BAD LUCK BEGINS

                                                                    By: ME

          One day in late May a sixteen year old girl who hates to work got the worst news that there is.  The girls name is Kate Dower, she live with her Mom in the busy location of New York City.   She goes to sleep to the sound of horns honking and wakes up to a plane old bowl of cereal, but that was all about to change.
         “Kate, its ten o-clock in the morning get up.  I have some big news for you.” Called Mrs. Dower.
          “Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?”Said Kate still half asleep.  “I’m not in the mood for news right now.”
         “Well to bad come take a seat”.  Mrs. Dower commanded.
         Kate sat down at the table across from her Mom and prepared to hear the news that would probably make this bad morning even worse.  She folded her arms on the table, and rested hers chin on top of them.
         “Okay Kate, you know that your Aunt Pam and Uncle Jim bought a new farm last summer in Kentucky, right.” Said Mrs. Dower.
         “Yeah.” Kate said hesitantly.

“Well, they need a little help doing some help doing the jobs.  So since we are family I said that you would help them out this summer.
         “What, no, no way, I’m not doing it!” Yelled Kate.
         “Kate, yes you are, now go get packed.  You leave Sunday.”
         “Mom today’s Friday.  I’m leaving tomorrow?  And they have pigs.  Mom, pigs are stinky and smell and very messy.  I don’t want to be spending my summer cleaning up after pigs.” Complained Kate
         “Yes Kate you leave tomorrow, go pack NOW! Demanded Mrs. Dower
         Kate sighed.  “Fine.”  So Kate dragged her self upstairs and began to pack.  She had to admit, she was going to miss her bowl of cereal and the horns honking.  Just in general, she was going to miss New York City.
         Kate spent the rest of the day in her room.  She was emailing her friends to tell them that she wont be around this summer and to not bother calling her cell phone because she wouldn’t be able to answer it since she will be outside all day.
         Kate couldn’t sleep that night.  She was so angry.  Kate was leaving for a farm tomorrow.  She knew that if she went to sleep now, tomorrow would come sooner.  She also didn’t want to miss her last moments in New York City.
         The ride to the farm in Kentucky was long.  Kate’s Mom was driving her, so she was talking to Kate about being safe and not wandering off.  Little did she know that Kate had dozed off and wasn’t even listening.
         When Kate woke up her Mom was driving up the dirt rode.
         “Great.” Said Kate.  “The torture begins now.”
         Mrs. Dower didn’t hear her and jus kept driving up the rode.  Then a little old farmhouse came into few.
         “Oh my god.” Said Kate.  It looks like its from the 18 hundreds.”
         “That’s because it is.” Mrs. Dower said happily
         “Great, I’m going to be living in a house that’s probably infested with a 200 year old wooden skeleton.  Yeah.” Kate said sarcastically.
         Just then, two people walked out of the house.  Kate looked closely and realized that it was her Aunt and Uncle. 
         “Kate, darling, how are you doing.” They both said at the same time.        
         “Um great until yesterday.” Kate told them.
         “Good I knew you would say that.” Said Aunt Pat in a rush.  “Okay you come with me.  I’ll get you settled in and Judy, go home.  Get some rest.”
         “Okay, bye Kate” Said Mrs. Dower as she walked off.
         “Bye, Mom.” Kate said disappointed and looked at the ground.
         “Alright.” Said Uncle Jim.  “Here is your rake.  Go rake some hay and um by the way you have to watch the pigs too.  There is one pig that has wings he loves to run out of the gate.  He was sold to us because he runaway once and the person who was watching him at the moment had all sorts of bad luck until the pig came back.  So be careful.”  And Uncle Jim walked off.
         Kate walked through the gate and the started to rake some hay.  Then all the pigs walked into the field.  Kate turned around and saw him.  She saw the pigs that had wings.  He had a bell around his neck so all she could hear was ding ding ding ding ding ding ding. She didn’t think he looked like a troublemaker, but she would soon find out that she was wrong.  Then she noticed that the dinging was getting fainter.  She knew that the field
Wasn’t that big so she turned around t checked it out.
         The first thing she noticed that was she left the gate open.  Then beyond that all she could see was a pink dot getting smaller and smaller then the pig disappeared.
         Just then she heard something weird coming from the direction that the pig ran.  It sounded like… “Ha ha ha ha.”

“Oh no.” Kate said quietly hoping that her Aunt and Uncle didn’t hear her.  It didn’t work.  They both came charging out of the house and stopped right in front of Kate.
         “Kate did I just hear that ding ding ding of that pig?” Asked Uncle Jim.
         Kate took a step back because they were invading her space, but she stepped on the curved metal part of the rake and the wooden part flung up and hit her in the back of the head.  Kate started to fall forward but Uncle Jim caught her.  The last thing that she heard was “Yep you did Jim, yes you did.”  Then she blacked out. 
         When Kate woke up she was in the farmhouse on her bed.  Her head was rested on an ice pack and Aunt Pam was sitting next to the bed.  Kate looked up. 
         Uncle Jim walked in to the room.
         “Great your up now go get back to work.” Said Uncle Jim.        
         “Jim.” Said Aunt Pam.  “She just woke up, I think she should rest.
         “No no.” Said Kate.  “I’m fine.”  Kate got up and headed for the door.   When she walked outside she pick up the rake and continued what she started.  When she was done she went inside to have dinner.  For dinner they had corn on the cod, corn bread, corn muffins, corn soup, and corn meal.   The only problem was that she didn’t like corn.
         “Um, I don’t like corn.  Is there anything else to eat? Asked Kate.
         “ It might just be me.” Said Aunt Pam.  “But I think that your bad luck is kicking in again.” 
         “Really.” Kate said sarcastically.  “Never mind, I’m going to bed.
         That night Kate fell out of her bed three times and on the forth time she had had enough. She got up and said… “I have had enough.  I’m going to find that pig and bring it back.  This bad luck has got to stop!  It’s tearing my life a part.
         At that moment she walked out of her room and stepped outside.  She looked back at the house then ran the direction that the pig ran.  She ran down a hill, through the forest and across a river.  Then all of a sudden she saw the pig.  He was eating grass.  There was another pig with him and about ten baby pigs.  She called the pigs over and they followed her back to the farmhouse.  Aunt Pam and Uncle Jim were on the porch calling her name.
         “I’m over here!” Kate called
         They ran over and rapped her in a tight hug.  Then they looked down.  They saw the pig with wings and saw that he had a family. 
         “I think this would explain why he always tried to escape.” Said Uncle Jim.
         That day Aunt Pame, Uncle Jim, and Kate built another field just for the family of pigs.  And for Kate< her bad luck disappeared.  Kate enjoyed the rest of her summer and even asked her Mom if she could stay longer.  She was aloud to have a choice.  Either she and her Mom could stay in New York City and visit every year or they could move to the farm.  Kate chose the farm.  She stayed with the family at the farm.  She took full responsibility of the pig family.  Then one day in August she went up Aunt Pam and asked… “How come when the pig ran away the person that was watching him got bad luck.”
         “Lets go sit down in side and I’ll tell you how that all came to be.”

  THE END