Babysitting

A couple months ago Sam and I had a fun idea of doing overnight babysitting for Benjamin. So on Thursday Leigh asked us if we could. Mommy agreed and we decided that he would sleep with us and Leigh and Rene were going to a cricket game. Soo last night we went to the park and met Benjamin there. Leigh and Rene left and we played at the park a little bit. Than we were starting to head upstairs when Sam had a fun idea of bringing Zac up with us. Janelda said yes do we headed upstairs with Zac and Benjamin. We gave them a bath, they fought with each other, we ate, and hen we watched a bit of cars. Here is a pic of them...
They are pretty cute!!!
Bye for now!!!
Mak-

Soon/I think

Hi everyone... Since now I am writing a VERY long story of our trip/life in India, I won't be completed very soon since I cannot plan ahead of time. I will though, be working on another story soon (I think) and I will try to post that soon!!! Mak-

Mystery Camp

This is actually a sequel to my last story Texas Mystery,  so it has a lot of the same names as last time.  Enjoy!

Mystery Camp

By Makaela Marie Foerderer;

Age 10 ¾

3/16/12

“Morning Elena,” I said looking out the window of our cabin.  Elena and I were on a vacation at a horse camp for the week and I hadn’t been sure if I wanted to go, but I already knew it was worth it.  Even through the cabin walls you could smell the fresh sent of hay and horse manure.  “Ummm,” I took a deep breath and smelled everything, it smelled delicious.  “Elena, wake up,” I said shaking her in her sleep.

“What?”

“It’s time to get up,”

“Ok, I’m up, I’m up,”

“Well, then come on, let’s go get dressed.  I think we should wear our new cowboy clothes, what do you think?” I asked.

“Sure, why not?” she said going through her suit case.

“Let’s go to the dressing room and get ready.  Last night Miss Ottertail told us we were having French toast with fruit for breakfast and I don’t wasn’t to miss it, let’s go,” I said already half way out the door.

“Alright, I’m coming,”

As we walked you could hear the wet juicy grass crushing underneath us, it smelled so sweet !  “This grass smells wonderful, doesn’t it Elena?” I said taking a deep breath.

“It sure does, and I think I can already smell that French toast cooking, can you?”

“I sure can,”

We reached the dressing room and as we walked in we saw a tall, light blond haired, girl brushing her hair.   “Hello,” she said.  “I’m Nor… I mean I’m Emily,”  She said continuing to brush her hair.

“Well, nice to meet you,” Elena said smiling. 

“Pleasure’s all mine,” Emily replied.

“This is my friend Hannah,” Elena added.

“Hi,” I said, but not very happily.  Something about this girl made me wary.  “Shall we get dressed Elena?” I asked.

“Ok,” she said. “Bye Emily, see you around.

“Alright,”

“Don’t you think she was weird in just the least little way?” I asked Elena frowning a bit.

“No, do you? I thought she seemed very nice,”

“Well, either way, keep an eye out for her, ok,”

“Ok, ok relax I’m sure everything will be fine,”

“Didn’t you even notice that she was about to say her name was Nora, but changed it to Emily?”

“No, I think your just imagining things,” she said slipping her boots on.

“Ok, if you say so,”

We walked out of the dressing room and to our amazement saw a sign that sent me almost falling on the ground.

Elena and Hannah:

Keep out of others peoples business;

Or Else;

“That’s why I told you to keep an eye out for her,” I said looking at Elena.

“Oh, I’m sure it wasn’t her,” Elena said.

“Who else would it have been? We haven’t met anyone here except for her and Miss Ottertail,” I said feeling a rush of blood go too my head.

“Maybe it was Miss Ottertail,” Elena said opening the door.  “Come on, you don’t want to miss breakfast do you?  We can worry about this later; I mean YOU can worry about this later.”

I glared at Elena and said “Fine,”

“Well, then, come on,” she said heading out the door.

We went to the cabin to put our pajamas away, a bunch of other girls were awake and getting ready.  A blond haired girl walked over to us and said, “Hi, my names Jessica, and yours?”

