Chapter One; The Escape
Hey Amanda, if you're reading this were you getting updates for the other chapters I posted in the last episode? Just wondering because I still keep getting that strange error message after I post a new chapter to an existing story.
Jeannie and Spot waited outside in front of the house as usual for the school bus to arrive. Sure enough a few minutes later it came and Peter and Sarah stepped off of it. "Yay! We're home for the weekend now!" Sarah cried extending her fist into the air excitedly.
"I know." Jeannie replied with a nod and a smile. "How was school?" she wondered.
"It was great." Sarah began. "My teacher really loved that journal I made with all of the things that I wrote down that we did in Texas. Especially the pictures of you guys riding horses and me riding that pony. It makes me want to sign up for riding lessons too." She said.
"Well I don't see why my instructor would have a problem with that." Jeannie said.
"Speaking of riding, I was wondering, could you teach me how to ride a bike without training wheels this weekend Jeannie?" the little girl asked her eagerly.
"Sure! I'd love to." Jeannie told her smiling brightly at her.
"Thanks Jeannie." Sarah said.
"Alright, so now that that's all been established can we please go inside now?" Peter wondered while Spot wagged his tail and started sniffing his backpack.
"Sure, of course we can. That way you can put down your backpacks and we can all go to the park." Jeannie said. "And maybe afterwards we can even go out for ice cream." She added.
"Yay!" Sarah exclaimed again with the same burst of excitement.
"Uh no thanks, you guys go ahead." Peter said before he turned around and started heading up the driveway.
"Don't feel bad. He's been acting strange ever since the bus picked us up." Sarah said before she turned around and started following him. Jeannie bent down and picked up Spot hoisting him up inside her arms before turning around to look at Peter with concern.
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As soon as Peter had made it inside his room he quickly shut the door behind him and then carried his backpack over to his bed. "Alright Chucky, you can come out now." He said while he sat down and placed the bag next to him before slowly starting to unzip it. That's when all of a sudden a tiny brown and black monkey leapt out of it and down onto the bed.
"That was a close one." He began breathing a sigh of relief. "I thought for sure that Spot would have blown your cover since he was able to smell you." He told him. "Now, just stay here and I'll be right back while I think of something to feed you. Dad's not home yet because he's still at work, but Mom's down in the living room working on her crossword puzzle. Hopefully I'll be able to sneak past her without her asking any questions." He said while he slowly stood up and walked over to the door before turning around to face the monkey again.
"Alright now remember Chucky. Just stay here and be a good little monkey. Do you understand me? Stay here." He told him while placing his hand in front of his face before turning back around and walking back through the door. The monkey watched him while making a quiet little chattering noise. Then he stood up and turned back around unzipping Peter's backpack even further before he pulled out one of his journals and held it up over his head before tossing it onto the floor.
Then he turned back around towards the bag and collected the remainder of Peter's lunch money and tucked it under his pillow before hopping out of the window and climbing down the tree branch and sliding down the trunk of the tree before he darted away down the sidewalk. Meanwhile Peter had finally managed to make it into the kitchen but just as soon as he opened the refrigerator door his mother had heard him.
"Peter, is that you?" she questioned not looking up from her crossword puzzle.
"Yes Mom." The boy replied although he couldn't understand why she had asked him this since they were the only ones home at the moment.
"Well then are you hungry sweetheart? Are you looking for something to eat?" she asked.
"Yeah." He lied.
"Alright then, I'll get up and fix you a snack." She told him while she slowly rose to her feet.
"No thanks Mom that isn't necessary." He told her shutting the fridge again before he turned around and saw a bunch of bananas sitting in the fruit bowl on top of the kitchen table. "Aha!" he cried in a whisper as an excited grin stretched a crossed his face. "Perfect!" he exclaimed in the same hushed tones before he grabbed them and then turned around and hurried back to his room ducking down so that his mother wouldn't see him.
"Chucky, I'm back. I got you saw fresh bananas to eat." He said while he quickly slammed the door shut behind him. "Chucky?" he questioned with uncertainty while he ducked down and looked under the bed but there wasn't any monkey hiding under there. Then he quickly jumped back up onto his feet and opened the closet. "Chucky?" he questioned again while quickly grabbing onto the cord and then giving it a tug, but there wasn't any monkey hiding in there either. Then he slowly turned around and gasped as he saw the open window.
"Oh no!" he cried. "He escaped!" he exclaimed while placing both of his hands onto the side of his head while his heart pounded frantically against his chest.
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Meanwhile Jeannie was busy walking Spot near the playground so she could keep her eye on Sarah while she swung higher and higher into the air. Spot squatted down and relieved himself before Jeannie bent down and reached to pick it up with her plastic bag. That's when she came nose to nose with Chucky. "Well hello, what are you doing her? Did you escape from the circus or the zoo or something?" she wondered aloud even though she was sure that she would never find out the answer.
That's when suddenly Sarah dragged her feet a crossed the dirt to slow herself down before hopping of the swing and hurrying over to them. "Jeannie, there's a monkey over there." She said.
"Yes I know there is." Jeannie replied with a nod.
"I wonder where he came from." Sarah said.
"I'm not sure exactly all I know is that we can't leave him all alone by himself." Jeannie told her.
"So what are we going to do?" Sarah inquired.
"We'll go ahead and take him with us. Come on let's go. I'm sure that your parents will know what to do." Jeannie told her before they both turned around and walked away with Spot trotting along beside them and Chucky walking along behind them.