Today Mrs. Green had reminded us about the cousins coming tomorrow, to stay whilst the war was on. Norman never told me that he had any cousins. They couldn't be that bad that he would never mention them, could they?
Everyone was outside on the farm doing their chores, before getting reddy for the cousins. Megsi was cleaning the stables, Vincent was using a machine called the Scratch O Matic to brush the pigs. The Scratch O Matic was a machine that their father made, and it was quite clever too. I was about to go help Megsi like I do every morning, but then I saw Norman walking past. I thought now would be a good time to ask about these mystery cousins.
" Hey Norman!" I shouted, jogging over to him. He stopped suddenly and turned to face me,
" What is it Jenny?" He asked, looking up at me a little. I was slightly taller than him, but not by much, a couple of inches or so, we both had brown hair, but mine came just passed my solders, and I had chocolaty brown eyes, whilst he had the most beautiful icy blue eyes you've ever seen.
" I just wanted to ask, about your cousins" I said ounce I caught up with him, " Do you actually know anything about them?" He looked a little confused for a second. Maby he really didn't know anything about them.
" Well I knew that we had cousins, but I never met them, so I don't know what they are like" He replied.
" Oh well. Come on we can go check on the barely together!" I said happily. I grabbed his hand, and ran to the field with the barley. When we got to the field I let go of Norman's hand and turned to face him. I saw a faint blush on his cheeks witch made me giggle a little.
" What are you laughing at!" He said defensively. I didn't answer, but kept on laughing, so he yelled " What!" I calmed down my giggles enough to say,
" Your blushing!" I said pointing at his face. His eyes grew wide and he hurridly turned round and said,
" Come on, we should get to the tractor" He was walking as fast as he could, witch in the end would be a waste of energy, since we where going to the same place. The tractor had been modified, so that we could put an extra seat on it, in case two people where in the fields at any one time. We where just about to start the tractor when a man popped up, scaring us half to death,
" Hello you two" He said, sounding very sly. I was the first to speak,
" Mr. Phil! What are you doing here?" Me and Norman where both a little surprised.
" Oh just on my way home" He said.
" But you don't need to go through these field to get home uncle Phil" Said Norman sceptically. Phil seemed to panic a little before calming himself, but I'm sure Norman didn't notice.
" I know, but your mother tells me about the idea you both came up with to pay for the tractor, what on earth made you think of that?" He asked acting interested. Something fishy was going on here, and I didn't want him to know what we did, just in case he was bluffing, but before I could say anything, Norman beat me too it.
" Well I saw farmer McCready at the shop, and he said he was looking to buy some pigs, so I offered to sell him ours, and he jumped at the opportunity" He said this without even thinking, but before he could tell Phil anything else I cut in and said,
" I'm sorry Mr. Phil, but we really must get on now!" With that I turned the engine on, witch made Phil quickly jump out of the way, so we could go past.
" What's gotten into you?" Asked Norman ounce we where out of ear shot, " Your not normally like this" I sighed and said,
" I really don't think you should have told him about the plan" I looked at him, and I saw confusion plastered on his face.
" What? Why?" He asked questioningly
" I don't know he was just acting a little suspicious" I admitted . Norman's lips lifted into a smile,
" Your just overreacting. Uncle Phil always acts like that" He said
" Your right" I said giving in, " I'm just over thinking things. Come on, lets get this done" We continued with the barly for another hour before we where done.
By the time we got back to the farm it was already mid-day, and we had the rest of our chores to do yet, but before we could actually get anything done a very posh looking car came through the entrance of the farm.
" Who's that?" I asked Megsi who was standing next to me. Looking shocked she said,
" That must be the cousins!" All the time not taking her eyes of the car.
" But their not due till tomorrow!" Said Norman, also not taking his eyes of the car,
" Well that's a car not usually seen around here, and let's face it, what other possibility could their be, it has to be them!" I said as-a-matter-of-factly. With that said, we looked at each other, dropped what we where doing and ran to the entrance of the farm. I could hear the faint voice of Vincent behind us yelling,
" Do you think they've got any sweets?" Trust him to want sweets at a time like this. When we got to the front we saw that they had someone driving the car for them.