“I’m Hannah and this is Elena,” I said.

“Ok, your Hannah but, where’s Elena? Jessica asked.

“What, Elena, Elena, oh great,”

“What’s wrong?”

“She probably left looking for Emily or Nora or I don’t know,” I said.  Something on Jessica’s Jessie’s face made get 10 times more worried than before.   “What’s wrong, Jess?” I asked beginning to panache.

“Well, Emily is a little strange,  last time I was here she put a note in the bathroom for Ell and Tessi saying to keep out of anyone’s business or else.  So I researched a little and found out her name is actually Nora and that her father’s name is Rene Gansauge and THEN Tessi and Ell disappeared for 2 days and then came back saying they had gotten lost, I stopped trying to find things out after that, it was just to risky.  But, I’m ready to start investigating all over again this year,

“Oh, that’s a bit creepy, I better find Elena,”

“Yep, you better,”

“Will you help me?”

“Why of course, I thought you’d never ask,” she said looking as delighted as could be.

“Well, then, come on,” I said, “we don’t have all day, plus we have to get to breakfast on time, Or Else,”

“Alright, but, I bet all beat you in a race,” jess said, as she whizzed past me.

“Ok, but, I’ll win!” I laughed almost at her side.

We ran across the grass and up into the breakfast cabin.  I didn’t know why we were going there but I thought I better trust Jess. 

“We tied,” Jessica said catching her breath.

“That’s good, because if we hadn’t you would have been sad,”

“Hah, hah,”

We entered the cabin and to my astonishment I saw that to my left Elena sat talking and eating with Nora, the so called Emily.  I barged over and said to Elena “Elena, what are you doing here?”

“I was just coming down to eat and I saw that Emily was here, so I sat down.

“You mean you saw that Nora was here?” I said glaring at the so called Emily.

“What,” Emily said.

“Yah, what Nora,”

“I…I don’t know what you’re talking about,” she stammered trembling.   “Just stay out of everything, you might get hurt,”

“Yah, by you,” Jessica said.

“STOP IT,” Elena said standing up.  “Stop being a bully,” she said glaring at me.

“Fine, if you want to be her friend fine, “

“Yah Fine,” Elena said sitting back down and turning her head.

“Let’s go Jess,” I said taking her arm and pulling her away.

We walked over and got our food and then sat down on the other side of the room, not even lifting our heads to look at them.

“We should investigate,” I said. “I think she’s up to something.”

“Yah, I think so to,” Jess said taking a bite of her French Toast.  “After breakfast let’s go to our cabin and we can research some on my laptop, our classes don’t start till 9:30 and it’s only 8:30,”

“Ok, that sounds great,”

A bunch of other girls walked in and started to get their plates.   There was an occasional “hi, or Hello, or Sup” but not many girls noticed us.  When we were done eating we went back to our cabin and Jess grabbed her laptop.  “Horse Ranch Crimes in 2011-2012” A list of about 22 crimes came up one said, “Valley Wood,”  “That’s our camp,” we said in unison.

“Yah,” Jess said as she clicked on it.

Criminal: Rene Gansauge;

Criminal’s daughter: Nora Gansauge;

Criminal’s wrong:  Horse stealing and selling property;

Age:  46;

Daughters Age:  11;

Mother is dead, name was; Leiha Gansauge;

“Ok,” I said. “Now we know, Emily is Nora and that we need to get Elena away from her,”

“That’s for sure,”  “Let’s catch Nora alone and tell her to stay away from Elena,”

“Yah lets,”

“Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding,” The bell rang and Jessica and I ran out the door. It was horse riding time.

 “This is great,” I said.

“Totally,” Jess said.

“We ran over to the barn and met our counselor Miss. Ottertail and a man standing next to the halters.

“Hello children.  I am Miss Ottertail and this is our other newer camp counselor Mr.Gansauge,” Miss
Ottertail said pointing to Mr. Gansauge, “and this is his daughter, Emily”

“What, that’s the thief’s names and that’s Emily I mean Nora,” I whispered tripping over my own words.

