The slight crunch of leaves below my feet echoes in my ears as I head down to the pear for my morning walk. Every morning since summer started I had walked down to the peer and watched the boats cast off, hoping one of them would have my dad on it. My name is Scarlett gingham, I'm 14 years old, and my dad just recently joined the navy. I had begged him not to leave me, I had done everything in my power to make him stay, but it was no use. He had his heart set on helping our country defend those who are less fortunate. This wouldn't have bothered me so much, except for the fact that I have no mother. Me and my dad were fine living together but than he left and I was forced to drop out of school and work around the house. Exactly one year to this day I had watched him sail away, I still remember the salty, cold feeling as the first of many tears streamed down my cheek. That pretty much explains why I am now sitting on the dock of the peer listening to the comforting thunk of the water as it splashes up against my toes.
Casually I glance down at my watch and spring up onto my feet after seeing that it was 8:30 and I still need to wash my apron before I can start the morning chores. My scraped bare feet pound hard against the pavement as my steady paced walk turns into a run. Suddenly my feet jolted to a stop as if a brick wall had materialized right before my eyes and I turned my head to see why. To my left was the abandoned path which I take home from the peer and to my right sat a rather large house that looked like it had been abandoned for years. What I didn't understand was how I had only just noticed it. Being the curious child I am the very though of there being a house I didn't know of intrigued me till I just had to know. I decided at midnight I would sneak down and see what was inside that mysterious house.
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