“Ready or not, here I come,” Spog said after he closed his eyes and counted to ten.
Spog looked under the bed. Joe was not there so he began to look again.
Spog looked in the closet, but he was not there. So Spog decided to look behind the big green chair.
Where, O’ where did Joe hide, while playing ‘hide n’ seek’? Spog thought. I should have taken a sneak peek.
To peek was hard to ignore. Spog had never played the game before.
Spog looked behind the curtain. Joe was not there. That was certain.
Spog looked in the dog bed. Ralph lazily raised his head and winked an eye. He looked out the window and gave a reply, “Joe is outside and high up in the apple tree.”
Joe had hidden where Spog did not think to look.
He had climbed the tree and cleared a comfortable nook.
Spog called out, “Ollie, Ollie oxen free.”
He flapped his arms like a bird to fly up in the tree.
Spog tagged Joe and exclaimed, “You’re it!”
Joe had hid well and Spog thought the game of hide n’ seek was swell.
But Spog could not lie. Joe’s dog Ralph, had given the game away when he said, “Look in the apple tree.”
It was a clever place to hide, Spog could not deny. And great companions the boys were, and thereby, Spog flapped his arms like a bird in flight.
For the rest of the day they sat in the leafy nook out of sight and ate juicy apples and read a book.
Spog wrote in his diary that night while in bed, under the wide starry sky.
Earthbound fantasies fill my dreaming eyes. I have learned so much during my carefree days and new friends busily sharing their love and helpful ways. I no longer feel like a castaway from a planet so far away. I am a child who joyfully plays. The world might change, but I won’t change my loving way.
Ready or not, here I come. I have much love and I’ll give you some.
I’m through here, so I’ll be on my way.
Until we meet again, go splash in mud puddles and play out in the rain.
Thank you for reading my children’s story blog today.
Happiness is found in reading…
K. Lorraine
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