-Wake up, George! We’re going!
Oh, what a bad day. We’re moving to Orlando. Normally, we live in Florida but… I hate moving to another city. I’ll miss everything in Florida… The tropical weather, my father’s reptile garden, my old school, actually everything! My mother works in a shopping center, and my father is working in a zoo. He has a reptile garden, as I said before. My father will open a botanical garden, the biggest one in Orlando. So, we are in the little car now. Me, my dad, my mom, and my little parrot Singybird. Oh, just a boring 3-hour car trip passed and now, I am too tired. The big furniture will come in 3 hours. When they come, I am pretty sure that I won’t open anything except my computer to play with my friends on our Minecraft server. Tomorrow will be the most terrible day of my life! Tomorrow, I will start my new school. I played Minecraft for about two hours and fell asleep.
-Georgie! I SAY WAKE UP! WE’RE LATE FOR SCHOOL!
-Okay, mom! I’ll come in two minutes…
As you can understand, I was trying to wake up. I woke up actually 10 minutes later but, one hour later, I was at my new, boring, and TERRIBLE SCHOOL! So, if I need to explain it, it was just a regular apartment. It was a middle school, with 4 classes of each grade, actually, it was just a REGULAR SCHOOL, as I said. But of course, I couldn’t know that the school was not a regular one in reality.
My first day in my new school wasn’t perfect. I didn’t meet someone new. I just sat in the back corner of the classroom and listened to my teacher. I am not giving the details of my school, so I am turning back to the story. So, I came back from the school and my mother, of course, asked:
“Hi, Georgie! How was your first day at school?”
At that point, I preferred to stay quiet because when my mother asks something and you give an answer, she will talk too much about your answer and at least she will ask 5 or 6 questions.
-Oh, Georgie, don’t stay quiet, didn’t you introduce with a new friend!?
-Nope…
-Georgie, it’s too rude to.
-Bla, bla, bla… I’m listening… Goodbye, mom!
I went upstairs quickly, you can understand the reason… The top floor was dark, and I heard some crash to the floor and suddenly fell down. I opened my eyes in a kind of secret place like a basement. There were mice everywhere, and there was a little hole. I thought that this hole opened by something crushed into it. I really had a thought like sneaking quietly into that hole and solve all the mystery of a new house. So… I did it. When I sneaked into that hole, I saw a very old basement again. Some hours passed with traveling all around the city’s basements following the hole and finally… I saw a hard iron sphere, and it was broken. I silently looked at what’s inside, and the thing inside of it changed my life…
Before telling “the thing”, I’ll tell you that today is my father’s first day at his botanical garden, so he will come home too late. That’s why I am not turning back home. So, the thing was… just an old notebook. Don’t look at me! I am also as surprised as you! And looked at my watch, it was 9 o’clock! I turned all the way back home, and I saw that my mother didn’t hear the crash, so I was very lucky! She was still cooking in the kitchen with loud music. I thought my father will come about 15 minutes. So, first of all, I had to clean this mess! And I was also lucky that this sphere wasn’t too big. Of course, I’m not a perfect carpenter, but I fix it, I thought. When I just fixed it, my father came and shouted! Georgie! I have a present for you! I came quickly to the entrance. My father brought me a young plant, but he and his friends couldn’t find its kind. I said “thanks” and I quickly went upstairs. Carefully opened the secret notebook. On the first page, there was a handwritten phone number. I didn’t call it suddenly; firstly, I preferred to read the notebook completely. The notebook was about ironworking, and the author was a little girl who was already in our school. That sounds weird, right? A secret basement web, a secret notebook, and a secret plant! At this point, the whole mystery gets weird…