That's a Wrap!

Chapter 1 - Addy

"Adelaide, dear, come down for breakfast!", Nana Val shouted from the kitchen.

"Coming," said Addy, sleepily. She had just woken up, and was still laying in bed (and very cozy, mind you). She was immersed in her own tangled bedsheets, which was the way she woke up on most mornings. The bed was her kingdom. However, there was a smell attracting this human lioness away from her wild habitat.

"PANCAAAAAKES!", Addy screamed from the top of her lungs as she ran down the stairs to greet her grandmother and little sister. Nana Val was indeed cooking up some pancakes for Addy and Eliza to share. The sizzling noise of the batter made Addy really hungry, but that wasn't the only sound she heard.

"Okay, we heard you!", yells Addy's younger sibling as she sits atop her piano stool. "You don't need to alert the whole neighborhood." She was playing beautiful melodies that she learned the week before in piano class. Everyone thought she was a mini Mozart. This made Addy furious. 

Eliza was known around the neighborhood as a "child prodigy". She was a great musician, and far better than a third-grade A student. She was nine years old, yet knew exponents, the periodic table, and the first 50 digits of pi. In fact, these subjects were too easy for her. So much so that she has a private tutor come to the Wests' house everyday to teach her material that would make a high school senior burst into tears. Of course, this made Addy, a C student, green with envy.

"The pancakes are getting cold, girls!"

Quickly, the sisters rush to the table. Soon, pancake-eating and conversation began to ensue.

"Are you excited for the first day of grade ten, Adelaide?", asked Nana Val.

"Yeah. I'll have the photo club, and I'll see Hannah again. Hopefully, Tiff passed grade eight; she'll be there, too. Oh, and I heard there'll be a drama club this year," responded Addy.

Nana Val laughed. "We all know how much you like performing, dear."

Addy chuckled along, then looked at her watch. It was 7:45.

"Sorry, Nana, but it looks like I have to go." Addy rushed upstairs before making it out the door. She ran to her room. It in, there was a picture of her family, years before. It was taken the year Addy's parents had died. She was seven years old. She kissed the photo, leaving a lip gloss mark as she always did. 

Then she left for school.