Peyton, 13
Texas
Rawson Sanders
I would like to thank my teacher, Mrs.Warrick and my family
The Doorway
As Chloe was searching through her old attic, she had completely forgotten about getting her little brother, Aidan, a present for Christmas. She decided she would get him a toy car. As she was leaving she saw something out of the corner of her eye. She approached it and noticed it was a dusty old paintbrush. “Huh, what’s this doing up here?” she questioned. She decided she would bring it with her, after all, she did love to paint.
After a while, she sat down and started to wrap Aidan’s present. As she was wrapping the presents she saw some weird light. As she got up from her bed, she walked towards her desk. When she moved some papers around, she noticed the paintbrush glowing. “W- what the?” she said, as she spoke the paint brush started flying in the air and shaking frantically. Then it fell back on the table. She leaned forward cautiously, then she heard some random thumping noise. Then all of a sudden a rabbit hopped into her room. “Hey there,” he said, jumping onto the desk, “Ah, I see you have found my paintbrush.”
“This is yours?” she questioned.
”Indeed,” he replied.
“And you c-can talk?” she asked, confused.
She noticed that this rabbit had a white base with colorful spots along his back–along with a full brown ear. The rabbit flicked his ears towards the entrance of her room. “Hey, Chloe what are you doing–“ Aidan's Gaze drifted from the rabbit to Chloe and back again.
“It’s okay, Aidan, he's just a rabbit,” she said reassuringly.
“What’s he doing here though?!” he said confused.
“Hello there, my name is Zapier,” the rabbit said.
“Well nice to meet you, Zapier,” Chloe said politely.
“You see, there's a problem down where I live," he said worriedly.
(continued)
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