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**__Chapter 1 The Introduction__ **
Welcome to my life, my life is just a average life with arch enemies, good friends, delicious chocolate muffins, an annoying brother called Max, a cool family, cousins and everything awesome but everything changed when that day came with a whole suitcase of chaos, mystery and confusion and this how it started. (Hopefully you can learn some stuff from this.) Oh and my name is Holly Wingston.

"Hurry up Holly,"Mum,Liz said from outside.

"Yeah and if we're late for school it'll be ALL...YOUR...FAULT!" my brother Max teased.

"Shut up Max!" I warned.

"And close the door when you come out please darling."

"Yeah what ever I'm not dumb," I mumbled under my breath.

The trip to school was silent. Everything I saw outside just zoomed past before my eyes and before I knew it, we were there at the front gate of the school. The big dark blue sign with the white writing on it saying Dreirwood Normal Intermediate School stood out on the plain, old road. (To me it's a Intermediate school but to Max it's a Primary school, actually it's both.) "Slam!" the car door closed with a loud noise.

"Bye guys," Mum said breathing again.

"Bye mum," we chorused in a unison, gloomily.

I half ran half skipped passed the playground around the hall, I scanned for my classroom and there it was. I ran straight to the door and there, I was trying to get past all the people in the cloak bay. I put my bag onto my favourite hook. I raced into the classroom. I just entered when...

"Hey Holly," my friend Kelly called. I was just going to reply to Kelly when suddenly

"Brriinng,"all the voices in the classroom could not be heard any more.I groaned and slumped on to my chair. Our teacher Ms Tinker walked into the classroom.

"Good morning class," said Ms Tinker.Ms Tinker didn't wait for us to reply.

"Now..." there was a little pause.

I was trapped in my own daydream. Oh, and by the way welcome to my boring, original life. I'm Holly Wingston as you might know already.

Ms Tinker kept on talking and then I suddenly heard,  "You see, we are going on an trip to an animal shelter called Animal Creek tomorrow," Ms Tinker's voice became more clearer.

"You will get to learn about animals, you will each have an animal to learn about and to look after for the day. We will be having some fun as well." My mind lit up. I could hear my heart thump with excitement.

//Whooppee!// I thought. Finally there was something that I could be really excited about for once at school!!! Ms Tinker's voice came back. Tyla's (a boy in my class) hand shot up.

"Yes," said Ms Tinker waiting for a question to pop out of Tyla's mouth.

"Will we get to look after Anacondas and Tigers?" Tyla asked.

Well the answer would be an obvious NADA, NO CAN DO!!!

Ms Tinker shook her head and sighed, while everyone else started whispering and giggling. "No Tyla, you will be looking after cats, dogs, hamsters and stuff."

"Oh, I wish we could look after stuff like that," Tyla said looking disappointed.

"Anyway," Ms Tinkers carried on. "You'll have to do a report/recount on what you learned about looking after an animal and what it was like." Oh, that will be easy for me. You see I am very good with animals especially dogs. (Although I haven't had any sort of pet myself)! My mum for some reason won't even let me have a pet ant! It runs through the blood, you know what I mean?

__**Chapter 2 Test Are Gay **__
"Brringg" the voices started to rise again.

Finally it was recess. Now I can get some rest from the blabbering/non-stop-talking Ms Tinker. Seriously, do teachers ever get sick of non-stop-talking for 6 hours and 5 times a week? I would've already lost my voice.

You see, everyone used to call Ms Tinker Tinkerbell, the little nasty fairy who was jealous of pretty Wendy in the fairytale Peter Pan, as you might know. We don't call her that now because she will just give you a ticket that will lead your parents to talk to Ms Tinker or the principal, Mrs Stellington, and you would have earned your own spot at the most stupendously stupidest silly most stinky place after school on Friday while you could have be hanging out with your friends and having fun, the **DETENTION** room after school.(Because she expects us to be reliable and mature and not immature and silly which is the complete opposite.) She has no idea what it's like being a child. She would be in **DETENTION** all the time if she lived where us kids //**ruled the world**.//
 * Mmmm Hahahahahaha** (evil laugh)!!!

I walked out of the classroom and into the cloak bay and got my lunch box out of my bag.

"Hey Holly over here," the voice came out of the blues. It was Kelly! My really bored face grew into the biggest smile ever.

"OMG Holly you know the student teacher that's gonna come and be our student teacher for a week starting from next week?"Kelly asked excitedly.

" Ah Kelly I have no idea what your talking about and BTW Hi Kelly," I said skipping towards her.

"Gosh you really have gone mental, I think you day dream too much honestly soon your going to miss out that it's time for freedom cause your trapped in your liitle world where you can only hear stuff outside when people get a skunk and fart it in your face,"Kelly laughed as well as she snorted, honestly, sometimes she can really snort and act like a pig, if we did a play, she would definitely be something to do with a pig!!!


 * //ahaha//**

We walked towards where we could see my other two friends Amy and Chelsey were waiting for us.

"Hello," said Chelsey first to spot us walking towards them.

"Hello," said Amy finally waking up from her gazing-around and her daydreaming.

Anyway we were just talking about the animal shelter and stuff. When...

"Briinng!" My face turned into a very-annoyed-with-something-face. //Sometimes I just hate class time//. I thought narrowing my eyes as I walked towards my classroom. When I stepped inside the door, it was really noisy in the classroom. Do people **//have//** to shout?! Maybe they're making so... much noise 'cause there still in there conversations about the about the **//trip//** (maybe). Then again a voice broke the silence in the class. It felt like I was on the moon.

"Brrrrr!" I said shaking the feeling out of I head. Finally I was back on earth.

"Now... it is, yes it is test time!" said Ms Tinker (also known as Tinkerbell).

"Nooooo!!!" I thought in **__S-L-O-W M-O-T-I-O-N__**. It felt like I was in a trial and the judge said that I was //**GUILTY**//

"Pass the sheets on please," Ms Tinker said saving me from the //**evil**// thought. I just wish I could teleport home and save myself from this evil curse of science tests!Oops I think I forgot to study for this test!!

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"Times up!" said Ms Tinker.

It sounded like an army of pencils bombs dropping on to people's desks. Everyone started groaning and moaning and whispering to each other as usual. "Whew... finally it's over!" I said out loud to myself.

"Now it is time for some Maths, you will be having a Maths test after the holiday ,"said Ms Tinker breaking my thoughts (again)stupid school, why are there sooo many tests all the time?

It was lunch time. Everyone had gone except me, I was what you would call a loner with no friends. Amy had gone to her dance group, Kelly had gone to her School Council thing and Chelsey went to organize a play thing with the juniors. I sat on the bench and picked up a coca cola can and I aimed at the closest rubbish bin and...it was a clumsy shot, I didn't see the worst ( my biggest teacher enemy in the universe). She's called Ms Harshness. She saw me do the //clumsyshot// and walked towards me (actually more like stomped over to me with a red face) and said angrily,

"**Holly Wingston did I just** **see you litter?"**

"Umm...ah...um...yes?" I said uncertainly. It is really extremely funny to make your worst enemy teacher angry, seriously. But don't ever, ever, ever try it at school. Don't you dare!

"You are a disgrace to the whole school I will let you off this time but this is your last warning you do it again and you will have 2 weeks detention!!" she screamed. My jaw dropped.

"Close your mouth Missy," she screamed again.Ms Harshness stomped off and started telling off other kids.

"Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, Holly Wingston you are a disgrace to the whole school this is your last warning blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah." I said being silly.

