This is the story of a dog who lives in Canada (in Alberta, but not in a real city. If it was, it'd probably be near Calgary) and moved there two years ago. I won't say more about the story thought, you'll just have to read it. Also, there will be some Hebrew words here, so you most likely won't understand some words. But I'm going to write the English word after it/before it usually. Here is the first entry:
Dear Diary,
שלום! Hello! I'm Lyla. Mom told me and Sigol, my twin sister, that we needed to get new diaries. I was surprised she noticed we'd filled up our previous two diaries, since she never notices us. Or our little brother, whom she never bothered to name (she was to busy cooing over our younger sister right after he was found and never bothered to name him... She really doesn't care about me, Sigol or him.) so we named him Alien. Here are some pictures of my family, so you'll know what we look like:
That's me. I was named Lyla because that's the Hebrew word for Night, and that's what our parents where reminded of when I was found, so they named me that. Did I mention we where "adopted"? Our parents found me and Sigol one day when my (first/second) dad was going to get the mail, but he found us in a basket and we where hugging eggs, apparentally.
This is Sigol, my twin. She's also my BFF. Her name is the Hebrew word for "Purple". We both have pet Snowy Owls, who hatched from the eggs our dad found us hugging We where found 14 years ago, and we're nearly 16 years old.
This is Alien, our little brother. He was also found by our dad the same way we where found, but he was found six years ago and is currently seven and a half years old. He doesn't have an owl like me and Sigol do, but he has a rabbit that he named "Silly Goose". Weird name, right? But that's not nearly as weird as his pet rat... Yes, rat. He has a pet rat called Snickers, and he and me and Sigol often use it to scare our little/his big sister.
This is Ilanna, our evil 8 year old sister. She has a pet hamster whom she called Coco, which was what Alien wanted to call his bunny, but our parents said we shouldn't have pets with the same name, and, because they loooooove Ilanna, she got to name her hamster Coco and Alien spent the next month trying to come up with a name for his bunny.
This is Carlos, our older brother. He's almost 21 years old, and he's currently in grade 12 (he got held back multiple times). Also, I swear, he gets a new girlfriend every two months. He loves archery, and has been learning to use a bow and arrow since he was in grade two. He doesn't really have a "side"; we don't know if he's on the "Amber eyes" side (me, Sigol and Alien call our family "Amber eyes" because all of them have amber, yellow or greenish yellowish eyes) or on our side, the "Aliens". Sometimes he is nice to us, sometimes he's mean. He's usually on our side, but if our parents get involved, he is against us. He has a pet bat, which is cool, but it looks like it's purple...
This is our (step-)dad. I don't really know what to write about him... I don't know much about him, since he only lived with us for a couple months. Mom and dad got divorced two years ago, and then we moved half way across the country to Alberta and mom just remarried. The only thing I know about him is that he's fascinated by the red clouds that come over our city nearly every day when it's cold, and apparently they're called "chinooks" (if you're wondering, which you can't but whatever, it's pronounced "Sh-in-oo-k(-s))
Lastly is mom. She's an evil creature if there ever was one, and favors Ilanna over the rest of her children, and she likes her son, Carlos, a bit but not nearly as much as Ilanna. She is a very fluent Hebrew speaker, and is forcing all of us, except for dad who already knows Hebrew, to learn Hebrew during the weekends.
Now, if you could think, which I'll pretend you do, then you probably wondered why I kept mentioning some animals, right? Well, believe it or not, our parents let all of us to get pets. We are pretty rich, but none of us, except for Ilanna and sometimes Carlos, get spoiled. Here are some pictures of our pets:
This is Sapphire, my pet owl. Your probably wondering why she's green, right? Well, that was the result of me and Sigol trying to paint something, but we ended up painting our owls green. Originally, they where both snowy owls, but we accidentally painted them green when they where sleeping, and know they look like that. We can only tell them apart by a blob on their chest. Mine has a blue blob on her chest.
This is Amethyst, Sigol's pet owl. She has the same story as Sapphire, except she has a purple blob on her chest.
This is Coco, Ilanna's pet hamster. Ilanna had a toy cupcake thing that came with whipped cream topping things, and she put it on Coco and made her look like a cupcake.
This is Snickers, Alien's pet rat. I have to admit, even though I hate mice and rats, this one actually looks sort of nice. Also, he seems to enjoy scaring Ilanna, and always has that strange smirk on his face after succesfully scaring her.
This is Raisin, Carlos' pet rat. Doesn't it look purple to you? It looks like a dark purple to me...
This is Silly Goose, the rabbit I mentioned when I was writing about Alien. You can see why Alien wanted to call him Coco, right? Wait, I forgot. Diaries can't see... Or think, for that matter. Oh well, I'll just continue pretending your an actual dog or something.
