Jackson was sitting on the edge of his bed. He opens his window, the breeze comes in and blows on his face. “Ahhhhh” Jackson sighs as he relaxes on his bed. Every morning Jackson does this to cool himself down from the heat in their room. Jackson hears his parents talking in the living room. Like a spy, he peeks in the living room and he sees his parents holding a piece of paper and a pen. Jackson asked what was the list for. His parents said that it was a Christmas gift list because they were planning on going Christmas shopping that morning. They were buying gifts for their relatives. Jackson’s parents told Jackson to take care of his brother Jase and watch the soup that was cooking on the stove. It was Jackson’s first time being alone with his brother. He feels scared because he is only thinking of the bad things that will happen like fires and kidnappers. Not the good things like getting to play videogames all day.
Jackson enters Jase’s room and decides to jump on him to wake him up. Jase wakes up. They both left the bedroom to eat breakfast. While eating, the two boys came up with a plan to fill up the day. Jase said he would squeeze lemons to make invisible ink. He painted the ink on a piece of paper with a paint brush and dried it on the kitchen window security bars. Since it was windy, the paper fell off the bars. It landed beside the stove the soup was cooking on. The wind became stronger and stronger. Part of the paper caught on fire and soon the whole piece of paper was burning. Since the burning paper was touching a wooden drawer, the drawer caught on fire. The two boys didn’t realize there was fire until Jase smelt something burning. “A FIRE!” screamed Jase. Jackson smelt something burning and then saw the fire in the kitchen.
They dashed across the living room to get to the nearest exit. It was the backdoor, the area around it was all dusty because nobody cleans it and it was rarely used. It was like an emergency door on a bus or a plane. Jackson pushed the heavy door and they exited their house.
The fire slowly became bigger and bigger. They knock next door, Miss Donald’s house. The two kids said that part of their kitchen caught on fire. Miss Donald didn’t believe it at first, but when she peeked out the window she saw a little fire coming out of the kitchen.
Their parents arrived from their Christmas shopping. Jackson peeked out a window from Miss Donald’s house. He sees that his parents arrived from Christmas shopping. Their parents ask them “Why were you guys at Miss Donald’s house?” Jackson shared the short story and added that the fire extinguisher was too heavy to carry and to hold while putting put out the fire. Dad went inside the house holding a fire extinguisher and put out the fire. While Dad put out the fire, Mom called Dad’s good friend Pablo to repair the kitchen. Jackson said, “What a day!”
