Chapter Four.
Anne takes a trip.
"Are you sure everyone wont mind me coming to the wedding?" Anne's boyfriend, Sam, asked as they drove along.
"Of course not, I showed you the invitation-it said Anne and friend, didn't it? Well you're my friend!"
"I hope I'm more than your friend!" Sam replied, grinning.
Anne smiled at him.
"I'm looking forward to meeting the famous Julian, Dick and George though." Sam said.
"Famous?" Anne repeated, curious.
"Well you do talk about them a lot sweetie." He replied.
"Do I?" Anne asked surprised. "I didn't realise!"
"Well you do." Sam assured her. "Not that I'm complaining. They all sound like great people!"
"They are!" Anne said. "Ju's always been the grown up one. He looked after us. Without him around I doubt our parents would have let us do half the things we did. And then Dick was the joker, but at the same time he could be serious too. George was the one with the temper, it got her into trouble sometimes, but even so it was so funny! I was the baby of the group!"
"The baby hey?" Sam laughed. "Then you've grown up a lot now!"
Anne laughed too. "I hope so." She said. "There was one time when we went on a biking trip and we met this boy called Richard, he was really strange! He was spoilt rotten and I think maybe he was jealous that we were able to just go off on a trip on our own without parents or bodyguards. He asked whether he could come a little way with us, and then stay at his Aunts, and we said he had to get permission. He never did, but we thought he did. When we thought we'd seen the last of him we hadn't- he had made up his mind to follow us! Anyway, it turned out his ex-bodyguard-Rocky his name was- was mad at him because he'd dobbed him in for something and he had been fired, and we got involved with the whole thing. Rocky was involved in something illegal of course! Rocky saw Dick and thought Dick was Richard, and they took him away. So we decided to rescue Dick, and Richard was acting like such a baby because Julian told him that he had to own up and tell them they'd taken Dick by mistake. We ended up getting locked in the grounds of this huge house where Dick had been taken when we tried to rescue him. It turned out that there was also an escaped convict in the place, as well as Rocky. Luckily for Richard before Rocky realised who he was he'd escaped in the boot of the car to get help from the police.."
Sam smiled at Anne's slightly garbled account. He'd heard it before of course, but he was more than willing to hear it again. He loved seeing Anne so excited like she was when she told about her adventures!
"Then there was the time you went on the hike?" He asked.
"Right, when we had the long weekend off from school. We thought it would be just a nice, relaxing holiday. Of course adventures had a way of finding us, and even though I was sometimes scared during them I always liked them when they were over!"
They both laughed.
"I made the mistake of saying this once. Uncle Quentin and Aunt Fanny were looking after the daughter of one of his scientist friends since they were scared she was going to be kidnapped, and we were telling her about the adventures. George got all furious and told me that if that was the way I felt I'd be left out of the next one! Of course you can't do that!"
"Not even when you made the pacts that the holiday was going to be an adventure free one?" Sam asked.
"Not even then!" Anne replied with a grin. "I think we made an agreement like that when we went to the Cornish coast, and ended up getting involved with the Barnies, and the wreckers. That was scary; I hated to think of people who actually lured ships to the rocks in order to get their goods. Actually the same thing happened another place where we stayed in an actual lighthouse!.. But what was I talking about?"
"The hike?" Sam reminded her.
"Oh right. The hike. What happened was Timmy got injured going down a hole after rabbits, and so Julian and George were to take him to a man in the nearest town who everyone said was good with animals, and Dick and I were to go on to the place we were going to stay. We ended up getting lost, and staying in another farmhouse, where the son was a terribly mean person! And Dick slept in the barn, and in the middle of the night someone came and whispered at the window, and Dick got a piece of paper and a weird message, which was meant for someone else. So we decided to follow the map, and we camped in a burnt out house where there was a lake, and we got into a race with two other people-Maggie and Dick-to find the treasure. That was probably one of my favorite adventures-at least once it was over!" Anne laughed.
"Sounds like you had a much more exciting childhood than I did." Sam observed.
"Oh-look there's Kirren Bay, and that island; that's Kirren Island where we had so much fun, and so many adventures!" Anne said, as the bay came into view.
"It doesn't look very adventurous." Sam said with a grin, observing the ruined castle.
"Well it was!" Anne said. "But you know something Sam? I'm glad that we don't have adventures anymore. I am quite happy with my nice quiet life. Maybe the others might not agree with me, but that's the way I feel!"
