By Parker Quinn

It was January 13, 2001 and my cousins Max and Jeffery were coming from San Francisco. Max is ten and Jeffery is nine. Straight from my house, we went to my grandma’s house.

It took us a long time to get there so we stopped at McDonalds to have a bite. When we were done eating we brought straws and napkins for spitballs.

While we were driving Jeffery called me. He was sitting behind me so I turned around and I said, "What?" So my mouth was open, and since my mouth was open he spit a spitball in my mouth.

I accidentally swallowed it. It felt so YUCK! Max and Jeffery laughed so hard they thought their heads were going to fall off.

We were thinking about attacking my other cousin, Evan, who is about sixteen years old. My grandma and grandpa have a really long driveway and so many orange trees that there must be one hundred of them. After we gave everybody hugs we went outside and made some plans to attack Evan. We decided to throw oranges at him.

We made plans A, B, and C. Plan A was that Jeffery would go over to Evan and ask him to help attack me and Max. But he really would help us. Then I would come out and throw an orange at Evan, so he would come chasing me. I would lead him to Max who was hiding in a tree. Then Max would throw oranges at him.

Plan B was that Max and I would hide in a tree and we would throw oranges at Evan. Plan C was to do whatever you can do to stop him from winning.

The next morning, at nine o’clock we went outside to practice for Evan. We practiced for hours, and hours, and hours ‘til three PM.

Evan was going to come at 5:00 PM. At 4:45 we went outside to wait for him.

When he got there we did Plan A. Jeffry told him he wanted to be on his team, and then I threw an orange at him. I hit him in the back and he chased me. I got to where Max was. Max threw an orange, but missed and almost hit Evan’s car.

Evan kept chasing us, so we kept throwing oranges at him. Evan got the hose and squirted us. We all got wet.

The war went on for about one and a half-hours. We went inside so he could not squirt us, and he came in and we made a truce.

Then we all played Playstation together.