"Always expect the unexpected," I said leaving the coca cola can rolling on the floor. I walked around the playground and I saw my worst-est child enemy in the whole entire universe, the horrible Crystal Glammer.

"Oooooh I'm so glamorous cause my last name is GLAMMER blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah." I said trying to be her which...didn't really work out because she is much worse!! She is a spoilt rotten poopy rotten egg because her mum and dad are poopy rich, she thinks she's so... poopy pretty and poopy glamorous. Oh yeah and she has a poopy friend that is exactly like her, she is the poopy Carlie Reensfield, she's exactly like 'poopy C..r..y...s.. ugh!I CANNOT say that name, that name is for nice people (not). Well you know you who I mean, let's just call her **__'__//__her'.__//** She's a real teller tale so I didn't go over and annoy them as I used to.

"Brrinng..."

"Yay, back to the fun class //again//," I mumbled sarcastically. I slumped onto my chair and looked at the timetable of today on the board. I scanned down the small whiteboard. In the morning, after morning tea, after lunch and written on the board said P.E -netball.

"Yes... //finally// just what I wanted in P.E time today!!"

1 hour later...

I grabbed my bag and waited for Kelly and Chelsey, Amy was at Art Class, oh and did I mention that netball turned out to be a 'learning' stage, we learned the rules and then played a game of what you would call the baby goo-goo-gaa-gaa version. It was so... boring I could have fallen asleep! But fortunately the bell finally rang the bell saved my precious life. School was finally over. Kelly and Chelsey finally came out.

At the school gate some kids went up the road and some people went down the road and the down road people included Kelly, Chelsey and me. Chelsey lived close to the school so she disappeared first at Wetland Avenue. Kelly lived just a few roads away from Chelsey's and she disappeared at Bottlesine Street.I walked home alone.

I turned into the street where I lived called Penmark Place. I walked faster towards my house no.247. I climbed up the stairs and opened the door. I dropped my bag onto the couch and followed the smell to where my mum was making chocolate muffins. "Smells good," I said grabbing a baby apple from the fruit stock.

"Thanks honey, they'll be ready in a minute," my mum said walking over to the oven and seeing if they were ready.

"I can wait," trying to not sound eager. My mum sat back on the dinner table and kept reading the newspaper. There was a pause.

"Oh yeah mum we're going on a trip to the um... oh yeah the animal shelter a few roads away called Animal Creek." There was another pause.

"Oh yeah that place...remember when you were little, we went for a look at the animals and you begged me to get that cute little kitten?" my mum said looking up at me.

"Oh yeah but you didn't buy the kitten, that was when I was about 8 or 9, ay?"I said remembering.

"Yeah," my mum said and kept on reading.

"Do you know where Max is?" she said looking up and finally noticing me.

"Nope haven't seen him since I got home," I said with a shrug.

"Can you go look for him please Holly darling," my mum said looking concerned.

"Yeah, yeah okay I'll go look," I said not really wanting to look for him. I first checked out side on our drive way and I checked on the right side of the street and the left side, no Max anywhere.

I jogged back into the house and checked upstairs and nope not in his room and not anywhere else either. I stopped and thought for a moment, where else would he go? Ahhaa!A light bulb lit up in my head. He would have to be in the back yard doing something. I crept down the stairs and walked quietly to the back door, I opened it slowly and what did I tell you, his bag was there. I looked up and saw him practising his dribbling and other skills for soccer, he loves soccer. I tell you, seriously, he loves soccer just as much as I like playing netball. He was dribbling and stepping side to side, he lost his footing, lost his balance and fell on his backside. I started laughing. I couldn't help it, it was so funny. He looked up at me and his face turned as red as a ripe tomato.

"How did you know I was here," he said looking disappointed.

"Ha...ha I've been living with you since the day you were born, do I look like a stranger to you?" I said putting my hands on my hips.

"Oh yeah by the way mum's making chocolate muffins that smell really yummy I'll just leave you here to keep practising," I said knowing that he would follow me.

"Okay, okay I get the point just let me get my stuff okay?" winced Max.

"Bye, bye soccer boy," I said having fun teasing him.

"Mmm....mm,mum these are like they were made in the heaven,'I said gushed.

"Why thank you dear, you just convinced me to try one of my made in heaven chocolate muffins,"my mum said stealing a muffin from the tray.We heard Max come inside and we both looked at him.He had mud and grass stains on his pants.

"Oh dear what have you been up to ,your pants are a mess," my mum said disappointed.

"Well I was practicing soccer in the backyard and I tripped over and I yeah landed on my bum as you can see,"Max said eying the chocolate muffins.

"Well you better go change your pants and have a shower,"my mum said raising one eyebrow.

"Ohhhh why do I have to have a shower now?" Max winced.

"Because your pants are dirty and because you smell like you haven't had a bath in a long long time,"I giving him a reason. Max glared at me but he didn't say anything. He moved his e yes to the last muffin on the tray.His eyed bulged.

"Oh but please can I have the last muffin and the I'll.."my mum cut him off.

"Nah you either have half of the muffin right now or get the whole muffin to yourself after you have your shower,"said mum giving him 2 simple choices.

Max groaned,"fine I'll go have a shower first.

Mrs Wingston smiled, "good choice Maxy"she said going up to him and fluffing his hair. Max arched his eyebrows and fluffed his hair back to the normal style.He stomped up stairs.

"You know that there are more muffins right,"said mum.

"Yup," I said walking away.

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"Oh man this muffin is so nice mum, is there any chance that there's another one?"Max said looking for evidence that there was another one of the great tasting muffins.

"Gosh you really do eat and act like a pig,"I smirked.

He eyed me and said,"I do not eat like a pig thank you very much,"he said looking offended. There was a knock on the door.I realized it would have to be my dad I looked at the clock in the kitchen.It was 5 o'clock it had to be my dad.I ran to the door in the ally way before Max could even get off his seat. ( because he was too full to get off his seat)I opened the door and gave him a big smile,

"Hi dad,'I said hugging him.You see my dad is the best dad in the whole universe.

"Hi honey,"he said glad to see me.

My mum's head popped around the corner.

"Hi Jake,"she said glad to see him."

"Hi Liz mm..I smell that, what are you baking?"he said suspiciously.

"Muffins of course, yummy delicious heaven home made muffins that mum baked"Max said interrupting.

"Hello Max, you smell like a gentlemen today did you put some perfume on?"

Max groaned,"no I had a shower ,I hate why perfume why would I put some on anyway.

"Well maybe cause your trying to impress the popular Katie girl in your class,"I suggested.

Max went pink and glared at me, which made me smile evilly,I got him trapped this time!

"I'm getting cold let's go inside now okay,"mum said interrupting.

I glared back at Max with a evil smile, my lips read 'hehehe I got him again'. He rolled his eyes and I smirked. I followed the adults inside, then it hit me.

"I better go do my homework,"I said grabbing my bag and running up the stairs. I ran to my bedroom, dropped down onto my desk started doing my report it had to be in the day after the next or else ah... never mind!We had to do it on about the museum trip that my class, room 12 and the other year 8's class room 11 went on.Better get on with it!

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There was a knock on my bedroom door,

"Holly time for dinner."It was obvious it was Max cause Max doesn't say Holly darling time to have dinner now and he never looks forward to doing anything that includes me in it (except for <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">pranks hahaha (NOT!!)

