My Family Acting Strangely
By
Ludo G
3rd Grade – Spring 2020

One morning, I woke up and went downstairs. I thought it was going to be a normal day. But it turns out it was not when I went downstairs.

My parents were acting weird. They were not talking to each other as they normally would. They were quiet. They were sitting on the couch watching tv and said nothing. They were watching National Geographics. On the screen there were crocodiles on the Nile river. The crocodiles were eating meat.

I asked them what was wrong but they said nothing. They looked at me and went back to watching tv. They acted strangely.

They did not even prepare my pancakes. They would wake up earlier than me. Then they usually make my pancakes. I decided to make them myself. I ate my breakfast then put the dishes in the dishwasher.

I wanted to play outside. I asked my parents if they wanted to play but they said nothing so I decided to play with my dog. I grabbed my ball and walked outside to play fetch with my dog. I threw the ball at the corner of the garden and my dog grabbed it then brought it back to me.

It was time for lunch. I walked inside. My parents were sitting on the table as they would but something felt different. First my parents were not talking to each other, second they hardly moved. They did not move anywhere that much. They just sat on the couch. They stayed inside and did not leave the house.

Later I got so tired of them not talking that I ran up to my room and played my Nintendo switch. I was playing Super Smash Bros but I got a little hungry so I walked downstairs to get some caramel popcorn and ran back upstairs. I got bored so I decided to watch a movie. I watched Deadpool 2.

I fell asleep during the movie and I dreamed that my parents were acting normal again like playing around and cooking. They were also talking to me.

When I woke up, I thought about how to make my parents return back to normal. So I can do what my family and I would do on a normal day like play volleyball or watch tv.

I went to check if my parents stopped acting weird but they still were not talking. I got so tired of them that I just went upstairs again but this time I locked the doors and watched an extra long movie and sat there for six hours until I started to fall asleep.

I dreamed of my parents not acting weird. I did not like this. I screamed at them and yelled ?CAN YOU GUYS TALK!? I literally raged!

Finally my parents came up to my room and started to speak again. They said that they were so bored that they forgot to do my stuff like making food and playing with me so they apologized. Then we had dinner together.

When will this quarantine be over?