Before I finish this entry, here are some other important people in my life (Ok, our pets aren't technically people... But whatever).
This is Oliver, a friend of mine. Also, I have a secret crush on him that only Sigol knows about, but I think Carlos might know it... I hope he doesn't, because that would ruin my life even more.
This is Kathryn, or, as she prefers to be called, Katy. She's basically my BFF, but she isn't because Sigol is. I tell her almost as many things as I tell Sigol, but I tell my more important secrets to Sigol. And now you.
This is Sammy. He's a friend, but not nearly as close to me as Katy and Sigol. I know for a fact that Katy has a crush on him. But don't tell- Wait... You can't. I really need to remember that... Ugh.
This is Emerald, or you can call her Emma, which is what she's usually called unless she's in trouble. Which is often. She's a trouble maker, and often helps the "aliens" (remember what I wrote about when I was introducing Carlos?) prank our sister.
This is Snowy, which I think is sort of a strange name and is more of a nickname. She has a pretty short attention, and she doesn't go anywhere without her iPod. If it goes missing, she will cry her heart out until someone finds it. She can't go a second without her music, so I wonder how she sleeps... Eh, whatever.
This is Twilight. I can't really think of anything to write about her. And yes, she is a cat. Don't be surprised (as if you can, your a book. I really need to get that straight...), cats also go to our school
This is Aurora. Aurora is Twilight's younger sister (which is actually how we know about Twilight... Twilight never lets Aurora get out of her sight for some reason. Sure, she's very small, but she's old enough to not have to be followed everywhere, right?), and even though she is much younger than us, she's Alien's best friend (even though he's an alien dog and she's a cat with a glowing crystal hanging from her tail...) and an aquantice (<-- I don't know how to spell that...) of mine, but she often comes to our house and thus she'll probably be written about in this diary.
And on the subject of aquantices, here's Carlos' current girl friend, although she'll probably be dumped by next month. Carlos isn't the kind of dog for long-term relationships...
This is Angelica. She's pretty, right? She's an artist, and she's pretty good at it. I've seen some of her paintings and drawings, and they're amazing. I wonder how she got so good... Probably from 9 and a half years of art lessons...
Well, I think I'll just show some pictures of other people I'll meet while we are here as I go on some adventures (if I'll ever manage to get out of the house!). I need to go downstairs to have dinner. Bye! להתראות! (Yes, I just wrote in hebrew. Whatever.) Also, I think my next entry won't take up, like, 5 pages of you. So don't worry.
-לילה/Lyla
Dear Diary,
שלום! Hello! I'm Lyla. Mom told me and Sigol, my twin sister, that we needed to get new diaries. I was surprised she noticed we'd filled up our previous two diaries, since she never notices us. Or our little brother, whom she never bothered to name (she was to busy cooing over our younger sister right after he was found and never bothered to name him... She really doesn't care about me, Sigol or him.) so we named him Alien. Here are some pictures of my family, so you'll know what we look like:
That's me. I was named Lyla because that's the Hebrew word for Night, and that's what our parents where reminded of when I was found, so they named me that. Did I mention we where "adopted"? Our parents found me and Sigol one day when my (first/second) dad was going to get the mail, but he found us in a basket and we where hugging eggs, apparentally.
This is Sigol, my twin. She's also my BFF. Her name is the Hebrew word for "Purple". We both have pet Snowy Owls, who hatched from the eggs our dad found us hugging We where found 14 years ago, and we're nearly 16 years old.
This is Alien, our little brother. He was also found by our dad the same way we where found, but he was found six years ago and is currently seven and a half years old. He doesn't have an owl like me and Sigol do, but he has a rabbit that he named "Silly Goose". Weird name, right? But that's not nearly as weird as his pet rat... Yes, rat. He has a pet rat called Snickers, and he and me and Sigol often use it to scare our little/his big sister.
This is Ilanna, our evil 8 year old sister. She has a pet hamster whom she called Coco, which was what Alien wanted to call his bunny, but our parents said we shouldn't have pets with the same name, and, because they loooooove Ilanna, she got to name her hamster Coco and Alien spent the next month trying to come up with a name for his bunny.
This is Carlos, our older brother. He's almost 21 years old, and he's currently in grade 12 (he got held back multiple times). Also, I swear, he gets a new girlfriend every two months. He loves archery, and has been learning to use a bow and arrow since he was in grade two. He doesn't really have a "side"; we don't know if he's on the "Amber eyes" side (me, Sigol and Alien call our family "Amber eyes" because all of them have amber, yellow or greenish yellowish eyes) or on our side, the "Aliens". Sometimes he is nice to us, sometimes he's mean. He's usually on our side, but if our parents get involved, he is against us. He has a pet bat, which is cool, but it looks like it's purple...