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">I replied back, "yeah yeah coming what ever." I jumped off my seat and flung the door open and raced down stairs.Surprise,surprise Max was already there.he poked his tongue at me.I poked my tongue back at him.I sat on my seat carefully just in case if there was a whoopie cushion and...... guess what just as I predicted there was one.I glared at him,

"I'm not dumb you know,"I laughed. He sighed with disappointment,

"I'll get you back,"he warned me.

"Yeah right,"I smirked. I looked at my mum and dad ,they had already started scoffing up their food, (politely though.)I picked my spoon and started digging into the mashed potato.Potato is one of my most farvouritest veges.Of course I hated spinach and peas DUHH!!! everyone does.Well maybe, do you like disgusting veges?Anyway everyone finished, but... yup except Max although he eats like a pig(well to me he does)he still eats very slowly because he always talks with his mouth full.Uugghhh...disgusting!!We slumped onto the couch and switched the T.V I flicked through all the channels but there wasn't anything cool on. Just then my mum said"Holly please can switch it onto the news on channel 4?"

"Okay fine then<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">," I groaned.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Tweet, tweet,"a fantail tweeted outside my window.

I groaned and rolled onto the other side on my bed.I blinked.The sun was shining in through the gap of the curtain.I shaded my eyes from the sun's raise.I moved my eyes towards my clock.It was 7:45 pm.My eyes bulged.I scrambled out of my bed, whipped my clothes on and rushed out of my bedroom and down the stairs and in the kitchen my mum was making breakfast.

"Oh good morning Holly darling,"Mum said turning her head.

"Can you please go get Max,"she continued.I rolled my eyes.

"Fine,I'll go look for him.I stomped up stairs and walked towards the door that said

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">I rolled my eyes at that weird sign.I knocked on the door.

I screamed,"Max dumbo time to get up now." His reply was "yeah,yeah what ever be there in a minute,gosh." I turned and walked back down stairs.

"He's coming," I told my mum.

"Stomp,stomp,stomp,"I looked towards the stairs ,Max was racing down. I grabbed some cereal,poured in some milk and made a Milo. Max had cereal with milk and juice.After we finished I sped up stairs and brushed my teeth.Max followed behind.Soon enough we were ready, I checked my bag and made sure everything was ready I grabbed my bag and headed outside and towards the car then I remembered that we were going on the trip my heart started bumping I was so extremely excited. Everything was the usual(as usual)Mum dropped us off (as usual)I was sorta late(as usual)we were going on a trip(as unusual.)

"Briingg" went the bell(as usual)I dumped my bag on my favourite hook(as usual)We got ready to go(as unusual.)

" You will have to choose a partner,"said Ms Tinker.Everyone looked at one of their friends and of course I looked at Kelly and she said yes (in eyebrow language.)

The bus drove along to pick us up and I moaned,"oh can't we just walk their,"I said talking to nobody. Kelly's answer was "yes and no yes because it doesn't waste petrol and because so we won't get fat.No because people will think that we are a gang of bad kids trying to do bad stuff at school hours.

The ride only took like 5 minutes it really would've been easier to walk there. We entered a old small office and Mrs Harshness chased us all out of the office. At the reception,there was a old lady who looked really nice with grey hair. I suddenly remembered from when I was little! Her name was Mrs Simpson,out from the door came Mr Simpson which I also remembered from when I wanted the kitten.They welcomed us to the Animal Creek. Everyone followed Mrs and Mr Simpson towards where all the animals were kept.I saw loads of cute rabbits and there was a lady her name tag said Miss Coster.I didn't remember her. There were also kittens and puppies ohh puppies I love.... they're so... cool!! We got to look at the animals to see what we would like to look after. I obviously wanted to look after a cute puppy,(well DUHH!!!) I spotted Mrs and Mr Simpson.Tyla was talking to them.

"Hey wait a minute,"he said looking confused and pointing to Mrs Simpson.

"Aren't you Marge Simpson?"Mrs Simpson shaked her head and smiled.

"Hey Mr Simpson aren't you Homer Simpson,"Tyla said frowning.

"Marge and Homer Simpson where's Lisa, Bart and Maggie?"He continued.

"Your a humorous little boy," said Mr Simpson smiling."

"No we are not Marge Simpson or Homer Simpson Tyla, we are Sally and John Simpson."said Mrs Simpson laughing. Tyla shrugged and walked away<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">.

"Hi Mrs and Simpson," I decided to say.

"Ah Holly you still want a pet don't you,"said Mrs Simpson who remembered me.Mr Simpsons eyes filled with happiness.

"Nice seeing you again,I still remember when you wanted that kitten ,your mother was quite certain about her minh ay," said smiling warming.

"What animal are you going to choose to look after today ?"asked Mrs Simpson."

"A dog maybe ?"asked Mr Simpson.

"Not maybe it's a obviously yes, definitely yes," I corrected him.

"I'll show some of the puppies,"said Mrs Simpson leading the way.

"Okay," I said casually although I was really excited inside.We walked around a corner and in too a sunshine room with lots of dogs all shapes,sizes and loads of breeds.There were German Shephards, Labradors, Jack Russels, Dalmations, Poodles and many more.

"You can pick the one that you want to look after for the day,"said Mrs Simpson welcoming me into the room of cute and ugly(no offense)dogs.I started to look around..............................

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">There were loads of dogs sand couldn't choose.My eyes suddenly set on a small puppy.He was sitting in the corner of his cage I asked Mrs Simpson what breed he was and she said he was a half Jack Russel half White Terrier his body was white except a brown spot on his back and in some of his paws like small brown socks, around one of his eyes like a pirate patch and on his tail. His name was Spots. Too me that suited him because he has not so much but he still had spots though.

I said to Mrs Simpson, "can I have Spots please ?"

"Good choice Holly dear,"Mrs Simpson said nodding.I took a closer look at Spots he looked really sad!

"Why is he so sad ?" I asked her.

"Spots had a really good owner before, but his owner past away and he got sent to here, he had a great family before he got here,he also had a mum and a dad,his mum was a Jack Russel and his dad was a White Terrier."

"But why aren't his mum and dad here as well?,"I asked.

"They got sent to a different place,"Mrs Simpson answered.

"When did he arrive here?"I asked.

"Last week,"Mrs Simpson replied.

"How old is he,"I asked.l felt like l was a detective and I had to know!

"He nearly one years old,"Mrs Simpson said seeing if any of the dog did a smelly poop.

"That's sad,"I said feeling how Spots felt.

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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Yes of course I do,"I said looking at Spots.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Me and Mrs Simpson walked back to the where we were suppose to me place. I couldn't stop thinking about Spots and his past. I saw Kelly running towards me.

She yelled,"where have you been we've been looking for you for ages! I didn't know what to say so l just said "I was in the toilet and then the lights went off and l couldn't find my way out(good huh ?)l hoped that she would believe and surprise, surprise guess what she did, she just rolled her eyes at my lying face and said come on lets go.I was the time to go to pick who to look after.Of course I had already picked.Kelly went to the rabbits place,Amy went to the cats place and Chelsey went to the hamsters place.

"We won't be seeing each other for the whole day,so bye!!"Amy said to all of us.l watched as Amy and Chelsey's group disappeared out of sight. Kelly fare welled me and I fare welled her

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">We entered the same dog room as the one that Mrs Simpson showed me a few minutes ago.

