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”Welcome to your new house”, my father said to both me and my mother.
”You’ll love this house, Charlie”, my mother said to me.
I was thinking other thoughts at that time. Hoping there were no spiders in the house. All I saw in my mind was spiders filling my room while I slept. It wasn’t a very good picture of this new house. I also thought about the kids in the neighborhood were probably laughing at me because I was still in the car. My parents were already out looking at the flowers around the house. Then I started to picture the car moving by itself with me in it because the hand brake wasn’t on. Got out of the car but the car didn’t even move. Just my paranoid mind I guess.
I started to walk up the driveway to the house. I noticed the grass was green and the flowers were red. I knew I had to start thinking of good things. I sometimes think too negatively at times. Tried to picture how much fun it will be to play hide and seek in a new house. Hiding in a closet under some clothes, nobody can find me but the spiders. Why are there spiders in this place? I can’t play hide and seek then. This is terrible living with spiders. How will I live in this new house?
”Mom, are there spiders in this house”, I asked fearfully.
”No, Charlie, we will bring out the spray and do a search first, right David”, Answered his mom.
”Yes, we will do a spider hunt right away, Charlie. Come with me and we will start right now”, my dad agreed.
Deep inside me I knew all this was foolish. I have read about spiders and I shouldn’t be scared of them. I knew thinking about spiders all the time isn’t a normal thing for people. My parents always did everything they could to make me at ease. It usually works just like it worked this time. I was happy to go on a spider hunt with my dad.