Intruders

• Eva Wellen, Grade 5
• Short Story
• 2019

Bang! The door of the secret garden hit the wall making an echoing noise all over the big, open park! One mysterious person named Gemma, sprinted to where the noise echoed from, but Ava quickly and quietly closed the door. “Luckily, Gemma didn't see anything suspicious, instead she just saw a tall oak tree!” Ava thought to herself in a relieved way.
The secret garden was Anna's and Alesha's, but the plants were already dull, what could they possibly do?
The next morning, when Ava went to the secret garden, she saw lots of overhanging, dull and brown flowers! “That could not be, I watered the flowers yesterday!” she looked really upset because her mum had had the amazing secret garden for nearly 10 years now!
“How did you find my secret garden?” she yelled furiously! “Well your mum told us about how quiet it was, so we decided to come and relax and study here.” “Oh, ok, I am sorry.” “Don't worry!” they said together.
On Friday, Ava just wanted to relax, so she decided to go to the quiet secret garden! But she thought in horror that she had forgotten which tree it was, so Ava called her mum and safely got into the garden. When I turned around, I saw that my mum, Gemma, Madison and Sarah were there, they threw me a party and I turned 19! “What an exhausting day!”