"You can choose a dog now and after that just stand where your dogs cage is." As soon as Mrs Simpson said that I went to where Spots cage and l stood next to the cage and waited.Suddenly a guy came in. He was a around 20 and Mrs Simpson introduced us to Mr Cooper, he was here to help us with the dogs.He looked really gloomy and angry. I couldn't stop staring at him. "He's always like that Holly, trust me," Mrs Simpson said seeing me staring at Mr Cooper. He didn't look at least 14 years old. He looked quite suspicious. I didn't know him then so i took no notice. I stared peered into Spots eyes l felt a connection and that's when l realized that Spots was the dog that l have been waiting to appear.He looked into my eyes and I could tell he was a little bit happier. Mrs Simpson helped me get Spots out.

"Gosh he looks much more happier with you beside him,"said Mrs Simpson looking surprised.

"I know I think he really likes me,"I said proudly.

"Your one of a kind Holly, your one of a kind."she said shaking her head(in a good.) Mrs Simpson unlocked Spots cage and carefully got him out of his cage. He first started struggling but then he calmed down and rested in Mrs Simpson arms. He looked so adorable!

"Can I hold please," l said trying not to sound eager.

“You know how to hold dogs don't you ?"said Mrs Simpson uncertainly.

"Yeah of course l do,”l said trying to sound professional. Spots lade in my arms without wriggling or struggling.

"He really does like you doesn't he,"said Mrs Simpson looking impressed.

"Yup he does,"I replied.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">After everyone got used to the dog they chose. We went outside and did some playing around with the dogs, l realized that Spots was a really talented dog. When you told him to sit, he would sit, when you said roll over he'd roll over. We got to have dog challenges and Spots and l won 3 challenges out of 5. A few people came up to me and said that Spots was a really talented and good dog. Which was true. l can't stop saying that he is perfect.We got to feed the dogs, play with them. I spotted Mrs Simpson and l went over to her and said,

"Hey Mrs Simpson, is there any chance that my mum would let me buy Spots ?"I didn't know what came over me but I just felt like saying that. Mrs Simpson looked surprised and said,

"well that would be very nice for Spots and if you are allowed to buy him then I'll give him to you for $120." My eyes bulged,

"wow, that much for such a talented dog like Spots I would of course buy him, only if my mum and dad agrees that is,hopefully they'll say yes, my head flopped down.

Mrs Simpson had an idea," Hey, Holly if l sign an agreement for you to buy Spots for $120 then they won't think that you are making a price up just to have a talented, cute and adorable dog, right ?" I thought it was a really good idea.

"Yeah," I said getting more and more excited.

"I'll write the letter now, okay ?"

"Yup," I said nodding eagerly.

"Oh yeah would you like So Mrs Simpson walked towards the office. If my mum lets me buy Spots them it would be a dream come true!!

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I told everything to Kelly, I told her about Spots and showed her the letter and ow, by the way, Mrs Simpson also gave me a description of Spots which included a photo and information about him.

"Screeeeeeeeeeeeech, pffffff,"the bus door opened, now we were back at our humble (not) school.l couldn't wait to get home and tell mum about the trip and hopefully she would say yes. In my calculation there is only about 49% that my mum would let me buy him without the photos and stuff, but with the extra stuff (including the letter) there will be around 57% that she will let me buy Spots. I got my back which was lying in front of my feet, hopped of the bus, waved bye bye like a lunatic to Kelly and skipped all the way home.

"Mum I'm home.....," l yelled when l got into the house.

"Hello darling, I'm in the kitchen,"said my mum's voice in the kitchen. I pulled off my shoes and skipped to the kitchen like a happy 6 year old who got a really pretty doll for Christmas. When l got to the kitchen, I got the letter and stuff out ready to show my mum.

I said, "Hey mum you know the trip we had today ?"

"Mmmmm..."my mum said not bothering to speak.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Well l was looking after a nearly 1 year old Parson Russel Terrier and this is a picture of him,"I said releasing my hands from behind my back. My mum finally looked up and peered at the picture and said, "Oww that's so cute!" my mums face softened.

"And this is some information about him,"I said showing her Spots details.

"Oww and his name is Spots,"I added.

"Please can l buy him ?" I said suddenly. My mum obviously looked very, very, not surprised.

"Holly l knew you would say that,"she said shaking her head.

My head fell.

"But l have to admit that he is really cute," she added quickly. My face lightened up.

"But that still doesn't that it is a 100% that I'll buy Spots okay,"she said making sure that l don't get my hopes up too much.Then l just remembered the letter.

"Oh and here is a letter that Mrs Simpson signed so that if we do buy him we can buy him for only $120!!"l said trying to sound convincing. Fortunately my mum was convinced (sorta.)

"But don't get your hopes too high though because I still have to discuss it with your dad and we still have to think about it,"said my mum pointing that fact it out.

I nodded understanding.

Just that minute, Max came into the kitchen,

"hey, what are you guys talking about ?"he said anxiously.

"Uh nothing ,"I said not that convincing.

"Lemme see that,"said Max snatching the the picture of Spots on the table.His eyes bulged (just like the first l saw Spots as well.)"Oh he's sooooo cute,"Max said, his face softened.

"Thought you would say that," I mumbled under my breathe.

Then it popped in my head."Oh l better get started on my report recount thingy for school the trip.

Max's mouth dropped open,"hey how come l don't know anything that you guys are talking about ?""Let me see," I started,

"maybe because you are really really dumb and stupid,' l suggested as an answer. (BTW did you know that dumb actually means that you can't talk, weird ay ,l checked it up in the dictionary, BTW (again)BTW means 'by the way.')

Max looked offended and wailed like a baby, "muuuum holly said that l am stupid and dumbbb!!"l snorted and ran up stair, into my room and slammed the door behind me.l had everything remembered from the trip.l started writing.

My first starting was:

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//It was wonderful trip,//
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">l rejected that and wrote:

====<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Have you thought that you would find the perfect animal for you just on a for fun trip to an animal shelter. Well I didn't but as a matter of fact.... I did. My heart was pounding, I was so excited to go there, it was Friday the 12 of April the day that my class and room 11 went on a trip to Animal Creek, we stayed there the whole day.// ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//First after we arrived, Mrs and Mr Simpson welcomed us humbly. I recognized Mrs and Mr Simpson from when I was a little girl. you see when I was little, I really wanted a pet so we went to see what there.I saw a kitten that I really liked and Mrs and Mr Simpson still owned the shop back then. My mum of course didn't buy it for me because I was too small and not responsible enough blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.// ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Now back to the story. Next we got to wander around and chose which type of animal we would like to look after like cats and dogs and rabbits, hamsters etc. (of course we didn't look after stuff like tigers and elephant and other big wild animals.)I,(of course) chose to look after a cute, adorable, loyal, talented dog. Finally the dog group/peoples set off with Mrs Simpson and we arrived at a little cosy, bright place where all the dogs were kept. As I walked in, I scanned all the dogs trying to find the one I really wanted. When I got to the end, in the corner in a little dog cage sat a little cute puppy it was a Parson Russel Terrier. He was sooo cute.................(and he was the perfect dog for me as I said in my opening sentence or what ever.// ====

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">10 minutes pasted and my hand was really sore l decided to read a book it was called 'The Blooming Truth.'

lt's about this girl called Shirleina that's dad died and she doesn't know how her dad died, one day this weird person comes to her and tells that her dad got kidnapped a long, long time ago and became a slave at a big mansion in England called 'the Five Decker Mansion' weird ay. Unfortunately her mum was brain washed and forgot everything. It was ruled by a person called Mr Gletshill who was evil and was trying to take over the world and she saves the world by him and saves her dad that she never met since she was 3 years old.(l think) I'm up to the part when she goes off to the mansion to save her dad. Oh and before that she sorta learned how to be a spy. Better get reading nearly to the end.....

