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YOU CAN'T ESCAPE FROM
THE FUTURE
Nichole Haines
It was a beautiful morning with mild cold breeze blowing
and light sunshine shining above. The Ainsworth family
was sitting in their lawn outside their big villa, waiting to
devour their favorite breakfast; the pancakes, black coffee
and fresh orange juice.
Selena, their beloved maid was serving
hot pancakes
while pouring steamy coffee into their mugs.
“Ah! It tastes like Heaven.” Lucy Ainsworth closed her
eyes and sniffed the smell of coffee deep into her lungs
like some hungry polar bear sniffs a fish.
The family has been living in Downtown San Francisco
since
many
decades.
Their
grandfathers
and
the
grandfathers of their grandfather have been living here.
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13
.
YOU CAN'T ESCAPE FROM
THE FUTURE
Nichole Haines
It was a beautiful morning with mild cold breeze blowing
and light sunshine shining above. The Ainsworth family
was sitting in their lawn outside their big villa, waiting to
devour their favorite breakfast; the pancakes, black coffee
and fresh orange juice.
Selena, their beloved maid was serving
hot pancakes
while pouring steamy coffee into their mugs.
“Ah! It tastes like Heaven.” Lucy Ainsworth closed her
eyes and sniffed the smell of coffee deep into her lungs
like some hungry polar bear sniffs a fish.
The family has been living in Downtown San Francisco
since
many
decades.
Their
grandfathers
and
the
grandfathers of their grandfather have been living here.
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Lucy Ainsworth; her brother Badger Ainsworth; her mother Lindsay Ainsworth and her father Harlan Ainsworth.
Today another member of their large family had also joined them. Their little cousin Hades. He had come from
California to visit them in his winter vacation from school.
He loved the company of Lucy and Badger. Though there was a big age difference, he still loved to hang around with them and in each of his vacations, he would prefer to visit them instead of his other cousins.
They also loved this little guy.
“If you could go anywhere on vacation, where would it be?” Badger asked Hades while devouring the juicy pancakes.
“I will go straight to the Disney World, buy a small igloo there and live there, forever” The twelve year old boy was crazy about amusement parks and rides.
Mom and Dad both laughed at his innocent wish. Which was of course never going to be fulfilled because once he grew up a little more, he was going to laugh at his own wish.
“Let’s go the park. We have a great park here. Mom do you remember when I told you I bought membership for ‘The new future Land park’ along with my friends. That I actually bought by thinking about Hades. Why don’t we go there, together? It has all kind of rides, from thrill rides to family rides. We can also go to the animal section there too. They also offer featured educational programs. It was actually through such a program that I bought a membership for. Yes! Let’s go there.” Lucy became a little girl herself while talking about the park.
Indeed, a little child lives inside every person no matter how big or elder he gets.
Lucy was 23 years old girl with curly blonde hair and a lot of freckles only on her nose. Her skin glowed with a pinkish hue and when she laughed, her cheeks bent inside to form the most beautiful dimple. With dove eyes, she was the apple of the Ainsworth family.
Everybody loved her.
In fact, the whole Ainsworth family was famous for care and compassion for each other.
Soon they were all set to go to the park.
The driving distance between Future Land was almost 35 miles. It took them 40 minutes to drive from their place to the park.
Badger couldn’t join them because he had an already had a basketball game planned with his friends. He loved basketball. He apologized Hades for not being able to join him and promised that he would take him for Ice-cream in the evening when they will come back.
Lucy knew it less about his match and friends than his girlfriend ‘Rebecca’.
She winked at Badger who grinned.
Lucy was driving the car while dad was sitting on the seat beside her. Mom and Hades were sitting in the back seats.
♪, ♩ I don’t know where I’m going’
But I sure know where I’ve been
Hanging on the promises in songs of yesterday
An’ I’ve made up my mind, I ain’t wasting no more time
Here I go again, here I go again
Tho’ I keep searching for an answer
I never seem to find what I’m looking fo