The Runaways: Chapter One (Part One)

Hello everyone!  I am sorry I haven't posted for quite awhile (life has been busy).
Anyways, I thought I ought to post my book again, sense I've made some changes and have added onto the chapter.  Here it is!

Chapter 1:  Her Name Was Grace

“Penny? Penny, wake up!” Little 5 year old Grace opened up her eyes.  Looking around her, she saw that she was lying in the grass, her hair a tangled mess.  She soon realized that she was in her back yard, the grass a bright green and the flowers bursting with color, and Daddy standing by her.

“Penny if you don’t get up now I’m leaving without you.”  He said in his joking voice.

“No, Daddy, no! I wanna come!”  She jumped to her feet and hugged his leg, seeing how she was not tall enough to hug him around his chest.

He laughed a little “Alright, alright.  Common, or we might miss them.  Want me to carry you?” He said, holding out his arms a little.

After she was done hugging him, she shook her head.  “No. I wanna run with you!”

He smiled.  “Okay then.”  And the two of them held hands and jumped over the fence (although, again, Grace was too short to in fact jump over a fence, so Daddy had to help her climb over it instead). Energy and joy rushed through her body.  Her red-gold hair danced, her legs screamed “Faster! Faster!” To her, there was nothing better on this earth then running with Daddy.  

Daddy.  There was no one on this earth like Daddy.  When she was with her friends, and their dads came to pick them up, they didn’t act at all like Daddy.  Neither did their moms.  Even her own mom didn’t act like Daddy.  Daddy was special.  She remembered many times when Daddy told her his name, but she would always say “But I like the name Daddy, it fits you!”  But he would always reply saying the same thing “Okay then, but you are going to have to let me call you Penny, because it fits you.”  “Why, Daddy?”  She’d always reply “Because you’re my lucky penny.”  She loved it when he said that.

“Okay, we can stop here, Penny.”

That's all I can fit into this post.  I make another post with more of the chapter.  Hope you like it so far!