Amelia

Amelia

            Amelia and I have been together for just over two years. She has always been faithful to me, never lets me down and supports me wherever I go.  No, I’m not talking about a girl. I’m talking about my car. Amelia is my 2007 Nissan Xterra SE. She has a 4.0L direct injection V6, 1000W stereo system, and is dark red.

            When I got my license several days after my 16^th birthday, during my sophomore year, I was handed the keys to the family pick-up, which at the time was exciting to me because I had my own car! Since I played baseball in high school, a truck was the vehicle to have. Well over eighty percent of the guys on the team drove trucks. Well, as I got closer to senior year and thinking about college, I began to realize something that was a more efficient in hauling people and stuff around. I wanted to have a vehicle that I could store items in the back and not have to worry about those items if it was raining or worry about someone running off with my stuff. So during June, the summer before senior year, I told my parents that I wanted to look into procuring a new car. My dad then told me to do my research, make a list of cars that I was interested in, make a spreadsheet that included the specs of the car, and then present my findings to my parents. After spending a couple of days on research and creating this report, I showed my parents what I had found and then that was it. Dad took me to test drive a couple of cars on the list, but didn’t really say much about purchasing one. The last Friday in September, my dad pulled me into the office to show me a car that he had found and he asked if I liked it and I said I did. The following Saturday, my parents told me that they were going to look at houses for house ideas because they’re into that stuff, and they left. I didn’t really notice anything suspicious the first two or three hours that they were gone, but when it got to be five to six hours that they were gone, I was a little concerned. Well, they finally arrived home they acted like it was a typical Saturday. Towards the evening, my dad told me to go with my mom to my grandma’s house because the garage door was sticking, to which I responded that it had been sticking for a while. Any way, I went with my mom and opened the garage door, and there sat Amelia in all of her glory.