Chapter Two

Evicted

As Aelita walked down stair to the kitchen, she found it was perfectly

Normal. Her parents were drinking coffee and her little brother, sipping hot

chocolate with extra whip cream. Her father saw her walk in and poured

hot chocolate for her too.

"What's going on here?" asked a very confused Aelita. "Where's the

flood and the rain storm?"

"Came and past." Her mother assured her," It was smaller than the

people on the radio predicted." She put a big helping of whip cream in

Aelita's mug then went to get some croissants from the pantry.

"Well thank goodness to that." Aelita sighed hugging her china doll

tightly.

"By the way Aelita, you and your brother better get your uniforms on

before your late for the school train." Cautioned her Father.

"Thanks for reminding me father. Come on Aries lets go get ready." Aelita

picked up her little brother and carried him up stairs to get ready for

school.

When Aelita and Aries returned home from school her parents were

waiting for them on the front steps. Aelita and Aries gulped, they both

knew if their parents were waiting for them after school they did

something wrong. Or something was wrong. By the look on their faces,

the weren't in trouble, but they were going to have a long family talk.

"Aelita, Aries, come inside, we have something important to tell you." His

face was stricken and her mother had tear at the brim of her eyes.

"Mommy? Why are you crying? What did we do?" Aries asked going over

to hug his mother.

"Oh sweetheart you and your sister didn't do any thing wrong. It's just –just

you tell them honey, I have to go make dinner." Their mother started up

the stair but was stopped by their father.

"This is a family meeting, and I don't want to tell them anymore than you

do, so Aelita, I would like you to read this letter out loud for all of us." He

handed Aelita the letter.

'A letter.' Aelita thought, 'It's just a letter, it's probably good news like my

brother and I got A's on something, he was just tricking us.' As soon as

Aelita opened the letter and began reading the first sentence, that

thought slowly faded away from her. It wasn't bad like failing a final exam

bad, it was horrible like getting murdered, which is exactly what Aelita

wished someone would do to her right now. Aelita slowly read the letter

to every one. It was hard to read with all the tear splotches, but she read

well enough for everyone.

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Alo,

We are sorry to inform you but do to last nights typhoon we will

have to evict you of you home and bulldoze it before the storm gets any

worse. We would let you stay in your home if we could, but we'd hate to

see anyone get hurt or loose their life in this house, You have two weeks to

buy a new home and move your stuff before we bulldoze you house.

Sincerely,

Peter Marchy

"Oh no!" Aelita cried. " What are we going to do!"