Short Stories of Me

My Brother Decides To Go Bungee Jumping... Out Of A Tree

When my family and I were living in Alaska, my brother, Gabe, decided he wanted to use one of my dad's bungee straps to bungee jump out of a tree. It was a nice, warm summer day. My parents had gone to the store and I was left to babysit my brothers. A little while after my parents left, my brothers asked if they could go play at the park. I said they could. So a couple hours go by and I'm walk through our kitchen, and out of an open window I hear, "Help. Somebody help me." in the most monotone, bland voice I've ever heard. So I go outside to see what was going on. I round the corner and see my brother, Gabriel, hanging out of a tree by his belt loop. After seeing this, you'd better believe that I was laughing. Hard. I finally get over to him and I ask, "What happened to you?" And he replied, "Well, I wanted to try bungee jumping so I saw one of dad's bungee cords and grabbed it. Then I climbed this tree and attached it to my belt loop. And now I'm stuck." He had thought that after he jumped, the cord would bring him back up. But, as you might have guessed, that was not the case. As I'm trying to get him down he says, "You know what the worst part was? Seeing people's faces as the drove by." In response, I laugh even harder. As I tried to unhook the bungee cord from his belt loop, it rips and he falls flat on his face. And, still laying with his face in the dirt, he said, "I'm not even surprised." He then gets up and waddles into the house because he had had a wedgy for over an hour.