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In a small town, on a small street, lived two 

brothers and their three best friends. 

Ricky, Jimmy, Zach, Jill, and Bailey spent 

every day of their summer vacation 

together. When they woke up on this sunny, 

Friday morning, they had no idea how 

different this day was going to be from all 

the rest. 

“Ricky, wake up! It’s 9 o'clock, it’s time to 

go outside!” yelled Jimmy as he stood over 

his brother’s bed. Ricky rolled over and 

rubbed his eyes, yawning, “I’m up, I’m up.” 

He rolled out of bed and looked outside at 

the bright sunny morning, happy to see 

that it was still summer vacation. 

Ricky and Jimmy got dressed for the day 

and were eating two heaping bowls of 

Captain O’s when they heard their friend 

Zach outside. “Let’s go you guys, we have 

things to do!” called Zach through the 

porch screen door. Ricky’s and Jimmy’s 

mom patted them sweetly on the head and 

smiled, “Go ahead and have fun! I will clean 

up your breakfast.” The boys thanked 

their mother and raced outside to join 

Zach. At that same moment, Jill and Bailey 

were pedaling their bikes down the street 

to join the boys for the day’s adventures. 

Once everyone was in the tree house it was 

time to make a plan for the day. “Can we 

please ride our bikes to the park?” cried 

Jill. “Or maybe we can set up the water 

slide!” Jimmy shouted. Ricky decided the 

first thing they should do is turn their tree 

house into a fort. 

The five friends searched high and low for 

materials to create their fort. Bailey and Jill 

went to search the shed for old sheets and 

blankets, while the boys looked for wood to 

lay over the top of their tree house. Jimmy 

ran inside to find the walkie-talkies while 

Zach noticed a tarp on the other side of the 

fence. “Ricky! I found the perfect way to 

cover our whole fort, come look!” Zach 

called. 

As the two boys were trying their hardest to get the tarp 

on their side of the fence, they heard the back door 

swing open. Old man George came crashing through the 

door and hurried over to the fence. George began to scold 

the boys, “You put that tarp down and do not touch it 

again! What is all this racket out here anyway?” Ricky 

replied, “We are just adding to our tree house to make a 

fort!” George didn’t care what they were doing, he was 

tired of hearing them play every single day, and he was 

going to let them know. “I’m going to have your tree house 

taken down by the end of the day!” he yelled as he 

stomped back inside his house.  

Ricky muttered under his breath, “Have our 

tree house taken down by the end of the 

day?” All of the children looked at each 

other, then looked around the tree house, 

but no one said a word. A few minutes went 

by when finally Zach yelled, “We’ll have you 

taken down by the end of the day, old man!” 

It was time to come up with a new plan for 

the day. 

If they could distract George from leaving 

his house, he could never take down their 

tree house. They gathered some ideas and 

binoculars, and decided it was time to take 

action. Bailey and Jimmy stayed to guard 

the tree house while Zach, Ricky, and Jill 

went over the fence to George’s house. 

“Go turn the sprinklers on, Zach and we will meet you at 

the front door. Make it fast!” whispered Ricky. Quickly, 

Zach ran around to the sprinkler system, flipped the 

switch on, and met Ricky and Jill outside the front door. 

“They’re all set to go off in thirty seconds! Ring the 

bell!” Zach cried urgently. Ricky rang the doorbell and 

the three of them darted around to the back of the 

house. George opened the door and stomped outside just 

as all of the sprinklers came on. The old man was 

instantly drenched from head to toe. 

As George stood at the front door soaking wet, Ricky 

went onto the back porch and captured Jeanie, the old 

man’s fat, black cat. Quickly, Bailey met Ricky at the 

fence and took Jeanie back to the tree house with her. 

Once everyone was back in the tree house, it was time 

to prank call George for one last distraction. 

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