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Bex was calling out again.
“It’s not fair, you two can see up there.”
    “For god’s sake give ‘em to her and shut her up.” I
whispered to Sarah because someone was going to hear us if Bex kept shouting up
to us. Riley was doing his hair in the mirror on his wardrobe. I think he took
longer doing his hair than I did.
    Sarah threw the binoculars down, supposedly at Bex. She
has such a lame throw and they crashed down loudly on the tin roof of the old shed
at the back of their garden which Bex was leaning up against in the shadows.
    “Sarah!” I hissed at her. It was so loud even Riley was
now peering out of the window and Bex wasn’t helping the situation because in
her attempt to hide in the hedge, she was making more noise by tripping over.
God knows what was piled up around the shed but it was making a racket as Bex
was knocking it over and the hedge was now visibly moving to anyone who might
just happen to look out of the window to investigate the commotion.
    Obviously Riley wasn’t the only one to see and hear that
something was going on out here. We could hear the backdoor unlocking, shit!
“Get those binoculars!” Sarah was whispering in my ear. The binoculars were
nearly in reach, we were right next to the shed roof up here. I grabbed a stick
and tried to hook the strap of the binoculars on to it.
    “Dad, did you see something as well?” I could hear
Riley’s voice (he now had on a t-shirt and some jeans). He’d caught up with his
Dad who had now opened the backdoor and was peering out into the garden. Thank
god it was dark. “I saw someone out here.”
    I leant over the side of the tree house. I had almost
hooked the binoculars. There was no way I wanted them to find these. I mean,
how dodgy would it look?
    “What’s going on?” I could hear Jay’s voice now. Great,
just what I needed.
    “There’s someone out here.”
    “Really?” Jay didn’t sound surprised and I had a bad
feeling that he already knew it was us. I just needed to get those binoculars
back before they came down here to have a look and then found the binoculars
strap hanging suspiciously over the side of the shed.
    “Have you got them yet?” Sarah barely whispered at me.
    “Nearly.” I leant over further and I just about had them
hooked onto the stick. I was aware that Riley and his dad were slowly making
their way to the end of the garden, followed by the delightful Jay. I just
needed to pull the binoculars up and then we could keep still and hide up here
in the tree house.
    “Bex, there’s not a lot of room up here, keep still!” I
could hear Sarah hissing at Bex who had now scaled the tree in her desperation
to hide and obviously had the same idea as me that the tree house was a good
place to not be seen. Well if we crouched down anyway.
    I could feel Sarah being pushed into me as Bex was
desperately trying to duck down and then just as I was about to hiss at her to
keep still, the wood I was leaning on gave a loud crack and I screamed as I
fell through the air and out of the tree house.
    Luckily or unluckily, whichever way you look at it, I
landed smack bang in the middle of the shed roof just as Riley, his dad and Jay
had made it to the end of the garden. As if that didn’t look bad enough my arm
was outstretched, stick still in my hand with the binoculars hanging from it
and dangling over the side of the shed.
    “Hi!” I said as though it was perfectly normal to be
falling out of the sky. All three of them were just staring at me. “I
was...erm...the tree house is a bit rotten and old...” I tried to offer the
lamest explanation ever.
    “What were you doing up there in the dark?” Riley’s dad
asked. He was talking ever so slowly to me, perhaps he thought I was mentally
unstable.
    “And why have you got binoculars?” Jay just had to point
out. Riley was looking at me and I couldn’t read his expression, only that he
was completely stunned, probably by the revelation that his neighbour was a
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