“I know, something’s wrong here,”

“I have that same feeling,”

“Well children, let’s go to the pasture and get this horse camp started,” Mr. Gansauge said.

            We all ran out to the pasture and opened the gate.  We had all been assigned to our horses the night before.  I had been assigned to Storm Pearl and Elena had been assigned to Ocean Mist. 

“Where’s Elena?” I asked Jess looking around.

“I don’t know,” she said running over to her horse.

“What’s your horse’s name?”

“Dazzling Duke,” she said proudly.

            I skipped over to my horse grabbed his halter and walked him out the gate with Jessica and Duke following closely behind.  We went back to the barn and Mr. Gansauge (who was very tall) and Miss. Ottertail helped us get their saddles and bridles on after we thoroughly brushed them.  “I still haven’t spotted Elena,” I said peeking over the stall at Jessie.

“Me either, it’s kind a weird.  I think that they should be here by now,” she said.

“They?”

“Yah, her and Emily, I mean Nora,” she said buckling Duke’s saddle.

“I guess so,” I said. “Come on Storm open your mouth, ahh that’s a good boy, there you go,” I said, finally getting Storm’s bit in.  

            We walked Storm and Duke out of their stalls and up to Mr. Gansauge.  “Well girls, it looks like you did a pretty good job getting your horses ready,” he said looking our horses over carefully.  We both stood our distances wary that he was a criminal.  “Alright, you girls go head and take your horses to the arena, ok,” 

“Ok,” we said walking as far away from him as possible just in case he had a gun.

            We reached the arena and saw that about 5 girls were already there including Nora and Elena.

“Whew, that’s a relief,” I said to Jess, “I thought something bad might have happened or something,”

“Yah, me too,” Jessica said taking a breath of relief.

            Miss Ottertail came over and told us to line up single file.  We got in place and then Miss Ottertail told us how and helped us get onto their saddles.  We walked our horses around in circles and then came to a halt.  “Children, children we now are going to take you to the green pasture over there on the other side of the cabin. Either remain on your horses or get down and walk them, whatever you feel more comfortable with,” Miss Ottertail yelled through her megaphone.

“Yes Miss Ottertail,” we all yelled back.

            After that we went back to our cabin and put our swimming suits on.  We were going to go swimming in the big lake in the middle of the horse pasture.

“This is going to be great!”

“It sure is.”

We ran across the grass and up to the lake.  I put my feet in and felt that it was very warm.   I jumped in with a big splash.

“Wow, this is nice water,” I told Jess who had just jumped in.

“That’s for sure, it’s just perfect,”

            That afternoon we did a few more activities had supper and now we were going to have a campfire before we went to bed.   Jess and I had been waiting all day for a time to tell Nora or Emily to stay away from Elena, but the right chance hadn’t come.  Now it did, Elena wasn’t there yet and Nora was standing next to the big oak tree about 10 meters from the camp fire. “Hello Nora,” was the first thing I said.

            “Hello,” she said eying us suspiciously.

“We’re here to tell you that you need to stay away from Elena,” Jess said trying to look as mean as possible.

“Why?” she asked looking a little scared.

“Don’t you know?” I exclaimed.

“That’s right, you should know since your dad is a criminal,”

“What, my dad is not a criminal, he’s helping FIND the criminal,” Nora said shaking her head.

“Yah, sure, whatever you say,” Jess said heading away from Nora.

“Just stay away from her Ok?” I said.

            Nora looked like she was about to burst into tears.  She looked at me and then at Jessica, then she turned around and ran away. 

“Oh, great, now she’ll go tell her dad, the criminal”

            After the camp fire we all went back to our cabin.  Mysteriously Nora never came back, Elena did come eventually though.  She glared at me and then sat down.

“She must have found out,”

“Yah, I bet she did,”

We got ready for bed and I crawled into my bunk. 

“Good night Jess,” I said yawning.

“Good night,”

That night I just couldn’t fall asleep, but it was probably a good thing because at about 11:30 I saw a figure out the window that was heading for our cabin door.  I sat up and turned on the light, the door opened a bit and then shut quickly.  I turned the light of and lay in bed.  About 30 minutes later the door opened again and in walked a man that was very tall a lot like Mr. Gansauge. 

