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    I wake up and I realize I’m going to meet my new step-father. I am less upset, but I am still pretty furious. My mother knocks on the door and tells me to get ready to meet our new “FAMILY”. She used the word family, but she doesn’t know they are not family till I say they are. I will not call these intruders family till they prove worthy of that word. I don’t want to meet them, see them, hear them, be nice to them, or make any physical contact with these intruders. They are all evil in my eyes even though I have not even seen them yet. I turn on my stereo and listen to “Beauty from Pain” by Superchic[k]. I feel the words “My whole world is the pain inside me. The best I can do is just get through the day. When life before is only a memory, I'll wonder why God lets me walk through this place.” I feel I can’t help these words describe my life right now.

          The door bell rings and I hear tiny footsteps run up and down the stairs, and their voices are just like I imagined these 10, 9, 8, and 5 year old intruders would sound like. I quickly lock my door as I hear them coming closer.

          “Open the door.” My mother says. “Come and meet your new FAMILY”

          There is that stupid word again. Why do I have to meet those intruders? They never cared to see me I hope. I turn off my stereo, unlock the door, and start to open it. On the tiniest opening I got that pit feeling in my stomach. I shut the door quickly. I don’t know why it happened, but it did. I try opening the door again even though I feel the pit feeling in my stomach. I manage to get out of my room. I walk to the stairs and I stare at them. Three boys and one girl, but I didn’t see my intruding step-father. Suddenly the front door opens and standing there is my worst nightmare. A tall man with bright blue eyes is kissing my mother. I fall down which sucks because they all hear me and look.

          “Honey, you finally came to your senses meet Brendan he is 10, Lex he is 9, Marie-Ann she is 8, and Luke he is 5. And this is Gerry your new father.”

          Great she called him my father. That nightmare has haunted me since birth. I can’t believe he will be living here. Suddenly I feel like I’m trapped in a room with no windows or doors with no end it is so huge, but it is so empty. I’m alone in this room, and I can’t leave. I stand up and walk to my room, I close the door, I turn my stereo all the way up, I run to my bed, grab a pillow, and scream into it at the top of my lungs. I realize I’m never gonna get out of this nightmare with the intruders in this house. I walk to my closet and I realize there is like a string on the wall. I walk over to it and I pull at it. A door opened and a secret room is opened. It’s full of books and a desk with a diary. It is a diary from a girl named Madeline Pesky. I start to read it and she tells of a nightmare man she calls “Nightmare”. I guess she is not that creative. I keep reading and her description is just like nightmare man. There are pictures of “Nightmare”. I guess they were from when she was little, but it’s a tall man in a robe that shades his face, but you can still see his bright blue eyes. I start to read deeper when my mother knocks on my door. I walk out of the hidden room and shut the door. Opening the door and everyone is there.

          “What do you want?” I try to sound as mad as I can.

          “We all want you to come and help them unpack. It would be great for you to spend time with your family.” My mother starts to walk down stairs and Gerry follows her.

          Finally he is not there. I hate his presence it haunts me, and I’m not to sure of these kids either. Wonder how a nightmare man has kids. He killed his other wife probably.

          “Want to come help us unpack?” Marie-Ann asks, but they all nod their heads.

          “No, I still have things to unpack ask my mother.”

          “Why won’t you help us?” Luke the youngest says this and catches my attention. The sound in his voice made me think for a little, but I just went to unpack my stuff (I really had nothing to unpack).

          They all walk off playing and running around the living room once their down the stairs. Something about them makes me think they are sad, but they run around and play all day.

          A week passes and school starts. I’ve spent almost all my time in my room. My mother moved the grand piano in my room because she thinks it’s tacky to have it in the living room. I started reading the loads of book Madeline has in her secret room. Even though they are old, they are very interesting. I really don’t think they are even published books because they have 8x11pieces of paper. If this girl wrote these they are really good. They are all about adventure, magic, and sometimes they have a little bit of fairytale in them. I grab my backpack after the sunrise is over and start to walk with school. When I get there I have to go to the office to get my schedule because I missed registration. There is a boy there dropping off money for lunch is what it sounds like.

          “Hey, you must be new.” He says. “I’m Kalden.”

          I stop and look and then I say. “You have grown I haven’t seen you in nine years. I’m Nadalia.”

          “Wow this is a small world.” He looks at me with his blue-green eyes I remember. “Well I would stay longer, but I have to get to class. What lunch do you have?”

          I look at my schedule and find lunch. “B lunch.”

          “Well then see you at lunch.”

          He walks off and I wonder how I happened to my life that I would come to this school instead of some other one. What if this is all a plan that Nightmare I mean “Gerry” has set up to get me. I always get a feeling around him so why should I not suspect he is up to something.

          I make it through the first half of school and I go to lunch. Kalden calls me over to a table he and some other people are sitting at.

          “Every one this is Nadalia.” Kalden introduces me.

          “Of course we all now that you described her very well when you first came here. He couldn’t stop talking about you and how you guys were best friends.” A boy says. “I’m sorry my name is Theo, this is Alex and his twin Alice, Shawn, and that is Tyler.

          “Well it is nice to meet you.” I say and I feel like this is very new, but yet again I get a familiar feeling from this school.

          We eat lunch and they talk about going to the mall after school. They invite me and I say I would have to ask my mother. Kalden volunteers to walk home with me because he knows were the Mall is, and I really don’t. Plus we were friends nine years ago.