A/N-In the last chapter, Chris's name is Christol. I had it spelled wrong, Sorry!

This chapter might be a short, quick one. It's leading up to the next one.

The next day Laura and I went to the Olson Mercantile to buy supplies needed to build the 'monster'. I asked Laura what we were going to tell Mister Olson and she smiled and said 'Just leave it to me.'

When we got there, I was so nervous, my heart was skipping a beat, I was glad my new friend was doing the asking,

"Mister Olson?"

He turned and asked,

"Yes, Laura?"

She looked at me and said,

"We uh, have a summer science project we are working on and I was wondering if we could get some supplies?" "Well, what kind?" He asked.

She did some thinking and told him and he gladly put them in a box then Laura asked,

"If it's not too much trouble, some Roman candles?"

He gave us three and he looked at me and said,

"How about I give you four, for Chris. Since she won't be here"

I smiled and said,

"Oh, thank you Mister Olson!"

What a nice man!

Mister Olson says,

"I hope to hear about how your project does"

Laura smiles and says,

"Oh, you will!"

Laura and I leave with the box and we see Andy and Albert going to go get some wood over at the mill.

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As we were walking to our tree house were we were going to build it so nobody would find out, we were talking about the head, how to do it. Albert was worried about that to make it look really scary.

I could see Andy's mind thinking then he suddenly said,

"I got a idea! Come on Chris!"

He put down the wood he was holding and we ran all the way back to the house. Aunt Alice was in the kitchen making bread. I was out of breath so I sat in the chair while Andy went to work on Aunt Alice.

"You're home early today Andy"

He looks at me then says,

"Maw, where's Paw?" "He went to Sleepy Eye to make a delivery" She told him.

He looks back at the moose head and I was getting his idea.

"Paw shouldn't have put that up there"

Aunt Alice made a grunting sound and said,

"I told him not to"

He looks at me then says.

"Why don't we take it down?"

I could see Aunt Alice liked that idea then Andy said,

"We can always put it back later...it's your house too Ma"

That got her! She told Andy with a gleam in her eye,

"You're absolutely right! Andrew, take it down!"

Andy then turned to me and said,

"Come on Chris! Help me!"

We took that old moose head down and Aunt Alice didn't care what we did with it.

I don't think she would have cared but like Albert said earlier about the adults finding out, we couldn't take that chance.

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The next day, we stripped down to our underwear for a little 'swim'. Only this wasn't any old swim, we were at Kezia's and we were going to SCARE the Olson's!

Laura and I got four weeds for air horns and we went over to where the boys were. Albert assigned each of them who to get and he said,

"Chris, you go right up behind each one and bite them again so they can have a real scare!"

We were all grinning from ear to ear. Willie and Nellie were splashing in the water, and we carefully swam out there. Albert bit Nellie, I leaped like a vampire frog behind him and bite her a little harder then quickly did the same to Willie after Andy got him.

Laura got Mrs. Olson and I did a mad dash and got her little toe just as she pulled it out of the water. We swam up under the deck really quickly as to hide.

We were laughing so hard that it was hard to keep ourselves quiet so they wouldn't hear us but Nellie and Willie were screaming so loud that it wasn't hard!

Later that night after I built us a fire to warm our clothes up by, we took turns blowing that old bull horn again!

Later in the next day, Laura tells us that Willie went to town and got the gun from Mister Olson but he filled it with blanks! Whew!

A/N-In the show, Mister Olson only gave Laura 3 fireworks but I think kind old Mister Olson would give a extra one to Chris, don't you?