Children At Play

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Me and William duck in and out of the clothes racks at Wal-Mart, giggling. Hide and seek was always my favorite game, hide and seek from killer clowns was the only way my stupid annoying older brother, by a whole two minutes, William would play, I guess when you turn twelve you become to cool for normal games, I didn't know. I heard the rattling and shaking of the rack beside us as William pressed his index finger to his lips. Is watched in awe as he pulled a long sliver blade from his belt loop, golden studs covered the handle that read 'William the clown Slayer' just as a nasty, blood dripping purple clown jumped through our fort, William plunged the blade straight into his heart and he thuded to the ground with a cry.

"Way to go Slayer William!" I clapped my hands and kicked the dead clown. "We won!"

"Willow! William! Where are you mothers ready to go." My mom yelled from the women's dress section we were hiding in. We slowly tumbled out of the clothing rack, victors.

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Me and William ran outside after dinner egar to play our other favorite game. Him holding his trusty blade me holding my deadly purple daggers. The zombies storming our fathers greenhouse, which was actually Williams and Is secret laboratory stood no chance. I watched as the creatures who were black as coal obvisouly burnt to death, tore down the panels one by one, I turned to William .

"What do we do?" My breathing came out heavy and I recounted my daggers. Twenty. I recounted the coal creatures, only eight easy.

"Okay Willow I'll get the three on the side and you handle the other five with your daggers!" I nodded and grinned, not a problem. I threw one dagger at the creature nearest to the side William would take, it was a bullseye straight to his temple. The next four were just as easy, blood and black goo splattered the whole building and our yard but the secret formula we were working on and our pet dog were safe for another day! We hooted and hollered.

"We did it! We won!" We highfived and ran into our lab.

William checked our work as I played with our dog, copper. He was the most loyal dog, and took down a couple coal creatures all on his own a few times while William and I were busy at school. He was awesome and protected our work with his life.

We were making a formula to allow dogs to talk. It was going to be the best find of the century! If we could figure it out. William said we needed troll toenails. I said we needed a witches tongue, were still debating on which.

"Hey kids! Come inside dad's home, we have to talk to you" my mom's honey voice floated from the back porch. When she used that voice she was either happy or had bad news, like last year when she told us grandpa died, she used her honey voice.

We ran into the house, mom and dad sat at the dinning room table we never used, smiling at us.

"Come sit with us guys."

"What's this about mom?" I sat down and William quickly followed. "Did someone else die?"

She shook her head and laughed.

"Oh sweetie no!! This is the best news ever I think" she was almost jumping up and down in her chair her red curls bouncing  as she stared at my father. "Tell them dear!"

My father's warm grey eyes shifted from her to us, smiling.

"Well, my boss gave me a great opportunity and after talking to your Mom and doing alot of research, we've decided to take him up on it." He paused as she clapped. "I'm going to be a C.E.O of the company, so we're moving out to Iowa where I'll be working." My dad worked for Pears smartphones, so I know becoming C.E.O was a big deal, but I was not excited about moving.

"What? To Iowa? But...there's no beaches in Iowa!!!!" We lived in Santa Monica California, Iowa was not exciting.

"Willow honey, Daddy will be making more and finally be able to spend more time at home, and Iowa is beautiful." My mom wad still using her honey voice. I still didn'twant to move, but i loved my parents so i nodded anyways.