CHAPTER ONE: 

My name is Anyin. I have a twin sister, Ada, and 21 siblings. I live with my parents, in a six story house. Once I told ada I wanted my own apartment, and she LAUGHED. I said it wasn’t funny, and then she walked away. Now, she believes that it wasn’t funny and wants to buy an apartment with me. And I said okay. and then the doorbell rang. It was Sedora! Sedora is my friend, and she likes to make me and ada chocolate muffins. She is nice. I said thank you, and off she went, skipping to-BERU’S HOUSE?! Beru is my enemy… and now Sedora makes her muffins! At least they aren’t chocolate. Just blueberry. but then beru looked over at me. And she glared, for like, five seconds.  And then she winked.”oh, why don’t you come on in, Sedora!”

Said beru’s mom. Beru raised her eyebrow at me. I froze. My hands formed to fists. I fought trying to run away. Ada looked at me, then beru.  And then she walked over to Beru’s house, and knocked, beru answered the door. “YOU BROKE MY BROTHER!!! NOW HE’S A MESS AND YOU ARE MEAN TO HIM!!!” Said ada, screaming.“YOU APOLOGIZE TO HIM THIS INSTANT!!!!!’’ She said as she pointed over to me, who was red on the face. “I’m not apologizing to a volcano about to explode!” Said beru.

I walked over to beru. “APOLOGIZE!!!” I said “no.” Said beru. I felt angrier than ever.

When suddenly Sedora came to help me. “YOU. ARE. NO. FRIEND.” She said as she took the muffins out of beru’s hands. I walked home with Sedora by my side, and ada in the back, looking at beru, who was looking at the brick on her porch, and kicking the rocks and pinecones that were on her porch. “Wait.” Said ada “beru just wants friends, not enemies.” She said “yeah, but she won’t get friends by getting more enemies!” I said “BUT TAKING AWAY HER FRIENDS WON’T HELP HER, EITHER!!” Said ada, walking back to beru “I’m sorry i yelled at you..” said ada to beru

“Sniff-okay…” said Beru, wiping her nose with a tissue. “Anyin?” Said beru, as she looked over at me. “What?” I said looking back at her. “Sorry.” 

                    CHAPTER TWO: making friends

“It’s okay.” I said, smiling. The next morning was Monday. A new start. But the bad thing was school. And once I got to school, I ran straight to the bathroom. I knew that spending the day in a stall was not allowed, and you’d get in trouble if you did, but I was planning on staying in that stall for at least half the day. I had lunch, snacks, water, and paper and pens. I could last a whole day, but then I’d get in way to much trouble. And suddenly i heard a voice say “Anyin?” It was Kiara! She was right next to me in class, and always worried about me. “Anyin, bento was worried about you, and so i went to find you. “Kiara, I’m FINE.”  I said as i bit into a carrot from my snack. “Kiara!!! Anyin!!!” Said bento, yelling. “Aaaaaaa!” Said me and Kiara. “You scared us! Now i need a fresh pair of underwear!!!” I said “bento, get back to class, or else Mira will come after you, and then the teacher would put all four of us in detention!!!” Said kiara “bento!!” Said Mira, running to bento. Mira skipped a grade, and now she’s in class with her big brother. “Bento, mr. Buttock-I mean mr. Botoks, is worried about you.” “KIIIIIIIIDS!!!!!” Said mr. Botoks. “DETENTION! NOW!” We ran to the stall that I was in, and locked it, so mr. Botoks couldn’t get in. Luckily, I chose a big stall. And we stayed in that stall for about ten minutes. “Guys….I have to go!” Said bento, doing the pee-pee-dance. “I have to go-o-o-o-o-o!!!!!!” Said bento again. “Bento, i have a plan!” Said kiara. “Mira, go lock the bathroom door, quickly!” She said as she pointed to the open doors. Mira closed the doors, and hustled back. “Ok, everyone, grab a snack from anyin’s bag and find a stall, bento, you get this one.” Everyone got a snack and hustled to their chosen stall. I had to use the bathroom, so hustled to a stall. Kiara got the chips in my bag, bento grabbed the fruit strip, and Mira got the tangerine. Witch left me with yogurt and honey. Luckily, mr. Botoks fell asleep in the hallway.

                                     CHAPTER THREE: the big escape

We needed to sneak out of school, and fast. Or else our parents will send us to grindfer academy, the bad school for bad children. So we made a plan. Mira would check the halls and make sure no one was there, and luckily all the teachers were on break, and the door was soundproof and not see through. We got our backpacks from our lockers, then we snuck down the stairs, quietly. But sadly, there was a teacher on the last body of stairs, eating an egg sandwich. We backed up. And turns out, bento is five feet, just as tall as the woman in the hallway! Bento put on his emergency name tag, and it said “Bruce Baintly”

And he grabbed a mop, and got a fake mustache from his pocket. We lined up behind him. We walked right down. “Stop! Where are you taking them mr. Baintly?” Said the woman “uh, I am taking them around the school cause.. um..they were bad..” said bento, mumbling. “Ok, but you don’t need a mop.” She said, raising an EYEbrow. “Yeah, but i will mop the floors while taking them for a long walk.” He said, walking away from the woman. I could tell bento loved being a teacher/cleaner, because only teachers could get donuts in the hallway donut bar. And he got a donut. He ate it. He grabbed four sugar coated dounuts and handed them to us, once we got outside. “Mmmm!” Said kiara “Bento, let’s go to my treehouse!” Said kiara “but we need food!” I said “well, my mom gives me five dollars every day for emergencies.” said Bento as he pulled out five dollars from his pocket. “And there is a snack shop up the street.” So we bought a pack of sour gummy worms, and some small milks. We walked to Kiara’s treehouse and settled in.

