New Life, Lora Carlson [classic books for 11 year olds .TXT] 📗

“Sure, come with me” She took my hand and lead me to the back room. She pushed the door open and left me there to find a shirt.

The back room was a medium sized room with closets lining the walls. The ceiling was really high and the room was usually dark. Macy walked over to a closet and opened it. She pushed shirts and dresses around on their hangers, looking for the right shirt. She smiled and pulled out a dark blue long sleeve shirt. She tossed it in my face. I grabbed it and took a look. It was really tight until the top of my rib cage, then flowed out.

“Thanks, Macy. Now I will have the weirdest outfit here” I said, scowling.

“Well at least you would be wearing a shirt”

“Fine” I put the shirt on and twirled.

“How do I look?” I wanted to know how much of an idiot I looked like.

“You actually look really hot, I wish I could look like you” She sighed. What the heck. Even the girls thought I looked good. What is wrong with the world. Since you are probably really bored I will speed things up. I walked through the warehouse with everyone looking at me. Then I walked the twenty minute walk to my house. When I pushed the door open is when the the entertaining stuff happened.

“Where the heck have you been!?” Jayson screamed, running toward me.

“I was at Shawn’s” I said, pushing past him. In less than a second he was right in front of me, gripping my arms. He had used his Ember.

“What exactly were you doing? Why did it take you until two in the morning?” Oh. Did I forget to say it was two in the morning? Sorry if I forgot.

“Nothing” I started to squirm uncomfortably, in pain. Then I grimaced. He was putting A LOT of pressure on my newest wound.

“Are you okay?” He asked, putting his arms down.

“I’m fine” I said, rubbing my stitches. I pushed past him again and walked into our room. Me, the Twins and Jayson all shared a room. Okay, imagine that you just walked in the door. Hanna’s bed was pressed against the right wall. Haylee’s bed was in the middle and Jayson’s was against the left wall. About four feet away from the bottom of Jayson’s bed is the closet, which is like a wardrobe, facing his bed. My bed is against the wall behind the closet. I walk over to my bed and fall face first onto it.

Tomorrow is the Check-in. Man, it's going to be hell on earth. The Check-In

I woke up to the sound of doors slamming.

“Dad! you have a family to take care of! your just gonna leave?” It was Jayson yelling at my dad.

“Look Jayson, I have to... take care of something”

“Yeah, you have to take care of us” Good point Jayson.

“Your seventeen, you can take care of the family” At this point I was standing in the door of our room. My dad turned around and opened the door. My vision started to turn magenta and I could see the door glowing the same color very slightly. That’s what happens when I use my Ember. The door slammed shut. His eyes got really big. I walked out into the hallway, holding my arm on the stitches.

“You were gonna leave without saying goodbye?” I wanted to make him feel guilty.

“Emmie, I.... I’m sorry, I just need to see someone” He walked over to me. I lost my cute act.

“Dad I’m sixteen not six. I know you're going to see Samantha, I don’t even know how you like her! She is such a jerk!"

I started to see magenta, why? I didn’t want to use my Ember. Everything in the room besides me, Jayson and my dad started to rise. I could feel my hair start to rise. What was happening?

“Uh, Emmie I can stay home, Emmie you can stop now” He sounded scared. Good. I smiled, I could tell my eyes were now purple. That’s what happens when I use my Ember a lot.

“Emma, please stop” It was Jayson. What am I doing? I took a staggering step back. My vision suddenly clear, I dropped to my knees. Geez, that took a lot out of me.

Jayson ran over to me while my dad just stood there.

“Emma! are you ok?” Jayson went to his knees and gripped my arms. I started to feel dizzy, and I slouched.

“Emma, listen to me” he said more, but I couldn't hear him.

When I woke up, Jayson was sitting next to me. He was wide awake and holding my hand. When he saw that I was awake, he started to talk really fast. I looked around and saw that I was in my dad’s room. Which was always empty because he’s never home.

“Oh My Gosh Emma are you ok? Dad left after you passed out he hasn’t come back or called or anything Haylee and Hanna are trying to get ready but they don’t know what to wear I tried to help but I don’t know what they should wear either-” I cut him off.

“Jay! slow down. What are you talking about? Cloths, getting ready, what?”

