Ryan
While Seth and Sara were outside, Lia and I talked to their parents. I was close to just walking back to my aunt's house but Lia grabbed my hand and pulled me into the backyard. I would like to be able to say it was a wonderland of tropical trees but the only thing I could see was sand, sand, a blanket, and more sand and as for there being a blanket, I figured that they might have some sort of cold winter and hoped that came sooner rather than later.
"What're you trying to show me?" I asked her.
"Concentrate," she told me. "What can you see?"
I looked at her as if she had lost it. "It's hot," I complained.
Lia rolled her eyes at me, "Just tell me what you see."
"Sand, a grey sky, and some sort of dying plant."
Lia shrugged and walked inside with me trailing behind her.
When the nighttime rolled around I walked into my Aunt Miana's house for the first time. The front room was completely red, from the floor to the ceiling everything was a bold red. The floor was carpeted and if you hadn't known that it was carpet you would have thought blood was covering a good inch of the surface you were walking on.
"Did someone die in here?" I asked, frightened by the blood-like substance I saw.
"Ka re homina intoxi ent ro?" my dad translated.
Aunt Miana looked beyond offended by that statement. She began yelling at me and I resigned to listening to her even though I understood very few words. This is going to be a long year I thought as she continued to yell at me.