Author: Dhruv Choudhary, Class VI G
Hello! I am James. This great challenge which I am talking about was given to me a week ago. It was a very difficult job. The great challenge was that I had to babysit my little brother as my parents were going to a wedding. They left in the evening and were going to return in the night. As soon as they left, my brother and I were the only ones at home. My brother, Andrew is very mischievous and loves pulling pranks on me.
After some time, I went back to my room where Andrew was waiting for me. As soon as I opened the door, he suddenly shooting at me with his toy gun. He did not stop till he ran out of bullets. By the time he finished, he had hit every single part of my body. At that moment, I felt like I would just go and punch him in the face but then I thought that after all he is my little brother so I calmed down and started thinking of ways to keep him occupied till he became sleepy and went to bed. At first I felt clueless but then certain ideas popped into my head.
I knew Andrew loved to play with guns, so I decided to have a gun fight with him. At the start of the fight both of us kept hiding but then eventually we found each other and started shooting at each other. My shots were much more accurate than Andrew’s but he was playing much more strategically. I won that fight. Then we decided to fight a few more rounds. I let him win some of the fights to keep him interested. After the fights we got tired, so I thought that we could watch television but then Andrew came and told me that he wanted to play the new board game that I had bought the day before. I was quite surprised to see that Andrew was interested in board games. So, we started playing the board game and enjoyed it a lot.
When we finished the board game, it was nine in the night, which was only half an hour before Andrew’s bed time. Therefore, I went to him and asked him what he wanted to do for the next half hour. He said that he just wanted to go to bed. So both of us went to bed. The next day our parents asked us what we had done that night. We told them the whole story. After hearing the story, they told us that they were proud of us and thus they were going to leave us with our grandma for two days as they had to go to attend a conference. I was shocked and started thinking what I would do to keep Andrew occupied for such a long time. Just then I saw him grinning at me and so I understood those two days were going to be the most horrifying days of my life!
