I was walking on lawn full of lush green grass. The lawn was huge, pleasant with beautiful mixture of flowers that spread a unique mixture of fragrance in the air. I had a smile on my face and I could feel the dimple on my left cheek. It was sixty-nine degrees in Austin; the sky was a perfect blue with shades of clouds.
I was walking anxiously waiting for a mail to arrive. I was expecting a letter from a modeling agency where I had left my portfolio. I was positive this time. I had failed screen test a dozen times but this time I was better than before. I knew I was the best and this was coming to me this time.
"Maria," my mom said to me ' entering the lawn- causing me to stop my march. "Take some rest. It won't be arriving anytime soon."
My mom looks like me, an older version. We had same big, brown eyes and the perfectly angular nose. She looked like my mirror image with a little white in her hairs and some wrinkles on her face that she never tried hiding with make up. I got my dimple from my father who was a great man and, someone told me God need great men too that's why he called my father to heavens.
"It's all right," I said with a great joy in my voice. I could feel it myself and I guess mom could also feel it as she stopped staring at me and went back to the room. My lawn was beautiful. I loved it. I had planted all these plants with my own hands and now looking at this beautiful lawn gave me great pleasure.
The bell rang and I hurried to the door and almost tripped over something on my way. I did not even stop to look at what it was. I reached the door and opened it with great excitement and a part of me died when I saw no one out there. "Idiots" I said to myself. I don't like kids knocking on the door and then running away. I turned back and my eyes caught sight of a brown envelope lying in the mail box.
I picked up the envelope and hurried inside and entered the living room. I looked at the room with great interest again. I had forgotten how beautiful it was. The huge room was full of antiques I had bought from different corners of the city. The white walls looked beautiful and the chocolate curtains and furniture complimented them really well. I took a seat on the sofa in the corner. This was my favorite place inside the house ' I loved the lawn but I always considered it outside- I sat on the sofa that was just beside the huge window that was always open. It allowed breeze to touch my face and blow my hairs.
"Mom" I shouted and in few seconds mom was by my side. Before she could say anything I put my hands in front of her with the envelope in my hand. The expressions on her face changed 'from surprise to excitement and then a huge smile-.
"Open It.", I said to mom. She took the envelope from me and I jumped from the sofa to stand by her side. The envelope had my life in it. I knew I was selected and this was the start of the life I always dreamt of. I waited for mom to open it and show me the contract to sign.
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