My Fort
I will never forget what happened
that one summer day…
Eeeehhhh! My garage door opened, I rolled out
my bike, and drove down the street. After I went down two streets away, my bike
chain slipped from the gear. I had to repair it, so I walked into the woods and
stopped. I looked down a path and I saw a swing and a little fort made out of
logs. The swing was blue and was made out of bungee cords and rope. I dashed to
try out the swing. It worked and swung over a massive pit! The pit was in an 8
by 4 format with dirt covering the bottom.
After swinging, I looked at the fort.
It was broken down and needed to be fixed. I built the fort until it was
gigantic. It was getting dark, so I decided to go home. When I got home, I
quickly went to find my mom to tell her about my discovery. “Guess what, Mom!?
I found a swing and fort in the woods!”
The next day, I did the same thing. I
worked on the fort nearly every day for about four months! Unfortunately, one
day Hurricane Sandy tore through the woods. I got up the next morning and biked
as fast as I could to see what happened. I got there and was staring at a
broken swing and a weak building. My heart sank. I tried to rebuild it, but it
didn’t work. The tree broke and the ground was too wet to build on. All the
work I put into the fort was gone.
After this disastrous discovery, I
was upset, so I went on a bike ride with my friend who had seen my fort and who
had even helped build it. I told him the news: “The fort was destroyed in the
hurricane.”
“Aww, I’m sorry.” We biked back over
to where the fort was so he could see for himself.
Once we got there, we looked at each
other and said, “We can do better!” We saw a great spot to rebuild, and let’s
just say we spent a lot of time there. We kept building until it was done;
luckily, we finished at the beginning of winter. Once it was done, we just sat
there and stared at it proudly. I couldn’t believe it! We had accomplished our
goal. Our rebuilt fort was even better than the one that Sandy destroyed. The
moon reflected off the brightly lit snow like a light bulb shining onto a piece
of tinfoil. We said, “It looks amazing,” as we biked home. I thought to myself,
“What if someone knew about our secret place!”…
