My little Runaway

Hobart column

23rd October 2005

My little runaway

I remember when I lived in this house in Bridgewater we lived there
for about 8 years I was about 10 and my stepbrother and me were
up at this old school playing around and this girl came over to us
she said, “Look what I found” after about 5 minutes of talking her
dad pulled over aside the road she literally chucked the lighter in
my hand and said I got to go. So Zane and me were playing around
with it until we decided to go back home, we went home and
just out the front of our gate there was this huge tree and you
could go in it we sat in there and lit stuff up. Then until my
brother walked out of the gate and seen us with stuff on fire
he quickly said “im telling mum” we kicked it and threw
anything on it to get it out then we thought we are going to
get into so much trouble lets run!!
We ran up the path behind this fence Lucas and jacinta my
cousin seen us they started walking after us we hid in this
Bush still with the lighter up at some units.
We seen them asking these kids have you seen two kids?
anywhere??? Mind you we had already told them not to
say anything well they went, and hours went by and we
were talking about were we were going to sleep and what we
were going to eat mind eating we were just wondering what
was going to happen tomorrow.
It was getting dark to dark to see so we pulled out the lighter
and held it on it was to boring to just sit there holding it for
ours so we decided to light stuff up again for a bit of light.
We just layed there almost asleep, Zane was scared really
scared he just wanted to go back I never even thought of it i
knew that if I went back I would be dead so I just thought I
might as well start a new life.
By this time it was about 11 and we were feeling hungry and
dirty we just wanted to go back face the consequences and tell
the truth. So we started walking down the road we were
expecting cop cars to be everywhere cars filling the street
from our family, we got around the corner just to find one
cop car we were scared us little 10 year old that have never
been in trouble with police before, we knocked on the door
and my mum belted me absolute belted me and Zane’s dad
well he got nothing but a little lecture we then got a huge lecture
From the policeman after that I jumped in the bath thinking to
myself was that worth it, I don’t think ill ever runaway again
Not for a while and I never did.