Lucky

"Stevie Ray you better make sure there's no stain on them there dishes"her Papa said walking into the kitchen.Stevie Ray wiped the last plate and stacked it in the dishwasher
with all the other dishes."There fine Pa"she said,after wiping her hands with the dish rag Stevie Ray walked over to the refridgerator and grabed her self a bottle of water.Her thoart
felt like as if heat was burning in it for centuries,and once the water touched the core of her
body,she felt as if she could skip through Spring.

"Don't drink the water like that Stevie Ray.You could choke your self" her Papa complained
he had walked over to one of his homemade cabniets and grabed himself a blue mug.And
started walking over to the coffe pot.When he had poured himself a cup of coffee,Stevie Ray
had removed the bottle from her mouth with a big gasp.Boy,was that refreshing,she thought.

Walking over to the trashcan she dumped the bottle away just as her Papa asked,"Did you clean that basement yet?"

Stevie Ray nodded,"I moved all the fruniture and everything.Just like you asked."

"That's my girl"her Pa said and leaned back agianst the stone counter and sipped his steaming coffee.Stevie Ray could feel her thoart burning agian.But this time it felt hotter.Like
an dieing sun.And when her Papa turned around to the sink to wash his mug,she quickly reopened the refrdgerator and took all the water bottle's they had left.Then snuck her way carefully out the kitchen.

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Stevie Ray burst out her front door coughing.She could feel her thoart getting sore by the minute and even more hotter.Yet when she reached up to touch it,she could actually feel
the undenying sweat.Throwing half the water bottle's that she had in her hands down Stevie
Ray fell to her knee's.She could'nt breathe and she felt like she was gonna die in any second.

Removing her hand from her sweaty thoart,Stevie Ray reached for one of the water bottle's
at her side and started fumbeling with the top.Once the top was screwed of,Stevie Ray lifted the bottle over her mouth and opened her mouth wide.Water spilled over her face as a whole gullop drained down her thoart.After that bottle was empty she reached for another,
then another,wetting her whole face and ruining her white silky blouse.

But she could her thoart healing and her breathing back to normal.

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Dinner was'nt good for Stevie Ray.She kept fumbling with the fork thinking about what had
happened on the porch.Her thoart,drying up like the Vegas desert and her breathing automatically stoped.As if it had just happened,like it never stoped.

"Stevie Ray,child,eat your dinner"her mama said.Stevie Ray obeyed and forced a peice of
brookley down her thoart.

"You call that eating,mama meant take the stake and its bone's and then choke yourself"her
brother joked next to her.He then started laughing,but Stevie Ray did'nt find it funny at all.
She found it quite sick and unnatural enough for her to lose her appetite.

"Jared T.now don't you be talking to your sister like that"her mama chestied.Scooting back her chair and tossing her napkin on the table, Stevie Ray said,"May I be excused?" And
without waiting for any of them to answer she walked of.

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Stevie Ray lied on her pillow staring up at her ceiling.Wishing to her self over and over agian that she did'nt help that puppy.Wishing that she should've left it outside so it could've died in
storm.But no,she just had to stop eating her beefy chicken and answered the door.Why could'nt I be like all the heartless people out there that don't love animals,Stevie Ray thought.

Turning to her side on the bed,she felt her stomach growl.But even if it had growled she was'nt hungry.Her appetite was long gone.Especially whe her little annoying brother joked
about her choking and dieing.

So instead she closed her eye's and started dreaming about her self falling.