“Help,” I screamed and jumped out of bed.

“Freeze,” the man said pulling out his gun.

The other girls woke up including Jess and Elena.  “What’s going on Hannah?” Elena asked me looking scared.

“I said FREEZE, put your hands behind your backs, get down from your beds and sit down on the floor.   I don’t want any of you little immature girls messing with my plans like last time,”

“Like last time?   Wait, what, no it can’t be,” I said trembling.  “Are you Luke Hay Wire?”

“Yah, I am, so just shut up,” Luke said rolling his eyes.

“Oh, this can’t be happening, I got it all wrong,”

“Yep, you did you little sneak,” Luke said rolling his eyes again.

            He tied everyone up and then headed over to me.  “You didn’t win last time Luke, and you’re not winning this time” I said standing up.  I took Jess’s laptop and smashed it on Luke’s head.  “Ouch,” he yelled, “You’re going to pay for that,” he said and reached out to grab me.  I tried to run, but I tripped and he caught hold of me.  He held his gun against me. “You don’t win this time Luke,” he said trying his best to mimic me.  Honestly, it sounded horrible.

“Stop,” a voice said coming from the door.  “Take the gun away from her,” the voice said walking toward us.  It was Mr. Gansauge.  I had got it all wrong; I felt miserable, I knew now that I should have listened to Nora.

“Sorry, but no can do,” he said took the gun away from me and turned to Mr. Gansauge.  “BOOM” Luke’s gun fired and Mr. Gansauge fell to the ground.  “No,” I said trying to rush to his side, but Luke caught me first.  “Come on Hannah, give it up, you don’t win this time.”  

“That’s not true Luke,” some voices said.

            Just then two men rushed in and pulled me away from Luke and handcuffed him before he even knew what was happening.  I rushed over to Mr. Gansauge’s side, and Nora joined me, coming in from the open door.  “Papa,” she said crying bitterly.  I checked him over to see where he had been hit.  I couldn’t see anything, but then I saw blood on his ankle.  “Oh, Nora, he’s going to be ok, he just go shot in his ankle,” I said inspecting it. 

“Oh, thank you Hannah, thank you,” she said giving her papa a big hug.

             He opened his eyes and hugged her back smiling amidst the tears in his eyes.  I stood up and ran over to all the other girls to untie them.  I untied Elena and then gave her a big hug. 

“I’m sorry Elena;”

“Oh, it’s ok; I should have listened to you. I had no idea Luke had gotten out of jail,” Elena exclaimed.

“Me either, that was a shocker, but I’m glad you stuck up for Nora.”

“Yah, me too.  Friends?”

“Friends,”

I ran over and gave Jess a hug and then I went over to Nora, “I’m so sorry Nora; I should have believed you, “

“That’s ok,”

“Your name is Nora, right?” I asked smiling.

“Yep.  I think,” She laughed.

“And thank you Mr. Gansauge for rescuing us,”

“Oh, you’re welcome and please call me Rene,”

“But, why did you change your name Nora?” I asked curiously.

“When Luke escaped from jail the first time my dad caught and put him back in jail.  He said that if he ever got out of jail his revenge would be to hurt me.  So I changed my name to Emily so he couldn’t track me down very easily,” Nora said.

“Ahhh, that makes sense,”

“Alright, now come on let’s get to bed. It’s already 12:30 and we still have another 6 days at camp,” Elena said.

 “That’s right, thank you again Rene, and now good night everyone,”

“Good night,”

            6 hours later…

“Bring, bring, bring, Bring bring, bring,”

            “Hello,”

“Hi Hannah, this is your mom,”

“Oh hi, what’s up?”

“Well, I just wanted to let you know that in a few months you going to have another little brother or sister around,”

The End

I will be posting another story in about 1 or 2 weeks!
Thank you...

Texas Mystery

Hello!
This is my other blog!
This has some of the stories I'm writing!!!


