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“I get the bigger room!” Sarah shouted

Sarah ran upstairs, through the hallway and sla her suitcase from her hands, and dashed into one of the bedrooms and slammed his door

As Rachel got to the top of the steps, she saw an open door, the only bedroom door open, and went in and put her suitcase down Her roolad she didn’t have to put up with Sarah and her annoying musical obsessions

A few seconds later, Rachel heard a knock on her door

“Hurry, it’s heavy,” Rachel’s mom’s voice was muffled

“Rachel!”

Rachel opened the door to find her e cardboard box, which read Rachel’s Stuff in thick black Sharpie Her mom plopped the box down in the center of the roorow to like it here, I promise”

Rachel gave her runted, “Whatever”

Rachel had been upset with her parents since they’d announced she was ht while her fainia Beach Her parents had been acting odd the whole trip, and Rachel had a sense that sonant but she never could have i a move on her

Rachel had lived in Pennsylvania her whole life, in the same town, in the same house, and in the same bedroo, especially during high school, of all times

“We’ll see,” Rachel said back to her mom

Rachel’s mom walked out of her room and pulled the door shut behind her

BEEP BEEP BEEP

Rachel looked out theand saw a big white truck backing into their driveway, “AL’s Moving and Storage” printed on the side The beeping stopped, and twoopen the back door

Rachel saw box after box She couldn’t help but feel that her whole life had been abruptly uprooted and put into boxes, all because her dad got transferred

Rachel saw hereach box with colorful Post-It notes, so that the movers would know exactly which room to drop each box in

Even though Rachel was mad, she was still anxious to see her new house She walked quietly out of her room and down the steps She didn’t want her family to see her curiosity, and to know she was excited to be peeking around

As she got to the bottom of the steps, she turned left and walked into the fae s Rachel’sChrist the tree up in the corner and decorating it The roo the wall

Rachel continued through the faht room with a bay hich looked onto the front lawn Rachel figured this was the dining rooly brown color, which Rachel despised

As Rachel walked out of the ugly brown rooht and looked around She felt depressed by the black Formica cabinets and the dark linoleum floors There was a stale smell in the kitchen that made her miss her old house even more