Tragedy at Jacks House

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It was the end of a normal school day and my friends and I were bored. It was a thursday and the whole week was full of homework and projects. We had projects due in math, social studies, spanish, science. we had been worked to our limit and we needed a break. "Lets go outside to the rope swing." I heard someone say. "Ok, thats cool with me." I said, not knowing who I was responding to. So we headed out back to the backyard and we jumped off the tree to the rope swing. We swung, swung, and swung on some more. We swung on the swing until we got bored of it. Once we thought we all had our fill of the minimal thrill that that swing could give, we tried to think of new ideas to make it more fun, and more thrilling. We found a plastic picnic table in Jacks basement, and we also found about ten five gallon buckets. We stacked them up on top of the table in a pyramid shape, climbed on top, then swung off of them. "This is so sketchy, why are we doing this??" I said as I was about to jump off of the 10 foot high structure. "Because you're the idiot who wanted to do it!!" Jack said. "Oh, yeah. I forgot about that! Well I'm gonna do it anyways!" I said with excitement. I jumped from the table and buckets onto the swing and into the air. As gravity pulled me down, gaining speed, I soared through the air, and when I came back around, I knocked over the buckets with my feet. After about a hour of swinging off the buckets, we got bored once again, and hungry. We ordered some Papa Johns and thought of new ways to make the rope swing more thrilling. The pizza came and we stared eating. I was climbing one of the scaffoldings in Jacks backyard while I was eating, and an idea hit me. "I have an idea." I said excitedly. "What is it?" Jack asks confused. "How about we move this scaffolding under the rope swing, and we swing off of it? Its much taller and

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