Indeed

Indeed

“What did you bring a flashlight for?”

“Be prepared! Remember?”

“Alex, it’s nine o’clock in the morning, it’s as light as it can be. We’re walking a woods that’s less than half a mile long. Even if we crawled, we’d be out before it gets dark!”

“I’m just being prepared, like it says in the book.”

“Oh, I forgot, you’re a boy scout…” Frank snickered.

“I know you think it’s silly, I don’t. I’ve learned a lot of things that make my life safer, and more friendly.”

“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to sound like I thought it was silly. Even if the flashlight kinda is…”

“Fine, fine. Ah… Did you hear that?”

“No, what?”

“Listen…”

They stopped, and now both heard a small noise. Following toward the noise, Alex’s foot suddenly fell into a hole. The noise got louder, it was in the hole, but Alex’s foot was stuck too.

Frank pulled him out, but the noise had stopped. “We can’t just leave something stuck in there!” Frank said, “But we don’t know what it is. If it’s wild, it could bite us!

“Well,” Alex said, “I could use my flashlight…”

Frank laughed! “Give it to me!”

It turned out to be a small kitten. Carrying it back home, a little girl came running across the grass, “You found Nikki! Thank you!!”

Her mother, running up behind her, was so happy too, that she gave them each ten dollars for rescuing the kitten. Of course, they both said it wasn’t necessary, but the mom insisted.

Later at the soda fountain in Melgram’s Super Market, they sat enjoying ice cream after a spectacular lunch.

“So," Alex said, “What do you think of being prepared now?”

“You win, can I join too?”

It was a very good day, indeed