Life Rules!

The following morning Trinity woke up excited about visiting her new friend. She spent most of the morning trying to write but found her mind constantly drifting off and imagining all of the fun things her and Jade might do together. As she gazed dreamily out of her bedroom window she noticed thankfully that the misty rain, of the last few mornings, had finally given up. Outside a beautiful spring day was waiting for her. The children arrived at Jade’s house at eleven o’clock on the dot. “Hi,” beamed Jade as she opened the door, “come in. You’ll have to excuse the mess though. Mum likes everything to be perfect, so it’s taking forever to get unpacked,” she explained rolling her eyes. “She’s just gone down to the shop so I’ll introduce you when she gets back,” she called as she lead them down the hallway, winding her way around the empty and half empty boxes strewn everywhere. As soon as they entered the kitchen a bag was thrust into each of their hands. “I’ve put some stuff in here so it’s easier to carry it all up into the tree house. It’s a bit of a climb! Do you mind?” They both reassured her that they didn’t and swung the bags over their backs eager to see this amazing tree house. Jade threw open the back door revealing an incredible new world, abundant in native trees and plants. There were beautiful golden red flaxes, their long shiny leaves reaching up towards the sky and then diving down towards the rich green grass below. Dotted amongst them in many shapes and sizes were the familiar dark green, intricate leaves of native ferns and the bright orange berries and leathery leaves of Karamu bushes. Out of the corner of her eye Trinity noticed the rich blue green feathers of bold tuis flitting amongst the kowhai trees. There bright yellow flowers danced in the gentle breeze enticingly inviting the birds to taste their sweet nectar. Growing effortlessly amongst the rocks and crevasses below was a dark green blanket of moss, soft and weightless on its rocky home. “Wow,” gasped Trinity “it’s beautiful.” “Wait till you see around here,” Jade called as she disappeared amongst a mass of undergrowth along the edge of the garden. As Trinity and Joel pushed their way through the thick bush a large clearing opened out in front of them. A dazzling dappled pattern of green and gold carpeted the floor of the clearing and when Trinity looked up to find the source of this exquisite design, she found the sun light streaming through an enormous canopy of light green leaves. Her eye followed the branches along to discover a massive trunk which took her breath away with its share size and magnificence. The base of the tree was so large that she was sure that even if all three children joined their arms in a circle, they would not be able to reach around the colossal trunk. There, at the base of the tree she spotted what looked like a rope ladder. Her eyes strained to find evidence of a treehouse and she could just barely see the faint outline of manmade wood amongst the lower branches of this giant tree. “Wow,” cried Joel “it’s huge! I’ve never seen anything like it!” Then turning to Trinity he whispered, “I wish I could show Adam.” Adam had been Joel’s best friend since kindergarten and the two boys were inseparable. “Come on, follow me,” Jade called, already at the bottom of the ladder, “you’ve gotta see inside, it’s awesome.” Trinity immediately felt a tightening in her stomach. She had never liked heights much but didn’t want to admit to Jade that she was scared. She made her way uncertainly to the base of the tree and with trembling hands she carefully followed Joel up the ladder step by step. With each step she felt more and more vulnerable and at about half way she made the mistake of looking down. From her spot high up in the tree everything on the ground looked miniscule and she had to quickly turn back around otherwise she thought she might chicken out altogether. At last she reached the top of the ladder and as she managed to get a shaky hand onto the wooden platform above, an overwhelming sense of relief flooded her body. She pulled herself up and poked her head up into the treehouse to discover that the excruciating climb really had been worth it. Above her the roof of the treehouse was a huge glass skylight revealing the dark blue sky dotted behind the light green canopy of the massive tree. Her eyes scanned the inside of the treehouse and noticed that it appeared to be almost round in shape. Trinity pulled herself up and when standing, observed with immense admiration, that somebody had painted a huge mural of the solar system on the floor. It appeared as if you were walking amongst the stars and planets. She glanced over to her right and saw that there were already half a dozen bean bags set up against the wall, over to the left was a large wooden table and chairs looking out of a window onto Jades house way below. Trinity walked over to another window and saw that it looked out over the trees and the creek which ran through the reserve behind Jade’s house. What a beautiful place to sit and write she thought to herself feeling a slight pang of jealousy. “It’s amazing isn’t it? I have always wanted my own place to come and hang out but this is better than I ever could of imagined,” Jade beamed as she joined Trinity to take in the beautiful view out of the window. “You are really lucky, it’s incredible,” Trinity replied in awe. Jade pulled over one of the beanbags and sat down, eager to start sorting through her things. Trinity found herself being drawn to the pile of books and to her delight noticed that Jade had many of the same books that she did. As she shuffled through them one right at the bottom of the pile, with swirling patterns on its spine, took her eye. It was a beautiful shiny green and blue and as she pulled the other books off from on top of it the most beautiful book she had ever seen appeared. She felt an overwhelming urge to pick it up and touch its’ smooth cover. As she turned the book over in her hands the words The Law of Attraction jumped out at her. “The Law of Attraction, what’s that?” asked Trinity still stroking the smooth cover in her hands. Jade looked at her friend apprehensively. She really loved this book and wanted to tell everyone all about it, but she also didn’t want Trinity to think she was crazy or to scare her away.