Adventure!
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Its beautiful golden brown wood made the shape of its two-story floors. "Mama! Thank you, Ma! Pa!" Cried out Sarrah, when a growl of hunger came from Raine. Mama grinned, amused by her little army. "It is to be expected, I packed us some lunch." She took out two large baskets of food, each child got so much of a feast hardly anyone could be jealous or unpleasing. For each child, two sliced tomatoes with a small bottle of soup and boiled meat and sandwiches which the children ate unhesitatingly with their hands and fingers on the cottage veranda. After the meal, many sticky mouths or hands needed to be washed. Ma looked across the girls as they ran towards the bedrooms. There were big bedrooms but the biggest one was the attic, a perfect number of four beds laid in it. Two beds on each side of the wall, and a cabinet each to go with it! "I don't feel like sleeping up here, it's going to be too crowded!" Exclaimed Laura. Raine nodded. "I agree. I want to get out of the hustle." As their two older sisters left the room, Sarrah looked at the four beds. Suddenly, a thought came to her mind. "Hey, Karrie, won't two beds be vacant? Let's put the four beds side-by-side near the big window! It will be such a big bed!" Karrie squealed as she struggled to push a bed on her own. "Let me," Sarrah stomped beside her and successfully pushed it smoothly across the cold floor. Meanwhile, Big Sister Laura was looking at her room. 'Pretty big, a generous bed too. Whatever seems to make it disturbing?' she thought. Suddenly, it interrupted her thoughts. 'Screeeesch! Screesch! SCRESCH!' The sounds of Karrie and Sarrah's work were evident loudly in her room. "Oh, goodness! The sound they make!" She said to herself in frustration. Suddenly Laura felt a comforting grasp that supported her slumped shoulder. Mama gave an amused look at her. "They'll stop soon, and there!" The sounds stopped. A peaceful setting fell upon the room like a charm. Ma gave her a wistful grin and left. Laura unpacked and everything fell into its place. Soon, it felt like her own room, but with no fallen books and toys, no noise, no someone tugging or crying out at her. She fell upon her books, she had borrowed a pile of it and long to read them. With a book in her hand, she laid on her bed, which was graciously beside a window with a large shelf she could sit on or put stuff on, it made a small interpretation of a corner table. She couldn't help but feel content about the book, room, order, food and the generous sunshine Mr Sun bathed her with. An unwelcoming face peeked into her heaven straight with a smirkish face. "I'm going animal hunting, wanna come?" Laura rolled her eyes in sarcasm. "As if you would catch anything." Raine frowned, "Ma said you would need to. Sarrah and Karrie are coming as well." Two other heads poked out at her. "Ugh." Laura groaned and lazily rolled to the far side of the bed and faced the wall in thought. 'Oh well now what? Beats me trying to get them away! I hate young sisters..' She soon started to daydream in the rich warmth. "HEY, GET UP SLOWPOKE." Raine screeched into her ear. Laura jumped and looked at her in a hurt and disappointed look. "Ah, too bad, I was thinking of what kind of berries we could find to eat in the mountains.." She threw herself backward on the wall with a faked sigh of sympathy. Raine ran to her side in a reattempt. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to screech at you." She clung to Laura's sleeve in the hope it would work. Laura grunted and budged her head to one side with a lordly manner of annoyance. "Nope." Raine quickly scampered away from her once respectful scene and frowned. "Fine! Fine, just fine of what you're trying to do, fine. 3 cents. No budge." Laura softened at the glimmer of the coins. Perhaps it would be better going with them. A disturbing walk around the park. But for three cents! She could buy some chocolate bits or some peppermint sweet tea from a nearby shop. She gulped at the thought of them. "Deal. Quick into your bonnets, I don't want any fussing though.." She quickly dressed into a thin summer dress that reached just the tip of her ankles, then into her summer hat and she tied a bow on it. But as fate would always prove her bad, a fuss came. Not only a fuss, of course some fidgeting, tugging and pushing. Then the children took sides against each other. At what cost? At the cost of Raine who thought it would have been funny to put some leaves and twigs into Karrie's bonnet. Laura sighed and stood waiting for them, their behavior gave promise to a big trouble. The children glanced at each other in excitement, like puppies they ran back and forth around her. More than once the children found bushels of berries, bountiful, juicy and plump, and more than once did they fight over a snatched berry, a squished one, splattered. Laura was worn to the skull, she silently picked the few perfect ones, separating each kind in her satchel. Presently they came back to where they came from, their sticky arms and mouths took bigger tests on her. Ma and Pa came to watch them on the veranda. Pa passed the afternoon pennies and specially for today, an extra shiny penny!
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