Story 10. I Should Have Stayed in Bed
Have you ever heard the expression "Some days it's just better to stay in bed"?
Well, I had one of those days last week.
It was the day for school pictures, and my mother had laid out my best clothes.
After I got dressed, before I could do anything, the cat needed to be fed, so I gave him some food.
Normally, that would keep him quiet, but that day, he was still excited about something.
I sat down to breakfast and began to eat.
My mother was making my lunch.
She opened the closet door and suddenly let out a scream that made me jump up so fast that I spilled my bowl of cereal all over my good clothes.
A mouse!
It's a mouse!" shouted my mother.
You know it's funny.
My mother loves animals.
We have a fish, a cat, a dog, a rabbit and even an iguana—but she hates mice.
She quickly jumped up on a chair and told me, "Get a box!
Get a broom!
Get something!"
I went to get a box, but just at that moment, our dog came running into the room to see what all the excitement was about.
He saw the milk I had spilled on the floor and ran towards it just as I was going the other way.
One of us had to slip, and it was me.
I fell over and knocked my mother off the chair.
I guess all the noise scared the mouse.
It started running across the floor, but the cat grabbed it in its mouth and ran off!
As a result of all this, my school picture shows me with a bruised cheek.
On top of that, my mother sprained her ankle.
Sometimes I wonder if the cat planned the whole thing?
You know what?
Maybe I should have just stayed in bed.
