Chapter Thirty "Do I
have to?" Olive groaned, setting dow her fork and turning pleading green eyes on her parents. She'd had her birthday today, and was upset at the fact that she would have to spend six hours a day at school instead of having fun.
"Every child goes to school, Olive" Zachary said reasonably.
"Mom didn't!"
"Yeah, and being locked in a basement and totally isolated from the outside world was so much better." Heather said dryly. "Face it, Olive, you're going."
Grumbling, Olive got up and stopped upstairs from her room. The sun had already set, and her curtains were closed, so the room was bather in a comforting darkness.
She flopped down on her bed, and stared up at the ceiling. "Why do I even have to go to school?" She mumbled into the growing darkness. "I can learn just fine at home..."
"Maybe, but you'll learn better if you go to school." Heather said, opening the door.
"But it'll be HARD!" She protested.
"You'll manage. Now put on you pajamas, it's bedtime."
"Fine..."
Time skip... "I'm hoooome!" Olive sang out, bursting through the front door of her house. Heather was at her easel, painting away.
"Hi, honey! How was your day?"
"Not AS bad as I thought." Olive confessed. "There's some papers for you to sign, and I have to do this worksheet about my family." She yanked her backpack off and tossed it on the couch. She then pulled a worksheet out of her binder and skipped up the stairs. "Be sure to sigh them before tomorrow!"
In her room, Olive pulled a blue pen out of the drawer, and flopped on her bed with the worksheet. "Okay, let's see..."
Time skip... "There!" Olive sat back to admire her work. The worksheet read:
1. How many brothers or sisters do you have?
I don't have any brothers or sisters. 2. How many aunts or uncles do you have?
I have nine aunts. 3. How many grandparents do you have?
I have four grandparents. 4. What is your favorite color?
My favorite color is Purple. 5. What is your favorite food?
My favorite food is pie! :-) 6. What are three qualities that you would use to describe yourself?
Three qualities I would use to describe myself are friendly, nice, and I care about my family a lot. 7. What is your biggest dream?
My biggest dream is to live in a big castle, and get married and have children. 8. What is your favorite TV show"
My favorite show is KidZone, even though it's kinda stupid and keeps showing reruns. 9. What are you having for dinner tonight?
For dinner, my mom is going to make sharma sawarma shewurma sharama something egyptian, because it's my dad's favorite food. 10. Who's your role model?
My roll role model is Glyn Skipton, because she's really cool. 11. What's your favorite video game?
My favorite video game is
SimAnimals. 12. Where do your parents work?
My mom is an awesome painter, and my dad works at the Winsolf Winsloff Winsulof Wilsonoff Community Theater as a talent scout. 13. What is your favorite book, and who is it by?
My favorite book is All that Glitters, by Cocai Coke Chimeree. 14. What do you think your favorite subject in school is going to be?
I think my favorite subject is going to be Language Arts. 15. What do you want to learn this year?
I want to learn about famous writers. Olive tucked the paper back into her backpack, and ran down the stairs. Heather was in the kitchen, making dinner.
"So what exactly is in this shawarmy stuff anyway?" Olive asked curiously, looking over her mother's shoulder.
"It's shawarma, Olive, not shawarmy. Shawarma is meat, tomatoes, cucumbers and pickled turnips rolled up in a piece of bread.
"I... see. I'm going outside."
"Okay. Have fun, and close the door all the way behind you."
Olive walked around her house to the backyard, and climbed on the trampoline. She had only been on it once, and her parents had been watching and wouldn't let her jump too high.
But they're not watching me now. Olive thought.
I can jump as high as I please... She began to jump, slowly at first, but jumping higher and higher until she flew well above the roof of her house. The closed her eyes, and savored the feeling of the wind on her face and hair, and the freedom of the air surrounding her. She was almost flying, except she was always doomed to return to the ground. A thought struck her, and she smiled slightly.
I guess I was wrong about my biggest dream. Olive thought.
I have another dream. And impossible dream, one that I can never fulfill. But I don't care. My one, precious dream...To fly limitlessly.
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Chapter Notes:
*FIRTS UPDATE IN FOREVER! PARTY!
*Olive is THE CUTEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN! I'll post pictures in a bit.
* As you can see, Olive isn't a very good speller.
* Sorry most of the chapter was just that questionnaire, but I thought it was a cute way to tell you more about Olive.
* By "Nice", she was talking about her Good trait.
* Zach USED to work in the music career, but I made him quit when it was making him gain celebrity status. Urrrgh!
* Oh, and by "Pie", Olive mean cobbler.
* Olive is, like, a MASTER at the trampoline.
* By the way, I always imagine Olive's backpack as purple with a plumbob keychain on it.
* I was going to have Olive say that her favorite video game was The Sims 3, but I decided that was a bit too much. ^^''
* On the other hand, I think sims can really play SimAnimals on the Game Console.
* Please tell me if I made any grammar or spelling errors.
* Tell me what you think of this chapter! Pwease? :3
