CHAPTER ONE A New Day David hurry up Your breakfast is almost ready David Davies rolled over in bed and groaned School again He loved that twilight zone between deep sleep and getting out of bed He had been thinking about last weekend His dad had taken him to the baseball game for the first time in years It was the playoffs and the Rockets won What a game A huge crowd countless great plays and David get a move on his mom screamed at the top of her lungs mom’s shrill voice disturbing his peace I’m coming I’m coming David moaned his 9
David jumped out of bed went to the bathroom and quickly got dressed He looked around his room for the shoes he’d worn the night before His room was covered in the usual adolescent mess of clothing sports gear and video games After a few minutes he appeared in the downstairs hallway dressed in what could loosely be described as the school uniform Well he had the school tie on at least The rest was questionable at best Baggy shirt baggy sweater and baggy pants David’s two sisters were already halfway through their bowls of cornflakes or oatmeal or whatever healthy concoction they were into these days In David’s opinion having two older sisters was the worst bad joke God could have played on a boy David had just turned thirteen Sarah was fourteen and a half as she liked to remind everyone and Emma was almost sixteen 10
Okay Mom relax Where’s Dad David Between their fascination with clothes and makeup David felt at times that life was almost unbearable David the school bus is going to be here in fifteen minutes and look at you his mom said with a sigh asked peering out of the kitchen window He is over in the far field checking on some of the sheep He thinks that fox has been back again The chickens were making an awful racket last night He’ll be back in a minute replied Mrs Davies throwing some toast onto David’s plate David’s dad was a farmer and the family had just recently moved to the area The new farm was massive and at least three times the size of the farm they had lived on before Not only did they have more sheep and cattle but they had far more land to manage The only problem was that David’s dad had 11
