Owen

10/5/11

THE BEEHIVE.....

My friend Jordan and I have been friends for as long as we were in our mama’s tummies. We have the same hair-do which is dirty blond hair, we are about the same height, and we like a lot of the same things, for example, basketball. We have been on the same basketball team for a long time. We think alike, if I say one thing that no one else understands, Jordan will understand it. We have a lot of memories together, but one I will always remember is the “Beehive Accident”.

We were about ten or eleven when this accident happened. One day Jordan, me, and my other friend Shane were playing in a kitty pool in my yard. But then we got bored of the pool, we had an urge to go up in a tree stump that was in my yard about 10 feet high. We were picking huckleberries up there, red ones to be exact. I saw a really big huckleberry so I yelled out “Honker!” as in a big huckleberry. But the next thing I knew was that Jordan had stepped on a beehive that none of us knew was there because it was under a log, and the sad thing was, we were all barefoot.

Jordan screamed “There’s a beehive there!” So we needed to get down. He let Shane and I get down first. There is a rock climbing wall and that's how you get up and down. So Shane climbed down the rock climbing wall, but I couldn't wait to get down since I didn't want to get stung so I just jumped down. But one nice thing Jordan did was let us both get down first and he waited up in the tree. So after we got down Jordan finally did also. He ran into the pool that we had been playing in earlier, and luckily we didn't take the water out of it, Because Jordan needed it. Jordan is allergic to bees so he needed the pool water to jump into so he could get the bees off of him.

Once the whole accident was over we found out that they were actually wasps who stung us, not bees. Jordan had fourteen wasp stings all over his body and Shane and I only had a couple. We thanked Jordan for letting us get down first, and that he took the risk of getting stung for letting us get down. My mom soon gave us some clay cream that was supposed to help the wasp stings, and it did help. A LOT! Jordan did a very courageous thing that day, and what he did really shows that he is a good friend. Ever since that accident I don't like going up to that stump, but I will if I have to. That accident is something Jordan, Shane, and I will always remember.