Summer Days, Brittney Thompson [comprehension books TXT] 📗

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“Beth… Beth sweetie. Beth.” My mom said softly trying to wake me up.
“What?” I said sleepily.
“Honey, you fell asleep. I’m going to the store now; I will be back in about an hour or so.”
“Oh, ok. Um… Where’s Tad?”
“He is in his room watching T.V.” she said pointing down the hall. Then she walked down the steps and out the door.
I just laid there for a few minutes until I heard the car start, and drive away. I took my other ear bud out and turned my I-pod off. Then I searched under my pillows, and then under my blanket, and my bed until I found my phone next to my cat, S’mores.
“What are you doing with my phone you silly kitty cat.” I said, petting the cat and then I grabbed my phone and flipped off my bed, landing on my knees. I got up, shut my light off and headed for Tad’s room.
“What are you doing?”
“Watching SpongeBob.”
“Ok. Well Erin and Nichole are coming over soon. If you need anything I will be in my room.” I said as I dialed Erin’s number.
“Hey you.”
“Hey, what’s up?” Erin said, sounding distant.
“Babysitting. You want to come over?”
“Sure. Be over in a few.”
“KK.”
As I walked to my room I heard a bark. “TAD!!! Did you leave Cinnamon outside again?!” I screamed, walking towards my room.
“Oops!” I heard him get out of bed and run to the door. I then heard the pitter-patter of Cinnamons feet go down the steps and then it faded away. I felt tired and excited at the same time.
Then the door bell rang three times to let me know it was them. “Coming!” I yelled as I ran down the steps to answer the door.
“Hey!” Nichole screamed as she strode past me and over to Cinnamon, giving her a kiss on her head.
“Hey. I’m not sure what we are going to do, but I figured if I’m gonna be bored, we can be bored together.” And I smiled and walked up the steps.
As I walked up the steps I heard four foot steps behind me. I turned into my room I plopped on my bed and they did as well. I turned my T.V. on and I Love Lucy was on.
“Ooh. I love this show!” Erin said lying down on her stomach, facing the T.V.
“Me too.” I replied. Letting my feet hang off the bed as I lay down on my back and watch Lucy and Ethel try to get Lucy out of a giant chest.
The episode was going good until Tad interrupted. “Sissy, can I have lunch?”
“Yeah. Hold on.” I got up and walked to the kitchen and grabbed one of the Lunchabels that was supposed to be for lunch during the past week. “Here, have this.” I handed him the container and headed back to my room. The show was over and they were both sitting on my bed with the T.V. off.
“You’re room still smells like paint.” Nichole complained.
“I know. It’s because I finished the zebra stripes on my shelves yesterday. And they’re in the corner drying.”
“Anyway we thought we should make secret handshakes, so Erin and I made one up. Pay attention.” Nichole suggested.
“Ok.” I said watching them do the handshake a few times.
“Now you try with me, I thought all three of us should have the same one and just do it with each other after one another.” Erin said, holding her hands together, out in front of her.
“I hope I get it right. But ok.” So we tried and tried again to get it perfect. We ended up changing it twice but once we got it right, it was the perfect handshake.
We all heard a bang, so we all went into the hall to find Tad on his pillow, at the bottom of the steps. “What are you doing?” I asked, staring at him in confusion.
“Pillow sledding…” Tad replied with a silly look on his face.
“Typical Tad.” I said, to Erin. Little Tad always did stupid, but funny stuff. And for some reason, we always wanted to try it. For example: this past winter we were all sledding in my backyard, it has a lot of different levels and steps. Tad decided to go on the sled, headfirst, and he hit a step, making him fly off the sled and land in the snow bank. So we all decided to do it as well.
Later that day he decided that we get in a big line, with all of our sleds. Keep in mind that there were four of us, which meant four sleds. We all got on our sleds and helped push, getting us started down the first hill, headed toward the first set of steps. As we went down, Tad’s sled hit a step and he flipped and rolled down the hill a bit more. Nichole ended up flying over tad and landing on her sled still, but hit the fence. Then I flew over Erin as she hit Tad and flipped, rolling and hitting a snow bank, and landed backward on my sled, sliding down some more steps and hitting the shed.
Tad came up with some crazy and silly things. And although we ended up getting hurt some way, we still followed his lead.
“Sounds awesome I’m trying next!” Nichole said running back into my room. A few seconds later, returning with a pillow and setting it on the first step.
