Busted

Busted Hannah Gilfix 7/8B 11/6/09  There he goes again with one of //those// stories. “Allie, this one is going to be the best of all!” said my brother Nathan. “It’s so good, yet //so// bad that you’ll never believe it.” He went on. “It’s so mean, that I can’t wait to do it!” He is just one of //those// brothers. One of the ones who has crazy ideas and just keeps going on and on about them. Then he went on telling me what his plan actually was. It did turn out to be evil like he said, but believe me, more evil then it sounds. “You want to rob our neighbor Lily’s princess bedroom!” I screamed. “Yeah, is there something wrong with that?” Nathan said as if that is something normal. “Yes there is something wrong with that. I thought everyone knew that!” I continued on yelling at him. “I guess not everyone knows that. Just so you know you are going to be doing it with me!” That’s just like him, thinking that he gets whatever he wants. So I did it with him for the money; the $100 he said he would pay me if I did it! As we watched our neighbor’s car back out of the driveway we got ready to run. Ready to run to set up the ladder and climb right into Lily’s bedroom, but then there was our mom. “Allie and Nathan, where are you off to?” “Ummm…were going to help babysit Lily.” I replied trying not to sound suspicious. That’s when it all started. The trouble of the night was beginning…now. First Nathan sprinted across the yard and put up the ladder against Lily’s bedroom window. Then I came running along across the yard as fast as I could. I climbed up that big ladder to get to Lily’s window So, I tried to unlatch the lock on the window. “It won’t move at all!” I yelled back down to Nathan.” “Climb down and I’ll come up and try to do it.” he screamed back to me. Nathan finally got to the top and unlatched the window. He climbed straight in and signaled to me that I could go up into the room. Once I got up the huge ladder we started to search for what we wanted to take and what we wanted to leave. Most of the things in her room were pink or had princesses on them but there was that one thing. The one thing, that Nathan almost died for. It was Lily’s older brother’s autographed soccer jersey signed by all of the Croatian soccer team players! Nathan was so excited that he started to jump up and down, screaming. But that’s when I heard a noise, it sounded like footsteps inside the house. Nathan was still jumping and yelling so I ran over to him and hit him. “What was that for?” he yelled back to me. “I hear footsteps. Be quiet for a second and then you should hear them too!” I told him. He heard them; I heard them; that must mean they were real. We both slid under Lily’s bed as fast as we could. It was a tight squeeze, but it was either that or getting caught. The footsteps were getting louder and louder, which meant closer and closer. Then we heard something or someone banging on the bedroom door. I started crying. I was so scared but I was sure to stay as quiet as I could. Nathan slowly got out from under the bed and opened the door just a creak. What was it that was sitting there? It was their silly little dog Lulu. “It’s safe Allie, it was just Lulu.” Nathan told me. “That was the scariest thing ever!” I screamed. So, we began to look again now that we knew the coast was clear. I found so many things I loved, but Nathan, well he’s just not that into princesses. I found crowns, and wands, and dresses, and even some jewels! Now I liked Nathan’s plan even more then he did! As we kept searching though, Nathan found a few things that he liked. There were some baseball cards, a few actual baseballs and even a basketball! We both decided that Lily liked doing the same things as us. Stealing things! That’s why she had all of that boy stuff, it was from her brother. We finally found everything we wanted, but just before we could leave we saw a car. It was heading into Lily’s driveway. We both started to panic and didn’t know what to do. Once again we decided to hide under the bed. As soon as the front door to the house open we heard little footsteps running up stairs, into Lily’s bedroom. Uh oh! It was Lily, and then only a few seconds later it was her parents too. “We’re busted!” I kept thinking to myself. Our hearts were pounding like someone beating on a drum. As we were lying under her bed I realized that there were some toys down under her bed along with us! Those were the toys that Lily reached for and she accidently grabbed Nathan’s foot. She screamed so loud! Then she got down on her hands and knees to see what it was. Once again she used her high-pitched scream. We were busted; there was nothing we could do about it. We climbed out from under the bed; I had tears dripping down my face. Lily’s parents took care of us, that was for sure. They took us back to our house and explained to our parents what we had just done. Were we in trouble? Of course we were in trouble. We were in a lot of trouble. So much trouble that you can’t even imagine. That day was the worst day of my life. Now I’m grounded and the next year will be just as bad as that day was. It may have been my fault, but Nathan started it all! Here goes mom, “Allie and Nathan get down here right now to start your chores!”