Why Me

''Joshua Aliston come up here right now''!shouted my Mum. I sighed cutting the last of the tulips in our garden before trudging slowly up the garden path . ''This place isn't so bad i guess '' i thought to myself brushing my brown hair out of my blue eyes. We had moved into an amazingly creepy place on top of a completely deserted hill .The house was victorian style and black with big windows on all the sides.Our garden was definitely bottom grade compared to our old garden, with only a few tulips Mum had planted peeking out of the brownish black soil .It was always in darkness in the morning because the house planted such a big shadow it covered the whole garden .By this time I at the front door and I suddenly felt I was being watched .''Josh where are you''?! thundered my Mum.''Oops gotta run ''I thought forgetting the feeling and running in so fast I didn't see the bush rustling or the tiny hand sneaking out from the leaves...

I trudged up the stairs and looked up at Mum in her typical Mum pose.Arms crossed , leaning slightly to one side and foot tapping tap , tap ,tap.''Explain''!! she yelled pointing an accusing finger at her { empty } chocolate box .I sighed, why did I always get blamed?''Mum iv told you loads I have not been stealing this stuff''! I said already feeling myself getting frustrated .''Go to your room'' said my Mum icily ''NOW''!!.I was getting so frustrated with this stealing business I thought I might explode!!I looked up at my almost empty bedroom , it only had my wardrobe my bed and the wallpaper was terrible!It had lots of pictures of doves in mid wig beat . Thats funny ,I thought ,this morning there was a bird every other inch or so but now there was a gap!'And if I remember correctly that window was shut' I thought geting more and more confused . but now it was open and letting all the air in .I walked quickly out my room , well I tried to before I tripped and fell flat on my face on the floor!How in the world had my shoelaces been tied together while id been standing upright for only about 10 seconds!!!

I walked slowly out of the woods near our house thinking hard.If I could just trap one of the birds or whatever had tied my shoelaces together I could show it to Mum and thenI wouldn't keep getting blamed.But the question was how ? Iran quickly up the path and scampered into the kitchen. It was almost time for dinner and as the rugby would be on we would eat in the lounge. That meant that the kitchen would be free. I quickly sprinkled some flour on the floor then put a bowl of milk in the middle of it. Then I walked out of the room and sat down. now all I had to do was wait.

The following morning I woke early to a sound of mum hurrying around down stairs getting ready for work. "Josh time to get up" shouted mum from downstairs. I pulled my duvet off me expecting myself to be in my PJ's but I found myself in my clothes from yesterday. I must have gone to sleep in my clothes I muttered to myself pulling on my shoes and walking down stairs. I trudged into the breakfast room wearily thinking if my plan had worked. The plan! I had forgotten all about my plan with the flour! I rushed into the kitchen and screeched to a halt. There, sitting in front of me was the fattest, ugliest and most content looking pixie I had ever seen.

The pixie was obviously not going to tell me where he lived or why he stole all those things. After I had trapped Gobby (that's what he said his name was ) I had rushed up to my bedroom yelling to mum I had a tummy bug. Gobby had then told me (after much threating of squashing him in my fist) that he rode the birds on my wallpaper all over the house and picked up things on the way to take his city under the floor boards. Here he clamped his hand over his mouth. "Tell me why you are doing this!" I said trying to keep my temper. "Galbator!" "That's why I'm doing this!" shouted the pixie angrily jumping up and down with rage. "I don't like doing this. I didn't do this because I wanted to! I want to go back to my family." Now a sudden change had come over the little pixie. His bottom lip started to tremble and he started to bawl his head off! I didn't know what to do! What do you do with a crying pixie who just nicked your mum's priced chocolates.

"Aaagh" I sighed contentedly, lay back on the sofa, kicking off my shoes and getting ready to have a doze Everyone was happy now. I had shut down my heater (which I had found out powered Gobby's city) so now Galbator and all his soldiers could not steal stuff from my house! Also Gobby and his wife, Amelia and his two children, were now living in a dolls house that I had unearthed from under my bed! As for food I gave them tidy pieces of cake and chicken and left them along side a dish of water outside the door. I started to doze off when I heard a voice saying "Excuse me young man, but I need directions to the house of Gobby". My eyes flew open in an instant and then swiveled to see who had said this. There standing on the side table was a small figure standing with a woman next to him and 2, not 3, not ever 4 but 5 children standing behind him standing with suitcases! "Aaaaaaaagggggghhhhhhhhhh" Not more Pixies!!!

By Molly Langelaan