Adventures of Rollo

It all started on a summer’s evening, late December.

I was minding my own business walking home from arts and crafts when I saw my older sister acting suspicious. Eve and I were two of six children, my parents were Artists you see, always completely engaged in their work, so Eve being the oldest tried to look after us.

I followed Eve, keeping a fair amount of distance between us.

I saw that she had a black duffel bag that she was tossing through like she had lost something.

I could tell something wasn’t right as Eve would usually be home looking after the babies.

I watched as she ran in and out of shops searching for something or someone.

I was hiding behind one of the scriptures when I lost site of her.

As I turned around there was Eve.

“What are you doing following me?” Eve said!

“ What are you doing running around like a crazy person?” Said I.

Eve got upset and stormed off.

After I got home, Eve sent me a text, saying our dog Rollo was missing and she was scared, our parents would be upset.

I reassured her we would find rollo, so then the investigation began.

Now you see Rollo isn’t like a usual dog, Rollo liked to steal out vacuum cleaner and run off into space, to cause all sorts of mischief.

So we had our work cut out for us.

Eve and I meet outside the Mr Yin’s toffee shop, to figure out where Rollo last was.

In the lane way of Mr Yin’s toffee shop there was a vacuum cleaner cord binned, so we knew from previous years, that this must of been where Rollo snuck off to space.

Eve at this point was pacing the lane way, overwhelmed with stress.

The reason why Eve was so stressed, was because it was mother’s birthday tomorrow and all she wanted to do, was make her the biggest chocolate cake, she had ever seen, so Rollo running off to some space mission, wasn’t exactly ideal.

I come up with the idea to go to Mr Yin’s and borrow he’s vacuum, so we could ride into space quickly, chuck Rollo in the duffel bag and make it home in time, to make the biggest chocolate cake mother had ever seen.

In my head this planned seemed fool proof, but reality never worked out that way.

Turns out Mr Yin had this fake Dyson, that only had one bar of battery left.

We had no choice but to make it work.

Eve jumped on first then I held on by the duffel bag.

Forty five minutes later we arrived as this space bar, that I knew was Rollo’s favourite.

It was called “Minus Gravity” we had a look around, but Rollo wasn’t in site.

We flew over to the ice cream shop “flying scoop” but no Rollo.

Eve and i starting to worry, had rollo been kidnapped?Was he being held against his will?

Both Eve and I sobbed at the thought of our little sausage dog Rollo being hurt.

But where else could he be?

Eve and I decided to go check out the dessert place “ Straight to Uranus”

At this moment in time both Eve and I were out of ideas.

What do we do? We can’t go home without him.

We decided to have dessert and make a plan on how to save Rollo.

Number one, who is rollos energies?

As we were running through the possibilities out come the dessert,

First came my order, Mars bar with flying scoop.

I mean when In Mars why wouldn’t you?

Then Eves order, I’ve never seen anything more visually pleasing. Double, triple decker chocolate mad cake.

Here I was thinking mine was where it was at. Apparently not!

Eve “Ahhh mums cake, what if we get one from here, leaving us time to find Rollo?

I was actually surprised Eve come up with a useful idea.

We grabbed the cake and off we went,

Mind you, two medium sized kids, a knock off version of a Dyson vacuum cleaner and a ridiculously large chocolate cake.

What could possibly go wrong?

As we were taking off all I could hear, was sirens.

Great what now?

I couldn’t believe it, fined for driving a vacuum cleaner without a permit, A VACCUM CLEANER!

Eve at this point was ready to leave me in the middle of Mars and go make a life for herself here.

With Rollo still no where to be found, we were at whits end.

All I could think of, was his cute little bark and how I missed him.

Eve “we need to go or we will be grounded for life”

I on the other hand, couldn’t bare to leave with out him.

Eve promised me, that we could come back tomorrow and continue out Search.

So now imagine how incredibly impossible it was going to be, to get home.

Low battery, gigantic chocolate cake and two medium sized kids.

Surely this is a joke right?

I can assure you that it wasn’t!

We were about 20 mitres from landing, back in the lane way of Mr Yin’s toffee shop, when the fake Dyson goes flat.

Eve and I fall to what we thought would be our death and landed in the skip bin outside, but then come the cake.

What possibly could be worse?

Laying head first in a rubbish bin, covered in what was supposed to be, your mother’s cake, while your dog is kidnapped on Mars?

Could this day get any worse?

Eve and I made our way home, completely exhausted and emotionally drained.

How would we be able to face our parents?

As we entered the front door, Eve was expecting a screaming match that she played out in her head.

But it seemed calm, mother was dancing in the kitchen, singing her favourite song.

Eve and I both looked at each other confused.

Mother was excited to see Us, thanking us over and over, pointing at the kitchen bench. You wouldn’t believe it! love and behold it’s the Mars Gigantic, chocolate cake, but how?

I run into the living room and what do I see?

That crazy sausage dog Rollo, asleep in his bed.

All in a days work for a little sausage dog Rollo!

But what will Rollo get up to tomorrow?