by Alex

It’s not my fault, were the four words that constantly repeated in the Nate family. In fact they were so repeated that someone had to do something about it before it got out of control! For example, this morning Eliza Nate was happily drawing in her room, when suddenly she heard her mother coming down stairs. Quick as a bunny she pretended to clean her room.

“Eliza, what have you been doing?” questioned Eliza’s mother

“Well…ahhh…uhhmm” mumbled Eliza

“Nothing, that’s what you’ve been doing, I bet that you only started cleaning when you heard me come down the stairs” said her mother

“Well, it’s not my fault that my room is not clean!”Exclaimed Eliza

“Then whose fault is it?” asked her mother impatiently

“It’s Lisa’s fault, she made the mess”

“Lisa? You mean your friend who came for a sleep over just a couple of days ago?”Inquired her mother

“Yeah, she helped me make the mess, so, she should help me clean it up” Eliza told her mother

“Well don’t you worry, I’ll make sure that Lisa never comes to our house again, then she can’t make a mess. But in the mean time you clean up for Lisa. I’m sure you won’t have any trouble keeping your room clean if Lisa’s not here” said her mother while she was walking out the door

“What have I done?” mumbled Eliza as she started to cry

Eliza spent the rest of the day in her room, mostly crying while she cleaned her room. After she had finished cleaning she started to think of a plan that would make mother change her mind about Lisa.

“Ok, I go upstairs and tell Mom that I’m done cleaning my room and it wasn’t Lisa’s fault that my room was unclean.” Eliza said to herself

And that was that, Eliza didn’t wait any longer she went straight upstairs and said:

“Mom I’m done cleaning my room, and it wasn’t Lisa’s fault that my room was unclean”

“That’s very good but will you clean your room by yourself every time it gets “unclean”?” asked her mother

“Yes, I promise” said Eliza

“Well in that case, Lisa can come and visit us again” announced her mother

From that day forth Eliza always cleaned her room when it was disorganized, and never again did she blame anything that was her fault on someone else.

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Before long Tom and Lizzie were a little bit afraid, that Dave had really meant what said about going to the mountains. In fact they became so afraid that Tom finally reacted.

“Alright Dave, this hike has been very nice but, don’t you think that we should start going back now?” asked Tom

“Yeah, what he said” added Lizzie

“You guys didn’t actually think we were going there?” replied Dave in a very serious voice.

“Well I thought you were just in the mood for something new and…”

“So, you didn’t believe any thing did you, the dream, the mission, and most of all you didn’t believe me!” Interrupted Dave

Lizzie was zipping her mouth while the two boys argued, she did want to go home but, for some reason she also wanted to see what is on the other side of the mountains. However for now the biggest thing that surprised her was how different the two boys were acting now. Usually the one of them did everything the other told him and that other never wanted anything more then to pull a prank.

“Fine if you want to leave, leave tomorrow morning, but for now let’s set up camp” said Dave

“But how, we have never set up camp before?”Asked Lizzie

“Well, let’s see…Ok I think I know, Tom you can get some wood for the fire and Lizzie you can help me build a shelter of some sort.”

“Ok” replied Tom trying to be optimistic.

As Tom rushed into the nearby woods Dave and Lizzie started working on their shelter.

“I have an idea” said Lizzie

Tom was surprised that Lizzie could possibly think of some shelter they could build with a bow and some arrows, picnic blanket, 5 hiking sticks, and some paper.

“Well what is it?”Inquired Dave curiously

“We take the four small hiking sticks and fix them in the ground, then we attach the blanket over them and…”

Lizzie stopped.

“Never mind, we don’t have anything to hold the blanket to the hiking sticks” she said sadly

“What about an arrow?” suggested Dave.

“That’s a good idea” exclaimed Lizzie after she thought about it for a second

“Ok…there, all the corners of the blanket are fixed to a stick.” said Dave proudly

“Now we put the big hiking stick in the middle and… were done” shouted Lizzie

After they got comfy in their new shelter they waited for Tom.

“If you don’t mind, I’m going to sleep” said Lizzie

“That’s ok” replied Dave

But in an hour Dave started to feel sleepy, Tom didn’t come back yet, and Dave assumed that Tom was still gathering wood and would wake him up when he got back. So he too went to sleep.

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