Their laughter was like the stridulation of the ghosts of grasshoppers.
But we left camp after a while and we was driving in a real spooky place cause all the roads up near camp are dark and in the woods and we had to drive for a while to get to a highway cause there was no street lights or anything and nothing but woods and my dad asked me if I had a good time and I told him I did, but that__ really a lie and I felt like telling him what it was like at that mean old camp, but I thought he__ get mad and tell me I__ making it up and I thought I__ tell him some other time like Febuary and cause I didn__ think he__ believe me anyway, but so I changed my mind and then I thought I should tell him now cause he__l wonder howcome I never told him sooner, so when he said that__ a nasty gash and when he said what did I do, stumble on the trail and hit a big rock or something? I told him no and I told him that lots of bad things happened to me at camp and that I never want to go there again cause I hate it and I almost cried. But he said I always had a bibid emigination cause he__ sure it wasn__ that bad! And I don__ know about those big words either, but what he said made me kind of mad cause grownups always think they know what happened to you better than you do yourself.
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But we left camp after a while and we was driving in a real spooky place cause all the roads up near camp are dark and in the woods and we had to drive for a while to get to a highway cause there was no street lights or anything and nothing but woods and my dad asked me if I had a good time and I told him I did, but that__ really a lie and I felt like telling him what it was like at that mean old camp, but I thought he__ get mad and tell me I__ making it up and I thought I__ tell him some other time like Febuary and cause I didn__ think he__ believe me anyway, but so I changed my mind and then I thought I should tell him now cause he__l wonder howcome I never told him sooner, so when he said that__ a nasty gash and when he said what did I do, stumble on the trail and hit a big rock or something? I told him no and I told him that lots of bad things happened to me at camp and that I never want to go there again cause I hate it and I almost cried. But he said I always had a bibid emigination cause he__ sure it wasn__ that bad! And I don__ know about those big words either, but what he said made me kind of mad cause grownups always think they know what happened to you better than you do yourself.
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