Exploring
Chapter 1
Alex woke up in her bed, then remembered it was the summer holidays! Her phone rings from beside the bed. “What?” asked Alex groggily.“It’s me, Makayla! Can I come over?”
“But I just woke up!” complained Alex. The doorbell rang. “Hang on, someone’s at the door!” Alex ended the call, ran to the front door and opened the door. Makayla was there. She had a huge smile on her face. She flicked her wavy golden hair away from her face. “I was thinking we could go exploring!” Makayla brandished her bag.
“Well, okay.”
“Can I help you pack?” asked Makayla excitedly.
“Well, okay.” Alex said again. Into the bag went four sandwiches. Two tuna, one ham and cheese and one fishpaste. They took a few packets of crisps, then they went to the fridge. Three apples, a cucumber sandwich, carrot sticks, then they packed their phones. Three water bottles went in, straws in case they would have to share the last one. An extra jacket for both of them, pest repellent and tools for building a shelter. Alex got changed into more outdoorsy clothes. They walked out the back door.
They walked for a while along the path, then they sat down for a snack. Alex and Makayla shared a baggie of carrot sticks. They kept on walking. After a very long while, Makayla noticed it was getting dark. Alex checked her phone, and the weather forecast said it was going to rain!
Makayla pitched the tent, and Alex collected biggish logs to make a shelter over the canvas tent. After Makayla got the tent up, she went to help Alex with the log roof. “Hey, What about we collect pieces of bark and small sticks to cover up the gaps?” asked Makayla.
“Okay,” Alex agreed as she pounded in a nail. After a while, they went back in the tent. Some time later, it DID start raining! The rain filtered through the cracks and gaps in the logs and sticks, and soaked the tent.
Chapter 2
All night long, Alex and Makayla stayed in their steadily wet tent, then when the rain stopped in the early hours of the morning, they rolled up their soaking wet tent and Alex shoved it into a plastic bag. 
“Oh… Oopsy.” giggled Makayla. After a while, she added, “I was thinking we could fill it up in nearby creeks.”
“You know, Makayla, that isn’t a bad idea!” Alex said thoughtfully. As they walked, they brainstormed ideas for how they could build the next night’s shelter. Alex and Makayla discussed for a LONG time, until they decided they would build a treehouse. Alex realised it was going to take ages to build, so they started building even though it wasn’t dark.
Makayla hammered some small planks into the tree as a ladder, then went to help Alex with the platform. By the time night fell, they had built a small treehouse. It was basically just a platform under the leaves. “Hey,” came a voice from behind them. Alex and Makayla almost fell off the platform in shock. There was a boy behind them. “I’m Max.” When he caught their puzzled looks, he added, “Yes I do have blue hair. Sorry I startled you. Thanks for not kicking me out.” he noticed. Alex yawned. “I’ll just go to sleep now.”
“Same.” Makayla added sleepily.
Once Max was sure they were both asleep, he took one of their packets of crisps. In the morning, Makayla went to grab a packet of crisps, but realised… “There are only three packets of crisps! There used to be four!”
“That’s strange. Maybe it fell out.” Alex observed as she crunched on an apple. She packed her bag and kept walking with Makayla. “Oh, bye!” she called to Max, who had been standing in the corner.
Chapter 3
They walked, then came up to a desolate house. Alex wanted to shelter inside it. Makayla didn’t. “There might be spiders,” she whimpered. “Makayla!” Alex scolded. “There might be spiders, yes, but WHY ARE YOU SCARED?” They went inside. Flick, flick. “The light switch doesn’t work!”
“Yes Makayla what’d you expect?” They rolled out their sleeping bags and went to sleep. At about 1 o’clock in the morning, the creaking of floorboards woke Makayla up. “Alex, what’s that noise?” whispered Makayla frantically.
“Just the pipes probably.” They went back to sleep.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz………..
Alex and Makayla woke up at about 7:30 am. Alex yawned. She went to grab a sandwich, but all she could find was an apple and the squished fishpaste sandwich. “Our food’s gone! She shrieked. Makayla looked in the bag. “Now what are we supposed to eat!?” she wailed. “And the hammer’s gone…”muttered Alex, then Makayla had an idea. “What about you eat the fishpaste sandwich and I eat the apple?”
“No,” Alex giggled, “What about YOU eat the fishpaste sandwich and I eat the apple?”
“You eat it!”
“No, you!”
Creeeeeakk. The floorboards creaked. “Max? What are YOU doing here?“ cried Alex. A packet of crisps fluttered to the ground. “You’ve been taking our food!” At those words, he scurried off. Up the stairs, knocking over a vase, down the stairs, an apple ricocheting off the door, around the room, upsetting a candleholder. Alex collected the food dropped.
When they got close, Max dropped ALL the food and swung up onto the dusty chandelier. A cloud of dust rained down on them. “Cough-cough-koff-cough-koff-koff-” came a storm of coughing from Alex and Makayla. Max used this temporary distraction to scamper off again. BAM! He ran so fast he wasn’t looking where he was going, and banged into a dusty old bookshelf! Max realised he dropped the food, tried to run for it, made a wild grab for the food but Makayla held him there. “NOPE.”
Chapter 4
“Why did you take our food?” Alex cut in.“Um, ah, er, um, emm, eep, er, I don’t know…” Max stuttered then broke off into a mumble. He stood there for a while, hanging his head. “But I could help you find your way home,” he added brightly a while later. “We don’t need a little-” Makayla started to snap. “Sorry, but I don’t think we need any help.” Alex interrupted. “Okay.” Max mumbled sadly.
Once Max was out of earshot, Makayla gasped, “That complete @&$% !” “And I was thinking we go home…” Makayla added a while later. “Good idea.” agreed Alex. They packed up their stuff and walked out. “Um, you don’t know which way is home, do you… “Well, according to my calculations…umm… I don’t know!” realised Alex.
“Where’s that little $&^£ when you need him?!” groaned Makayla.
Chapter 5
“Makayla, DON’T SWEAR.” sighed Alex. They walked and walked and WALKED until they found a small cave. They rolled out their sleeping bags, then they realised they were completely and utterly LOST. “We’ll worry about it later. Next morning.” yawned Alex, then they crawled back into their sleeping bags. “Sausages.” Makayla muttered in her sleep. “Sausages and sausages.” Alex rolled over in her sleep. “I still haven’t found diamonds…” she muttered. “Why did they remove roses…” “Sausages and sausages AND sausages!” Alex jerked awake. “What is it? I was dreaming about playing Minecraft! You ruined it!” Alex snapped. “Where did the sausages go…” Makayla murmured very sleepily. “Never mind the sausages, we need to get HOME!” shrieked Alex. “Five more minutes then I’ll go…” yawned Makayla. “NO!” yelled Alex extremely loudly. “We’ve gotta get going!” They packed their bags sleepily then walked into the trees.
Alex and Makayla strolled through the trees, occasionally calling, “Max? Where are you?” Once or twice Alex thought she could hear footsteps over the leaves. The footsteps got louder. “Max? Are you there?” Makayla thought she could hear a little squeaky voice saying, “Y-yes..” “Can you help us find our way home?” Alex called. “Okay…” Max emerged from the trees. “Well, the edge of the forest is north, and the desolate house is west, so we need to go east…” He pulled out his compass. Alex and Makayla followed him to a path, then Max said, “Follow the path left until you get home. Bye!” “Bye!” called Makayla. Their house WAS on the end of the path! When Alex and Makayla arrived at Alex’s house, Alex’s mum flung open the door. “You guys were gone for ages and ages!” “Never mind that, at least we’re home.” Alex replied.
The End
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