Hello everyone! I just wanted to say yet another quick thank you to everyone that reviewed the last chapter. You are all amazing! Sorry it took me so long to post again, my birthday was a few weeks ago (August 16th, woo!) and I've been super busy with starting back to school. I've also been making plans for another story, but I'm not sure if that will actually happen. I hope you like this chapter!
"Mommy?" A small voice echoed throughout the halls of the Oliver's home.
The little girl smiled softly as she was greeted with silence, beginning to tip-toe through the house. Her black and orange striped socks helped to cancel out the sound of her tiny feet making their way to the front door of the house.
Just as she made it to the entry hall, she heard a noise from upstairs. Brynn quickly spun on her heels, her straight, brown hair flying out behind her.
Mommy?
She stood as still as she could, waiting for her mother to come down the stairs.
After a few seconds, she decided that it couldn't have possibly been her mother making the noise, and she continued on her way to the door.
"Please be quiet, please be quiet, please be quiet.." She whispered softly to herself, as she reached up and unlocked the door.
CLICK.
"Shhh!" She warned the lock, as if it could control the clicking sounds it made.
As she opened the front door, the nice autumn breeze greeted her, softly blowing her hair around. She smiled, fall was her favorite season.
Brynn took a step outside, smiling to herself for making it out without awaking her mother. She turned back and looked in the house one last time, and then she quietly shut the door behind her.
"Yes!" She smiled, doing a small victory dance on the brick stairs of the house.
Her blue-green eyes quickly scanned the front yard, searching for one thing in particular.
"Perfect." She smiled.
Brynn quickly ran down the steps, running towards the orange and brown leaves laying in the yard. When she reached the pile of leaves, she quickly stopped, trying to decide what to do next.
"Good morning Brynn!" A voice called from the sidewalk in front of the house.
Brynn's big eyes grew even bigger, afraid that she had been caught by one of her mother's friends. She let out a sigh of relief when she saw that it was just one of the neighborhood boys, riding by on his bike.
"Hi!" She smiled and waved back as he peddled by the yard.
She hardly played with the boys of the neighborhood, or at least not the older ones. She stood in place, a look of confusion displayed on her face as she thought of how the boy knew her name.
"Oh!" She giggled, looking down at her pajama shirt.
She was wearing a black, long sleeve pajama shirt, with a ghost displayed in the middle of it. Underneath the ghost was her name, printed in big, orange letters.
Her eyes quickly went from her shirt to the pile of leaves at her feet. She picked the orange leaves out and carried them one by one to the steps of the house, laying them all side by side.
"One, two, three.." She counted out loud to herself.
"Ten orange leaves. Not good enough!" She shook her head, turning to go back to the pile of leaves.
She surveyed the scene in front of her; she had already picked all of the prettiest orange leaves.
Woosh…
Brynn shivered as the wind started flowing through her pajamas. She tugged at the ends of her sleeves, trying to cover her small hands. She sniffled as she tried to warm herself up, but her efforts weren't helping.
"No time to waste!" She thought as she picked up a portion of the leaves, as many as her small arms could carry at once.
She turned and walked carefully back towards the house, forgetting the leaves she had previously laid out on the steps.
Click.
The door knob sounded as she opened the front door. She reached her small foot out behind her, trying to swing the door closed.
Pitter-patter, pitter-patter
She carried the leaves up to her bedroom, throwing them down on the Minnie Mouse themed table in the middle of her room.
"Time to get to work!" She smiled, grabbing some paper, scissors, and glue from the shelf beside her table.
XOXOXOXOXOXO
Jade stirred in bed, pulling the blankets closer to her body.
"I swear if Beck turned the heat down before he left." She sighed, throwing the blankets off and climbing out of bed.
She walked down the hall and checked the thermostat, a bit confused as to why it was freezing in the house.
"What the? This is ridiculous." Jade muttered, playing with the thermostat.
As she tried to fix the temperature in the house, she felt a small breeze creep up the stairs and down the hall around her. She turned her head to look down the stairs, growing even more confused when she saw orange and brown leaves littering the stair case.
"I'm not cleaning those up." She sighed, stomping down the stairs and towards the front door.
When she saw that the front door was standing wide open, her eyes grew wide and she ran back up the stairs.
"Brynn?" She called, running towards her daughter's bedroom.
She threw the door to Brynn's room open, letting out a sigh of relief when she found the four year old sitting contently in her room.
"Hi mommy!" She smiled, small pieces of orange leaves stuck in the curly ends of her hair.
"Why is the front door open? And where did you get these leaves?"
Brynn quickly dropped the purple scissors she was holding and pulled a few of the leaves behind her back.
"What leaves?"
"Brynn." Jade warned.
"I went outside way early this morning and got them so I could make art for you. 'Cause I know you love orange leaves.." The small girl sighed, picking at a leaf that had accidently been glued to the table.
Jade smiled, completely forgetting how mad she was before.
"You really are the cutest little girl in the world, Sassy."
"I know!" Brynn giggled.
It's a little short, but I am so looking forward to fall, and I thought this would be a cute idea for a story. I'll probably make more holiday themed ones as the holidays come around, which I'm pretty excited about. Please excuse the extreme lack of Beck this chapter! Thank you for reading and please take the time to review!
xoxo
Cassidy
