Boys Against Girls War “Marcus! Judson! Where are you guys?!?!”
We were playing our traditional boys against girls war with my cousins. This is something I look forward to every year because we get to be outside and build forts. However I have learned that thinking two steps ahead of everything you do really does help.
Marcus, the oldest boy cousin, is twelve years old and very smart. Dolan is nine and is very creative. Judson the youngest person on the boy army is very fast, and also a huge football fan (Go Packers!). All the boys except me were from the same family.
On the girls team there was Taleah, who is fourteen and very tall. She is Marcus’s, Dolan’s, Judson’s and Kellen’s only sister. Kellen is four and a boy, but likes being on the girls army better.
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We jumped up and ran after them, desperate to catch up. I felt like a cheetah sprinting through the savannah with the wind howling in my ears to go faster. I listened to it and went the fastest I could. Dolan gradually fell behind me but I didn’t slow down. I didn’t even yell back words of encouragement, I actually yelled back for him to run faster. After a while I had to stop and wait for him.
We had run to one of our bases for a break--it was a little circular fence which we called the wrestling ring, we would wrestle in it (hence the name). It had a gate to it but it took awhile to open, especially if your hands were freezing. There was also a hole in the side that was just big enough for one person to go through at a time, and the girls were just too big. Also, there were spikes pointing out from the hole so no human over the age of six could come in from the outside.
After the break, we set off again looking for the girls, but we suddenly stopped realizing that we didn’t know where Marcus and Judson were.
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