                                 CHAPTER FOUR: treehouse

Kiara had a big treehouse. It had four small rooms. One had a bucket and toilet paper in it, and the bucket had a paper on it and it said “bathroom” and the other rooms were sleeping and relaxing rooms. There was a tv, and Oreos! I chose a nice room with some nice pillows. It had a mattress and a table with a juice on it, and one soft blanket, hanging from the ceiling. Bento and Mira shared a cozy room with plenty of blankets and pillows. Kiara got the couch and tv room. We basically all shared that room, but Kiara got the couch to herself. We had to get our pillows and sit on those. The Oreos were on a small nightstand and our snacks from the shop were on a chair. It was cozy in there. And then I thought about ada. Asking my teacher where I was. And my parents. Who were told their child had disappeared. And my 21 siblings. Julian. Maddison. Joey. Mayalita. Eme. Cynthia. Lee. Mae. Luna. Sin. Ren. Dia. Sorel. Griffin. Mary Anne. El. Will. Luna. Ellen. Henry. Leo. All worried about me. “Can we watch the amazing world of gumball?” I said. “Sure, is it on Netflix?” Said Kiara. “Yeah, if you search up gumball, it will show up.” I said, pointing to the search button on the tv. We watched tv for an hour, then we went to the toy store down the street. We had twenty five dollars in total, and stuffed animals were five bucks each. We all got a stuffed animal. I got a stuffed dog, Kiara got a kitten, Bento got a robot, and Mira got an elephant. We put our stuffys on our pillows. Soon it was time for bed. We put our pillows near the couch, because our rooms were scary, and Kiara knew karate, and is a squire. We needed protection, so we slept near kiara. Soon it was morning, and we had cheerios for breakfast, and got our milks out of a small fridge. We sat down and watched the amazing world of gumball. I was scared. I had my stuffed dog with me a lot. “Kiara, pause the show, I need to use the bathroom!” Said bento, running towards the sign that said “bathroom this way” in Kiara’s handwriting. We paused the show, and we waited. “I’m back!” Said bento. We turned the show back on.

                            CHAPTER FIVE: the book 

“I am going to get some books with my money.” Said kiara, going down the red ladder. An hour had passed, and kiara still wasn’t back. Then we heard a voice say “I’m here!” And it was kiara. She was holding a golden book. It was four inches thick! “It has ten books in one!” Said kiara. “Wow!” I said, as I held the golden book.

“Isn’t it cool?!” Said kiara, flopping onto the couch. “Yeah!” And suddenly I thought about ada. I had an idea. “Can ada come in the treehouse with us?” I said. “Sure, but only because she is your twin.” We had a plan to get my sister out of school, and it involved getting in. Bento would go in as Bruce baintly, the janitor. On lunch break, he would ask the teacher if he can use ada to help him with something, and she said yes. He told ada the whole plan and that we would bring her to the treehouse. At first she said she didn’t want to go, but then she understood, and went with bento to the treehouse. Sadly, she had to sleep on the ground next to kiara. We gave her some pillows. And as i looked at ada, i imagined her with the golden book, keeping it to herself. I grabbed the golden book of their shelf and held it tight. “Ooh!” Said ada. “What is that book?” I stood there, silent. “It’s a book about robots.” I said. “Oh, boooring!” Said ada, walking to the couch, and turning on the tv. 

                          CHAPTER SIX: swimming 

Soon it was time for swimming at the lake. We bought ourselves swimsuits with the money ada had. “I don’t know how to swim..” said me and ada. “All you do is move your arms and legs.” Said bento. “Ok…”  i said as i sat by the lake, slowly getting in. Ada jumped in right away, and bento helped her learn how to swim. Soon, i was in. Bento taught me how to move my arms and legs, and how to come back up from diving. Soon i got the hang of it. I loved the water. Suddenly i saw beru! She was walking over to the lake! I dove down to the bottom of the lake. If she saw me, she’d think I’m homeless or something. I held my breath. I saw her from above the water. She walked towards me. I had no choice. “EEEEKKKK!!!!!!!!” Said beru, screaming in horror. I popped out of the water. “Hahahaha!” I said. “I tickled your leg, and you totally FREAKED.” I said. Beru dove under the water and tickled my leg.“FLZTOPHOMENR!” I said. “Hahaha!” said beru. “I wasn’t laughing!!!” I said. “You were!!!!” Said beru. “I was..um…vocalizing!” I said. “Then let me hear your song.” Said beru, looking at me. “Uh…la…la….la?” I said, shrugging. “You sound like Beyoncé, but stuck on the note “la”.” She said as she ripped seaweed out of the bottom of the lake. She put it to the side. I had a plan. I grabbed as much seaweed and squishy plants as possible, and then put it on her head. As it dripped down her body, she glared at me. I laughed. She laughed. Everyone laughed. I was happy that she thought it was funny. i planned on visiting my mom and dad……but then i decided to be known as ghost boy. The kids in my school are scared to go in the woods because they think I became a ghost, and called me ghost boy, and Kiara mummy girl. I liked that because the boys in my school used to bully me, and now their scared of me. Now me and kiara plan on scaring them at lunch by dressing up as ghosts and zombies and popping out from the fence. We were as happy as could be, and soon I decided to write to my parents. They sent back and said “where are you?!” In capital. 

But I didn’t answer. I decided this was my life and I liked it here. 

THE END…..for now…….coming soon: The Ghost Boy #2