__**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Chapter 9 The Final D<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">ecision **__
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> I wrote a little bit more of my report/recount story this is what I wrote:

====<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">I of course chose Spots, when I first saw him, I felt like I knew him since I was born, I had a really strange feeling. Creepy!!(In a good way... of course) A while later a guy called Mr Cooper came in to help. Finally Mrs Simpson got around to where me and Spots were.Me and spots were staring at each other, it was funny. She helped me and Spots get settled. Mrs Simpson carefully got the lonely looking Mr Spots out of the cage. When she put Spots into her arms, he struggled and <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> then got used to it. But for some strange reason when Mrs Simpson put him carefully into my arms, he didn't budge a bit, he was just first suddenly nervous and he was suddenly calm and what should I say, happier sorta. Finally we got released into the beautiful garden with green grass everywhere it was nicely cut and no yellow grass bits of anything! I was actually expecting some animal poop garden as well but..... the big reveal is........... NO NADDA, NO CAN DO (of course.) We finally got started on the activities. They were mostly competition games. Me and the talented, cute, adorable, wonderful Mr Spots!! we won around 3 games and there were about 6 games so me and Spots did preeetttyy well!!!! // ====

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">I couldn't bother writing anymore. So I started reading again.

Then there was a knock on my door,

"hurry up Holly, dinners ready."

It was obviously Max who got forced by my mums evil force to get me to get down stirs and have dinner.I remembered that my mums and dads decision for buying Spots or not was final. I flung the door open and Max wasn't gone yet, it looked like he had a bit of a fright and he said, "gosh Holly you look like a ogre that's really, really, hungry and that you want to eat 10 tonnes of food.

"I rolled eyes and didn't say anything. He was laughing for no reason though. Weirdo that's what he is, well that was what he was born as.I walked passed him, dragged his ear and I said,

"hurry up already! looik who's the slow poke now."

"Owwwwww then can you pleaseeee stop pulling my ear!"

"Yo-kay,"I said letting go.

Straight away i just ran down the stairs and max wasn't far behind.

I said,"last there's the rotten egg, full stop, no backs, padlock,in the box, under the roof." After I finished saying that I was grasping for air.

And of course I got there first.then I remembered and said,

"mummmm have you made your decision about Spots."

"Ah actually for a matter of fact, I haven't made my decision yet,"my mum said just remembering.

"Well can you please decide because Mrs Simpson said we can pick him up tomorrow and if we don't, then it's a 100% guarantee that he will be bought straight away!"I moaned.

"Okay, okay,"she said frustratedly."We'll tell you our decision after dinner okay ?"

"Fine, " I said still eager to know.

We all started eating (finally) we had mashed potato and curry with rice. It was deliciousio!! I had to another helping because it was (as I said before) very, too delicious to survive. I was so full after I felt like i was going to explode into a million pieces! My mum and dad had a around 20 minute quiet talk A.K.A adult talk talking about buying Spots. I really wanted him with all my heart. I could just feel a connection between the both of us.

Me and Max decided to watch some T.V. There was nothing to watch so we watched the news. There was something about and dog-napper and that it is on the loose. I didn't pay any attention to that, it also said that the dog-napper is in Chartsville and that is where I live,I just thought it was coincidence. It also said that if you have dogs, keep them inside because he might strike. My mum and dad came into the lounge and told me the news.

"Ah holly darling we have decided that you can have Spots but you need to be responsible for him and look after him properly" my mum said to me.

I didn't need to hear anymore because I was already jumping up and down like a lunatic because I was sooooo happy!

"Thank you soooo much mum l promise that I will look after him properly," I said gushing.

"But you have to share Spots with Max,"my dad pointed out.My dad hit the bombshell. My world turned into a dark, dull, rainy world. My world suddenly started raining, the clouds covered the sky in 2 seconds. I tried to think of their positive stuff. But at least I have a chance to finally buy a pet of my own (not, I can't believe I have to share with my stupid, dumb brother!)

"Okay,"I said not very happily.

Soon enough it was time for bed.I couldn't wait to go to the animal shelter to get Spots, I was sooooo excited. That night I had a dream that there was a guy who took Spots away. I tried to ignore that but the dream kept playing in my head all night. It was like it was trying to tell me something but I didn't know what. I gave me the creeps.......

Suddenly I woke up I suddenly realized that had finally fallen asleep in the end. It was Saturday I remembered the dream, it gave me the shivers and the creeps. I couldn't wait to get Spots and make him happy. I wrapped my clothes on and got ready for the day. I was in a really good mood. I twisted my door knob lightly and skipped down stairs. Surprisingly no one was downstairs yet so I decided to watch T.V.

"Stomp, stomp, stomp." I moved my eyes towards the stairs.

"Hi honey," said my dad getting ready for work.

"Hi," I mumbled back.

"Are you hungry ?" my dad asked.

"I'm cool,"I said back.

"I can use some egg on toast if you like," my dad said.

"Okay,"I said trying to sound very casual, all thought I was really, very hungry.

So my dad started making some egg on toast for only the 2 of us. max and my mum came trotting down the stairs like little ponies on a show. We had breakfast, I had as usual, egg on toast and as always a cup of Milo to keep me fresh. I did all the stuff like brushing my teeth and brushing my hair as usual and we set off to go get Spots. Max had to come with us stupid brothers, they are sooooo last century/ season.You know what I mean. We, well me my mum and Max ( my dad has his own car to go to work in.) scrambled into the car, the engine started and we were off.....................

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My heart was pounding. Soon enough, we were there. I slammed the door and ran to the office place. I swung the door open and greeted Mrs and Mr Simpson with a huge grin on my face. But surprisingly they looked very, really glum. My face turned into a glum face as well. Just that moment, Max and my mum busted through the door.

"The dog-napper struck us and stole all the cute dogs including **SPOTS!!!!**"said Mrs Simpson delivering to us the bad news. And that is where my great adventure began.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Chapter 10 Where IS He??? __**
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"What?" I said couldn't believing what I just heard.

"It's true," said Mr Simpson sadly.

"Who did it, where is he, is it a boy or a girl, why did he do that,"I said having all the questions pop out of my mouth all at once.

"Don't know, don't know, don't know, don't know and don't know," said Max, answering my answer unanswered." I only asked 4 questions and not 5!"I pointed out.

"Alright break it up you two we've got a crime to solve,"my mum seriously.

"Yes sir yes sir, I mean madam(actually madumb get it hahaha)I said being stupid."Dah dum, da, dum, da dum, da dum da dum da dum da dummmm...... da dum," ( the pink panther theme song.) I said being hypo.(probably because I drank too much milo!!)

"Why are you so happy about not getting Spots as your pet ?"my mum said making get trapped inside my awful, horrible, dull world.

"You HAD to say that," I said suddenly changing moods.(probably a mood swing ahaha get it ?)

"Gosh your mood changed fast," said my mum looking surprised. Then suddenly I definitely changed mood and I started weeping softly. it was then that I realized that I was really growing into a pre-teen or teenager I don't care.