Then she sat on it and went down screaming as she flew off and landed on the floor. It sounded fun so Erin and I decided to go and get more pillows and we all did it. It was actually a lot of fun. A lot of screaming and laughing. And later, some black and blue marks. We all took turns going down so we didn’t collide into each other. But we only established this half way through, when I got side swiped and tumbled down the steps. In the middle of my turn to slide down the steps, I heard my mom’s car door slam. I basically fell off of my pillow and screamed to the rooms! We all ran up the steps and Little Tad ran into his room and I heard him jump on his bed. We all jumped on my bed and threw the pillows onto the floor. I tried looking for the remote but couldn’t find it. So I grabbed Erin’s arm and spun her around and by this time we could hear my mom walking up the steps so we started doing our handshake, acting like nothing had happened. She looked at us for a second, and then with all of her bags of groceries, walked to the kitchen and set them down. I got up and followed, helping her put them away.
“Was he good?”
“Actually, yes. He stayed in his room the whole time.”
“We practiced a handshake and watched some T.V.”
“Good. You don’t have to help. Go back to your friends.”
“Ok. Thanks.”
As I walked past my brother’s room I smiled and he did as well. “That was fun.” I said to Erin and Nichole as I walked in my room, closing the door behind me. We all giggled and then Nichole got a phone call saying that she had to come home, along with Erin. So I walked them out of the house, closing the door behind them. I went to my brother’s room and hopped on the bed. I watched T.V. with him until dinner. I guess I wasn’t paying attention because Tad came home and I didn’t even hear my mom cooking or anything. Little Tad and I walked to the kitchen, sitting in our usual seats next to each other on the bench, followed by my mom on the chair to the right of us, and tad to the left.
Dinner was actually very good. We had pork chops, and macaroni and cheese.
“Dad really broke the sink this time. But I managed to fix it.” Tad said to my mom.
“Good, I’m glad.” She replied.
“How was babysitting?” Tad asked me.
“Good actually. Erin and Nichole came over and we hung out while Tad hung out in his room. I got him lunch and then he went to watch T.V.” I then winked at Little Tad and he smiled.
“Good.” Tad said, taking a sip of his tall glass of milk.
Of course, I had to clean off the table, but I didn’t mind it because I wouldn’t have to do this for the rest of summer. Because I won’t be home long. After clearing the table, and putting the dishes in the dishwasher, I went to see where Tad was. He ended up being down stairs playing Wii with my mom and Tad.
So I decided I wanted to play as well. So they had to stop there game and restart it so I could join. We played Mario, and then switched over to Mini Golf half way through the game. We were all laughing and having fun on my last day home. It was kind of hard and frustrating because it was a hard world and I kept going over par. All 18 holes of the Egypt world where over around 8 o’clock so we decided to shut the game off for the night.
Saying our “goodnights”, and “I love you’s” before heading to our rooms for bed, Little Tad squeezed me and almost made me cry.
“I love you sissy. And I’m going to miss you. I hope you have lots of fun. I will see you in the morning. Good night.”
“Aw buddy. I love you too. And I’m going to miss you. But you can call me whenever you want. I will always answer. But it’s going to be summer vacation, and you will be playing with your friends the whole time. But I will be back before you know it. Night.” And I walked up stairs to my room.
After lying in bed for a half hour, doing absolutely nothing, I decided to read a book. But which one? I thought to myself. I got up and walked over to my book shelf, but it smelled really bad, like paint. Because that’s where I had my shelves drying. So I quickly grabbed my Pretty Little Liars book and lay back in bed until I lost track of time. And when I finally looked up at the clock it was already quarter to midnight. I was almost finished with the book, so I waited, holding my head up with my pillows, and when I finished the book, I rolled over and set the book on the floor. Falling asleep in that exact position, with my arm hanging off the bed, no blankets, and the light was still on and my pillows where barely under my head.
I fell into a deep sleep, having many dreams of school, and Little Tad. I was really going to miss it here. But I would be back by the end of vacation. And this summer is going to be a blast. After having a dream that I was in Wonderland, I woke up to the coldness of my cat’s nose. He was lying next to my head, laying his head against my face. So his nose was lightly touching my chin. I picked him up, and pet him and gave him a kiss on his head.
I glanced to the hall and saw cinnamon laying on the floor looking at me. So I got out of bed and sat the cat on my fluffy pillow. I walked over to Cinnamon and lay down next to her. I hugged her, and gave