                                                                      Texas Mystery

That one night in the summer I remember very clearly. It was a dreary night and I was walking home from my friend’s house. I walked up the hill to our house and saw that our old neighbor’s house lights were on.  “Strange,” I wondered out loud.  I considered for a moment that someone had bought the house, but it seemed strange since it hadn’t been originally for sale. I hurried up the hill and the lights suddenly turned off… there was no more light. I hurried home as quickly as possible because it was getting very chilly outside.  Inside the house I asked my mom, “There were lights on at the old Gregg’s place tonight.  Do you know if anyone moved in?”

 “No, I have no idea. Did you have a good day at school though, Hannah?”

“Yep, it went fine!”

 “Great,” she said smiling at me.

After I went to bed, I looked out the window and saw that the lights were on at our old neighbor’s house again! I didn’t realize it then, but there was an old rusty truck sitting in the driveway…  I stared up at the ceiling and started thinking whether they had moved back in or if someone had bought it.  Then I sat straight up… a horrible  thought had  crossed my mind, what if someone had snuck in, what if it was a madman. I lay back down, but couldn’t fall asleep.  It just wouldn’t leave my mind.  Finally, I fell into a troubled sleep.

The next morning I woke up and remembered the past night.  I looked out the window but there was no trace of any living thing in the house.  I wondered if it had all been a dream, maybe, maybe not. But I was hoping so!  I put my clothes on and ran down stairs; mom was in the kitchen cooking breakfast. “Yum,” I said skidding across the floor, “pancakes, my favorite. Thanks mom!”

 “Oh, you’re welcome sweetheart! Did you have a good sleep?”

 “Yah, it was ok,” I said.   My little twin siblings Maggie and Cody joined us in the kitchen.  They were both five.  Our big Brother Brandon had just graduated from college and was working in Horse Shoe Texas as a police officer.  We all missed him very much.

“Oh yum,” they both cried in unison!

I grabbed my back pack and hurried out the door to catch the bus. Cody and Maggie were both still homeschooled so I was all by myself. I ran down the hill and saw that the bus was just coming over the hill.  I climbed into the bus and took a seat next to my friend Elena. 

“Hi Elena!” I said.

“Hi! Boy, you sure look tired!” she said.

“Yah, I didn’t have a very good sleep!”

“How come?”

“Well, there were lights on at the Gregg’s place and it had never been for sale before, so I got worried that it might an escaped prisoner or a madman,” I said.

“Oh, I highly doubt it’s that, but someone might have broken in looking for a place to sleep… Or a person looking for money or valuable items.”  Elena said.

“Oh, that makes me feel a lot better.”

“Sorry, I was just agreeing and trying to be helpful! Tell you what, I’ll come over this afternoon if it’s all right with your parents, and we’ll check out this mystery house together, alright.

“Alright,” I said still not feeling much better.

When we got to school we ran to our lockers and then to Ms. Gansauge’s class.  “Good morning children or Guten Morgen.” She said with her very German accent.  “Today we are going to learn about Munich and tomorrow we are studying the interesting town of Zweibrucken,” said Miss Gaunsage. If you don’t already know, she is our history teacher AND since she is from Europe she talks a lot about Europe and especially Germany and all the beautiful areas there.

I called my mom during lunch break to see if it was ok if Elena could come over.   She could!  When we got home, there were still no lights on at the house, but there was a toppled over garbage can with a milk carton, egg carton, and some banana peels spilling out of it.  We went into my house and had a snack of pretzels with cheese!   Then we told my mom that we were going to go outside!

“Ok, have fun,” she said.

We ran out the door and across the lawn into the mysterious house’s yard.  We stopped and looked around to make sure no one was looking.

“The coast is clear,” Elena said taking another step forwards.

“Are you sure.” I said

“Positive.”

“Ok,” I said.

We ran over to the window and peered through. Inside we saw that it was all dirty and messy EVRYWHERE AND that there was a fire glowing from the fireplace.  We looked at each other in amazement and then to our surprise we saw a shadow walking toward the fire place.  I ducked but Elena just stood there surprised and excited! “Elena, come down here, you don’t want whoever it is to see you, do you?”

