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A Medieval Quest
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CHAPTER 1
End of Summer
“I’m not ready to go back to school,” Sierra whined, pouring her Cornpops into a bowl. “Second grade is going to be really hard.” Jacob put his Poptarts in the toaster and looked at his sister. “Don’t worry, second grade is easy.”
Sierra poured some milk into her cereal and frowned, “Sure, it was easy for you, you’re a brainiac. I bet you’ll whiz through fourth grade too.”
“Let’s think about something fun instead,” Jacob said as his Poptarts shot up from the toaster.
Sierra perked up a little, “Like what?”
Jacob sat down and thought for a minute. “Why don’t we think of something really exciting to do, like an end of summer adventure?”
Sierra paused with a spoonful of cereal half way to her mouth. “We could go to the beach,” she suggested.
“No, we already did that remember. Mom got really sun burnt,” replied Jacob.
“Oh yeah, how about the zoo?” she asked, milk dripping from her spoon.
“I don’t think so, the last time we went there you got in trouble for feeding the monkeys popcorn,” he said, Poptart crumbs falling from his mouth.
Sierra shook her spoon at Jacob, spilling Cornpops all over the table. “Well, they liked it!”
Jacob jumped up. “I have an idea. We should go to Grandma Addy’s house!” he said, running from the table.
“Wait!” Sierra shouted, “Don’t you think we should finish our breakfast first?”
“Oh, right,” Jacob said sheepishly.
The kids ate quickly, and then went in search of their mom. She was in the living room, typing away on her laptop.
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