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Kyle POV-
"I can't believe you...and the cake...and the rope...and the couch!" Dad was too angry to let the words make any sense at all. "And you jumped on her Kyle! You could have hurt her!"
"But he didn't," Jake pointed out.
"Pity..."I heard Kim mumble, Sarah smiled.
Dad turned his gaze from me.
"Who started the fight?" Dad wanted to know. It was quiet, we were sitting in the lounge room of the place we were staying. We were all covered in food and Mum looked like she was going to run to get the mop if we moved a muscle.
"Well?"
"It was an accident really..." Mike said innocently.
Dad turned to Sarah, "The food was really bad!" she started immediately, "And Mark told me it was squid! And so I threw it and-"
"And it just happened to have landed in her food?"
"As ironic as its sounds-" Henry was interrupted.
"I don't want to hear it! Go to bed, I'll tell you your punishments tomorrow," Dad said being strict again.
As I left I heard him say, "I knew we shouldn't have gone,"
Sarah heard, "Old habits die hard..." she muttered quietly but so we could all hear.
I smiled.
Nigel POV-
I woke up with sunlight shining through the window, I knew where I was straight away. Our windows were never that clean at home, even after it rained.
But that's when I realised that the window was opened, do they have room service here?
I looked over at Kyle, he was staring out the window.
"What are you looking at?" I said climbing over, but then I saw it too. It wasn't anything special exactly. The lawn was exact green but in the middle was the largest fountain you could ever see.
I knew what we were both thinking, finally! We'd always wanted to swim in a fountain, even more than we'd wanted to jump in that cake.
I don't know what was so great about swimming in a fountain, but I knew I wanted to.
"Let's go! Before Mum and Dad-" I stopped as Dad yelled up the hallway.
"Come on! Everybody up! Punishment begins in 10minutes!"
Mark POV-
"All right, now I have to pay to get this place cleaned by the hour, so instead you guys are going to do it instead!"
"But Dad, this is the white house! Aren't they supposed to have this place cleaned...since yesterday I mean?" Sarah said looking around as if a cleaner would appear from no where.
We all agreed, "You'd think so. But no they don't. You have to pay them, by the hour. And why pay them when I have 9 perfectly capable kids here that can do it themselves," He left the room and Mum came in.
"Mum! Is he serious?" I said walking up to her, "Yeah sweetie he is...so we better get started."
"Dude, what about Dad? Why doesn't he have to help?" Jake said.
"Well if you really want him here to help the whole time you can go get him,"
"Err, maybe not," Jessica said as Jake had second-thoughts.
"Okay, the faster this is clean the faster we can leave right?"
"Yep,"
"Well...how do we clean it?" Nigel looked clueless.
After Mum told each of us what to do we cleaned up the place in around 2 hours thoroughly tired by the end of it.
Dad was shocked when we showed him, "It's clean!" he exclaimed as if he didn't think we could've done it.
"Yes honey, it's clean...okay you guys can go and yeah..." We ran past her cheering.
Freedom.
Sarah and Jake went off with Henry. Something about getting something to eat, I saw Mike trailed off through some trees.
"Mike, where are you going?"
He turned around, and shrugged. "Forrest I guess, wanna come?"
I shrugged back and followed him in.
"Where's it go?" I said looking through the trees blankly, following Mike. He shrugged but kept walking.
"What do you thinks in here?" I asked Mike after a while of walking.
"I Dunno,"
"It can't be long…till we get to the end I mean, this isn't the kind of place to have a massive forest,"
Mike agreed and we continued on quietly, finally it seemed to end.
"Hey Mark I think it's the end!"
"Yes!"
We walked a little faster and opened the trees, there was a paddock.
"Is that, a cow?" Mike stood there dumbfounded.
"Err…yeah it is"
"What is a cow doing here?" Mike raised his eyebrows.
I looked around there were about ten cows in a paddock, but past that paddock were more animals. It looked like a farm.
"I think it's a farm. Why do they have a farm?"
"Maybe our president is paranoid? Only eats food from his farm," Mike shrugged and I looked at him funny, but he didn't notice.
We walked up and went through the gate.
I went over to the cows, and patted one gently as Mike went into a hot house.
"Hey Mike!" I called, "Come here!"
Mike came out, as I jumped on a horse.
"Wanna learn to ride a horse?"
"Do you even know how to ride a horse?" he said doubt in his voice.
"I've got an idea…and I've ridden one before, plus I read some stuff about them in one of Kim's books,"
"All right," I pulled him up, it took a while but he finally got up.
"Okay, well that's how you get up and then you sort of kick the sides," I said half improvising, half knowing, Mike looked doubtful but did it anyway.
The horse started running, pretty fast too. "Good thing it didn't buck us off," Mike said, I heard slight relief in his voice.
The horse ran out the gate and the other one we had left open as well.
It ran through to the forest.
"Umm…can we stop now? Before it reaches the end of the forest? Where Mum and Dad are just getting over the Cake incident?"
"I don't want to alarm you but…I'm not exactly sure how to stop-"
"Oh no,"
We burst through the bush and I tried to get control of the horse. It ran straight past Mum she threw dirty water from cleaning the floors and walls all over Dad by accident.
I heard him yell our names as he stood there soaked.
"Sorry Dad!" I yelled, the horse ran through the grass and near the fountain, I tried to stop it but I didn't know how.
"How do I stop it?" I yelled.
"Pull back!" I tried to pull back as the dish-washer lady came out with the expensive dishes from the hall. It smashed to the ground, as we rode past I could hear Dad groan. I wasn't sure of it was my mind or not.
I pulled back harder and the horse stopped. Mum, Dad, Nigel and Kyle ran over, Kyle tripping over a cricket bat twice.
Dad started lecturing us while Mum asked how we got a horse. I heard Nigel and Kyle talking about how cool it was we got a horse and that they wanted a go. I ignored them.
We started walking to go and sit down but Dad kept talking so we turned back around.
Behind Dad, as he gave us a lecture, Nigel was trying to get on the horse.
"Dad-"
"Mark I'm trying to talk here!" he continued his usual lecture.
Nigel got himself up with Kyle pushing him up.
"Dad I think-" Dad wouldn't listen to Mike either. "Yes I know Mike it wasn't your fault…" He kept going on as me and Mike watched Nigel pull Kyle with difficulty he finally got on the horse, taking the cricket bat they had been playing with too.
"Mum?"
"Don't interrupt me Mark! I'm trying to-" I wasn't listening though.
Nigel and Kyle were on the horse, it ran full pelt then stopped and bucked them both off the back.
Sarah, Henry and Jake came up behind us with some leftover fries and drinks watching Nigel, Kyle and the cricket bat being hurled across the field.
Mike and Sarah gasped as Jake stood there his mouth a perfect O.
"Not the sculpture…" Dad moaned. He jinxed himself.
Nigel and Kyle landed straight into the massive fountain making a massive splash. The cricket bat hit the sculpture right behind the Fountain; it smashed the sculpture to bits. Concrete flew everywhere, one hit the coffee Henry had given to Dad and it splashed all over Henry. Another smashed a window and one nearly hit Jake but he ducked.
Nigel and Kyle cheered; they'd gotten to swim in the fountain. They should've been sighing with relief that the fountain was massive and 2metres deep in the middle, but they just splashed and cheered.
Dad turned to me and Mike, and pointed in the direction of the place we were staying while Mum pulled Nigel and Kyle out of the fountain.
"Nice one dudes," Jake said.
"Real smooth," Sarah said, not noticing Mike taking one of her fries.
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