New Beginnings

The taxi had just dropped off Lucy Enrobes outside her new home. She dug into her pocket and managed to scrape up the money to pay the taxi driver. Her small, pink diary fell out just as she handed her money to him. Her diary was one of her only possessions. Along with her diary, all she really owned was a pen and an envelope containing a letter from Sarah.

Lucy was about to pull back the front door of her new home. She had been waiting so long for this moment. She had dreamt about it with Sarah back in the orphanage. She and Sarah had planned out their whole dream house. They had gotten into so much detail that they had even decided what pattern would be on the kitchen curtains! Lucy had loved that game so much. Even though she was now just gone twenty years of age, she still liked to imagine what colour couch she would have in the living room and whether or not she would have a washbasin in her room or just an en-suite off of it. Now, however, she tried to focus on what her new house would be like. She was so anxious to get inside. She pinched herself to make sure all of this wasn't a dream.


Her face changed from a looking-forward face to a what-the-heck face. She was so shocked. Ok, so it was a cheap house, she thought, but there could b a lick of paint on the walls instead of all this glumness.

She looked around her. It was all so dusty and dark. There was only two windows in the house and the sun shining through them showed up more dust making the house look even more revolting. So much about a plasma screen TV upon the wall and a lovely red two-seater couch perched in the corner, thought Lucy, I don't even have a couch. Only a stinkin'' fold-up chair thrown underneath the tiny midget of a table!

She was so annoyed. The toilet and sink weren't even walled off and right beside the front door! And there wasn't a shower or bath tub in sight. There wasn't any press to store anything and there was the most grubbiest cooker you could ever imagine right beside an even grubbier fridge! Everything was in need of a good clean. Lucy was afraid to turn around in case she would spot a mouse running behind the bed!!!

Later on, Lucy nipped out to the shops to buy some polish and J-cloths to spruce up her house a bit. While she was gone, the paper girl came with the daily newspaper 'Crystal Lane Today'. Crystal Lane was quite a popular town so all events and everything else happening in the town was printed onto a free newspaper.

Anyway, Lucy arrived home with her J-cloths and polish jumping around in her new plastic bag. She was about to open the front door when she stood on the newspaper. She was quite delighted to see it. The 'Crystal Lane Today' also contained job listings hence her happiness!

She barged in the door and flopped on the fold-up chair at her kitchen table.

She scanned each page carefully. So far, it hadn't any job listings at all. All it had were pull-outs about kids behavior and heck loads of articles on the World Cup. Lucy got so frustrated. She flung the newspaper on the table and turned away from it. She looked back at the paper as if it was a child annoying her! Then, her face lit up. Right at the back page were three small job adds. One was for washing dishes, another was for a career in athletics and the last was for driving an ambulance. What could be better than saving lives? thought Lucy.

She phoned up the number accompanied with the add. They were so desperate for a driver they hired her straight away. Just a couple of months of training and she'd be driving down the road in her ambulance!