" Wow how posh can you get, they even have a chauffeur!" I said/shouted in astonishment. The others just nodded, agreeing with me. One of the two people that where in the car came out of the car, and around it towards us. He looked too pampered for his own good, and dressed in cloths that are not suitable for country farm life.
" Hello covered in poo people, do you speak English?" He said, offending us.
" Your early!" Norman said angrily, taking a step forward.
" Yes poo man, we have come far away from the land of soap, and indoor toilets!" He said, not looking at us. In fact every time he did look at us, it was for only a second, as if the sight of us disgusted him, and I'm not gonna let him treat us like dirt so easily.
" Hey you can't just come here and treat us how ever you please!" I yelled at him, walking forward a few steps. This made him look at me for a second, and then he smirked, witch confused me.
" Oh but I can, because you see we are so much better than all of you!" He said evily.
" What! No your-" Before I could continue I felt someone's hand on my own, that stopped me from going forward.
" Jenny just leave it" It was Norman. Witch was Ironic, since he was usually the hot head, and I'm usually the one to calm him down. We than heard screaming coming from the other side of the car, so we all went round and we saw the man trying to pull a girl out of the car. She was wearing pale pink, witch was certainly not suitable for farm country life. That would get ruined in a matter of seconds. The girl kicked, witch caused the man to go flying backwards right into the pond. That caused me to giggle a little. Also because the girl was absolutely hating it here already!
" Master Cyril please take miss Celia's new cloths!" He said handing like 50 boxes to the kid. Cyril and Norman then started to insult each other, witch resulted in us all chasing each other through the farm.
Later on we found our self s inside the house, and the jam that Norman and his siblings had worked so hard on to make got smashed by Cyril. We all stared shocked at the place the jam jar smashed. Nobody spoke until Norman said darkly,
" They die!" We then started another chase around the house. It went on for hours until Mrs. Green decided to come home. By then me and Celia where in our own little squabble, with Megsi on my side. Megsi had her by the lace of her dress, and I had her by the hair, and pulling hard,
" Two against one, that's not fair!" Celia squealed, " Haven't you ever heard of fair play!"
" Haven't you heard of manners!" I retorted. Somehow she had managed to push me away, and get Megsi over the banister pulling on her hair, but that didn't last long, since I jumped her from behind making her topple and nearly falling down the stairs. Instead she ran right past me into the living room.
" Come back hear you little beast!" Megsi yelled. We both ran after her and trapped her in the room. Soon enough we where joined by Norman Cyril and Vincent.
We where still fighting for God knows how long until a very ugly, scary looking lady walked into the room. All the movement in the room stopped as we turned to face her. She was dressed all in black, and carried a long, bent walking stick.
" I am Nanny McPhee" She said calmly, but the silence was ruined when I felt a sharp slap go right across the back of my head,
" Owww!" I cried, " You'll pay for that missy!" I yelled as I grabbed Celia from the front, and Megsi grabbed her from the back. Then Nanny McPhee started to speak, but nobody heard her.
" Please listen carefully. You are all to stop what you are doing and go to bed" She said calmly ounce again. But none of us listened, so she brought out her stick from her cloak and banged it against the floor. We all stopped fighting, and looked around confused.
" Was that supposed to impress us?" Asked Cyril, but then...He started to hurt himself, so did Norman and Megsi and Vincent and then me. I was pulling my hair, and me and Celia pulled our selfs into each other, we let out pained crys as we collided for heads and continued to hurt our selfs.
" It's Her!" I yelled, " It happened when she banged that stick!" I pointed at the stick.
" Make us stop!" Everyone yelled.
" On one condition. That you all apologize for hurting each other" Nanny McPhee said. In the en we all gave up and apologized to each other, just before Mr. Green's letters got burned. After that happened, we all hurried up the the stairs with a quick goodnight to Mrs. Green.