The parents had a little discussion and decided to call the police. While we were waiting, we heard a faint weo we-o, we-o, we-o.(If you don't what that is, it's the police car.) We could hear it more and more clearly.Soon enough, 2 polices (or what ever) came out of their car and walked into the office and asked some questions like, when did the person rob, which we didn't know because it happened at night time. they also told us to not touch anything because they might be able to get some finger-prints and stuff like DNA. So we had to wait outside. After like a few minutes, some more police came and some detectives came as well. So they had to investigate so they sorta kicked us all out including all the people that worked there. After around what seemed like for 1 hour but actually it was only about 15 minutes but it still seemed for a long time. They came out with a finger print sample. The police officer told us to come to the police station with them so we did. I was pretty excited because I hadn't been to a police station before and so was Max I think for the same reason.We hopped in the car and drove quickly to the police station not wanting to miss any action. Finally we got there and the police did the finger print sample. My heart was thumping so hard that I could every single beat of it. They lay the one finger print on the machine and waited for the result, it started to beep and on the screen it said a 39 year old man called Ruslye Glutious-maximus pronounced as glu-ti-ous-ma-xi-mus he had a scar on his forehead and I realized that had to be the dog-napper that was loose the other night. I couldn't stop myself from yelling or rather screaming out what I had realized that the parents would of already knew about. Which it unfortunately turned out that they did. The people in the room broke the news to me which made me really embarrassed.The police decided to try track him down and of course I wanted to help and of course they didn't let me.

I started to fume up a little and then they gave me a reason which why which was because.... actually 2 reasons and they were: 1. because I was too small to help out 2. because they thought that I would get kid-napped as well. 3.because they thought I was still a dumb kid that wouldn't do anything about the crime and just cry and howl my head off all day. 4. and because I wasn't a crime solver or a policeman which sucks because they are the ones who are dumb. (I know that's 4 reasons about that ow well!) I tried to figure thing out in my head and not screaming things out again like I did before. The police men and detectives went on their special computer and checked where the guy lived and it said no match found which was strange because where did he keep all the dog-napped dogs and where did he live, is he hobo that dog nappers dogs to get money? Strangely they decided to go back the Animal Creek to find more clues. I decided to snoop around as well and surprise, surprise, I found something that was worth 1 million bucks (NOT!!!!!) I found a card, it said:

= = <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Amazing Animals** = = <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Manager: David Gelnstillpin Address: 13 Wardship Alley Auckland WorkworthStelpsin Phone: 136635 Email: AmazingAnimals@email.co.nz //Where you will find lots of high standard trained animal for your// <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">//interest for you to buy,come and see for your self.//

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">I guess he was silly enough to drop something very worth while. I was going to show it to the better at detective stuff people but I decided not to, I wanted to see how they would get on with out a really good clue. After all I needed an advantage to work out the crime because I wasn't so professional at it. While they were finding clues ow by the way they also bought the tracking down machine, I decided to have a look at the machine and play around with it. I took a look around to see if everyone was busy or not. I typed in the address and when it finished loading, there was a picture of a house that looked like a factory with black, black, black and grey, grey, grey. It said it was owned by a guy called David Gelnstillpin, to me, it HAD to be the Ruslye that dog-napper guy he could of just changed his name.

You see I have a blue slide cell phone so I grabbed it and took a quick photo. I was lucky I bought it with me!! I gathered all the info about the guy who owned and stuff on my cell phone and slipped out of reach to where the awesome 'professional' machine. to my surprise when I looked at the info I gathered on my cell phone, I read through the info and I realized something that I didn't notice, the factory was a dog training place!! Yeah right more like a dog torturing place. My eyes started to fill with tears because I couldn't stop thinking about him, But tried to hold my tears back which was kind of a success. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finally it was time to go. My mum suddenly got a phone call from her boss. Her boss rang her up because they had to go on a business trip!! I looked at Max and he looked at me. We both frowned probably for the same reason, I think it was because mum has never, never, ever, ever been on a business trip before. "Mum I have never heard of you going on a business trip, why are you going at this time of year?" I said wanting to find out the truth. "Oh I didn't tell you, my job got moved to a higher level," My mum said suddnely realizing that we didn't know. You see my mum is a kinda article writer for the Chartsville Newspaper thing. She was going tomorrow we finally got into the car and we drove off home.The rest of the day was normal, lunch, TV, reading **The Blooming Truth**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> and by the way, I've already finished that book. I ends the same way the evil person got stuff into jail for life and eternity ladi, ladi, da and they live happily ever after etc. etc. and of course I kept writing my report

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> I couldn't bother writing anymore so yeah, for the report I felt like I was miles ahead of the others to be the first one to be finished. Except Kelly's probably already finished because she is the expert at writing and all the teachers and student that know her praise writing like she is the goddess of writing and reading and art and music and that's why I call her the //**PERFECT PERSON!!!**// Because she is perfect at everything that she is perfect at,(if you get this, you are perfect at understanding my physio/crazy language as SOME people might say, HINT, HINT!!!)

I was now bored so I decided to down stairs which was a good choice because then Maxy, waxy wouldn't have to come up stairs and into my room to get me to have dinner. I trotted down stairs and did the usual. I pulled my bro's ear (bro as in Max) he screams like a girl as usual whines to mum and goes

"Mummmmm Holly pulled my ear!" and of course she didn't hear. (OH that rhymes) it was finally dinner time and we had rice with carrots and stuff in a salad.

Today was Saturday and I was glad it was. We had a one week holiday the week after so we just had to survive one more week of labour and then a whole week of freedom!!! Also my dada(as in my dad) was back and he had to go on a business trip as well. Wow what a coincidence and he was going for one week mmmm....... that meant we had to have a babysitter when my dada and mum are both gone and if i said my mum going for a few days, she was actually going for a week as well.

"Mum, then who's gonna look after us?"I asked suspiciously. Oh about that, now that you've mentioned it, I actually don't know," my mum said thinking.There was eerie silence.

"Hey what about Rachael Wingston," my dad suggested.As you can see Rachael is our 17 year old. She is the awesomest cousin in the whole entire universe!! She gives you 20 bucks if she wants you and me and her are like sisters. (Well we are anyway sorta.) When she's around, we also tease Max but usually we treat him the same way. But seriously Max don;t get your hopes too high cause this time might just have a tince of torture in it muhahahahahaha(evil laugh) By the way, I wasn't actually like ACTUALLY talking to him though. but trust me, this time it might just have a tincy just like one teaspoon of torture which equals 1,000,000,000 x more torture, I //**LOVE**// that word torture it's such a torturous word. Anyway back to what's happening. So we finally all agreed on having Rachael over, you might be wondering about her school, well their having a one month holiday! They are sooooo lucky buckies!!!

I don't know //buckies// is a word or not but who cares. This is //my// world anyway so yeah. We rang Rachael up well I did and Rachael obviously agreed and so did her mum. (Rachael is related from our dad's side.)That's just some information for you to know. The rest of the day passed in a flash.

__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Chapter 11 The Dream __
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">That night I was tossing and rolling, sweating like crazy there was a ghost kinda picture in my head that was still pretty clear. In my head there was picture of a man with black, pointy things coming out of his head. (Okay fine it's just hair!)He also had very bushy eye brows like Joe Jonas from the Jonas Brothers. (no offense though, no offense.) He had this really //evil// looking smile. As the dream became more real, I saw a black and grey looking house in the background. It was exactly the same house I saw on the machine that tracks people down and stuff.The sky in the picture was dark and dull lightning flashed in the background and it was raining and hailing and the wind was howling hard core.

Then a voice echoed,

"help me!" and then there was a picture of Spots in a cage and then someone doing an evil laugh and then a picture of Spots and the other dogs and slaves. It was absolutely horrible, absolutely horrifying. Then there was like a sort of //where to go and how to get// //there// thing to No.13 Weirdship Alley. It was like a person holding a camera and walking to where to go and stuff, it was cool in a really strange way.

