By August.
One fine sunny morning (it was my birthday, and I was eight and had a phone), I got up a bit late. I staggered into the hall, yawning and stretching. My father, Thomas, informed me that we were going to the farmhouse. I was in a great state of excitement because George (Anne’s father) was also coming with Anne. When the time came to leave, my mother kissed us goodbye. It took a good 2 hours to get to the farmhouse, so Anne and I talked about monsters and what we would play at the farmhouse throughout the journey.
Once I got there, I started to walk around because I had to stretch my legs after the long journey. Then straight away, I began to play on the swing. My father pulled me on the swing to the treetop and let go. I held on tight to the swing. I enjoyed those moments thoroughly though I was afraid I would fall. After that, I started swinging on the hammock and humming to myself and swinging slowly. Then they began to set up the swimming pool. This was new to me because I had always swum in a tub. Anne and I had plenty of fun, but soon Thomas called us for our lunch.
Anne made a fuss to eat so George had to feed her. I said to Thomas, ‘’I’m going to eat by myself.’’
So, he allowed me to eat my stew by myself. After lunch, we left our table. I asked my father, ‘Thomas, where’s my camera, please? Thomas said, ‘August, your camera is in your Cath Kids bag, darling’. So, I got to my bag and pulled out my blue camera. I showed Anne the camera and then began teaching her how to take pictures. To my surprise, she learned very quickly, and so I allowed her to take a picture of the dogs, Rink and Tink. ‘That’s not too bad, Anne’, I began when I saw her picture. But she would not hear of it. ‘It’s only a common pic, August’, she said, then gave it back to me and went off to call George.
Anne came back soon, not finding George, excitedly, saying, ‘ Come on August, let’s play the game Monster Hunting and pretend there’s some monster around here! CLIC!’ We twirled around, and I saw Tink on the ground. Then I found out he had a thorn in his foot. I picked him up in my arms, and he whined a little, then settled into my arm’s knowing that they were friendly. I ran off to Thomas and asked him ‘Thomas can I have Tink at home and leave Rink here?’ my father said, ‘Of course you can, August darling.’ I thanked him and then ran off to tell Anne the good news. Tink jumped up into my arms. I then agreed to play Monster Hunting with Anne, and she stammered a thank you for she was very excited for the game to be started. We first got our pretend weapons (sharp scissors, torches, pointy scales and things).
Then we shut ourselves in the real farmhouse, and the game began. It was all pretend, really. Anne found the secret door (it was pretend and it was a real door but we pretended it was a secret door and kept it to ourselves) and we opened the door. Slowly we went in and Anne let out a yell ‘Aaaaaaaaaa.’ We both ran out at once, pretending there was a monster after us. And then we opened the real farmhouse door. We ran, and we ran. And we ran till we were so tired that we fell on the grass. We finally got up. But before we knew where we were, something grabbed us and pulled us away. I yelled, ‘Thomas! Help.’ It was then that I felt Thomas’s strong arm’s pulling us away from the ‘Thing’ and suddenly we were free.
We both ran happily around the huge lawn. Thomas called us to him and said that we were to leave. ‘By ourselves?’ I asked him excitedly. ‘Yes, darling’ he said. The car had come in, and we got into it and waved goodbye to Thomas and George. ‘Hey Anne let's chat”, I said, so we chatted happily about our trip to the farmhouse. But I suddenly called Thomas with my phone and asked him how he was to come back. He said that a car would be coming to pick him up and he also said that Anne was to stay with me forever! I got super excited and, saying bye, cut the phone. We had reached by the time I had discussed it. And I don’t know how it happened, but in a flash, we were in the arms of my mom.
The End.
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