## Bacon

This is a real story. From a very real world. Out of the many streets on the edge of Birmingham’s border dobby street was that one in million that had to have a dogy, creepy mansion. Dobby street was based on a flat field. Down the middle was a deep stream that during the winter the residents of dobby street would go skating on and during the summer they would go bathing in. However much they loved their lane they never talked about the mansion opposite the canal.

## Part 1.

It was a warm summers day when James woke up. the sun was shining through the gap of his spider-man curtains. He clambered out of bed and pulled of his blue and bache stripy pyjamas and began to, most reluctantly, pull on his school clothes. As he yawned his way down the stairs (his tie hanging loosely as always, hid did this up whilst tying his shoelaces) he turned right down the hallway and entered the kitchen to find his mother in a stunning neon pink dress and blue striped flip flops with her sunny blonde hair in a loose pony-tail James was feeling very proud of himself for getting ready for school so quickly, expecting praise from his mother he straitened himself up and when his mother’s face dropped it came as an almighty shock “what are you doing?” said his mother with a questioning look. “being ready for school.” Said James his face dropping and looking confused. His mum said “when are you, yesterday! It’s the holidays James.”

2 hours later James had managed to catch up with the world. He was now dressed in his Darth maul swimming trunks and his baggy border collie top. Oh, that is the other thing James loves dogs. He went out into the utility to dig up his blue and green stripy towel. He raced straight out through the kitchen and shouted, “I’m going swimming in the canal mum.” Then running slap bang into his mother in the hallway. She was dressed is her lurid green swimming suit with her hair in a tight bun and her plain pink towel slung over her shoulder like a handbag.” Were you thinking about going swimming without me?” She said her hands on her hips and giving James that look that says why the hell did you think that I would not come? They raced down the steps across the front lawn and hurdled across street before diving into the river.

The river was surprisingly warm compared to last year, thought James now sitting forward letting his mother rub sun cream into his very red and already sunburnt back. like most 11- year-olds James hated having sun cream rubbed into his back, however much he hated it though he let his mother smother him in sun cream- it made her happy. James’s mother, Ellie, worked at the local doctor’s so she was incredibly careful about things like this. James did not mind this too much since he had grown used to this by now. “oh look, Sloppers arrived,” James looked up dobby lane for a sigh of Sloppers mums, Caroline, metallic red McLaren f1, slopers dad was very wealthy, he worked as the manager for… McLaren! James and sloper had been friends since they were born. sloper was born 4 months before James. Ellie had met Caroline whilst Caroline was giving birth to sloper and had been good friends ever since. Sloper and James were practically always at one another’s houses they preferred to do everything together and had never disagreed slopers puppy, porky, was a fat chi-wawa