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The Amish Community: A Short Story

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I’m traveling down the road and I can feel the movement beneath me and hear the sound of cars passing by, but at this moment in time I am not riding in a car but being transported by horse and buggy. A week ago, I met a new family and they are Amish and live as part of an entire Amish community, and that’s when I met Hannah. She was wearing a black cap, with her hair intertwined into an elegant braid. Her dress was blue with a small pocket and it flowed to her ankles. She wore nothing on her feet. I remember thinking how does she wear a dress like that every single day and how does she run in that dress with no shoes on as she walks across the gravel and uneven pavement. When I take the 4-wheeler up there it take me a minute or two. Hannah …show more content…

There was one time where I was pushing Hannah really high on the swing and Laura came right under the swing and it hit her on the hop of her head and she started to cry. Laura does not wear her cap all time. She comes out the biggest smile on face. One time when my cousin and I we’re down there they have a ball and we saw Hannah hitting it with a stick. My cousin and I were always wondering how she could walk on the rocks without any shoes on and she wouldn’t even flinch, Laura walk a low bit slower than the rest of us then once in a while I’ll go back and I would pick her up in and tell you got to the grass. Amman told me in the last time I was up there he said that the girls should have little plays and one of the characters with me because they love them I come up there. I remember once in a while I would try to keep my phone in my pocket so they would not see it. One time Hannah came out with like this little square thing and she pretended it was her phone. I was wondering why she thought that it was her fake phone then I saw that her mom had a phone. I was always thinking that they didn’t have phones but I knew that Amman had an office where he had his computer for his work and had to have a cell phone too. Once in a while when I’m there I would see a car that came and picked up Amman for

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