“Oh, all right, I’m coming!  But I saw him, HE probably was a thief; He was a young man with blond hair, digging through someone’s purse. He could be dangerous, ” she said almost out of breath.  Then suddenly a young face appeared at the window… “Help!” we both screamed and ran out of the yard into my house and up into to my room.  “Oh my goodness,” I said “what are we going to do?”

“Well, I think we should think this through and look at the possibilities. Maybe he is a relative or a close friend OR he could have broken in!” she said VERY calmly.

“H...o...w can you be so calm about this?  He could be a criminal.”

“Well he could, but also he might not be. Did you ever consider that possibility?”

“Well, not really, but I guess I could try!  Hey, how about this?  We’ll call your parents and ask if it’s ok if you spend the night and then tomorrow we will investigate some more, Ok?”

“Ok,” she said.

That night as we were getting in bed the young man appeared caring a garbage bag. “Well, I guess we will try to find out who the young man is tomorrow, right?” I said.

“Yep, we’ll prove to him, if he is a criminal that he is not allowed in this neighborhood!”

The next morning we went downstairs and watched TV for about a half an hour.   We were watching The Adventures of Solving Mysteries with Polly and Paul, It was quite exciting!  Then mom said, “time to eat kids, eggs and toast on the table in 3 2 1.”  “Coming!” We both yelled and met Cody and Maggie at the table. “Well,” I said “this sure is a breakfast fit for kings and queens right Maggie?”

“That’s right! It’s delicious!” she said licking her lips.

“Sure is and you know what? I AM a king!” Cody said with a big grin across his face.

“Hah, Hah, but I suppose you are the King and Maggie is the queen. Right?” I said.

“Yepidoodle,” he said.

“You guys are all so silly,” said Elena.

“Oh, and I suppose you are the popper begging the prince and princess to help you in your darkest hour?” I said.

“Well, I suppose you could say that OR you could say that I was a friend that needed another friend to pass the toast over to her? Please,” Elena said

“Ok, I get it, here’s the toast,” I said.

After breakfast we went upstairs and picked up my room and put our clothes on.  Then we put our boots on and went outside.  We lay down on our stomachs and decided that we were going to stay in our yard and just spy through binoculars, and it was a good idea, because he opened his door and walked out and put a big bag of stuff into a rusty old truck. “A TRUCK,” I said sitting up. “I never noticed a truck before.”

“Well, I guess it’s our first clue then,” Elena said.

 “Clue? What do you mean?” I said.

“It has his license place on the truck and unless it’s a fake one we should be able to look up license plate number and see whether he is a criminal or a good citizen,” Elena said.

“Oh, got that,” I said (really I wasn’t sure what was going on).

We copied down the license plate number and hurried into the house and went on to the computer and looked up license plate numbers. Sure enough they had it.

License Number: 6372CRIME

Name: Luke Haywire

Age: 27

Parents: Lucy Haywire and Peter Haywire 58 and 56

Jail Records: 10 times

Speeding tickets: 17

He escaped from jail 2 times:

“Well, that gives us a bit of information, huh?” I said.

“That’s for sure,” Elena said.

“It could mean that he is a criminal or we else have the wrong person,” I said.

“No, I’m positive that’s the right license plate.”

“Well, let’s watch some TV and then think about it some more, is that ok?” I said.

“OK,” Elena said , sounding a bit disappointed (she likes mysteries if you haven’t noticed).

Downstairs, we turned on the TV and the news blared out;

“A young man by the age of 27 name Luke Haywire escaped from jail just two days ago and has magically disappeared off the face of the earth.  Policemen are going up and down the Texas area.  Police men are even looking in Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, California, Oklahoma, and even Colorado; people are looking out for him everywhere.  If you see him, hear him or even manage to hear about him please report him to us for your own safety. Thank you! His license plate number is 6372CRIME.  Thank you again!”  The news man said.

…” u … m … m … that was uhh creepy wasn’t it Hannah?” Elena said “Hannah, Hannah?”

