A Window between Worlds
JD Bonsal
"Ouch!" cried Marie as she was walloped hard in the face with a snowball. She could hear snickering from behind a bank nearby. "Sean, Michael, you had better stop, or I'm telling!"
The boys relinquished their cover from behind the snow bank and began making faces and shouting insults.
"You're such a baby!"
"You're never any fun!"
Marie was visiting her Uncle Scott's cottage in northern Vermont. Sean was her cousin and Michael was his best friend. Every winter when Marie came to visit, they would torment her to the point of insanity. They loved to play pranks on her, just the winter before they had put Sean's pet frog in her bed sheets and lathered her hair in honey as she slept.
The two boys picked up more mounds of snow and began preparing them to be projectiles. Instinctively Marie did the same, but she wasn't fast enough and received
another two blows to the head and stomach.
"Hey! Stop it!" she screamed. "That hurts!"
After......
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