by Rosana Modugno

Created on: March 09, 2010

Twelve year old Shelly and her seven year old brother Alex lived alone with their mother after the divorce.  Alex loved to play games and tricks on Shelly and Shelly loved to get him back.  This happened so much that their mother finally gave up punishing them, figuring they will eventually fix themselves up one day for sure.  She didn't have the time with all the work she was doing while going to school at night for Cosmetology.

One Saturday morning right after their mom left for work, Alex decided to play another prank on Shelly by putting plastic seran wrap on the toilet seat, so that when she sat down, she would go to the bathroom on the plastic, making a big mess.  He giggled as he put the plastic paper down and giggled more as he jumped back into bed, happy that Shelly was still asleep.

When Shelly woke up and went to the bathroom, Alex stood by his door, anxioiusly waiting for her to scream.  But she didn't.  In fact, she was pretty quiet for someone who just sat on plastic and made a mess all over the floor.  He carefully walked out of his room and stood by her door but heard nothing.  He walked into her room and noticed the bathroom door was open.  He called out her name, "Shelly?"  But not a sound.  As he got closer to the bathroom, he noticed that the plastic he put on the toilet was gone.  As he stood there, Shelly came screaming out of the bathtub and Alex cried like a schoolgirl.  "HAHA!  That's what you get for trying to trick me, Alex!".

Alex ran to his bed and grabbed his favorite toy, Godzi and cried into it, all the time saying over and over, "I wish she would go away!".

After a few minutes Alex started getting hungry, so he went to Shelly's room and asked her she could make breakfast.  But she wasn't there.  Thinking she went downstairs, he ran down screaming, "Shelly!  Can you make me breakfast?"  But she wasn't in the kitchen or downstairs at all.  He ran back up and looked all over for her in the room and couldn't find her anywhere.  He looked all over the house and even outside but there was no sign of her.  He started crying and calling out her name, "Shelly!  This isn't funny!  I'm gonna tell mom!  Ok, I'm gonna call her!  On the count of 3!  1...2...and....3!" 

He called his mom and told her what happened but mom was too busy and couldn't really understand what he was saying.  She

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