I used to be in competitions with my father, and that was the best year of my life since I got to spend time with him. We would always practice whenever my mom used to make pies for us, but then we would only leave one pie for all of us to enjoy together. We were all once a very happy family but ever since my father died the only thing that matters to my mom is me winning the competitions. So whenever I have a competition I am always focused on what I am supposed to do, which is really easy, all I have to do is eat a giant pie faster than the competitors which is kind of easy for a little girl. The only type of pie that I would eat is cherry pie it reminds me of my father because that was his favorite scent of all. Now I am going to take you back to the day that I was poisoned at the fair.
“BEEP BEEP, BEEP BEEP !”
“ UGHH I DON'T WANT TO WAKE UP 5 MORE MINUTES PLEASE !” even though no one could hear me because I was deep inside my covers.
“ Holly sweetie wake up it's time for you to get up or else you are going to be late for the county fair competition.” announced my mother in a strict tone of voice. My mom means the world to me, because she is the only person who I have left in my life.
“ Mother please 5 more minutes !”
“ No Holly, lets go come on get up.”
“ Okay mother I'm up, I'm up!” I answered with a very mummified tone of voice for waking up at the crack of dawn, even though it was more like 8am.
“ Holly are you up yet? If you are then come downstairs to eat breakfast.”
“ Yes mother I'm up I was just washing my face and hands.” I replied, even though I still looked like if I were dead from last night. I had bags under my eyes and I was flopping all over the place with a rotten look. No one would really expect this from me, because whenever I step out of my house I am always very well dressed with a nice little dress like the one I was wearing that day. A dark marine blue with little touches of red in it, and my hair up that had three little knobs and it would look like if I would have just came out of the salon. Everybody knew who I was because I am usually on the front page of a lot of newspapers and clippings. I am the youngest pie eater in the whole Southwest. From all of the people that I know only one person has hated my family, and his name is Andrew Fox. He never liked me or my father because we would always beat him and his daughter, Elizabeth, in the competitions to the rate that his eyes were filled with fury. He's always wanted revenge but I am guessing that he has forgot all about it and has put it in his past.
Once I am done eating my breakfast I go back up the stairs with a unenthusiastic attitude. “THUMP, THUMP, THUMP, THUMP” are the only sounds coming from me. Once I get changed and all girlied up I am ready for my competition there is nothing that can really stand in my way of winning, because this would make my father proud and so may he rest in peace. Also for my mother who is there by my side all the time. Now it's the time to go to the competition that I have been waiting for. While I was coming downstairs all I could see was my mother's face brighten up with joy. She once told me that I reminded her of my father.
“ Holly you look great , come on lets go sweetie or were going to be late.” So there we go headed out the door. We step into the car and I just sit and wait, and wait, and wait. Until I could see the fair. Once I see the fair in plain sight I roll down the window and I suddenly felt the fresh air against my face. The air would bring smells to me while the car was in motion. Pumpkins, squash, horses, gas, popcorn, cotton candy, and the best of all cherry pies that were freshly baked to smell but the only thing that I could think of during the car ride was my father and I would just wonder if he would be proud of me. The only sounds were crowds going wild in the tents, laughter from everyone having a good time, screams from the rides scaring the souls out of them and the words
“CHUG, CHUG, CHUG, CHUG, CHUG!”
This was like my safe place and heaven. I stepped out of the car and I just smile but no words came out of my mouth in that moment, I needed to install my brain into the fair and the competition. I start walking towards my station where I was going to be eating, I couldn't wait until that pie was mine. I was so nervous that me and my mom went to walk around the fair and look at the different booths, and play a few games, but during the time I was doing this the organizers were already setting up for the competition. When the organizers left for a little while someone had poisoned my pie and no one had any idea who it was. I start going back because I knew it was time for me to get back for the contest so I could get into my place and be ready.
I had turned around and saw that Andrew Fox and his daughter were there at the competition as well, so I had found out that his daughter was competing against me so we all had an awkward moment of silence. When one of the organizers had said that one minute was left until the competition started my heart just started racing faster and faster. I thought that my heart was going to jump out of my chest, but I was lucky enough that it didn't. Then the words of the moment arrived “ARE YOU, GET SET, EAT !” So there I go eating my pie as fast as I could but then I start feeling nauseous and when I look up I can't see anything because it was way to blurry and I felt that I was going to just collapse. That's when I had fainted. But the weird part was that I could still hear stuff that was going around me but I couldn't talk . All I could hear was
“ CALL 911 AND SAY THAT A LITTLE GIRL FAINTED !” and my mom just repeating
“ HOLLY, HOLLY WAKE UP SWEETIE WAKE UP !” with a high pitched voice that sounded like if she was going to faint as well but she was just crying with a lot of desperation. The next thing that I knew was that I woke up in the hospital and my mom was next to me crying her sapphire blue eyes out which had turned into rivers flowing through her face. She had told me everything that had happened that day she had said that I was in a coma for two days and that I had fainted because I was poisoned.
At that moment, Andrew Fox had came in to my room with a guilty face and my mom had asked him if he needed something but there was no reply. He could only say two words I'm sorry and we would just kept asking why but no response would come out of his mouth. Until he came clean saying that he was the one who had poisoned my pie so I could lose and so that his daughter could win for once in her life. He just begged for our forgiveness, but I said “ I'll forgive but you still need to earn our trust back and Mr. Fox winning isn't everything.” The only thing that I could say to my mom when Mr. Fox left was that I was fortunate that I didn't die because then she would be left on earth all alone and that we should be grateful that we had each other and that my father would be very proud of us because we would never be inseparable.
Two years passed and Mr. Fox had died in a tragic car accident and to this day his daughter is in a wheelchair and may remain in one for the rest of her life. I know how it feels to lose your father. One day she came to me saying that she knows my pain since she lost her father. We are getting along now so we may just hope that we are going to become friends. I had told her the same thing I told her father which my father had mentioned to me as well “ Winning isn't everything”
ZiiNE LiiNk: http://students.hthma.hightechhigh.org/~jleon/zine-jocelyn-karina-adriana-lenia.pdf
