Student Spotlight: Michaela Sonnen

Michaela agreed to share her imaginitive narrative written in language arts class, we hope to share more student work in the near future!

Narrative By: Michaela Sonnen

Karen woke; her alarm was beeping. She quickly pressed the round button. It stopped, “Finally”, thought Karen. She slowly got out of bed. She could feel the cold air wrap around her. She put her feet on the soft carpet, which surprised her. Then she remembered. This is my new house. She felt the flood of emotion coming to her: the sadness of leaving her friends, the excitement of being some where she had never been. She looked around her room. Her white dresser was near the light switch. There was a two door closet with a full length mirror connecting to the door of the closet, and a book case in the wall that was full of pictures and a few of her favorite books. Then there was her favorite part of her room, the window seat with light blue cushions. When she looked out the window she saw the sun was rising in the distant mountain ranges covered with trees.

She opened her door then and walked down to the bathroom. She brushed her long curly hair out and then tied it in a pink hair band. She quickly put her blue flower clip in her hair.
Karen ran to her room and could hear her father waking up. She got dressed in her favorite outfit. The light blue jeans, the green shirt, and the black shoes that looked great together. After getting breakfast she went out the door.

She met up with her best and only friend on the block, Ash. Ash was pretty with her black hair, storm grey eyes, and her perfect skin. They went to the bus stop, which wasn’t much, merely a sign that read ‘Bus Stop’ and a few benches. She saw the yellow bus coming. It was a boring first day of school; ringing bells, getting lost, and meeting people. Then she got on the bus and went home. Even though the day was boring she had a lot of fun. She met two people whose names really stuck in her mind because each was unique. Cody had caramel skin, big brown eyes, dark brown hair and he was friendly. The other boy was shorter than Cody, had blonde hair that swept his face, icy blue eyes, fair skin and he looked as if he knew something that nobody knew.

Ash said she knew both of them. They were coming over to her house and were part of the Believers Club. Karen didn’t know what that meant but wanted to be part of it. Later, at five, Karen told her dad over the phone that she would spend the night at Ash’s.
The Believers Club was real. Cody, Blake, Ash and Karen met in Ash’s greenhouse. The greenhouse was beautiful. It had the darkest purples to the brightest yellows. Ash said they were in a pattern to attract pixies. Karen asked her to repeat it six or seven times. That’s when she showed her the pixie.

Karen passed out. After they splashed water on her head, they went out of the greenhouse and walked along the dirt road for a long time. They turned into the forest. The giant oaks turned into willows that were way too big. Little lights floated all around.

Then Karen thought, “Those are fairies.” That’s when they entered the shrine. There was a giant lake in the center of it, flowers were all over. Then Karen saw it, something so beautiful, so pure, and so kind no one could hurt it, a baby unicorn. If she didn’t believe before, she did now. That’s when Karen remembered she could see the shrine from her room.