Chapter two A new Beginning
Sara Packed up what was left of her old life piled it into her car and began her long journey from San Francisco to North Carolina. Three days and two nights later she pulled up to the old Cape Cod style house. It was huge it was two story's with a large covered front wrap around porch. Two old wooden rocking chairs sat on the porch along with a porch swing. The wind was blowing gently and the swing creaked as it swung back and forth. Trees lined up the old rocky drive way that pulled up to the house. It looked as if it had been built in the early eighteen hundreds. The house had been painted a light blue color with white trim and white shutters. It looked like it needed a new coat of paint.
Sara's mom had told her that the North Carolina Historic society had kept it up with repairs and that the whole house had been completely restored. All in the entire house and all of the antiques inside were well worth over five million dollars her mother had estimated.
Sara opened her car door pulled out her two suitcases and walked up the old front porch. Under the door mat was the key her mother had said. Sara pulled over the door mat and there sat the key to her new and hopeful future. Sara put the key in the lock and turned the knob. The old wooden door creaked open. Sara gasped at what she saw in front of her it was the most beautiful home she had ever been in. The living room was large and spacious two old burgundy Victorian couches sat along the walls. The front Window was large and allowed plenty of light to enter antique lace curtains lined the three large front windows. A chandelier hung above a cherry wood Victorian end table with an antique vase with fake roses in it. Large oval Burgundy rugs adorned the deep cherry wood floors. The floors had been refinished and were bright and shiny. Off the living room was a long hallway and on the right hand side it opened into a large kitchen. There in the corner was an old cast iron stove with an old antique coffee pot sitting on top. Also an old cast iron skillet lay next to the coffee pot. It still looked like it was useable. Cherry wood cabinets lined the walls and a few windows spaced in between allowed for the side view of the yard there outside was an old oak tree that looked well over a hundred years and tied to it was a large tire swing. The whole house seemed to be completely furnished.
Sara walked to the door at the end of the kitchen and it opened into a large dining room a long Cherry wood table sat under another beautiful crystal chandelier with old style gas lanterns that were made to look like candles.
There were four cherry wood chairs on each side of the table and one on each end of the table. It looked like a very formal setting and that once a large family must have had many dinners here. The house itself had a very warm and inviting feeling. For the first time Sara actually felt comfortable and at home.
In the back of the house was another hallway this one shorter and a study off the right side and a full library on the left. Another passageway opened to a long spiral staircase with beautiful cherry wood railings and old antique pictures lined the way up the stair case it twisted around two times before finally entering the upstairs level. Sara walked down this hallway and found four bedrooms on the left with a bathroom at the end and then on the right side of the hall was a large nursery and the Master Bedroom next to that with another bathroom at the end of the hallway on the right side. All in all it was a very large house; it had six bedrooms including the nursery, a living room, dining room, kitchen and a study. It was everything Sara had hoped for. She opened the door to the Master bedroom and set her suitcase on the large king size Victorian bed. On the far wall of the bedroom there were a set of French doors. Sara opened them up and walked out to a large patio with a railing and a beautiful view of the ocean and the beach. The back yard was full of oak and sycamore trees with a white picket fence that surrounded the grass filled yard. A rose garden bloomed in the left corner of the yard and at the back of the yard a large wooden gate led straight out to the rocky beach. In the far off distance Sara could see a light house gleaming in the noon day sun. Wow, what a view she thought, I will have to come out here at night.