The Green Door ( Part -1 )

About a hundred years ago, there lived a girl named Lisa in a small town in Europe.

Lisa, here, take your soup said Lisa's mother.

Cabbage soup !!! I am not having THAT !!! said Lisa. I want apple stew or berry pudding or something like that.... said Lisa and ran away from the hall. 

Certainly not a delightful person. Lisa did not like ANYTHING. Nothing was good enough for her...

see, what father got you, a brand new dress !!! said her mother.

What a terrible color! And it has no tassles, and it has no bows or ribbons. Do you know the beautiful golden gown that Lora got that other day? You never got me anything nice! said Lisa in anger.

NEXT DAY...

Lisa, this is your new box, with new pencils and even a pen with ink! 

The box looks so old and plain... And the inkpot is not big enough.... and Max's pencils are so much nicer than these. They have faces made over them said, Lisa.

Not only was Lisa, complaining about what she had, she would also complain about what she had to do... 

Lisa, have you studied the history chapter I asked you to? asked her father 

I don't like history... Said Lisa in irritation and left. 

AFTER SOME HOURS

Lisa, come here, let me teach you how to bake a plum pie said her mother with a plum pie in her hand.

You know I don't like a cooking, mother.

standing in that hot kitchen before a hot oven is not my idea of a hobby. Besides a plum pie really? not something I fancy.... ehhh...Maybe tiramisu? said, Lisa.

But there was one thing that Lisa loved to do. She loved to stand before the GREEN DOOR. You see there was a tiny green door in the north wall of the garden. The door was so tiny that an adult would bend over double to get in. But it was always kept locked. Lisa longed to go inside to see what was there on the other side of the door...She would try her best to convince her parents to let her open it.

Lisa, where have you been? asked her mother.

Mother! why don't you let me open that green door? 

Lisa, we have discussed it a million times. You cannot go in because it is best that you never went inside. Now, finish your breakfast and help me to clean the attic. 

For a change that day, Lisa went to help her mother. while they were looking through an old cupboard, they found an old album. She opened it. 

Mother, who are all these people with grandpa and grandma? asked Lisa

They are your great grandfather and great-great-grandfather John Hopkins and this is his wife Maria Hopkins and this is his daughter. Peggy Hopkins your great grand aunt... said her mother showing in the album.

As her mother looked through the album. 

Lisa noticed a curious-looking box . she opened it. There was a key inside it, tied with a green ribbon... 

       

TO BE CONTINUED...