Vern Albert Tessio walked down the lonely road passing the not-so-busy shops, and waving a 'Hello' to Mr. Roseland who owned the chemist in Castle Rock, he passed the shop and carried on walking to the near by sweet shop going inside he went over to his favourite section, the pez section grabbing a pack of cherry flavoured pez he walked to the counter and searched his pocket for spear change after a couple of minutes searching he found the money and paid for the pez.
Vern was an average fourteen year old boy, he had great friends, went to a normal school, had loving parents (his dad was nearly always never home, but Vern still loved him), had a tormenting brother Billy. The one thing that made Vern not-so-average was that when he was twelve he had seen a dead human being, Ray Brower he was called, most people when they see a dead body it's by accident, well who would like to see a dead body on purpose?, the thing is Vern knew about the dead body, but you know about that story and I am not going to bother repeating what has already been told, It'd just be boring for you and me.
It was Vern's lost pennies that made him find out about the body, Vern liked to call them his 'magic pennies' why? Because whenever he was digging for them something happened he would find out something and it would make adventures for him and his friends. Okay Vern and his friends only had one adventure but he still found out about stuff and then he passed it on to Gordie, Chris and Teddy. Where he found out the information from was Billy who always talked about these things to Charlie, Billy was a bit of an idiot, he knows Vern goes under the porch to dig for his pennies, but not once has he ever tried to look for Vern.
Ohh how Vern loathed his brother, hated him, despised him, and he was glad Billy never looked down when he was under the porch, otherwise Vern would have been in for a hiding of a lifetime, Vern hated him so much that he would've loved to see Billy get in to a lot of trouble for boosting cars, or shoplifting he prayed for a day when the police would come to the door and Billy would be in the police car with a face like a smacked ass.
The coolest thing Vern had found out from under the porch was about Old Lady Speilman she was an old lady around the age of 80 she could still talk and walk and was perfectly fine for her age, Vern had found out that the old lady was going to pay a couple of bucks if someone mowed her lawn, he had heard it from Billy, Billy and Charlie were the only ones who knew about it they were planning to mow it tomorrow and get a couple of quid, Vern had decided that he was going to go their today and beat Billy and keep the money for himself and save up again.
How was that the coolest thing? It wasn't mowing the lawn that was the coolest or Old Lady Speilman it was her granddaughter Sarah Speilman, Vern didn't know it yet but that girl was going to make him and his friends have the biggest adventure of their lives.
"You've come to mow my lawn, ohh what a nice boy" The old lady said in delight "The lawnmower is in the shed over there" she said pointing to the shed "You will get the money after the job is done" she walked into her house.
After fifteen minutes Vern was done he went up to the house and knocked on the door, the old woman appeared and offered him to come inside, he did as he was told, she passed him the money, and he said thanks in return.
"I'm so grateful of what you have done, I want you to eat some of my home made chocolate cake, it's a family recipe you know?" She said walking into the dinning room, there was Sarah sitting on a chair eating a piece of the cake.
"Now sit down dear, and have a big slice" She smiled, he sat down opposite Sarah and took a slice of cake, the old lady watched Vern eat it "The best part of making the cake is watching people eat it" she exclaimed, Sarah look at Vern and rolled her eyes, as if to say her grandma was a loony.
"This is my granddaughter Sarah, Sarah this is Vern he was so kind to mow my lawn" The old lady exclaimed.
"Hi Vern" Sarah smiled at him, she had brown eyes and darkish red hair she had braces and when she smiled at him there were pieces of cake stuck in them.
"Hello" Vern replied "This is a boss cake, one of the best, sincerely" He said getting up from the chair ready to leave "I gotta go"
"I hope you do my lawn again, bye Vern" the lady replied.
"Bye" said Sarah.
"Bye thanks for the cake it was boss" Vern said walking out of the house as fast as he walked in, he wanted to tell his friends that he had money and about Sarah and especially about that delicious cake.
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