CUT THAT OUT!I,Jake Melbourne was trying to stop the fight my two annoying brothers were having.Let me tell you about my brothers. My younger brother is Luke and elder brother is Amerigo.I also have a other sister Elizabeth and another brother, Emanuel.They are not in the story however.Luke is 9 and a total pain in the neck,and Amerigo is 11 and is the biggest,emphasis on biggest pain in the neck. Sorry, that still won’t give you a description of him.What I mean is he is the type of brother that could drive you crazy.Who cares if he somehow got a 105 on a test with no extra credit questions? I do care if he eats the salads I made for Dad on Father’s day when we went on the picnic,which took me to cut 1 cucumber,5 carrots,10 strawberries,1 watermelon,2 apples, and 3 oranges.And I paid for the fruits and vegetables out of my allowance. I put it in containers and he took it out and ate some of it, but never put it back.My pet hamster,Astro somehow managed to get out of his cage and started eating through it,and since my window was open lot of fruit flies came in.I was as angry as a bull when it sees a matador waving his red cape.(Yes,I know bulls actually get mad when they see the motion the matador moves the cape in,but you get the idea.)My mom grounded my brother that day,which was the only good thing that day except the picnic.
Okay,back to why my brothers were fighting.My brother Luke believed in superstitions a lot.Ask him 10 times 639 divided by 10 turned into decimal form,give him 1 year he still won’t figure it out.But ask him why is 13 unlucky,and how many people believe in superstitions and how many superstitions are about animals,he’ll answer in 10 seconds.My brother Amerigo is always trying to get him out of believing in superstitions,so he wanted to prove that superstitions does not affect things in real life.He had brought a new umbrella and was opening it indoors and Luke was stopping him as there was even a superstition that opening an umbrella indoors was bad luck. So,they started fighting and I tried to stop them.The umbrella opened knocking down a glass of water onto it,when Amerigo was trying to get Luke who was trying to climb on him.Amerigo yelled,’’Stop!”.Then he looked at the umbrella where there was a sticky note saying 25283 and the rest was smudged.He said to us that at the shop nearby where all there products were made by themselves,they had an offer that if that number was on the sticky note you would get 100 dollars!
We went to the shop where the shopkeeper was confused about the smudges and if he had done it or it happened accidently.He gave us a 100 dollar bill and said he would check the cameras in the shop to see,and told us not to spend it.We started walking home when I remembered my friend Joe was having her birthday party.I was going to be late!I was close to my house so I quickly went inside and got out my skate board and started riding it.i was going through the park as it was a shortcut.I made a turn and there I saw a rock.Before I stopped my skateboard I hit the rock and fell down into a spot covered with roses.I was lucky a thorn had not pricked me.I checked my clothes to see if they had been ripped.They were not.I walked the rest of the way.I had a fun time at the party,then I got a call from the shopkeeper.He said that the sticky note had been smudged later,when it had already been sold.I realized when the water had spilled on the umbrella it had made the rest of number written in pen run.I reached for my pocket when I found out it had been ripped.I had not noticed that earlier when I fell my pocket had been ripped.My brothers were mad at me when we got out of the shop.The shopkeeper had given us one week's time to to give the money.We decided not to tell mom and dad or they would ground us.I made posters about us which read:
The Melbourne Brothers
We will do whatever you want for a fee over just 💲10 or $10.
📱Call Amerigo at : 135 - 3454📱
Day 1
We had just moved from Texas so we did not know that there were other kids trying to earn money, too.Turns out that we are not the only ones who started to do peoples chores for money.A kid down the street called Marcus and his friends Arthur and Jim also started it.So,now we need to compete with him.We went to houses but nobody wanted us to do their chores.Then we came to one house where the woman wanted us to watch over her dog for 1 hour.We agreed and she hired us.Once she left, the dog climbed up the drawer.It was very tall.the dog climbed on it.The dog could get hurt if it fell.I climbed up on it.At the same moment it jumped down.The drawer then fell down.Luckily I was not hurt a lot.I chased the dog with my brothers trying to catch up with me.It climbed up the fridge.I saw a table there and used it to climb up.Their roof was so high I could stand up.the dog jumped down.but while climbing up I had not noticed how high it was.I was nervous about jumping.I remembered the dog .If it could do it why could I not.I jumped down and ran after that dog.we ran after and finally we caught it.The house was a mess though.We quickly cleaned up the house.By the time the woman came,my body was aching and I was regretting that I did this for just 10 dollars.We went and got some ice bags because all our bodies were aching.At the end we had 1 dollar.I was as sad as a chipmunk if it found out the spot it had buried it’s nuts there was now a building there.
Day 2
We decided to start a lemonade stand instead.We bought supplies and made a stand on a big wagon.We traveled around the town and earned 60 dollars,and we were going home.We stopped for a minute and a stray dog came,and jumped into our wagon making our wagon go down as it was a hill.We were near a beach and the hill continued downwards till it reached the beach !We ran after the wagon and at one point the dog got off but then our wagon went into the water.All our money had been in it.A wave came and the wagon and the other stuff came on the beach but the money was not there and had probably disinteraged.Now the money earned was - $14.(Remember we still had a dollar from looking after that dog).We had borrowed money from Jim to get our supplies.We did not get allowance,so we needed to borrow money.Amerigo said,”Now we're going in the negatives.We owe money,not have money.”
Day 3
We decide to have a yard sale.What could go wrong?We had a Lightning Mcqueen car,a Rubik’s cube,a cool robots eraser set,and a batman compass.We got $15 because Luke decided not to sell his robots eraser pack.We paid back Jim and got left with $1.We could not do anything else because it was already 8:00.
Day 4
We made an obstacle course in our backyard which was huge,and put a sign which said if you went through it faster than me than we would pay you $10,and if you could not get through you would pay us $1.I was pretty good,and we got 13 dollars.We increased the price to get more people. Now to get in you would need to pay us $2 and if you you would get 20 dollars.We had a huge line.I had gotten 20 dollars when going through the obstacle course I sprained my leg.It hurt so badly.The person did not get the money as I got hurt and Luke went.The obstacle course which was,to first crawl in through the tunnels (there were 2),then climb up the tree into the tree house there (the last people living there had put it) then down and a lap around the yard and jumping over the hurdles.Luke got stuck in the tunnel,and during the lap knocked down 5 hurdles down.We had to shut down our obstacle course challenge.Amerigo said,”You knocked won 5 of the hurdles!.””So.”There were only 3 hurdles placed.”Wait then how can I did I knock 5 out?”“After knocking down a hurdle you put it up and you ran 2 laps instead of 1!””Guys settle down.”,I told them.At least we had $13.
Day 5
We went around town getting items for a puppet show.We would put a puppet show at the library.They paid people for putting on a puppet show for small kids.We found a lot of stuff and made puppets as the puppets on sale were too expensive.We went to the library carrying our puppets when a stray dog came and started barking at us.We ran as our luck with dogs was as good as a mouse and a cat.But,the dog caught up and gnawed on the bag making a hole in it.So we needed to carry everything and we would keep dropping things and so we reached a hour late and since we were late we did not get paid.
Day 6
We did not know what to do.We were as depressed as man when he gets fired from his job.We were all walking when a hundred dollar bill came flying.We chased after it as fast as our legs could run soon we got it.I was so happy.I was on cloud 9;I was happy as a pig in mud.We gave the money to the shopkeeper.I was finally relaxed after such a long time.It wasn’t such a long time but it felt that way.We told about our mom and dad about what happened and they were happy we faced the problem on our own.So, for now Bye Bye.