Delany's+story

===In a small town of Sparta there was a little girl named Lucy that had a very difficult life, her mother died when she and her siblings were young. When she got older she had to take care of the her family. Her dad was not home very often because he had to work. When her brothers and sisters grew up enough to take care of themselves. Lucy went out to go find a day job. She looked and looked but know one had any job openings except for this little old man who came up to her and asked if she could help him out. The man had a round face and it showed that he had been through a lot through his years. So she decided to help him, he said if she would help him she could get paid, only if she did the jobs right and carefully. She took the job and the man said that her job would start tomorrow. Later that night she went in to town and bought a nice outfit to wear she chose out a beautiful. It was a light blue shirt and a dark blue skirt it was the nicest thing that she bought for herself but it cost more then she had, so she took money out their secret stash. Then told herself that she would get money to put back so that no one would notice it was gone. She didn’t want anyone to know that she had bought an outfit only for herself. She went home and hid her new outfit in side the highest cabinet so no one could find it. then Lucy then she to bed, little did she know that her sister named Sam was up to get a drink of water and accidentally opened the top cabinet and pulled out the outfit that Lucy had bought. Sam was confused, since usually when someone went to get something for themselves they would get something for the whole family. Sam put back the shirt and the skirt, got something to drink and went back to bed. The next morning Lucy woke up ready for her first day of work. She went to the cabinet and pulled out her new outfit. When she turned around she saw Sam looking at her,at the shirt and skirt then back at Lucy. Sam was the first one to speak she said "What are you doing with that outfit? and why is there a small amount do money in our secret stash?"=== ==="I can explain,"said Lucy, "Ok see I got a job at this old man's house to cook and do house work for him, so last night I went out and got something for me. but it was to much and I didn’t have enough money to pay for all of it so I used some of the money from the secret stash and I didn’t get anyone else anything. Please don’t tell Tori, Erin, Gene, or Nate (Lucy's little siblings). Especially please don’t tell father he will be so mad that I took some of the money with out speaking to him." So they both agreed that it would be their little secret and no one else would know.=== ===Lucy headed off to the old man's house to start her new job. She walked through a big forest and at last she spot a little cottage. Lucy introduced herself to the old man and he ran over the rules and put her straight to work. her first job was to clean the cottage. when she was cleaning she figured out his name was Fred, he had two dogs there names were Biscuit and lucky they were stray dogs until Fred’s parents adopted them. Lucy had cleaned up the whole cottage and had discovered that Fred love to talk to people but had never had any one to talk to. The day had gone by quickly since the man loved talking. Lucy went home and tried to go to sleep but couldn't. she had to much on her mind, what will she do tomorrow and how much time till she could she replace the borrowed money and have enough money to buy her father and siblings nice things. sooner or later she fell asleep. the next few mornings she went to Fred’s house and he had her do other jobs around the house, but little did she know that new outfit and when she turned around she saw Sam looking at her then the shirt and skirt then back at Lucy. Sam was the first one to speak she said "what are you doing with that outfit? and why is there a small amount do money in our secret stash?"=== ===" I can explain"said Lucy, "Ok, see I got a job at this old man's house to cook and do house work for him, so last night I went out and got something for me. but it was to much and I didn’t have enough money to pay for all of it so I used some of the money from the secret stationed I didn’t get anyone else anything. but please don’t tell Tori, Erin, Gene, or Nate (little siblings). Especially please don’t tell father he will be so mad that I took some of the money." So they both agreed that it would be their little secret and no one else would know.=== ===She would never forget this day because this day is very special. Lucy wakes up and gets ready for work then walks to Fred’s house and this time he has a different job for her it is to go to a special place to the west where there are small forests that have very good logs for the stove and if you just take a piece of the wood and strike it against a rock that it will start a fire, but then there are bad forests that look like the good forests, but they don’t even light the fire it just puts the fire out. Fred tells her that the only way she will really know the difference of good and bad forests is the taste, if you taste the leaves of the trees then if it tastes sour then it's a bad tree and if it doesn’t taste like anything then is a good tree. Lucy went out and went west and she did find a little forest but there were four little groups of trees but she couldn’t remember how to tell them apart. she remembered that you have to taste the leaves and then if they taste sour then they were bad and if they didn’t taste like anything then it was good wood. Lucy started to taste the leaves of the trees then cutting down the good ones. Soon she had a big pile of wood and she put in her cart that she bought with her. she was walking and walking and she thought that she would be at the old mans house by then but she wasn’t. it was starting to get dark and she still hadn’t made it to the house yet she was starting to get a little worried that she was lost it was getting a little stormy and so she saw a deserted temple. she decided that she should stop and stay there for the night but she couldn’t open up the door she tried and tried but just couldn’t get the door open .so instead she just sat at on the porch steps and stayed there for the night. Lucy took a piece of wood from the cart and struck it against the temple steps the temple porch lit up in seconds, she finally fell asleep. When she woke up she was startled and didn’t know where she was then she remembered that she had gotten lost when she was looking for wood. When she looked up she saw that the wood that she lit last night was still burning. In the light the temple was really big and had a lot of windows she tried to push the door open but it wouldn’t open. Suddenly she saw this spirt and it was really interesting in that it blended into the temple door. It started to speak and said " To open this door it doesn’t take force it takes wisdom and patients the door wont open if you don’t have any offering like bad trees and good trees with a ribbon. If you do get the door open the you may use it for what ever you want and you would be the first one to open the door that your ancestors put a special lock that can’t bad opened with force" then the spirt just disappeared. Lucy started to think about the spirt said, so she decided to do what the spirt said but she would still have to work for Fred so she could earn money. Lucy went and finally found the way to the cabin that the old man lives in. He asked her where she was and she said that she got lost and slept on the porch of an old temple. He wasn’t angry at all in fact he had her take the day off and decided to give her pay day early, she thanked him for his kindness and went off to her family. When she got home she was welcomed home.=== ===Then Lucy gave the money she earned to her father and he was delighted. Lucy decided that she was going to go back to the temple and try to open the door. She remembered what the spirt said so she got a ribbon from the store and collected good and bad wood and brought it to the porch or the temple. She tried to push the door open and it still wouldn’t move. So she tried to think about, it wont move with force, you have to have some wisdom. So you have to not push it and wisdom is kept in you mind. Lucy got it you have to use your mind to open and close the door. So Lucy used her mind to open the door but it only opened a crack. So she tried with more faith and it did opened all the way. The spirt came back to reward her and said that she broke the lock so she can have the temple and every thing inside the temple as a reward and for opening up the lock. Lucy was so delighted that she decided that that her whole family would live in the temple. When she explored inside the temple she decoded that there were tons of riches from along time ago. Lucy and her family moved in and sold some of the stuff in the temple and became rich. The all lived happily in their home. Most of all the whole family loved to imagine all day when it was raining they imagined that it was a sunny and beautifil day. Lucy and her family became good friends with the old man and they all lived happily ever after.===