CHAPTER 5

It had been about a week since the incident, and although no one talked about it, it left a big impact on everybody. Amanda developed acrophobia, Lucy stopped playing with her toy plane, and Slippy didn't want to work on the arwings anymore.

As for Fox, well....

Fox wasn't the same.

He used to be jolly, and cheerful, always wanting to have a friendly chat. Now, he just keeps to himself, always holed up in his room, barely giving a solemn hi when someone talked to him.

Peppy was beginning to worry. He paced his house, pondering on what to do.

His daughter got concerned. "Dad, are you alright?"

"..."

"Dad?"

"..."

"DAD!"

"Hmmm, oh, yes Lucy? What is it?"

"Are you all right?"

"Fine dear"

"Are you sure?"

"Yes"

"Okay"

"Now, listen Lucy, I'm going into town for a little while, while I'm gone I want you to be a good girl, ok?"

"Dad, I'm not a kid anymore"

"I know, I know, but you know how I worry about you"

"Yeah, Yeah"

"That's my good girl. Be back in a bit" And with that, he left.

Lucy sat staring at the TV, not really paying attention, before finally she exclaimed

"Screw this, I'm going to work in the green house!"

Lucy walked outside, now dawned in a pair of dirty old overalls, a equally dirty long sleeve shirt, and her mother's favourite sun hat. She walked over in the greenhouse, which her dad built for her mom "Back in the day" and opened the door. Sweet aroma filled her nostrils as she took in the smells of roses, daffodils, pansies, tulips, sunflowers, tomatoes, cauliflower, dirt, and every other smell you'd find in a greenhouse. This was Lucy's favourite place to smiled as she walked over to the crank on the wall. She hummed to herself as she began turning the crank, which open the glass roof of the greenhouse, so that air could get in. She put the catch on, the began her daily routine of spraying down the flowers with a bottle of MiracleGro.

What she didn't realize was that the catch wasn't on all the way.

"My baby takes the morning train" Lucy sang to herself as she finished off the last of the flowers "He works from nine to five and then" She set the bottle of MiracleGro down on the table the went to grab her shovel "He takes another home again, to find me..." CLANK! "OW! Son of a..."

Lucy held her throbbing toe and looked at the culprit, her dad's snowblower.

"Ohh, I told him not to put that here" Lucy angrily said, pushing the snowblower into the farthest corner of the greenhouse, not knowing that it sat on top of the hose.

"Now, where's my shovel?" Lucy spotted it under the table "Come to mama"

As Lucy stood up, she whacked her head off the table. The vibration caused the bottle of MiracleGrow to fall off the table, spilling it's contents all over the floor.

"I'm going to need to go to the ER after I'm done" Lucy grumbled as she held her head, unaware of the spilled liquid on the floor.

"Now, my potatoes, prepare to meet the wrath of Mr. Shov.." Lucy never finished the sentence.

Lucy slipped on the spilled MiracleGro, causing her shovel to fly out of her hand. She fell against the side of the greenhouse, which caused the coil of hose hanging there to fall and rap around her neck. In panic, Lucy yanked on the hose, trying to get it off, which cause the snowblower to tip backwards enough to hit the on switch of the automatic hose retractor. The wheel began spinning, retracting the hose. Lucy felt the hose tighten around her neck and she once again slipped on the MiracleGro, and she felt that she was being pulled back towards the retractor. Lucy looked up and let out a choked scream, for she was being pulled towards the snowblower blades. She struggled as much as she could, her vision fading, crying because she knew she was going to die, waiting to feel the blade impale her skull. Suddenly, she stopped, and the hose went slack, She looked up to see that the hose had been cut against the blade, freeing her.

Lucy jumped up in joy, but when she did, she bumped the table. The bump was big enough to cause one of the potted plants to fall onto the end of the shovel, causing it to fly through the air, and knock the catch off the cranks.

Lucy noticed the crank spinning rapidly and looked up just in time to see the greenhouse roof collapse.

Lucy screamed her last scream as the shattered glass from the roof came down, killing her.

Author's Note: I got the ending from the movie 'The Hand That Rocks The Cradle'. If you don't understand the whole roof collapsing, the crank with the catch, go to YouTube and search The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, and click on the clip 'The hand that rocks the cradle - Marlene descubre a Peyton'