Chapter 10
Easter
Age: five
Jack woke up in his room he was very bored, he eventually got out of bed and walked to his window, it was snowing. He jumped up in the air and ran to Anna and Jonathan's room, they were sleeping. Jack popped his head up next to Jonathan "John!" he whispered, he climbed up onto his back "Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!" he said, "Jack, go back to bed" moaned Jonathan "I just can't! The sky is awake, so I'm awake so we have to play!" said Jack enthusiastically "Go play by yourself!" Jonathan said pushing Jack off the bed with a thump. Jack landed on the floor looking a bit grumpy, but then his eyes lit up and he climbed back on to Jonathan, "Do you wanna build a snow fort?" he said in a sly voice holding Jonathan's eye open.
Jonathan and Jack were out in the garden with nothing but pyjamas and furry boots throwing snowballs at each other. When they heard a door shut from upstairs, Jonathan grabbed Jack around the waist and rushed inside diving between the sofa and wall just before Anna walked in the room grabbed a glass of water and went back to bed. Jonathan and Jack sighed, took off their boots tucked them away before sweeping out the snow they trekked in with.
When they were dressed Jack decorated the house for Easter, while Jonathan cooked up breakfast.
Jack, Jonathan and Anna walked out to Burgess forest where the egg hunt was being held. Jack ran off with his basket into the bushes, something grey caught his eye so he ran after it leading him to a glade with a pond in the middle. Surrounding the pond were hundreds of eggs and Jack swore he saw a pair of grey ears from behind a bush. He collected up as many eggs as his little basket could hold, and ran off back to where the adults were standing. To his surprise he had been gone for about an hour and they were about to start a search party.
When he got back to the house he emptied the contents on the island in the kitchen and tried to count them but found he couldn't remember the amount so Anna counted them up for him when he and Jonathan went to the shop to spend the money he had got from his friends at school and supposedly his old family as three letters had come in the post with just his name on and no return address.
Jack sat in the front seat next to Jonathan singing along to '50 ways to die', which Jack found hilarious. When they got to the supermarket Jonathan took a basket from the stack, they went to the food section first to buy stuff for the next day. Jack got ice cream with chocolate fish in them and the milk, he never seemed bothered by the cold but Jonathan just made this out to be because he was born in winter. After all the boring stuff was done Jack could finally go to the children's section, he bought all the Iron man films, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, the Avengers movie and all the Spiderman films. He also bought a book named six dinner Sid. He carried them to the counter and dumped them for the lady to scan them, the lady gave him a small carrier bag for him to carry.
When the got home Jonathan put Spiderman 1 on for Jack who was immediately glued to it, Jonathan sat with him to make sure that he wouldn't get too scared. Anna called him over to help with the dinner. Jack put the long sticks of spaghetti into the boiling pan with a slosh while Anna and Jonathan made the bolognaise. When they had finished the meal Anna read Jack his book with him, Jonathan took him up to bed and dressed him in his nightclothes.
Jack flew to the playground where he would be meeting Tommy. When he got there Tommy was sitting on the roundabout, Jack jumped on and both boys yelled for Jonathan to spin them. "Are you ready?" asked Jonathan as the boys tucked their legs under the bars and held on, "Yes!" they shouted in harmony. Jonathan spun them around as fast as he could, getting a few squeals from the boys. The boys hid in the climbing frame while the adults talked, they talked for ages about how much chocolate they got. When Jack told Tommy about the glade, Tommy decided to go there sometime to see if there were any more secrets.