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Here's chapter 2! I updated fast.

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Chapter 2

Monster

Sabina crawled through a hole in the tree house floor.

Wow. The tree house was filled with books. Books here. Books there. Books everywhere! They also varied in sizes, colors, and many others. Some were very old a thick cloud of dust was already covering it. But there were also some new books with shiny, bright covers.

"Look. You can see far, far away," said Charisse. She was peering outside the tree house window.

Sabina looked out the window in front of her. Down below were the tops of other trees. In the distance she saw the Frog Creek library, the place they love the most. The elementary and high school. The park. They could see everything atop the tree house. It was like they were at the top of the Empire State Building.

Charisse pointed to the other direction.

"Look! It's our house!" She exclaimed like a child.

Sure enough. There was their house. The white creamy wooden house with the red roof above and the green porch… Next door was their neighbour's chocolate brown Labrador dog Charisse named Brownie.

"Hi, Brownie!" shouted Charisse.

"Shush!" said Sabina. "We're not supposed to be up here."

She glanced around the tree house again suspiciously.

"I wonder who owns all these books," she said. She noticed bookmarks were sticking out from a lot of the books.

"Yeah! I want to borrow them all!" Charisse exclaimed giddy with excitement. Her younger cousin had this very cheery at the same time childish attitude.

"I like this book," said Charisse. She held up a book with a castle on the cover.

"Also that!" she exclaimed as she pointed to the two books in the corner with a cover of Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece. "And that!" she exclaimed again as she pointed to the covers of Titanic, Ancient Egypt and Australia.

She continued to do the-pointing-of-my-favorite-books activity until Sabina stopped her.

"Enough," she said. "I know that you love all these books. Look at this one."

Sabina turned to the page with the bookmark.

"Hey, there's a picture of Frog Creek in here," said Sabina. "It's a picture of these woods!"

"Oh, here's a book for you," said Charisse. She held up a book about dinosaurs. A blue silk bookmark was sticking out of it.

"Let me see it." Sabina set down her backpack and grabbed the book from her.

"You look at that one and I'll look at the one about castles," said Charisse.

"No, we better not," said Sabina. "We don't know who these books belong to."

But even as she said this, Sabina opened the dinosaur book to where the bookmark was. She couldn't help herself.

She turned to a picture of an ancient flying reptile. A Pteranodon.

She touched the huge bat-like wings.

"Wow," whispered Sabina. "I wish I could see a Pteranodon for real."

Sabina studied the picture of the odd-looking creature soaring through the sky.

"Ahhh!" screamed Charisse. Sabina couldn't identify if it was a scream of horror, excitement or happiness.

"What?" Sabina asked.

"A monster!" Charisse cried. She pointed to the three house window.

"It's just your vivid imagination. Stop pretending," Said Sabina.

"No really! I'm serious!" Exclaimed frantically by Charisse.

The wind began to blow.

The leaves trembled.

Suddenly, the creature soared up. High into the sky. Sabina nearly fell out the window trying to see it.

The wind picked up. It was whistling now.

The tree house started to spin.

"What's happening?" cried Sabina.

"Get down!" shouted Charisse.

She pulled her back from the window.

The tree house was spinning. Faster and faster.

Sabina squeezed her dark brown eyes shut. She held on to Charisse.

Then everything was still.

Absolutely still.

Sabina opened her eyes. Sunlight slanted through the window.

There was Charisse. The books. Her backpack.

The tree house was still high up in an oak tree.

But it wasn't the same oak tree.

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