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My Home is my Happy

There was a little girl in an adoption center. A huge family came to adopt her, then another family came and said “We have an appointment to take out Rose”. That was her name, Rose. She was a graceful and elegant girl. The family's started to fight over her. It grow louder and louder! Intel the respnast came to see what the problem was. She asked “ What is the problem? Do you both want to both take out little graceful Rose?” “ YES! I DO!” they both yelled back. “ You both can take me out and I can stay with one of you then the other. Right” said little Rose. The respnast said antersting “ Yes. You can go first because you had an appointment.” When Rose arrived at the Grafens' house. It was huge. When Rose stepped in it was beautiful with gold rims around the base. There were big beds, and the kitchen had two stoves and everything that could be in the kitchen! In the pantry there was flour and berries of all sorts! There were 5 children, one was named Oliver, Henry, and there were three girls. Their names are Emma, Ava, Sophia. Ava was the youngest of them all, Ava showed Rose to her soon to be room. The room had a queen size bed, and a white nightstand with gold handles on it. Ava said with an unwelcoming voice “You get the little guest room. That is where we store… I mean let little girls sleep”. “Oh? Well it's as much as I need” said Rose. When it was time for dinner, she heard a bell. She wondered What does that mean? So she went to see Ava. But she was not in her room. Rose started to freak out! But suddenly Rose heard “Rose Where are you?” in a very faint voice. Rose walked down the stairs very slowly, and scared. When she saw Mrs. Grafen standing there in the doorway to the kitchen, she felt relieved. Rose walked in, sat done at the table. On the table there was a beautiful dinner right in front of her. It was a steak dinner. She loved it, and thanked Mrs. Grafen. Then she went to her room and went to bed. Rose whispered to herself “This is fun, but it does not make sense to me. Why is Ava so rude? What did she mean by where they store kids?” She fell asleep with the thought in her head. When it was time to go to the Pierce's house. A house as tanty as a flower. She had a warm welcome, and had pancakes. It was a small house and they did not need an enormous house like the Grafens. The small family had 3 kids. Charlotte was the only girl which meant there is 2 boys. Their names were William and Oliver. Oliver was the youngest child, he was as quiet as a mouse, he pretty much as a mouse even! Charlotte was the middle child, she is so kind, gentle. William is the oldest in the family, he is brave and strong. William is also gentle like Charlotte. Now back to breakfast. The family was eating pancakes with syrup from Canada. Then Charlotte asked “ Can we go outside and play mom?” “Yes. you may.” The mom said back in a soft, calm voice. She held Rose back to talk, she said “ you can take a look around and if you need anything tell me ok?” “Yep! Where's my room?” said Rose back excitedly. “It is beside the bathroom” When Rose walked into her room she saw, a bed with a puffy, white blanket. There was a nightstand next to it. There was a mirror on the wall, There was a painting of a pastel pink bunny. “It smells like flowers here. At the Grafens house it smells bad.” She thought. Rose ran back down the stairs and yelled out “I love it so much! Thank you! Thank you!” “Good” The mom insisted. When she was back at the center she said “ The family I am going to pick is the family that welcomed me and was super nice.It is the place that I can call HOME! It is the Piece! ” They did not rub it in the Grafens' faces. THE END I wrote this to mean home is a place where you are always welcome even if you have a small fight you can always work it out. You also can have fun and get a little crazy.

Felicity

Grade 4

Calgary, Alberta

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