On fire

     Could this be the end of it all? The fire was raging, slowly spreading its venom all across the plate. Would it spread across the house? Where would we live then? It wasn’t time to think of the what-ifs. I had to do something. The fire extinguisher is in the laundry room. It would stop the fire. I raced to the laundry room in search of the red bottle that would save my house. I grabbed the fire extinguisher only to find out it was bug spray. I have lived in the house for two years at the time only to find out my last chance of hope was never real. It was bug spray all along. Defeated, I walk back to the kitchen. This was the end. 
Splash! 
     My father threw a cup of water on the fire. The plate shattered into hundreds of little pieces. The smell of burnt turkey bacon lingered in the house. After that, there was a lot of yelling directed at me but the day was saved. 
     I was born in Maryland but live in Roanoke, Virginia. I have been going to the North Cross scene since I was 6 years old in first grade. My parents are from Nepal but grew up in India. I have two siblings, one older sister who is 20 and a younger brother who is 6 years old.
“Life is like riding a bicycle,” Albert Einstein said. ”To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”        
At first, I didn’t want to be here but my parents insisted. They first found out about North Cross when my sister and her friend took a backing summer camp class. She told them she liked the school. My parents assumed that meant she wanted to switch schools. I was really bitter because I made some friends at my old school. When I got here I was surprised because the kids here were so kind and friendly.       
​ My birthday is on Sept. 22, 2007. It is also the first day of fall. I am a Virgo. When I was little I had to change my last name from Sharma to Pandey because it was a different last name from my parents.        I would be lying if I said I know what I want to do in life. I think it makes it fun though. I have a goal to get good grades in school but that is all. If I know what I want to do but it doesn’t happen I would be disappointed, but I don’t and I can't wait to find out. 
As Khloe Kardashian says: “You have your whole life to be old, but you only have a few years to be young."