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My Old House

By Bryan Araujo

I remember my old house when I was six years old. It was located in Springdale. My

parents had carpet, so in order for the carpet to not get dirty, they put plastic over it so that any

liquids that were spilled landed on the plastic and not the carpet. Every time I would walk on the

carpet, I would hear the plastic wrinkle under my

feet. My parents are clean freaks and don't like

anything to get dirty at all. They like to keep things

looking like new and that was rule one: do not take

the plastic off of the carpet. Rule number two:

everyone must help on cleaning day. We also had a

kitchen and only my mom could be in there and no

one else because when other people were in the

kitchen, they would take up more space and that

was space we didn't have.

One day I was riding my toy tractor around

my backyard. While I was riding it, I got distracted

by a butterfly. It was a butterfly that I had never seen before. It was so pretty. It had beautiful

blue wings. While looking at it, the tractor tilted over a big rock and I fell, scraping my knees. I

screamed in pain and my parents came out of the house worried that something bad had

happened.