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"Riley, Riley, Riley, wake up!"   Cooper whispered as he shook his 

older sister!

"Whaaa?   What?   What's going on?" Riley asked sleepily as 

she struggled to grasp what was happening.“A quest!   We need 

to go on a quest, right now!”   Coop explained.

“A quest?   What in the world are you talking 

about?   Are you sleep-walking again?”   Riley 

asked, becoming not just a bit annoyed.

“No, no, no, Riley,” Cooper went on.   “You know, a quest!   A 

journey; an adventure!”  

Riley was ready to throw her pillow at him.   “Of course I 

know what a quest is.   I just don’t know what you are doing in 

the middle of the night waking me up to tell me we need to do 

this now!!!”

“Ok, here’s the deal.”   Cooper began. “I have a secret 

passageway in my bedroom.   It’s under my bed.   When I remove 

the drawer on the left and crawl underneath and move all the 

stuffed animals and the legos, and my dinosaur collection, there it 

is!”  

Riley sat up in bed, looked straight into her brother’s eyes, turned 

around, threw herself face down on her bed and pulled that pillow 

over her own head!   “Go away,” she moaned.   “I’m sleepy and 

you’ve lost your mind!!!”

Coop pleaded with his sister, “Just come and see and if I’m not 

right, then you can come back to bed and I’ll never mention it 

again.   Ok?   Ok?   Ok?   Please, please, please???”

Riley could see there was no ending this so she               

agreed and proceeded to drag herself out of her 

nice warm cozy bed.

Cooper was way ahead of her.   He had rounded the 

corner to his room and had already removed the drawer 

under his bed on the left side.  

As Riley got closer, he was quickly gathering all his 

stuffed animal collection from under the bed and handing 

it to her.   This was followed by various legos, and finally 

his prized   dinosaur collection.

Cooper moved over and motioned for Riley to join him 

under the bed.   Pretty soon only two pair of feet were 

showing.   As soon as Riley was in place in the dark 

cramped area under the bed, Cooper slowly, dramatically 

moved two pillows away from the wall.

Oh my goodness!   What was Riley seeing?   Daylight?   That 

was impossible!   And yet, there it was!   Both were unusually 

quiet as they took it all in.  

Finally, Cooper whispered, “Believe me now???”   Riley by now wide 

awake and as excited as her brother, exclaimed “Oh yes!   Let’s go!”   and 

attempted to crawl through the opening.

“Oh no,” Coop stopped her.   “We can’t go without Campbell and Reese!”  

“Oh right,” agreed Riley.   I got so excited, I forgot.   Let’s go wake them.”

Quickly the two went as fast and as quietly as they could up the stairs 

to the ‘little’s’ room.   Riley went for Reese while Coop woke Campbell.  

They tried to explain what they were doing and tried to be patient as the 

girls became fully awake.   Although the ‘little’s’ didn’t really understand, 

they trusted their older siblings and followed them down the stairs and into 

Coop’s room.

But Riley stopped short.   “Wait a minute, Cooper!”   She spoke as one 

in authority.   “How do you know this is going to work?   Can we really go 

through that hole in the wall and have an adventure of our dreams and 

come back safely and not get lost and not be late for breakfast?   I mean, 

how do you know???”   She demanded.

“Well,” Cooper explained with a slow drawn out 

pause.   “Because I’ve done it already.”  

“What???   What did you do?   Where did you go?  

When did you do this?”   demanded Riley.

All the time Campbell and Reese just stood there 

hanging on every word of this proposed 

adventure.

“Last night!   I crawled through, stood up 

and decided I wanted to be 

skateboarding!   All of a sudden, there I 

was, with a helmet and a board and in the 

coolest skateboard park.   I had the best 

time skating and skating and all of a sudden 

I knew it was time to return.   As soon as I 

realized and before I could think about it, I 

was back at the hole in the wall.   I crawled 

through, got in bed, looked at the clock and 

realized I had been gone only one minute!”

Riley pondered this for a moment.   “Hmmm, ok, it sounds safe.   So how do 

we do this?”

Cooper explained that he really didn’t know.   Last night he simply crawled 

through the hole, had an idea, and it just happened.

“Ok,” Riley declared.   “We need to come up with an idea then.   What shall 

we do first?”

Her three siblings all started talking at once with ideas.

“Wait, wait, wait, guys!”   Cooper decided to take the reins on this one.  

“let’s go to a Cardinals game!   We LOVE the Cardinals!!!”

Campbell piped up “Yes, let’s do that!!!   I LOVE to go to Cardinals 

games!”   Reese clapped her hands, agreeing, although still not quite 

awake and not exactly sure what was going on or what was about to 

happen.

 “Well, ok, we’d better get to it.   Let’s see what happens.”   Riley said.

They each crawled under the bed and through the hole in 

the wall to the other side, making sure to help one 

another.   As they stood up and squinted in the sudden 

sunshine, they were aware of all the noise surrounding 

them.   Their eyes adjusted quickly and there they were, 

right in the middle of Busch Stadium! And they had their 

Cardinal shirts on and hot dogs and soda and cotton candy 

and oh my!!!  

Everyone was cheering around them and they had the very best 

seats, you know the ones, where there is always someone to meet 

your every need or desire. They never sat down the whole entire time!  

It was just way too exciting!   It was just so much fun!    And then they 

knew, they all knew at the same time that it was time to go back.

All of a sudden there they were, back at the hole in the wall.   As soon as 

they climbed back through the passage, they were back in their pajamas 

and they hurried off to bed.

One minute of time had passed.

The crew was all asleep as soon as their heads hit the pillows.   Morning 

came quickly.  

As they were getting dressed, they compared notes.   Yep, it really 

happened!   And yep, they all experienced the same thing.   And double 

yep:   it’s to be a secret just between the four of them!   Why?   Well, 

Cooper had checked.   In the daytime that passageway was not there!  

How could they explain it?   Who would understand?   Who would believe 

them?  

The day passed as usual and all got busy with various activities.After 

school Riley had guitar practice and Cooper along with Campbell were at 

soccer.   Reese busied herself with her toys and coloring.

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