The love of the game

Funky Town was a small little village in London just along the north bank of the Thames River. Funky town was such a small town that when there was new news everybody knew that news within a matter of seconds. In this town there was a family, a very large family. Not in size, but in numbers. There was Jack, Jill, Jennifer, Joe, Jackie, Janice and Leonard and Donna. This was the “the family” of the town. They had it all fame, money, & happiness. It was all perfect and dandy until it came time to pick the teams for town baseball game every year. Now this is not just some small silly baseball game that one would play on a hot summers day. The winner of the baseball game this year would win $ 5,000 and everybody in the family would get an ipad! The Janicker Family really wanted to win this year and usually wins every year except this year they had new arrivals this winter, the Packer family. The Packer family was always pleasant and friendly to the Janicker’s and their children, but they had taken the spotlight away from the Janicker’s since their arrival. The Packer’s had Peter, Paul, Paulina, Prince, Prudence, Paris & Parker and Anne. Behind these two families lied a dark secret and some mischief behind their ‘ eyes. The two oldest of the families, Jill and Paul were archenemies. Always competing in school in sports and in popularity. Jennifer and Paulina were the second oldest in the family and they were actually really close friends and so were the younger siblings. In school they were really close friends but when it came time for that baseball game they never really spoke to each other due to the fact that they needed to get their head in the game.

One day after an intense game of kickball at school the little ones came up with a plan. Jackie came up with the plan when she was eating lunch in the cafeteria and saw Jill and Paul glaring at each other as they walked around the school gathering appreciation for next weeks school election; they were both running for president. So after Jackie had a light bulb she gathered everybody around and told them the plan. The little ones were going to try and get Jill and Paul to fall in love. Everybody knew that they liked each other, they would just bickering back and forth because they were just alike. So after school they all agreed that Joe would write the letter from Paul and give it to Jill, and then Paulina would write the letter from Jill and give it to Paul.

After the kickball game Paulina and Joe gathered at the picnic table and started to brainstorm as to what might be said in these “love letters”. Paulina started off with, “ Dear Sweet Love, for I have always known that you were the one for me. Your grace is like the wind blowing on a calm summer’s day. Your words and like music to my ears. Meet me by the sweet lilac tree at noon in two days. Yours truly-Paul.” Joe started off with, “My One and Only, the one who I admire, respect and dream to be mine one day. That smile is like a thousand diamonds all in a row shining on a summers day. Yours forever-Jill”. Giggling all the way home, excited to start the plan , Paulina put her letter in Paul’s mailbox and Joe put Jill’s letter in her mailbox.

It was two days later and it was the day of the baseball game and the little ones were all excited to see what would happen after the baseball game because of their silly plan. As the two teams lined up they both glared at the other team pretending that they are enemies and determined to beat each other to win that $5000 and that ipad everybody was longing for. The families could sense an extra amount of tension between the two older ones. The younger kids were so confused as to why this was.

The batting began and the came ended up favoring with the Janicker’s due to Donna’s two home runs! The Janicker’s were delighted to find out they have just one all that money and everyone had an ipad to play with. After the game the little ones gathered in the tree fort so they could see the lilac tree to see if the Jill and Paul would meet each other. They waited, and waited and waited, until finally Jill walks up and is standing there blushin, excited and happy, and then they see Paul running toward Jill in excitement and everyone had a blank face, when Paul ran up to Jill and gave her a kiss. Jill was explaining to Paul how nice of him to write that letter and he replied with the same, and they both denied writing any letters. They were so confused as to who wrote the letters. They carefully looked at the letters and realized that they handwriting was not at its best and figured the little ones had planned this not knowing that Jill and Paul were madly in love with each other, previous to the letters. Jill and Paul were proud of them for keeping this a secret but did not want their parent to find out about their relationship.

The little ones finally came down in the tree from amazement and were so glad that their plan had worked. Yelling “we did it, we did it”. Paul and Jill stood there looking at each other wondering what they were talking about, and instantly stepped away from each other acting like they didn’t know what they were talking about. “I know” said Paulina and high fived Joe for the great work in getting these two together. We are not together said, Jill. And be before any of the others could make it back Peter, the tattletale of the family ran back to his parents to announce that Jill and Paul were together and that they kissed. Furious, at this news the parents Leonard and Donna had demanded that no relationship with the Packer’s will be happening between Jill and Paul!

When Jill arrived home with the little’s ones they saw a moving van out front of their house, and were confused as to what was happening. When they opened the front door their stood Donna and Leonard waiting to break the news. “We are moving.” Gasps from everyone. Jill screamed saying “you can’t do this” and the children were so upset at this news. They wanted to stay at least till the end of school but the parents would not allow this. They wanted Jill and their other children to focus on school and not on the Packer family. The parents told Jill they knew about her relationship with Paul, and the little ones explained to them that they planned all this out and the letters they wrote were a joke. The Janicker’s were very strict and would have none of this nonsense. Donna and Leonard told the kids to get into the moving van. Slowly they all piled in , as Jill looked out the back window she saw Paul running down the drive-way in such confusion as to where and when his love would be back.