Fire Burning

Fire Burning

This is how my wacky day started.

"Christopher, Christopher, CHRISTOPHER!" Brooke screamed jumping on my bed.
"Whozat?" I mumbled intelligently. "Time to wake-y eggs and bac-y!"

"Goway." I mumbled rolling over. "But, it's 7:00 already and this boy's waiting at the front door for you."
Who in their right minds would wake me up on a saturday at only 7:00? I thought. Then it hit me-
Right! Aw man how could I forget?

And with that I jumped out of bed so fast I knocked Brooke to the floor. "Ouch!" she gasped clutching her head. "Sorry," I mumbled pushing her so fast out the door that I thought I could smell the soles of her shoes burning. I slamed the door behind her and whipped my night clothes off.

I practically ran to my dresser and ripped out a pair of shorts, a t-shirt,boxers, and a pair of socks. I was going so fast that I put my shoes on the wrong feet, my shirt inside out and my shorts unzipped.
All of these things were fixed practically falling down the stairs.

Brooke was waiting for me in the kitchen next to Mom with murder in her eyes.
"Man Christopher, since when do you get up this early?" she asked flopping a piece of toast on a plate for me.
"Since when do you dress so nicely this early in the morning on saturday?" I replied eyeing her nice blue skirt and blouse.

"Brooke has a dentists appointment today, and yours is tomorrow remember." "I know, I know." I said sitting at the dining table. "So Brooke, going to get your teeth pulled?"

"It's just a checkup!" She squiked "Thats what they always say, but then they take out the Omega Plucker-Thingamajig-3000 and pull out every single one of your teeth!" I said in an evil voice while stuffing toast in my mouth. "You do not scare me Christopher!" She said in a tell tale squiky voice. "Christopher stop scaring your sister." Mom said coming to the table

"Hey!" Brooke said indignantly. I stuck my toungue out at her and put my plate in the sink. "Where're you going?" Mom asked. "Going to go with some of my friends, that 'k?" "Yeah, just be home for lunch, Brooke and I should be home by 11."

" 'K Mom, say goodbye to your teeth Brooke!" I laughed and headed for the door, and I could hear Brooke shrieking as it slammed shut.

I only had to walk down the sidewalk pretending to whistle before Deiyn up. He came up to me and said one thing;

"RUN!"

I glanced beind me and sure enough, it was Hunter and his gang. Hunter is a wonderful word to describe him, he's the neighborhood bully, and he sure has his ways. See, he makes this list of the kids in his class that year and organizes it on who needs to be beat the most. But boy, does he know how to play! He make sure no one sees him but the people he picks on. I have NO idea how he does it. But anyway, today, I was at the top of the list along with Deiyn.

We pounded down the sidewalk as fast as we could, my long legs an advantage over Hunter's short fat ones. But I knew that his short strong fat arms would be an advantage over mine like an apple in a pumpkin contest.

We ran down the sidewalk, me in the front, Deiyn right behind me, then Hunter with his gang of the biggest kids in our grade on his flanks, some running on the side of the road.

"Ah!" Deiyn gasped and almost fell as one of the gang members went to grab his leg.

Okay, this is weird, but all I remember is I reached down and away went his hand and I was dragging Deiyn in my arm with a strength I didn't know I had. Almost to the corner! I was a few feet from the corner now.

Boom! I was there in the shop with Deiyn. See, the kids on my street all know that the safest place to go when Hunter's chasing you is Dalton's Greenery. Daltons a really nice guy thats like 100 years old. He doesn't mind us running in there anytime we need to as long as we help him weed and water the plants when he needs help, and he even keeps a spare key on the inside of the door for us. A couple months ago he put in cubbys for us with our names on them for extra stuff like clothes and flashlights and snacks when we are stuck in there for a while.

I locked the door before they reached it and sat on the floor. I looked around the shop and sniffed in the smell of all the plants like tomatos, pumpkins, carrots, and not to mention all the flowers.

"Man," Deiyn said. " I sure love this place." I took a good look at Deiyn. His pants had a little holes here and there and his shirt was a little grass stained, he also had a few leaves in his hair. I guessed I didn't look much better because we burst out laughing at each other and walked over to our cubbys. 

I grabbed out a fresh pair of shorts and a green t-shirt with a small stain on the bottom, but that small stain made the shirt 'unacceptable for school' in the eyes of my mom. I mean, some of the other kids wear worse clothes! But then my mom will say something like,"Don't you other kids me!" or stuff like that. But anyway.

Deiyn threw me a juice box from his cubby and I got him some cheese puffs from mine. We sat there for a while just eating and slurping juice.

"You know Christopher, your never gonna learn to ride if the Hunter doesn't stop putting us at the top." Deiyn said glumly as he slammed dunked his juice box in the garbage. "I know, it's just not meant to be i guess. You still got my bike?"





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