The way to the evil persons place was going left from the street that I live in and then into a street on my right called Shelpson Avenue then into a street called Placement road and then a road called Amplit Street and then in a hidden road called Weirdship Street which was the street that the Ruslye Glenmastorchkin lived on. Seriously who would want such a long last name. It's so ugly as well.

"Boom!" I woke up at night time in a start. I gazed at my digital watch, the digital looking numbers glowed 2:40 am. I moaned and tried to get back to sleep. I lay back onto my bed trying to find the bump on my pillow. I closed my eyes and concentrated on the scene that was the horrible night mare that I just had. I tried to remember the path that it showed me to how to get to the **dog nappers** house.

__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Chapter 12: Rachael!! __
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">The day had begun. It was now Sunday the 14th of April. I still couldn't stop thinking about the dream that freaked me out of my skin! I wrote in my notebook/ journal book of the clues that I saw in my dream. The book was really precious to me. My grandma gave it to me a few years ago at Christmas before she died. The funeral was the gloomiest funeral I had ever, ever, **ever** in my whole entire life went to. Well of course cause that was the first funeral I had ever been to. Anyway, Rachael arrived around 11 in the morning. She is the coolest teenage cousin you can ever have!! (Did I say that before because if I did that means she is the best, best est cousin ever x 240,240,240,240 I don't know how much that is. but you know what I mean, don't you.) She was of course wearing the best fashion, she **never, ever** wears clothes that are already out of fashion, like long skirts for example, in Rachael's view, long skirts are soooooo last century. Too bad she needs to wear the sooo last century skirt to her high school. **MWHAHAHAHA** (evil as laugh) Anyway, she's gonna sleep in my bedroom on the floaty bed. A.K.A the ISB as in the INFLATABLE SLEEPING BED. I helped her unpack and after we finished that, we decided to tease Max while my mum and dad were packing to leave at night time.

I was kinda happy that my mum and dad were going away finally after all these years, but I of course knew that I would miss them. So the torturing started and this is what we as in me and Rachael t nails, nothing really to look at though.I dragged Rachael away and i decided to tell her about my dream about what happened and stuff. So I dragged her into my or A.K.A me //and// Rachael's room. So our conversation was.... "Hey you know how we had this school trip right?"I said trying to start up the conversation casually.

"Ah, no," she said shaking my head.

"Okay,"I said starting to explain to Rachael.

"So you know, there's a place called Animal Creek,

"I said trying to explain." She raised one eyebrow.

"It's a pet shelter,"I said waving my arms like crazy now trying to explain.

"We went there for a school trip and we got to choose an animal to look after for the whole day,"there was a little pause.

"We were going to stay there for the whole day,"I explained, while I was still waving my hands around while I was talking/ explaining.

"I wanted to look after a dog and while I was looking for the dog I wanted to look after, I saw a little dog called Spots, who was half Jack Russel and half White Terrier. He was really cute and so I decided to look after him. He really like me and when he was playing with me he wasn't sad but he was really happy and cheerful. Because when I first saw him, he was really gloomy," by that moment I was nearly out of breath. Rachael was trying to keep up with me talking so fast, she was nodding at everything I said.

I continued, "So the day finished and l went home and on the news it said that there was dag napper on the loose. Oh and I wanted to buy Spots and I had to persuade mum to let me buy him, so she as in Mrs Simpson wrote <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">a letter saying that she would agree on us buying Spots for 120 buck, and she also gave me a description and info about Spots so my mum might let me buy Spots, mum said yes and then the next morning we went to get him and then Mrs Simpson and Mr Simpson said that all the cute dogs including Spots got dag napped ,and of course it was the dog napper that was loose the night before." I was now talking very fast and still..... yes, yes of course still waving my arms around like a crazy lunatic.

"And then we called the police and they brought the machine that you can track down peoples with their fingerprint and they also brought an special laptop to detect where people live when you thing their name down and stuff."

"Oh those things," Rachael said finally understanding what I was talking about.

I continued,

"they found a fingerprint and found out it was guy a man called Rusyle Glutious-maximus," Rachael snorted and said

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">"that's such a retarted name! "Yeah, I know ay, who would want such a weird and confusing name!" I agreed. There was a pause. "Carry on," Rachael said wanting to know what happened next. So I continued "I was wondering around and then I found a business card saying:"I paused and gradded the business card and showed it to her. //Amazing Animals//
 * Amazing Animals**

= = <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Manager: David Gelnstillpin Address: 13 Wardship Alley Auckland WorkworthStelpsin Phone: 136635 Email: AmazingAnimals@email.co.nz //Where you will find lots of high standard trained animal for your// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">interest for you to buy,come and see for your- self. //

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">There was a pause,

"and his last name was Glutious-maximms and everyone laughed at him cause of his last name!" We were now getting somewhere of solving the mystery.

"What was his first name?" I asked.

"His name was Stephen," she replied. I grabbed my cell phone which was nesting on my desk which was really messy. I peeked at the picture I'd taken and zoomed in on the text. It said he (as in Rusyle with the random last name) had a nephew called Stephen Gelnstillpin! To me it seemed like something happened to the David guy and the Rusyle guy looked after him. Or maybe they were fighting over him and the Rusyle guy got Stephen in the end!! And then they are having a competition who ever got the most dogs that were cute, talented and stuff, then the person would get Stephen and maybe the company thing. And of course the person who had won was the Rusyle guy (I think) and he probably won or something. I raced to my computer with out saying a word and switched it on with a flash and waited for it to load, went on to google and searched AMAZING ANIMALS. It loaded and Rachael poked her head over my shoulder.

There it said the owner was <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rusyle Glutinous-maximums.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">__Chapter 13 I'm In The Hospital__
Me and Rachael looked at each other and Rachael said,

"ohhh now I know what your up to." And of course she (kinda) did, it's like she can read my mind, or maybe it's because we think the same and yeah!! So this is what I was planning. I was first hoping for Rachael to tell me a bit about the Stephen guy(actually everything she knew, kinda like a interview) and for anything she didn't know email her friends or people in her class about him a.k.a Stephen. Second of all, I was going to tell what I was going to and that was that I was going to try and save the dogs. So that might sound simple but, boy!! No, since Rachael's good with fashion she has lots of black clothes and that's good. You might be thinking oh ow because people wearing black usually are robbers and criminals, okay, so I WILL be doing something like a robbery or what ever BUT,... it is for a good

cause because I'm gonna save my favourite type of animal... as you will know (only if you aren't stupid)it's of course... DOGS!! So she has to give me... <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">*Black plain skinny jeans
 * A black Jacket or something.
 * those masks things
 * plain black shoes.

But honestly, I can't imagine my<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">self like that !!<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> So I decided just to go in my normal school clothes or a disguise. Maybe 0Rachael could pretend that she needs a job and wants that job. Then she could be my spy. That's sounds <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">like a Spy film or something, I'd love to star in a Spy film I'd be Holly Wingston and the trailer would be like a new movie like anyone has never seen before. Starring Holly Wingston and....... anyway back to the subject....

"HOLLYYYYYY WINGSTON HURRY UP LUNCH IS READY!!!!!" the sound interrupted me,at first I thought it was Mrs Harshness but of course it wasn't I wonder what it would be like having Mrs Harchness as my mu.

I would've already suicided when I was just born, but of course if I was dead, I wouldn't be alive right now and I wouldn't be trying to solve this thing majiggy mistery case. Anyways it was not my mum and I started to panic.I turned around after I woke up from my daydream and I said panicking

"Come on Ray ray.... Rachael." Yup she was gone and out of sight.