“Over here,” I said sitting on the floor.  “I was a bit shocked,  I fell of the couch.”

“Oh,” she said hiding a smile.

“Now that we know that he is a criminal, we should report him you know,” I said.

“I don’t know, I mean this is something pretty big, there’s a thief right next door and he’s been in jail 10 times.  It’s pretty serious; don’t you think we should maybe investigate a little bit?” Elena said.

“Well, I know it’s pretty big and that’s another reason we should report him I mean he COULD be dangerous!”

“Yah, I suppose you’re right, we’ll call the police in a little bit,” Elena said.

“Yah,” I answered.

“Don’t call anyone,“ an angry voice said coming from underneath my bed.

“What?” I said.  “Who’s there?”

“Just don’t call anyone, ok,” the voice said again getting even angrier.

“If I...f… this is Luke Haywire we aren’t scared of you and we are going to call the police,” I said trying to hide the shakiness in my voice.

“Alright,” the voice said, “but you won’t be here and neither will I.  

Then suddenly a tall young man crawled out from underneath my bed, gun in hand.  It was Luke Haywire.  “Don’t move an inch,” he said. “Now just sit down and put your hands behind your head.”  “You kids don’t have no right to be snooping around in other people’s affairs.” He said with a nasty smile. He grabbed his rope and put down his gun and began heading toward the girls.

“Get away from them,” a voice shouted “I said now!”

Luke dropped his rope and picked up his gun, “That won’t be necessary,” the voice said. The door opened and in walked a man holding a gun in his hand, three men followed with guns in their hands.  “Put down the gun and put your hands in the air.” he said.

I could hardly believe my eyes.  There before us, stood my big brother Brandon.  “Brandon, is that you?”  I asked excitedly.  “Yes, it’s me, now you and Elena just stay there.”

“I said put your hands in the air,” Brandon yelled.  Luke dropped his gun and put his hands in the air. “That’s better now, men,” Brandon said. The three other men grabbed him and put him in hand cuffs. Then, they walked him out the door, down, the stairs, to the police car, pushed him in, and drove away.

“That was amazing,” Elena and I both said standing up.  I ran over and gave Brandon a big hug. “Thank you soo much,” I said. “We were so worried after we learned he was criminal.”

“You knew he was a criminal?”  Brandon asked.

“Yep, since 40 minutes ago or maybe it was 45,” Elena said, smirking a bit!

“How did you find out?”  Brandon asked.

“Well, about 40 or 45 minutes ago we turned on the TV and saw that there was a criminal and we were interested to see who it was about so we kept watching and then we saw it was a guy named Luke Haywire just like his license plate number we looked up,” I said.

“Ah hah, my suspicions are conformed!” Brandon said.

“What? What suspicions!” I said.

“Ask Elena here?”

“Elena, what did you do?”

“Well,” Elena broke in “we started getting suspicious after he moved in and we kept finding stuff out, right?

“Right,” I said.

  So, when you were in the bathroom 40 or 45 minutes ago I emailed the police station where Brandon works and…” she said.

“ I got some information from person named Elena SwasWell” Brandon broke in “and I was convinced that my sister knew her and I thought that I had better come to make sure that they were alright and not in too much trouble!  Thanks Elena,” Brandon said.

“Oh, it was nothing,” she said.

“Wait, when did you send it to him?” I asked.

“When you were in the bathroom forty or forty-five minutes ago,” Elena said.  “Wow, how did you get here so fast?” she said.

“I came so quickly because I was sure that Luke probably knew something about you spying on him, and I knew you guys were up to something!  Thanks for helping us out though! I am very grateful.”

“You’re Welcome!  Thank you for coming to our rescue,” I said.  “Now, let’s go downstairs.  It’s taco night and we have lots tell mo…

“Hannah, Elena” Mom said fiercely from downstairs. “Why did three police men walk through our house carrying a scary looking guy?”  Mom said, “Be right there,” we all said in unison!

The End

 By Makaela Marie Foerderer:  Age 10 3/4;

 January-Febuary