My sister had come over to my mom’s house in Woolwich on this beautiful Tuesday. We were sitting on my porch both wearing shorts and tank tops. It was 80 degrees outside. It was pretty early, The mist off the ground is just lifting. We were sitting on the porch watching the birds on the feeder. Luckily the bugs were not out to bother us. I looked around and said, “ Hey Ais, How about we go swing on the tire swing?”
“ Sure.” She had replied gloomily. I had gotten the tire swing for my birthday in May. Now it was summer. It was hanging off of a poplar tree. It was a normal car tire, Nothing fancy. It was hanging off of a single rope and tied in a random knot. The tire tree was placed in our backyard away from the woods. The rock wall behind our house was behind it.
We grabbed our sneakers and slipped them off without tying them. We dogged the mud and the brambles tickled our bare legs. When we got to the swing we decided we were going to pretend that it was a magical portal to my dads house. I do NOT believe in magic. We both got on the tire swing and wooshed through the air. We felt the air against our faces and laughed together. That minute was gone. Everything had suddenly gone black. I was suddenly very scared. “ Aisley?” I called. I heard a scared little voice next to me. I think it’s her I thought to myself. I felt around and felt the outline of her face.
“ Where are we?” She asked me.
“Let me try to see where we are. I luckily had my phone on me and I turned the flashlight that was on it on. It looked a lot like my closet at my dad’s house. I looked around and found out how to open the sliding door. I had finally found a way to open up the door.
When I opened the door it was my room at my dad’s house. I told Aisley to stay there and not move. I looked around my house and it turns out my dad was not there. That was a relief. I did not want him finding out how and what happened. We needed to find a way to get back. I wanted to call my mom and tell her what had happened but I did not want her knowing just yet. I told Aisley that we should feel around in the closet but not move anything because we wanted to get back the right way. We felt around for at least ten minutes until something happened.
We were suddenly back swinging on the tire swing.
“Aisley I think I know how this happened.”
“How?”
“We were going to pretend it was a magical portal. Maybe since we said we were going to dads, then we actually went there.” Lets try this again I thought to myself.
“You try and I will stay here.” Aisley said.
“ I want to go to my grandparents house in Bowdoinham!” I yelled.
I whooshed on the tire swing and boom I was in a dark place again. I used my phone flashlight to see and I was in my Grandparents closet. I wanted to go back so I started feeling around and poof. The air was in my face again.
“ Aisley, we have to do some research.” I carefully grabbed my phone out of my pocket and I researched how to open a portal between towns. We were scrolling for maybe an hour until we found a real video on how to open real portals. We watched some of it and we figured out that you can only open a portal if you have the need in you for an adventure. We searched how to close a portal, nothing at all came up. One time I watched this movie and it said that to close a portal you have to go in a field at night on a full moon and close it. You have to say what you want to happen and you need to have one drop of animal blood.
Of course we should try it!
“ Where are we going to get animal blood from?” Aisley asked with a little tension in her voice. “ I have a great idea.” I said after moments of silent thinking. “ Olive has a scab on her paw. If we only need a drop of blood then we can pick the scab and use the blood!”
“This is a perfect idea Cadence!” I have decided this because I will not hurt the cat but I will be able to get what I need without her really knowing what will be happening. Wait only one problem I thought to myself. We need A full moon! Without saying anything I hoped up and ran to the dining room to the calendar. I could hear Aisley running behind me.
“ Oh no!” I exclaimed. “ It’s not a full moon tonight.”
“Just kidding.”
Something was happening. I was fading. The setting was fading. I closed my eyes and opened them. I was in my bed along with my sister. My mom was standing over me saying:
“Aisley, Cadence time to wake up.
That is when I had finally realized that all of that was just a dream. Secretly in my head I blamed my mom for waking us up. “ Hey pickle, what did you dream about?” I looked over at her face of wonder. “ Oh nothing really.” I replied with some hesitation.