The Garden Mystery (AHW)

                                          

                                    Chapter One

                                                 The Garden      

"Carly where are you?" my older brother Nick called "over here" I yelled from the garden. I was the one kid, the only kid that ever went to the garden, people always said it was haunted and that on the 5th of May a baby red bird ghost would emerge from the garden.
A lot of people are scared of me now, just because my birthday is May 5th. I have hardly any friends, well not hardly any friends more like no friends well except for the animals that live on papa's farm and of course my older brother Nick.
       I watched Nick run to me, his bright red hair was shining in the beautiful summer sunlight and his bright blue eyes blended in with the sky. As he approached me I knew that something had gone terribly wrong "Hi Nick" I said in a cheerful voice trying to make him not tell me the bad news that I knew was inside of him "Hello" he replied in an 
ac ward tone. Now I knew he had bad news, I knew that he always used that tone of voice when he had bad news. "well..um...so" he hesitated "I have bad news" he mumbled "what is it" I asked in a demanding sort of voice "well..." he mumbled so quiet I could not hear. "what?" I asked 

                                  Chapter Two

                         The Terrible, Terrible, Terrible News 

    "Just come with me" he said finally speaking up a little "okay" I replied. I really did not want to go but the next thing I knew I was running alongside Nick and we where racing to the barn "Faster" he yelled "we've already taken enough time up with your stupid stalling!" Crud I thought he knows I was trying to stall. By the time we got there I felt like my legs where going to fall off. As I stopped to catch my breath, next to Nick, I looked up in horror at about twenty dead sheep laying on the ground with blood streaming down their red stained wool "wa..wha..what..what happened?" I stuttered. And that's when I saw a coyote in the corner of the dimly lit barn with wool and blood all around it's mouth  

                            Chapter Three                          

                             Excuses, Excuses, Excuses

"ahhhhh" I screamed "What is that thing" I said even though this had happened once before when I was very little and knew exactly what is was "Coyote's" Nick replied in a stern voice "they got in just now" "they"I repeated " ya" Nick yelled " the are like eight of them" "eight?" I said "yes' he said "now listen this time so I don't have you coming back to me asking to repeat myself again" "okay i'm listening" I said annoyed "go get papa, he'll take care of it". Then I ran away, back to papa without saying a word.