Chapter 55
The next day...
"Bye!" I waved goodbye to Leo as he dropped me off at Kelsey's around 5.
"Let's put your stuff in the playroom!" Kelsey and I ran inside.
We were going to sleep on her couch bed.
"Want to go around the block?" Kelsey asked.
"Sure." I answered.
We went around the block, talked, went in the woods, talked, went on the swing set, talked, and basically, everything we did, involed talking. That's our hobby that we share.
It was around 10:00 when her mother and father said that they were going to bed. Kelsey and I watch movies the whole night. Around 2:00 in the morning...
"That move's over. What do you want to do now?" I asked.
"Do you want to try to sneak outside?" Kelsey smiled.
"Ok."
We grabbed some food, ate it, then we went outside.
"That lanturn's not so bright, is it?" I asked.
"I know, it's not the best but I didn't want to grab the really bright one, because if we turn it on, the whole neighbor hood will see it and wake up!" Kelsey said.
"I know. I was just saying..."
"What do you want to do?"
"Wanna go on the island?"
"Sure."
On the island...
"Why did I war sandals? The grass is wet!" I yelled in a whisper.
"Oh, stop complaining!" Kelsey said.
"But it's wet!"
"Do you want to go inside?"
"Yeah!"
Inside...
"Well. That was fun." I said.
"It was lots of fun!" Kelsey said sarcasticly. "What do you want to do now?"
"Wanna go back outside?" I smiled.
" Oh, God...ok." Kelsey grabbed the lanturn and we went back outside. "Want to go in the woods?"
"Ok!" I said.
Kelsey turned on the lanturn.
"Kels...it's too dark!" I said.
"We'll go in the other way then." Kelsey and I walked in through the other.
"It's dark over here, too!" I said.
"Do you want to go in the woods or not?" Kelsey asked.
"No."
"Alright, then! Where do you want to go?"
"Inside."
"Ok!"
Inside...
"Now what do you want to do?" Kelsey asked.
"I wanna go back outside." I said.
"Fine. We'll go around the block!" Kelsey said.
"What?"
"We'll go around the block..."
"Ok!"
"I was being sarcastic."
"Oh."
"But sure. We'll walk down to the dead end and then come back."
"Yay!"
Outside...
"How come those street lights aren't on?" Kelsey asked.
"I don't know." I answered.
We walked next to the street lights and they turned on.
"Oh, no! They found us! Their coming out to get us!" I hid behind Kelsey.
"Sapphire, their just street lights!" Kelsey said.
"I know. I was just fooling around..."
"Sure you were."
"I was!"
A few minutes later...
"Do you want to go inside?" Kelsey asked.
"Ok." I answered.
"But first, do you want to go in the woods?"
"No. It's too dark!"
"I brought the brighter lanturn..." Kelsey held it up and smiled.
"Ok." I said.
Kelsey was looking for the entrance while I was entertaining myself.
"Kelsey!" I said.
"What?" Kelsey turned around.
"Look at that moon!"
"Wow. It's so interesting!" Kelsey said sarcasticly. "Come on!" She grabbed my arm and pulled me to the beginning of the woods.
"That's a big moon!" I said being pulled.
Kelsey let go and turned the lanturn on.
I was still looking at the moon when I noticed the laturn's bright light shining through people's windows. "Wow." I looked behind me to see Kelsey basically half way through the woods staring and waiting for me to come in. I ran in after her. "That's a bright lanturn!"
"Thank you. Come on." Kelsey said.
Later in the woods...
"What was that?" I asked.
"Frogs." Kelsey said.
"Frogs?"
"Yeah."
"You have frogs here?"
"Yeah."
"Do you have poisonses ones?"
"No."
"Will these frogs hurt us?" I asked.
"No." Kelsey answered.
"What was that?"
"It was not a--"
"It was a wolf, right?"
"No, it wasn't!"
"That's what it sounded like!"
"I know, but it was a truck!"
"A truck? We're in the woods, how can there be a truck in the woods?"
"There's a road beyond here!"
"It was probably and wolf! I mean, you saw the wolf!" I said.
"I know but--" Kelsey started.
"That dog pound is keepign wolves? Holy crap!"
"Sapphire!"
"What?"
"There are no wolves in the dog pound! The moon was half not full!"
"There are some wolves who howl at a half moon you know."
"God, Sapphire!" Kelsey kept walking.
I followed. "This is all we need an evil wlf to jump and attack us! Well, no. Wolves don't attack humans. Their afraid oh humans...but we still have the frogs! The frogs are evil! They'll kill us! And Kels?"
"What?"
"Why did you want me to sleep over tonight?"
"Random..."
"No, why?"
"Because tomorrow's your birthday and I got you something."
"Thank you! Why didn't I open my present tonight?" I asked.
"Because tomorrow's your brthday." Kelsey answered.
"So?"
"Sapphire...your giving me a headach!"
"So? They are a lot of things I need to know. Why the dog pound holds wolves..."
"The dog pound does not hold wolves."
"...Why the frogs are evil and want to kill us..."
"The frogs are not evil and they don't want to kill us."
"...And why I couldn't open y present tonight?"
"Because tomorrow's your birthday, not today!"
"It's 3:30. I was born today. In five hours and six minutes...I will turn 11!"