Why We Play Stuffed Animals

“Why is it sooo hot outside?” whined Mary.

We were all complaining of the heat. It felt as hot as an oven because it was practically 100°F. The Glades is where all of my cousins and I go during the summer. We play all sorts of different and new games every summer. There have been many fun games over the years that we have distracted ourselves with like, Stay Away from People, Manhunt, Hide and Seek, Tag, and Angry Cop. This summer we were about to come up with some brand new games. All of my cousins and I were inside throwing stuffed animals at one another from the bunk beds in the basement because it was the only place in the house where it was cool. It was like a game of dodgeball but with stuffed animals instead of balls. The reason we played this game with stuffed animals was because there were three whole bins full of old stuffed animals. All the stuffed animals were kind of beat up and smelled like dust. We were playing this game happily but things were getting intense and very competitive because Henry and Grady were on opposing teams and they are each other's biggest rivals. Henry and Grady, my 2nd cousins, are brothers. Henry is a year older than Grady.

The rest of us thought that it didn't matter because any of us could have gone up there it was just that Benny had gotten there first. We could try to go up there but we would probably get hit by a stuffed animal. My grandma kicked us all out of the house because my cousin Grady's stuffed animal hit the lamp and broke it. The glass bulb shattered onto the floor as the old stuffed cow hit it. I think that this happened because we were all taking the game very seriously almost too seriously. Everyone was very ambitious and we all trying to prove something which was that we were the