Night Of The Living Dummy

#13

Chapter 1

"Bye see you when I get home" my mom said leaving for work. My name is Elizabeth but everyone calls me Pooky even though I'm 14, I have long hair past my shoulders that I died black glasses and I'm kind of chubby I wear mostly black with purple lipstick and combat boots.

I live in Central Arid which literally means "middle of the desert" which is a perfect name or our little "paradise".

It's a little town so small that if you blink wile driving through it you'll be in the next town over were my mom work's. The town were my mom works is just as small and she doesn't like having to do a 30 minuet drive just to get to work but time's are hard so she doesn't want to quit and she cant find a job here.

I went down stair's to say goodbye but she had already left ,she must have been running late.

My little brother was not yet up so I got to watch whatever I wanted on Tv. I was just about to turn on the Tv when I spotted a note taped to wall next to it, it read

Dear Pooky,

I was running late and didn't have time to tell you your grandparent are coming over.

Make sure you clean a little,

Love Mom

"Aw man" I said I love my grandparent's don't get me wrong but there a little...eccentric.

"Oh well I thought and turned on the Tv. I looked at the clock on the DVR and it said 11 O'clock

I sighed, it was a weekend so my brother wouldn't be up till 12 O'clock, he always stayed up late on weekends so he slept a long time during the day and he would often miss school on Monday's because my mom couldn't wake him up! My dad was the same way but he could sleep until like 6 O'clock in the afternoon!

Just then there was a knock at the door I opened it to see my grandpa standing outside. He was tall with a bald head and even though he was like 70 he was very fit because he spent every minute of every day doing some exercise .My grandmother called him " The Flea" because he could never sit still, he was always doing some kind of stretch. Even as I stood there he was jogging in place , he stopped to come inside the house. He was lugging some big suit case, he set it down on the floor on it side.

"Hey Pooky your not gonna believe what I got for you!

I smiled a genuine smile some of the stuff my grand parent's got you wouldn't believe it was always something good I had never received a lame gift from them.

He opened the large trunk and I jumped at what I saw.