The Daughter of a Legend
Written on January 17th, 2008 by SalaliStory Details
(8 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5)
Loading ...*Note: I wrote the beginning of this on my phone on the way to a Jazz contest I was participating in. I had to write it as a text message and then save it to my Drafts. The problem was that you can only send a certain amount of characters in a message, so I had two or three messages saved.
*Another note: I had to change the meeting date, cause otherwise it wouldn’t work with a line I wanted to put in. It has been changed from April 24 to January 24.
When the plane landed, Di was still bouncing. She bounced all the way out of the plane and through the gray hallway that connects the aircraft to the airport, and out of the terminal. She was still bouncing at the luggage retrieval, and she practically skipped out the door. Then the winter air hit us, and she stopped dead in the doorway.
“What’s wrong, Di?” I was afraid she had left something (like her bag) on the plane.
“It’s cold,” she said, disbelievingly.
I stared at her. “It’s January. What did you expect?”
“Well, I didn’t expect cold.”
Mom hailed a taxi, and gave the driver the adress of our hotel. I looked out the window, attempting to wallow in sadness and self-pity, but really marveling at the city of Dublin. Mom tried to start a conversation about what our hotel was going to be like, but after neither of us answered, she gave up. Di simply huddled in the backseat underneath a coat. “Cold,” she stated.
After five minutes, I restarted Mom’s attempted at conversation. “What are we doing tomorrow?”
“Cold“.
“I thought we could go see a museum.”
“A museum?”
“Is there something wrong with that?”
“Cold, cold, cold”.
“Well, I don’t know. It seems kind of boring.”
“What would you like to do?”
“I don’t know. What is there?”
In the background, Di had lapsed into a mantra of “Coldcoldcoldcoldcold.”
“I have a brochure in my luggage. We can look at it once we get to the hotel.”
I resumed staring out the window. Di continued muttering “Cold” in the hopes that the driver would turn up the heat. When the car finally stopped outside the hotel, Di rushed inside while Mom payed the driver and I dragged all our luggage out of the back and onto the sidewalk. Di refused to come out of the heated building to get her bags, so Mom loaded me up like an alpaca and we got all the stuff inside eventually.
The hotel was grand, and our room was just as big. “Who’s paying for all of this?” I asked Mom as I explored our three room suite. It wasn’t like her to be extravagant.
“The… company is.”
Di and I ignored the fact that she maintained it was a buisness trip and yet had nothing planned in which she would be meeting with co-workers.
We eventually decided to go to the museum Mom had originally wanted, as well as the opera house. Mom had a park she wanted to visit on Sunday, but other than that we just planned to walk the streets of Dublin and visit things that looked interesting.
January 17th, 2008 at 5:26 am
FCD OMG I love it! Update!
January 17th, 2008 at 8:38 am
ooooooooooommmmmmmmmgggggggggg!!! i beg of u to update! this is so interesting!!
January 17th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Oh. I didn’t think everybody would like it THIS much…
Ooookay… I’m going to have a lot of spare time this weekend, so hopefully I’ll get the next chapter or so up.
January 19th, 2008 at 8:23 am
oh i like chapter two
plz continue!!!!
January 21st, 2008 at 3:43 am
coolieo! I really like it! escpesially coldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcold lol!
January 21st, 2008 at 4:45 am
THIS IS REALLY GOOOD!!!!!!! that reminds me of…well, me! coldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcoldcold.
January 21st, 2008 at 5:05 am
I LOVE IT! its really amazing.. I never payed attention to this and always skipped it because i thought it was another story i had already read bUT THIS IS intresting and you NEED to continue!
January 21st, 2008 at 8:48 am
marvolouse….u must continue
plz?
January 21st, 2008 at 3:55 pm
*squeal of happiness* I feel so loved! And yes, “coldcoldcoldcoldcold” was a line that I have been wanting to use for a very, very long time. Chapter four is up now, so… yay! MAJOR PLOT TWISTS HAVE BEEN REVEALED!
January 21st, 2008 at 4:11 pm
OMG!!! it was DI!!! I am so confused! Di was 14! I thought she was like, 8!
January 21st, 2008 at 4:49 pm
I KNEW IT! I WAS GOING TO SUGGEST YOU DO THAT! THATS WUT I WAS THINKING FROM THE BEGGINIG!
I WAS RITE DANCE- IWASRITEIWASRITEIWASRITEIWASRITE!YAY!
I LOve it! plz continue quickly!
January 21st, 2008 at 6:26 pm
*12 comment dance* upd8 soon!
January 21st, 2008 at 9:20 pm
The ending of chapter 4 is so sad! I want to see what happens next so update!
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Pllllz update quickly, I’m dying to noe wut happens.
January 23rd, 2008 at 12:50 am
Yeehee! I am so happy that everyone is okay with the plot twist. I hope to add the next chapter soon, but it might be a couple days, cause I have a lot of homework.
January 23rd, 2008 at 1:18 am
OMG! I LOVE THIS ! IM GIVING ITN A 5, ITS SOOO AWESUM! PLLZ ADD MORE AS QUICK AS YOU CAN!
January 25th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
OMG a twist! I love it!
January 25th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
BEST STORY EVER!!!!
January 27th, 2008 at 4:35 am
BEST STORY EVER! DO A SEQUEL! PLz!
January 27th, 2008 at 4:57 am
OMG I love the end! Sequal!
January 27th, 2008 at 6:20 am
I can’t believe I’ve never read this B4… It got a bit confusing in the middle…. great tho….PLZ WRITE A SEQUEL!!
January 27th, 2008 at 7:03 am
omg luv the ending…SEQUAL!!!!!
January 27th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
in the sequel u should make holly steal her!!!
January 27th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Well, I had a different idea for the plot in the next one… something about an old criminal coming back, cause I didn’t think any criminal I made up would be anything except depressed… Je ne sais pas.
January 28th, 2008 at 4:08 am
good idea! DO A SEQUEL QUICKLY!
January 28th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
r u going 2 upd8 soon?
July 27th, 2008 at 3:28 am
Sorry, but it’s done for now. I’ve got two sequels out - it’s not a series, it’s two different versions of the same sequel. “Enemies of Old” (which has died but is the sort of humor you seem to find on these sites) and “Life Of A Teenage Heiress” which is slightly more angsty and serious, but also has some funny parts.
July 27th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
I liked “Enemies of Old”! Could you please try and continue it?
July 27th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Sorry, forget my other comment above this. I did like it, though.