“Don’t you remember? Today is the Check-in. It’s in an hour”

“What!? How!?’’ I sat up and used my Ember to literally fly out the door and into our room. Haylee was sitting on her bed cross legged, riffling through a box of shoes, and Hanna was doing her hair in the mirror. I flew in and landed with a thud, lost my balance, and did an epic ninja roll. Except, not really. It was more like a break-your-neck-while-rolling roll. Haylee dropped the really ugly pair of shoes she was holding and Hanna ruined her hair.

“Emma! you need to help me with my hair!” Squealed Hanna. Of course, she could care less that I probably broke something.

“Hanna, Hanna, Hanna. You have to get dressed first” She was wearing some sweats and one of Jayson’s old T-shirts.

“Duh! Um... What am I supposed to wear?” She asked, walking over to the closet and opening it.
I walked over and start to push shirts and dresses around on their racks. I found a cute light green and white dress that is strapless and goes down to your knees. I tossed it at her and said:

“Put this on. I’ll do your hair when you're ready” She grins and starts to get ready. Again I use my Ember and shut the door from across the room. I could sense something coming towards my head and I turned around and used my Ember just in time to stop a dark green sandal from smashing my face. As the shoe hovered in front of my face I gave Haylee the death stare.

“Sorry Em. It’s just you weren't paying attention to me”

“That’s because I was helping Hanna” I said through my teeth.

“Oh well, you can help me now!” She said hopping up onto her feet. I flung the shoe at her with my mind. It hit her on the back of her head.

“Ow! Emma!” She said, spinning around to glare at me.

“Oops” I said, trying not to grin. I walked past her and to the closet. I found a black tank top and flung it at her.

‘’Put that on” I said, already facing the closet again. I discovered a see-through white tank top and tossed that at her to.

“And this too” I said. I reached down and opened a bin filled with our skirts. I dug around till I found a black skirt with white polka-dots all over it. I tossed that at her too. Hanna was ready so I told her to sit down and I did her hair. I took the left part and braided it then used the braid as a hair tie to make a side ponytail with the rest of her hair. When I was done she ran into the kitchen to show Jayson.

“Haylee, let me do your hair now, we have to leave soon” That’s when I realized I was still wearing sweats and the shirt Macy gave me. I ran to the closet and grabbed a cherry red skirt with a black shirt and leggings. I put my hair up in a ponytail because I’m cheap and ran/floated to Haylee. I just put her hair into two ponytails and flew out of the room. Jayson was in a blue and white flannel shirt with blue jeans. I landed next to him and was about to criticize him for under dressing when there was a knock on the door. I said:

“I’ll get it!” and flew over to the door and opened it. It was Shawn.

“Emma! you missed the Rats meeting” He said with concern plastered on his face.

“Oh yeah, sorry bout that, I was busy” I said, jerking my head at my brother and two sisters.

“Oh crap. Um...” He knew that my family didn’t know that I was in Rats. I was in trouble.

“Emma, what is he talking about” Jayson said, walking towards me.

“Well, um, I.....’’ I had no idea what to say.

“Are you.... you're part of Rats!” He shouted.

“Yes, yes I am! Did you think all our food and supplies came from dad’s pay?” I was really mad.

“Well, Yeah”

“Even if he was paid enough, do you think he would spend it on us? His problem?”

“We are not his problem!” Jayson shouted.

“If we weren’t his problem, he would still be here instead of with Samantha!” I screamed.

“I.... you’re right” he said, defeated. We all loved my dad but Jayson looked up to him. He and Dad were the only men in a family of five. So it was hard for him to except that he didn’t care about us. Okay, let's skip to the Check-in.

The Check-in is always in the same building with the same people and the same routine. The thirteen and fourteen year olds together and the fifthteen and sixteen year olds together and the seventeen through eighteen. I went to the room marked 15-16. When I pushed open the door I was hit with a blast of sound. People screaming and hitting each other. It was chaos. I sat on a white chair and waited until my name was called. When I heard: EMMA MOORE PLEASE COME TO THE TESTING ROOM, I stood up and walked into a room that had random stuff everywhere. Behind a window was three people in all white, like the room, with clipboards and dark sunglasses. Two men and one woman would judge me to see if my Ember