McKenna

Hi! I'm McKenna and I'm 13 years old. I have a younger brother, named Riley, who is 9. I have two dogs, named Marli, and Libby. I love both of my dogs very much. I enjoy writing stories, although I'm not very good at them. I also enjoy fishing, hunting, swimming, running cross country, playing softball, basketball, and volleyball. One of my favorite websites is Stumble Upon. It's a website that allows you to put in your interests and then search them. You can search for games, funny pictures and lots more. I really like it! One of the best books that I've ever read is The Hunger Games. It's about a girl named Katniss. I really like this book because of the suspense. It's constantly leaving you hanging and it's very interesting. It's always moving and there is always something to worry about. This is one of the best books that I've ever read.  The Mystery Box~

I coughed as the ladder from the attic came down in the hallway, along with probably 50 years of dust! I climbed up the ladder and into the attic. I searched my way around the attic clumsily until I found the light. I pulled the string and suddenly the attic came into view. There were boxes strewn all over the attic. Some covered with white, well, now grey sheets. I trekked over to the closest cluster of boxes and pulled the sheet off and uncovered a beautiful chest. It was gold, with jewels placed on the edges and intricate designs. I gasped when I saw it and pulled it out of the box it was placed in. I carefully climbed back down the ladder with the box secured in my hands and set it on the floor. I secured the ladder back into the ceiling. Then I walked out to the dining room and carefully set the chest on the table. My Mother came in to the room and gasped. “Sasha!” she looked at me, stunned, “where did you get that?” she said nervously. “I found it up in the attic! Why?” “It’s just so beautiful” “I know! Isn’t it!” I spun the box around so it was facing me and tried to lift the top. It wouldn’t budge. I looked at mom hoping for some help. Mom looked like she had just gotten an idea and turned heels and ran out of the room. She came back with something clutched tightly in her hands. “What’s that mom?” I asked her hopefully. “A gold key” she whispered. “Try this in the box. The owner gave me this key when I bought this house and I didn’t think that I would ever have a use for it when she gave me it. It’s been sitting in the bottom of my jewelry box since I bought the house and I was thinking about making it into a necklace and giving it to you for your birthday.” She handed me a beautiful gold key that looked like the box. It had jewels on the handles and the same intricate designs as the box. I inserted the key into the box. It fit. I looked up at mom. “Open it Sasha” her mom whispered. Sasha had this glint in her eyes that her mom knew she was excited. Sasha slowly lifted up the boxes lid and her eyes widened. The inside of the box was as beautiful as the outside. Maybe more! It was a soft red with velvet on the edges. There was a mirror on the top and little tray had come up. I suddenly looked at my mom. “It’s a jewelry box mom.” I whispered. I spotted a small, fabric loop in the bottom that was partially hidden from sight by the sliding trays and no bigger that my pinkie nail. I grabbed it with my finger and pulled. “Sasha!” mom yelled. “What are you doing?” I didn’t listen to mom and pulled harder. Suddenly a flap pulled up out of the bottom. My mom stopped yelling and looked at me with a surprised look. I put my hand in the trapdoor and pulled out a small box, like the kind that you would get when you bought a necklace. I opened the box and found a pair of earrings, a bracelet, and a necklace, all the same material as the box. The gold with small, encrusted jewels and intricate carved designs. I put my hand back in the box and pulled out a small, yellowing envelope. Mother nodded at me to open it. As soon as I slid my finger under the flap the top came up as the years of glue we separated. When I opened the envelope I saw money. I saw a couple 100-dollar bills and some 50s and 20’s. I stuck my hand back down and found another envelope. When I opened the second one I looked in and found a really big wad of 5-dollar bills. I laid all the money out on the table and counted the 5s while my mom counted the rest. I laid the 5’s down in shock. 200$ Mother laid down the money that she had in her hands. “1500 dollars” she barely whispered with a shocked look on her face. “What are we going to do with all this money mom?” Sasha asked. “Well, first of all were going to find out who lived here before us.” She said. “Then, if no one claims the money I guess were going to have to keep it.” She said with a smirk on her face. “So, we have 1700 dollars?” I asked. “Not for a month we don’t” she said “that’s the amount of time you have to wait for money over 500 dollars that you’ve found.” “Okay, I’m going to go and put this chest under my bed while you call the police” I slowly crept my way back to my room and put the chest carefully under my bed then pulled the bed skirt down over it so the chest was out of view. I walked down the hallway. Without even thinking I pulled down the ladder and started to climb. I turned on the light and looked around, Where should I start? I thought to myself

My Dream~

Once, when I was like 9 or 10, I had a really scary dream. It was over Christmas break and there were coats hanging on the door, there was a wreath on the door and boots, or a bag or something sitting on the end of the rug. We always leave a light on in our kitchen at night. I stepped out of my room to go to the bathroom and It looked like there was someone standing on the edge of the rug. It really scared me because I thought that there was someone in out house! I closed the door and dove back into my bed. Then, I still couldn’t sleep so I peeked out of the door and it looked like he was still there, so I got down and I crawled down the hallway to my mom and dads room. I woke my mom up and I told her that there was someone in the house. She didn’t believe me so she took me out to the kitchen and showed me that it was just the coats, wreath and the boots, so I went back to bed. Then I had a dream that there was a man on a horse chasing me around my yard. He had a cowboy hat on and boots and a long coat. My dad has a shop at the end of the driveway so I ran down there and hid. He found me so I ran outside of the garage and we were running up and down scaffolding and then I fell off. Suddenly I woke up.


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