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This is a story about a red door that should have never been opened.

Isabella just finished packing her bag to go to her Grandmas with her little brother Noah. This was only her second time meeting their Grandma Seals, but her brother had never met her. Noah had been talking about her all day. ''Come on Isabella your brother wants to get going,” their mom said. Grandma Seals lived in Florida, so the drive was going to be three hours. Isabella decided to take a nap. ''WAKE UP WAKE UP, WERE HERE!'' said Noah. The house was huge but looking at it would give anyone chills. It was so dark and gloomy. ''Come on, come on, let’s go'', said Noah. The siblings raced to the front steps. Once they got to the door Isabella froze. Something felt a little off. Noah told her to open the door, so she did. It wasn't what they were expecting. It looked like an old lady's house. As they walked in, Isabella noticed that it looked organized and clean, but dusty. Have you ever seen those creepy cats? The ones that move their paws. They felt like it wasn’t taking its eyes off them. Grandma Seals was 87 years old and sometimes she would forget who people were. ''Hi grandma Seals, I'm Noah. We've never met before, but I am your grandson.'' ''I've heard so much about you!” said grandma. ''Hi, I'm Isabella do you remember me?'' Grandma giggled as she said, ‘’Have we met before? I'm just joking! I know who you are. You've gotten so big!” “Why don't you and your brother go explore while your Grandma and I talk,” said their mom. They were able to pick whatever room they wanted! 'You take left, I’ll take right. Find anything interesting let me know.’ said Isabella. ''I found something interesting!” Noah said in a sarcastic tone. “Your outfit! It looks horrible!'' Isabella rolled her eyes and said, ‘not as bad as your face!’

 Their Grandmas house had a library and so many sets of stairs. It felt like her house just kept going on and on. Isabella finally made it up the last set of stairs. There was a long hallway and at the end was a red door. As soon as Isabella was about to call Noah, she heard their mom say that she was leaving and that she would be back. ''ISABELLA, I THINK I FOUND A ROOM YOU MIGHT LIKE.'' Noah showed her the room and how cool he thought it was. It was everything she had wanted. ''TIME FOR DINNER'', Grandma said. Dinner was uncomfortable, nobody talked, we just awkwardly ate our food in silence. Isabella decided to go to bed early after dinner. After tossing and turning for hours she decided to see if Noah was awake. She slipped a piece of paper under his door asking him if he could sleep. Three minutes later, he came out. ''I can’t sleep,'' said Noah. ''Well since we’re both awake, I want to show you something, follow me!'' Isabella led him down a very long hallway. The hallway felt like it was never ending. They eventually reached the end where the red door was. The door looked brand new. Like it had never been touched. Noah went to open it, when Isabella pushed him. He looked at Isabella with tears in his eyes ''What did you do that for?'' Isabella whispered, “We don’t know what’s behind that door.” Noah pulled out his pocketknife. He slowly opened the red door. Once they were inside there were many more doors to follow! After they opened the finale door, they saw something that looked like candy land mixed with Cloudy with a Chance of Meat Balls. They ran inside and began to eat everything in sight. Once they had a sugar rush they began to explore. Just as they were about to leave Noah saw a unicorn. It wanted them to follow it. After 5 minutes of following the unicorn they stopped in a place that looked like Swallow Falls. ''Hello Noah and Isabella, it seems you have found the door that your Grandma forgot to warn you about. You are in Bubba Land. Many years ago, my heart was ripped out of my chest by your Grandmother. She has hidden it somewhere in Bubba Land. You will remain here until you bring me back my heart. You have five days, or you will be stuck here forever!'' ''What about our Grandma?’’ said Noah. ‘’She won’t know your gone because time stops while you’re here. I miss my family and want to go back. This place isn't as nice as it seems.'' she wiped a tear off her cheek ''now go you don't have much time.'' She vanished into dust. Isabella and Noah just sat there for a while confused. After several minutes they decided they’d better hurry because they did not want to be stuck in Bubba Land. They were very happy when they realized that Bubba Land was small. After several hours of looking, Noah spotted the other half of her heart. It looked like half of a bff necklace. We grabbed it and began to walk back to the unicorn. ''You found it!” said the unicorn with a huge smile on her face. She then explained to them that they could come and go as they pleased.  There was only one rule. They had to be back at their Grandma’s house before the sun went down. If not, they would never be able to leave again. Then the unicorn vanished. Isabella and Noah were walking back when Noah said, “What if the unicorn only wanted us to help him because he wanted revenge!?! WORSE, THE UNICORN HAS TO EXIT BUBBA LAND THROUGH GRANDMA’S HOUSE!'' They were running so fast, that Isabella could feel the wind whipping through her hair. They finally reached the door out. Isabella went to open it and it was locked. She began to slam herself into as she continued to try and open it. Then a donut with a face on it came up and said, ''You guys need to find the code out.'' As the donut was walking away, Noah pointed out the piece of paper barely sticking out of its pants. They both jumped onto the donut and started to eat it. Once the donut was gone, they picked up the piece of paper and saw it was the code! They opened the door and raced each other to their grandma. Then poof everything froze, and the unicorn appeared. '' I suppose you’re wondering why I'm still a unicorn. I must KILL you’re Grandma before I can turn human again. She went back to where she was standing and snapped her fingers. Then everything unfroze. Isabella and Noah realized that the unicorn came from a place where everything was made of candy. They decided that eating her was their only hope. Once the unicorn was gone and everybody calmed down, they pinky swore to never speak of what happened.

                                               


March 28, 2020 02:41

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