This is our (step-)dad. I don't really know what to write about him... I don't know much about him, since he only lived with us for a couple months. Mom and dad got divorced two years ago, and then we moved half way across the country to Alberta and mom just remarried. The only thing I know about him is that he's fascinated by the red clouds that come over our city nearly every day when it's cold, and apparently they're called "chinooks" (if you're wondering, which you can't but whatever, it's pronounced "Sh-in-oo-k(-s))
Lastly is mom. She's an evil creature if there ever was one, and favors Ilanna over the rest of her children, and she likes her son, Carlos, a bit but not nearly as much as Ilanna. She is a very fluent Hebrew speaker, and is forcing all of us, except for dad who already knows Hebrew, to learn Hebrew during the weekends.
Now, if you could think, which I'll pretend you do, then you probably wondered why I kept mentioning some animals, right? Well, believe it or not, our parents let all of us to get pets. We are pretty rich, but none of us, except for Ilanna and sometimes Carlos, get spoiled. Here are some pictures of our pets:
This is Sapphire, my pet owl. Your probably wondering why she's green, right? Well, that was the result of me and Sigol trying to paint something, but we ended up painting our owls green. Originally, they where both snowy owls, but we accidentally painted them green when they where sleeping, and know they look like that. We can only tell them apart by a blob on their chest. Mine has a blue blob on her chest.
This is Amethyst, Sigol's pet owl. She has the same story as Sapphire, except she has a purple blob on her chest.
This is Coco, Ilanna's pet hamster. Ilanna had a toy cupcake thing that came with whipped cream topping things, and she put it on Coco and made her look like a cupcake.
This is Snickers, Alien's pet rat. I have to admit, even though I hate mice and rats, this one actually looks sort of nice. Also, he seems to enjoy scaring Ilanna, and always has that strange smirk on his face after succesfully scaring her.
This is Raisin, Carlos' pet rat. Doesn't it look purple to you? It looks like a dark purple to me...
This is Silly Goose, the rabbit I mentioned when I was writing about Alien. You can see why Alien wanted to call him Coco, right? Wait, I forgot. Diaries can't see... Or think, for that matter. Oh well, I'll just continue pretending your an actual dog or something.
Before I finish this entry, here are some other important people in my life (Ok, our pets aren't technically people... But whatever).
This is Oliver, a friend of mine. Also, I have a secret crush on him that only Sigol knows about, but I think Carlos might know it... I hope he doesn't, because that would ruin my life even more.
This is Kathryn, or, as she prefers to be called, Katy. She's basically my BFF, but she isn't because Sigol is. I tell her almost as many things as I tell Sigol, but I tell my more important secrets to Sigol. And now you.
This is Sammy. He's a friend, but not nearly as close to me as Katy and Sigol. I know for a fact that Katy has a crush on him. But don't tell- Wait... You can't. I really need to remember that... Ugh.
This is Emerald, or you can call her Emma, which is what she's usually called unless she's in trouble. Which is often. She's a trouble maker, and often helps the "aliens" (remember what I wrote about when I was introducing Carlos?) prank our sister.
This is Snowy, which I think is sort of a strange name and is more of a nickname. She has a pretty short attention, and she doesn't go anywhere without her iPod. If it goes missing, she will cry her heart out until someone finds it. She can't go a second without her music, so I wonder how she sleeps... Eh, whatever.
This is Twilight. I can't really think of anything to write about her. And yes, she is a cat. Don't be surprised (as if you can, your a book. I really need to get that straight...), cats also go to our school
This is Aurora. Aurora is Twilight's younger sister (which is actually how we know about Twilight... Twilight never lets Aurora get out of her sight for some reason. Sure, she's very small, but she's old enough to not have to be followed everywhere, right?), and even though she is much younger than us, she's Alien's best friend (even though he's an alien dog and she's a cat with a glowing crystal hanging from her tail...) and an aquantice (<-- I don't know how to spell that...) of mine, but she often comes to our house and thus she'll probably be written about in this diary.
And on the subject of aquantices, here's Carlos' current girl friend, although she'll probably be dumped by next month. Carlos isn't the kind of dog for long-term relationships...
This is Angelica. She's pretty, right? She's an artist, and she's pretty good at it. I've seen some of her paintings and drawings, and they're amazing. I wonder how she got so good... Probably from 9 and a half years of art lessons...
Well, I think I'll just show some pictures of other people I'll meet while we are here as I go on some adventures (if I'll ever manage to get out of the house!). I need to go downstairs to have dinner. Bye! להתראות! (Yes, I just wrote in hebrew. Whatever.) Also, I think my next entry won't take up, like, 5 pages of you. So don't worry.
-לילה/Lyla
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