A
preview to an upcoming movie in November; In Your Shadow.
An
Epic Erin story
“Natalie! Ugh. You didn’t wear
the dress I told you to!” Marie-Grace called down the stairs.
Natalie groaned and shoved her laptop into
her backpack. “You shouldn’t be looking through my closet, anyway!!”
It was a warm, sunny Thursday; flowers
were blooming, birds were singing, and…McKenna was screaming.
“My
gymnastics competition is tomorrow and I have not practiced enough! Oh, think, McKenna, think…” she cried as she
tapped her head with her fist.
Yep. It was another hectic afternoon in
the girls’ household.
Marie-Grace stomped down the stairs and
threw a frilly pink dress at Natalie. “What a fashion disaster! You’ve worn that “Star Hoodie” or whatever you call it
for three days straight; or has it been MORE than that?!”
“I like
it, okay, now just let me live my own life,” Natalie sighed. She loved
Marie-Grace, but sometimes she just couldn’t stand her.
“Ugh, I agree with Marie-Grace!” McKenna exclaimed.
“See?”
“Not about the dress; I hate dresses too.
It’s that STINK! At least put some deodorant on.” McKenna plugged her nose as
she shoved her leotard into a bag.
Natalie crossed her arms. “I do not stink! Maybe if you wore this shirt,
you’d see how amazing it is!”
“Oh, no thank you! I don’t want that…” McKenna said with a giggle, “stink!”
“Can’t we just try to live a sophisticated life around here?!”
Pretty soon, if you walked through the
door of their home, all you’d hear was screaming and yelling. And the
occasional break of a good lamp. But if you ran through the hallway, avoided a
few things being thrown, and ran down to the dark basement, tears would come to
your eyes. Because you’d see how sad a little girl named Caroline was…
Tears streamed down her face as she stared
at the somewhat “group picture” of Natalie, Marie-Grace, and McKenna hanging on
the wall. No one paid any attention to her. She sighed and pulled a pillow to
her stomach. “Everything will change…one day. Right?” she whispered as she
clutched the pillow closer. They had
at least one pet. They had tons of
friends. They were treated like human
beings! Well, not exactly human beings…they
were treated like doll beings!
Why did she even bother going to Erin’s
grandparents’ house with the others? The other dolls didn’t ever say a word to
her, either. Because they don’t even know
I exist. They still think Erin’s cousin, Sarah, has one more doll…and that’s
all thanks to McKenna, Natalie, and Marie-Grace convincing them that they’d
never get a new sister, she thought. But then, suddenly, she got a new
burst of confidence. “They may think there are 7 of us, but there are 8! I’ll show them!”
Caroline didn’t know where that burst of
confidence came from, but she was glad it did. Because maybe, just maybe if she came up with some sort of
plan, she’d be treated just as equal as everyone else! She ran up the stairs
and opened the basement door just a crack.
“Can we please leave already?!”
“Not until you stop being so stinky!”
Something else Caroline didn’t know was
what that was all about…and she
didn’t care. All she knew was that she had to slip by them without them
knowing…and that should be pretty easy. She opened the door and ran down the
hallway as fast as she could, quickly grabbing the house phone, for
emergencies. The front door unlocked with a click…she
had made it. She just had to get to Erin’s grandparents’ house before everyone
else, and then maybe the other girls would get to meet her! But the question
was…how?
I wrote this story for a preview to the movie I'm doing in November. It won't be EXACTLY like this, but I just wanted to try it out. I copied and pasted this from Microsoft Word.
