where had all the
sunflowers gone? What happened to all the golden fields of wheat and barley? No this was only a mistake,
in a few minutes she would feel the car moving because her father realized that this was the wrong house
and they would move into a white house with a huge garden. She was pulled out of her thoughts by her
brother who had pulled her earphones out of her ears. "Come help us unpack" he unbuckled her buckle and
dragged her out of the car. "Cheer up" he said "we can pot some plants and stick them out here". "Ya, just
like we can plant sunflowers or fields on the sidewalk" she said sarcastically. Josh poked her teasingly "you
can be grumpy if you want" he said with a smile on his face. He shrugged and ran inside the house. Well she
thought I may as well make the most of it and get the best room befor Josh does. Kate grabbed her back pack
and made shore it had all her stuff in it (Her favorite books, comfort food, her doll witch her mother had given
to her when her parents had the divorce and the notebook she wrote everything in) then trudged gloomily
towards the house.
The house was a medium size. The ground floor had a white kitchen, a brown living room, a green office, a
pink washroom (witch Josh hated) and a coat closet. As you walked it you saw a stair case. Upstairs there
where four rooms, one green one blue one yellow and one turquoise. All of them had a bathroom and a walk
in closet (maybe this wouldn't be so bad after all Kate thought). The biggest room obviously went to her father
and Kate and josh would argue about witch room they got, and the empty room would be a guest room Kate
guessed.
Four hours later all the furniture was in the house (not in the rooms but in the hall) and the rooms had been
decided. Kate got the blue room and Josh got the green room. It took three days and three nights to finish
setting up the rooms and unpack all of there belongings.
It took one week to finally finish settling and another week for it to feel like home. "I want to start talking
about school" there father said one night at dinner. "What!" Josh and Kate said at the same time. Josh and
Kate had always been home schooled because, the schools in the country where to expensive and they had
a Inca fichant educational system. "I have been looking at a few schools for a few months" her father said.
"But we haven't even lived her for a month!" Josh interrupted. "The sooner you start the better" there father
said loudly "And I've decided on the schools" Kate gasped and was about to say some thing but her father
interrupted "Josh will be going to Hight wall and Kate will go to Netivot" "What!" Josh yelled "Why can't I be
with Kate?" "Because" there father said patiently "Its only for students who have a high academic standing
and It's an only girls school" It was Kate's turn to yell "What! An only girls school!" she buried her head in
her hands. Josh gave her a disapproving look. "It's not what you think" she moaned "It's just that dad
probably chose those jappy schools with idiot stupid girls". Josh started snickering "Shut up"
Kate snapped. After dinner Kate ran to her room and started crying. Not because of school and not because
she missed her home town and her friens but the reason she always cried at night because she missed her
uncle,Jack
Two weeks later at seven in the mourning Josh and Kate where waiting at the bus stop, dressed and ready
for school, there bags almost ripping with the weight of all the books. "Well bye bye little kiddies" there
father called from the house. "#$ little kiddies" Josh mumbled he was a very bad morning person. His hair
was still ruffled because he forgot to brush it. Finally a bus painted bright pink with the name Netivot written
in dark pink bold letters. "Holy #" Kate cursed, Josh looked up to see what she had cursed at, then started
laughing "ha ha ha ha is ha ha ha that ha ha ha your bus?" he asked between bursts of laughter. The bus
stoped right in front of her, Kate thought of running back to the house but Josh pushed her towards the
buss when the door opened. An old lady sat at the front she had big old fashion glasses which had ugly
written all over them. "Hello my dear" she said in a crunchy voice. "Hi" Kate answered in a cracked voice; she
looked at all the girls in the bus then whispered to her self "welcome to the first day of Netivot"
Kate looked up and down the rows. The first five rows were filled with the cool group. The next three where
filled with Tomboys. Next four where filled with nerds. But at last she saw an empty seat next to an eager
looking Asian girl. She had warm chocolate brown eyes, her hair was a shiny black she wearing a beautiful
Roxe sweater with Abercrombie pants. Kate looked at her cheap jeans and her blue top, then made her way
to the last seat at back of the bus.
