Mary Ann squinted at the fence. (Two Boys and a Girl 198)
It was a sunny and burning hot day with not a cloud in the sky. With the burning hot sun, there wasn’t any breeze either. Mary Ann squinted at the fence. She glanced to check to see if the guard was around. She decided to climb over the fence and check one last time to see if the guard was around. She only had to search for a few moments until she spotted her prize. When she started to quicken her pace to retrieve it, she accidentally tapped something that made a clinking metallic sound. With a split second to decide, she sprinted for the target in fear the guard hearing her when she kicked the metal object. Once in arm’s length of possessing the object she desired, the guard suddenly appeared ten feet away from tearing her limb from limb. In instinct, she bolted for the fence she first came from and grabbed the prize. Suddenly, she felt something grab her back and shove her down. She was on her back and screaming for help. While in this inescapable position, she though of how she dug herself into this hole. Mary Ann started digging her grave just one day ago.
It was the first day of summer and Mary Ann looked through the mail to see if there was anything for her. Her eye caught a glimpse of an ad that was for a reality show game and the winner would win $10,000. She entered and surprisingly got a letter of acceptance to the game and a list of objectives. The letter allowed her to get a group together to help her complete the objectives. So Mary convinced her best friends to help her and said that if she wins, she would split the money equally with all of them. There were only three objectives, which seemed pretty simple. The first objective was to go to the Suite hotel at an address that was close to Mary’s house and ask for a package that was named “Clue of Lies”. They gave her a package that told her where her next clue was. Mary and all of her friends were thinking, “This is what we have to do for $10,000?!” The next clue was to find the pay phone that was closest to the suite and there is a package waiting for them in the phonebook. They went and saw that around the building where the pay phone was, there were policemen and yellow security tape surrounding the skyscraper. They asked the cops what was happening and the all they said in response was, “You kids shouldn’t be here, there is something wrong with the sewers.” Mary asked if they could quickly use the pay phone and one of the cops quickly snapped at them and said for the to leave immediately. They ran away, but did not understand what was going on, so they came back later to see if the police left the pay phone yet. They were still there and the pay phone was so close from the security tape. So Mary’s friends decided to distract the policemen by arguing about some random subject while Mary went for the pay phone to see if she could find the package. When she went to it, the package was easily visible and was sticking out of the phone book. She snatched it and ran away while signaling towards her friends to stop talking to the policemen. One of the cops glanced over towards the pay phone and saw that Mary was carrying the package. He called out to all the other policemen and the suddenly bolted after Mary. She got frightened and started running for her life. Good thing for her that she was a natural sprinter and quickly lost the cops. When she caught up with her friends, they were all confused of what was going on, but the thought of the money overwhelmed their mind. They all opened the package together and it said to go to a specific address and there will be a red box with the money in it. Mary and her friends all became ecstatic and googled up the address on one of their Phone’s. When they arrived to the address, they all found out that it was the junkyard. This brought everybody’s hopes down because it will take forever for them to find a box in a junkyard. They all climbed over the fence and began looking for it and for hours, no one found anything. So when hope was almost lost, Mary’s eye caught a red, small box buried under several pieces of garbage. She quickly ran over to it, when she saw something else in the corner of her eye. There was one of the guard dogs that patrolled the junkyard and to make sure no trespassers stole anything. The dog growled and drool was slowly dripping off his mouth like molasses in January. It barked a few times to try to scary Mary away, but she did not move until the irate dog darted towards Mary. The red box was too far away from her for her to reach it, so she just ran for her life fearing that the dog would catch her. She yelled for help and all of her friends were nowhere to be found. She barely escaped and climbed over the fence before the dog caught up to her. Mary called up her friends with the walky-talky that they all had bought for this “adventure” and they were on the other side of the junkyard still searching. The next morning she decided to try it again and see if she could get her hands on the money. Her friends were all asleep still at ten o’clock in the morning, so she just went to the junkyard herself. That was a crucial mistake.
When the guard dog was on top of her, she was able to knock him off with the red box and get up for a few seconds. While she was running, she wanted to at least see the money and to hold it in her hands. When she opened the box, there was a note in it that said, “Jokes on you. This was a practical joke. Hope you had fun!” When she read this small piece of paper, her heart sank and gave up all hope. She slowed down for a split second and the dog caught up to her and devoured the remaining of her wishes and dreams.
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