In My Head Lives a World of Wonders

     Mom and Stacy are fighting again. I suppose it is the unwritten law for parent teen relationships. One could say arguments between a parent and their teenage daughter is common and “No big deal” but my family never just argues.  Someone always gets hurt whether it’s emotionally or physically. Mom is starting to throw things now. They think I can’t hear them and sometimes I wish that were true. Sadly the paper thin walls that divide me from them are not strong enough to fight the raging volumes that travel from their mouth to my bed room. I have discovered a way to block the noise. Being an eight year old with an active imagination makes it easy to create a new, better, and brighter world. I just crawl out of my bed and into my closet, I sit in a pile of clothes I have thrown in there, rather than put them away in their designated places. Then I close the door along with my eyes. Once the closet door closes I shut the world out and begin my own.  I allow myself to dream of somewhere far away and happier.  It starts with soft green grass, bright blue skies, and flowers. As far as I could see there were flowers. Daffodils, lilies, and hydrangeas all different colors; pinks, yellows, purples, and orange. I looked down to see I was wearing a beautiful white dress, like the one my sister Hilda wore on her wedding day.  The dress flowed gracefully and glittered in the sunlight. I began to run through the never end meadow with my arms out reached beside me like an airplane. I ran for miles and miles without losing my breath. Afar I could see the road ended and turned in to a cliff. I ran faster till I found myself at the end of the cliff. This was the edge of the earth. I stopped just in time before falling in to the deep blue abyss of an ocean. The water was stunningly clear with exquisite curving waves. The water was calm; everything that flowed through it was at ease. I closed my eyes then took a minute to allow the fresh cool breeze surround me in pure serenity. I began to feel drips of water sprinkle on my face. I opened my eyes and saw dark clouds formed over my beautiful ocean. The waves began to crash into each other. Rain, Hale, lighting strike everything around me. The lighting sounds like glass breaking and the thunder sounding like muffled voices yelling. I take a step back then slip and fall into the roaring ocean. The angered waters swallow me. I try to swim to the surface for air but, I can’t. My arms grow tired and I soon give up. I watch as the surface fades further and further away.“Leave. Me.  Alone!” Stacy yells as she slams her door shut.My eyes blow open as if a cannon ball just blew out of them. The arguing is over and I’m free to sleep. I open my closet door and crawl back into bed. I reach my hand out to Baaby and cuddle against its soft cushiony fur.“Goodnight Baaby.” I whisper into my stuffed monkey’s ear.Sleep begins to take over and I, once again, dream of a happier and sunnier world that someday I may live in.The End