"Hello is anyone sitting here?" Kate asked "no" the girl said in a small voice. Kate plopped her self down on
the seat unceremoniously; the girl gave her a sweat smile. "My names Asiai" she said shyly "Hi im Kate" Kate
replied. There was an awkward silence. As the girls sized each other up. "You have beautiful eyes" ( authors
note k I know this is a stupid akward conversation but i didint know what to wright) Asiai
whispered. Kate had dark blue eyes almost black which matched her dark straight hair. Kate laughed, and
shook her head "not as beautiful as yours" she answered. Then Asia laughed she had a rich laugh, unlike
her shy voice. What Kate thought was going to be the worst bus drive of her life turned out to be the best
day of her life because of Asiai.
After a half an hour bus ride Kate felt nauseated as she stumbled down the bus steps. The school was huge
it had beautiful red and grey brick (thank god it isn't pink Kate thought) and had huge blue doors. She quickly
ran inside, Im going to sketch the whole school if it's all as wonderful as this she thought. When Kate stepped
inside she was disappointed. The hall was a plain brown, the floors where a dark turquoise. "Whoever chose
this colour has very bad taste" Kate observed, Asiai nodded her head in agreement and whispered "the
principle chose it and by how loud you said that he probably heard you" Asia pointed at a Fat man in a
pinstripe suit who was looking sourly at Kate. "Whoops" Kate said and turned a beet red colour. Asia just
laughed and said "don't worry he'll probably forget your face as soon as you leave the hall". Kate sighed
with relief. By then Kate and Asiai where at the end of the hall where a great stair case prodded upwards.
Kate was about to climb the steps when Asiai pulled her to a small plum purple door, (which of course the
principle had chosen) which read "Office". "You have to get your locker first" Asiai laughed, "whoops" Kate
shrugged. Then together they pushed the purple door open.
The office was a plum purple just like the door. There where four desks which sat four fat old ladies, who
Kate presumed where the secretaries. Hello?" Kate asked, the secretary closest to Kate and Asiai looked up,
she had a pale face that surprisingly had no wrinkles and her hair was a dark grey. "Hello" she said in a
surprisingly high voice "my name is Sora what can I do for you?" "Kates new here and she'd like to know her
locker number" Asiai explained. Without a word Sora pulled out a huge filing book and flipped to Kates name.
"Your Kate brown fifteen years old grade eleven and your locker number is 110" said Sora as she Handed
Kate a name tag that read in fancy letters, Kate brown, fifteen years old, grade eleven, locker number
110 ,and handed her a blue lock. "Thank you" Kate responded. She opened the door and ran upstairs with
Asia her side.
The first class was Geometry. Her teacher was a Skinny man, his name was Mr. Reiner ( author note :my
teachers name) . The week flew by in a flash math, English, science lunch, history and math again. As the
days went by Asiai and Kate became best friends. Every day Kate woke up went to school came home did
homework ate dinner went to bed cried about jack and went to sleep.
Two more weeks passed school was great, by now Kate was comfortable with the curriculum and couldn't
wait for the month to end and for the break to start because she new that she would soon visit her uncles
grave again. When Kate got home at four o'clock, she did her home work ate dinner went to bed but she
didn't cry, she just pulled out her note book and drew a picture of a certain Asian girl.
Finally the break started, Kate was packed and ready to go back home for a week. At ten in the morning
Kate Josh and there dad where ready to go. It took two hours to reach the bed and breakfast, but as soon
as they got there Kate jumped out of the car and walked to the cemetery (even though it was twenty
minuets away). When Kate got to her uncles grave she started to cry. Not tears of sadness but tears of
hope and joy because of a certain Asian girl.