DM Where's Edith?
There was a heatwave going on around the area of the Gru residence. All the minions were lying on the ground sweating like mad. They looked like melting cheese. Agnes was all flushed pink in the face. Margo had to take her jacket. Edith had even removed her knit cap and her sweater which she had replaced with a light vest. She was sure she would melt herself sooner or later.
It was all right for some. Lucy was fanning herself with a fan of her own. Dr Nefario was keeping himself cool in the lab using one of his giant air blasters which he had built by himself. Kyle the dog had moulted off a lot of his black fur. He was leaving fur balls everywhere.
Edith pressed her face up against the window in the front room of the Gru residence. Just then she heard a very familiar tune. It was the ice cream truck! The very one that Agnes had once chased when it was stolen by a jewel thief.
Her two sisters Margo and Agnes came to join her. They were still sweating away like she was. Then they told Edith how much they really fancied an ice cream. ''But how do we get one?'' Edith asked with wonder. ''Do we even have any money?'' Agnes pointed out. ''I don't know'' Margo sighed.
But Edith did find some money! She'd found some loose change lying in the hallway and snuck out to buy some ice cream for them all. Edith brought the cornets and was just making her way back home when she noticed the front door was shut!
Edith froze. The Handle was much too high for her to reach and open and there she was stuck outside in the boiling heat of the hot sun, holding onto three cornets which were just starting to melt and running right down her fingers.
Oh horrors, now what was she going to do now? She crawled into a nearby box outside a delivery van that was right nearby to think about how to get back inside. Besides it was lovely and cool and shady in there. The cornets were still melting away. Edith slurped her way through them.
There was absolutely no way she could give them to Margo and Agnes now. Suddenly Edith felt herself moving about. It seemed like the box she that was in was being lifted up in the air! Come to think of it, Edith could hear male voices outside. ''Man, this is heavy! What's in here?''. ''I don't know, a dead body?''. ''Oh look here's the place now''.
Edith heard the sound of someone knocking on a door. ''Delivery for Mr Gru here, there's two boxes''. ''Oh thank you, I'll tell him''. Edith heard Lucy say. She peeped through the flaps above her and looked around. Edith was back in her own home! The delivery men must have carried her inside, not knowing she was in one of the boxes!
Margo and Agnes saw the boxes oblivious to the fact that their sister was inside one of them, however Agnes thought she saw the box move ''The box it's alive!'' she shrieked clutching to onto Margo. Lucy peered closely at the box and opened the flap. ''Edith!'' she exclaimed ''Why are you in the box?''.
Lucy tipped Edith out of the box and onto the floor. ''And why are you so dirty? Look at the state of you!'' Sure enough Edith had bits of ice cream around her mouth and all down her sweater! ''Ah is that my new shelves?'' Gru asked coming into the hallway.
''Edith!'' he said so sharply that she nearly jumped out of her skin ''Where have you mean? We've been looking for you everywhere?''.
Edith's lip wobbled. Now she really was in trouble. ''I I got stuck outside and I'm sorry'' she said beginning to cry. She hadn't meant to cause any trouble. ''It's okay little keeton'' Gru said more gently pulling her into a hug. ''We're just glad you're safe''. He could see now that she was sorry.
''Now how about getting you some clean clothes and I'll put your dirty ones in de wash?'' he said sincerely. Edith nodded and followed him out of the hallway. At least her parents had understood the truth and she wasn't going to be punished.
The End