It seemed spooking. I saw Mrs Harshness will a knife coming into my room. There was a gust of wind, but the strange thing was the windows were not open. I investigated the window then //**BOOOOMMM**// the door slammed, everything turned pitch black. Mrs Harshness was coming towards me and stabbed me, I saw Spots face whimpering and I felt myself falling,falling,into a place where everything seemed black everything became more fainter,

then suddenly VOOOMMM "Holly, are you alright," my mum asked with a worried look in her eyes. My eyes shot open with terror stuck in them.

"O.M.G where am I ?" I officially DID NOT KNOW where I was. I peered around. What I saw was, a bed,well I was lying in it.

I also saw a window, a white room and outside my window I saw lights and it looked like that I wasn't in my two storey house!

Then my mum said, "you're in the hospital."

I half squeaked half screamed, "WHAT!!!!" I thought I was dreaming but the fact was that I was dreaming before.

The surprising thing was that, I had not fainted before. That would've been the first time I had fainted before (as far as I can remember that is.) As we were talking and staring in disbelief (well the disbelief part was only me actually).

My dad came rushing through the door saying,

"where is Holly darling, is she okay, what happened, why is she in hospital, why do I have to come see my daughter lying in hospital when I was just in a meeting and about to go to our business trip."

"Well too, I had to rush Holly to the hospital by carrying her into the car," my mum answered back.

Just then, Max and Ray, ray came bursting in.

"OMG Holly you looked soooo funny when mum carried you into the car," said Max nearly bursting into laughter.

"Yeah I'd say, that was so... hilarious, your mum was piratically heaving you like she was trying to lift a elephant," Ray ray snorted.

"Hm hmmmmm," my mum gestured.

"OH yeah sorry, I forgot you where in here, but that was a no offense thing, no offense," Ray Ray apologized.

Then my mum said, "why do people always saw no offense when they're right in front of your face offending you?

but honestly that is a good question why I think it means is that your telling them what you think about them but your just telling them the truth and their not trying not mean in a bad way. (I think)

"Oh mamma mia Rachael, I can't believe you said that about my mum you idiot, you disgrace to the the Wingston family's race," I said pretending to be posh while wagging a finger in her direction.

There was a silence and we both burst out laughing.

"Okay now that was crack up!" Max said cracking up as well.

"Ha that was actually pretty funny."

It didn't hear like anyone I knew. It wasn't, it was the doctor, we all stared at him and my mum blurted out,

"oh hello doctor, Holly has woke up and she is feeling much more better!"

"I think I can see that Mrs Wingston," said the doctor a matter of factually. "My name is Doctor Hamilston,"said the Doctor introducing himself.

I looked at him and I will describe him for you in detail. He had glassed (kinda obvious if you have seem a doctor before. Only if you have never had anything to do with a hospital or maybe because the you haven't seem a doctor before because you were born blind. Okay back to the description. He had dark brown hair which seemed that he had just cut it. He was in his doctor uniform thing and I couldn't imagine him in jeans, a T-shirt with Chuck Taylor's on anyway. After discussing what had happened I was dressed in to my normal way more better clothes than what the sick people wear in the hospital and again you will know what I'm talking about if you are not blind or if you've been to a hospital before. After I got my KFC, finally when we were back home, I asked Rachael what happened to me. She said that had fainted after I decided what to wear when I was going to go into the place and get the dogs back.

Well the real time when I fainted was at 12:24:42 seconds and 72 milliseconds. Okay that's probably too much detail but oh well. The real time when I fainted was when my mum was calling to have lunch. Me and Rachael kept on discussing what to do. Nothing that came out of our mouths was a excellent ed granted fabulous, extravaganza idea. One of the worst ideas <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">was to leave it to the //professional// <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">//<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">.

My mind was blank. //

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">And his answer was gonna be answered when Ms Tinker comes and asks him to talk to her about something. So that was a bumma. I planned to ask him he had any siblings. If he was married and if he had any children.

The strange thing is that this new boy arrived called Leyame Gelnstillpin and this is a really strange name. He had dark brown or was it black hair and he had this sadness in his eyes which were dark brown and almost black. So when he was by himself, I asked if his named meant and he said in a really dull way,

"not really."

And I eagered him more and he said in one short fast sentence,

" it means my dad is a bad person."

I started laughing cause I knew he was joking. He frowned at me and said, "what are you laughing?' I had to clutch my tummy and bent over cause my tummy hurt from laughing so much. You might well maybe might be thinking if I got in trouble well i didn't because Ms Tinker told the Glu-max guy to look after us while she goes and does some toilet business. It looked like to me that Glu-max was snoozing away behind a book maybe. I keep laughing and he starts chuckling and I do some huffing laughs that got him laughing and doing what I was doing before. Then everyone started looking at us and whispering. Then one of the boys made a whispering sound and started of the...... HOlLY AND LEJAME KISSING IN THE TREE K...I...S...S...I..N..G... FIRST COMES LOVE, SECOND COMES MARRAIGE THIRD COMES A BABY IN A CARRAIGE. then they started making kissy sounds and me and Leyame looked at each other and started the laughing routine all over again. Then Leyame said between his laughs that his name wasn't Lejame and that it was Leyame. Suddenly there was clapping,

"and there was Ms Tinker in the door way leaning in the wall and clapping and going well done, nice song ay." And then the person who started the song/poem thing who was Cameron, a.k.a. the guy that all the girls fanced went red in the face shame on him. Me and Leyame looked up to the teacher and stood up straight and acted as if this wasn't even funny. Ms Tinker have us a one eyebrow going up look and we nodded. She announced,

"if I see people saying stuff like that at other people you will be banned from all fun activities for a week and you will have DETENTION for at least a week."

Of course Cameron opens his mouth and protests well he was actually too slow for Ms tinkers punishment and she said shut up or else you will get detention. Of course he shut his mouth straight shut. Soon it was lunch and it was another of those all the other friends too busy day so I hanged out with Leyame. Since not even the class nerds or a.k.a my years most disliked boys.

So I see him and I walk up to him and he sees me and he for some reason starts laughing and that starts me laughing and then we (finally) stop. I sit up and I ask him, "so what did you mean by that your name means that you have a bad dad."

"Actually I said that my dad IS bad," said Leyame who obviously likes correcting people.

"Well sorry then," I say.

"Anyway, why do you say your dad is bad?" I asked like a dectective.

"Um well it's kinda silly but what I think is," he pauses, "well I can only if you promise ot to tell anyone....."

And of course this was my chance to do something, "yes okay, okay, okay I will for your life and forever," I would've said that, but that would be too humiliating and plus it was fun to keep secrets.

He gestured me to follow and he walking near a tree. But then the bell rang so I was pissed, he looked disappointed so I said,"how about we meet at the park, after school."

His eyes lit up and then his eyes' lights turns off again he sluthers beside me and says, "oh yeah I can't."

I frown and say ,"why"

He says, "cause my parents keeps me as a prisoner for good."

"What for?"

"Because I have to do some stuff."

"Well then what do you need to do,"I asked

"Um..... well that is part of the secret."

I roll my eyes and groan.

He tabs him on the shoulder while I'm day dreaming.

"Um... ah, I think we should you know go back to class now."

I finally wake up from my day dream.

"Oh yeah. Beat you there."

__**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Chapter 15 The Growl **__

 * "Miss holly Wingston and Mr Leyame why are you 5 minutes late for class ?'' that's Mrs inker**