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The Red Rug

By Miguel Martinez

When we were young, we lived in some small duplexes with my sister and my parents in

Springdale. Inside there were two rooms and one bathroom. In our living room, we had a little

table where my sister had cut her ear. There was also a red carpet on the floor where my sister

tripped and hit herself in the ear.

This is how it all began. Me and my sister started to fight playfully, but my sister hit me

in the face hard. I got mad at her, and I wanted to hit her back. She ran, so I started chasing her

through the hall and into the living room. I was right behind her when she tripped on the carpet

and cut her ear. Before she tripped (when I was still running down the hallway), I thought to

myself, “If I hit her I will get in

trouble.” Just then, her foot

went under the side of the

carpet and she fell face-first.

She tried to stop herself with

her hands, but the table was in

the way. She cut her ear where

it is attached to your face. She

started to bleed, which scared her, so she started crying. At that time, I and my sister were home

alone, and I didn’t know what to do, so I called my dad and he called one of my aunts.

Thankfully, they lived close to us. I remember how it looked once the bleeding stopped. The cut

was worse than I thought. It went pretty deep down her ear.

To this day, we don’t have red carpets in our house!