Anne takes a trip.
"Are you sure everyone wont mind me coming to the wedding?" Anne's boyfriend, Sam, asked as they drove along.
"Of course not, I showed you the invitation-it said Anne and friend, didn't it? Well you're my friend!"
"I hope I'm more than your friend!" Sam replied, grinning.
Anne smiled at him.
"I'm looking forward to meeting the famous Julian, Dick and George though." Sam said.
"Famous?" Anne repeated, curious.
"Well you do talk about them a lot sweetie." He replied.
"Do I?" Anne asked surprised. "I didn't realise!"
"Well you do." Sam assured her. "Not that I'm complaining. They all sound like great people!"
"They are!" Anne said. "Ju's always been the grown up one. He looked after us. Without him around I doubt our parents would have let us do half the things we did. And then Dick was the joker, but at the same time he could be serious too. George was the one with the temper, it got her into trouble sometimes, but even so it was so funny! I was the baby of the group!"
"The baby hey?" Sam laughed. "Then you've grown up a lot now!"
Anne laughed too. "I hope so." She said. "There was one time when we went on a biking trip and we met this boy called Richard, he was really strange! He was spoilt rotten and I think maybe he was jealous that we were able to just go off on a trip on our own without parents or bodyguards. He asked whether he could come a little way with us, and then stay at his Aunts, and we said he had to get permission. He never did, but we thought he did. When we thought we'd seen the last of him we hadn't- he had made up his mind to follow us! Anyway, it turned out his ex-bodyguard-Rocky his name was- was mad at him because he'd dobbed him in for something and he had been fired, and we got involved with the whole thing. Rocky was involved in something illegal of course! Rocky saw Dick and thought Dick was Richard, and they took him away. So we decided to rescue Dick, and Richard was acting like such a baby because Julian told him that he had to own up and tell them they'd taken Dick by mistake. We ended up getting locked in the grounds of this huge house where Dick had been taken when we tried to rescue him. It turned out that there was also an escaped convict in the place, as well as Rocky. Luckily for Richard before Rocky realised who he was he'd escaped in the boot of the car to get help from the police.."
Sam smiled at Anne's slightly garbled account. He'd heard it before of course, but he was more than willing to hear it again. He loved seeing Anne so excited like she was when she told about her adventures!
"Then there was the time you went on the hike?" He asked.
"Right, when we had the long weekend off from school. We thought it would be just a nice, relaxing holiday. Of course adventures had a way of finding us, and even though I was sometimes scared during them I always liked them when they were over!"
They both laughed.
"I made the mistake of saying this once. Uncle Quentin and Aunt Fanny were looking after the daughter of one of his scientist friends since they were scared she was going to be kidnapped, and we were telling her about the adventures. George got all furious and told me that if that was the way I felt I'd be left out of the next one! Of course you can't do that!"
"Not even when you made the pacts that the holiday was going to be an adventure free one?" Sam asked.
"Not even then!" Anne replied with a grin. "I think we made an agreement like that when we went to the Cornish coast, and ended up getting involved with the Barnies, and the wreckers. That was scary; I hated to think of people who actually lured ships to the rocks in order to get their goods. Actually the same thing happened another place where we stayed in an actual lighthouse!.. But what was I talking about?"
"The hike?" Sam reminded her.
"Oh right. The hike. What happened was Timmy got injured going down a hole after rabbits, and so Julian and George were to take him to a man in the nearest town who everyone said was good with animals, and Dick and I were to go on to the place we were going to stay. We ended up getting lost, and staying in another farmhouse, where the son was a terribly mean person! And Dick slept in the barn, and in the middle of the night someone came and whispered at the window, and Dick got a piece of paper and a weird message, which was meant for someone else. So we decided to follow the map, and we camped in a burnt out house where there was a lake, and we got into a race with two other people-Maggie and Dick-to find the treasure. That was probably one of my favorite adventures-at least once it was over!" Anne laughed.
"Sounds like you had a much more exciting childhood than I did." Sam observed.
"Oh-look there's Kirren Bay, and that island; that's Kirren Island where we had so much fun, and so many adventures!" Anne said, as the bay came into view.
"It doesn't look very adventurous." Sam said with a grin, observing the ruined castle.
"Well it was!" Anne said. "But you know something Sam? I'm glad that we don't have adventures anymore. I am quite happy with my nice quiet life. Maybe the others might not agree with me, but that's the way I feel!"