II: Opening
January twenty-first, Saturday morning Carmen awakened realizing that today was her birthday. It had now been two months since the last visit to grandma, and she really wanted to go as a birthday present.
"Mom can I go to grammys house for my birthday present please?"
"Are you sure thats what you really want?" Mother questioned.
"Yes it is and I would appreciate it so much besides, we need to visit grammy again anyways." Carmen stated. The two traveled across town were they were stopped by a strange man standing in the middle of the road constantly chanting. A door opened is another one shut. A door opened is another one shut he said over and over again, Mother was getting more freightened every time he said it. Stepping on the gas, they pulled away from him and drove off, thinking to themselves, "why was that man in the middle of the road and what was he doing?" There is always someone in your life who will be scary, this story will help you realize that it's possible to bypass fear through another way(we talk about that later). coasting up the driveway, they came to a stop. "Bye mom! Love you!"
"I love you two honey!" Last words were never spoken better. Ding-Dong! Ding-Dong! "I'm coming! Hold your horses." Susan yelled. Opening up the door was an unexpected surprise. "Hello darling come on in and happy birthday, I got you a present."
"Really grammy? Thats so cool what is it?"
"You'll have to wait and find out, but why are we standing outside in the cold, lets go make a nice hot fire shall we?" After that they both went down to the basement, grabbed some wood, and tossed it into the fireplace. Turning to Susan with a big fat grin, Carmen asked her were her present was. "The key! Oh thank you so much grammy, all i have to do is get Brandon to get here asap. He will be sooooo excited!"
"Thought you would've been happy, I was looking at my old year book when I found it there. Just as clean and shiny as a whistle too. No idea why I put it in my old yearbook, oh well."
Carmen called up Joshua, Brandon's best friend to tell him about the rings. Mother wasn't home yet, so he had no way of getting over there. Susan lost her drivers license about three years ago in an accident, but that is another tail not told in this book. "It can't hurt for me to just open it and "look" at the rings until mom can bring him over." Carmen thought to herself. So that egcactly what she did, after lunch she tip-toed up to the attic and picked up the golden brown case. Inserting the key gave her goose bumps worse than last week's cold front. The hinges creaked as it opened, and suddenly when she picked up a yellow one, just to look at it...Whoosh she was gone!