Ricky The Detective Writers workshop

Ricky The Detective                             Jayden

Mar.5

Ewert

Once upon a time there was a kid named Ricky. He was just a normal kid who liked toys. Ricky was short, brown hair and blue eyes. His favourite colour was green and his favorite type of cake was confetti with extra sprinkles on top.

One day Ricky was playing with his Hot Wheels and was about to land a trick that was taking him forever. He leapt off the couch with car in hand, onto the kitchen table, hopped off, threw the car and landed it on the counter. Slowly it was rolling, and he had to hop down fast to make sure it did not fall off the edge. It was on the final inch when he stuck his hand out and snagged it before it fell. As he was placing his car back on the counter, he noticed there was a Toys ‘R’ Us flyer on the countertop. He immediately forgot what he was doing and peered at the piece of paper. He was amazed by the deals and walked to his chair to be more comfortable.

He immediately started flipping through the pages at a lightning pace. Then, something caught the corner of his eye. It was 100 toy soldiers. They were green and able to stand on their own, that made them a deal of a lifetime in his mind.

He hopped out of his chair, sped down the hallway and took a sharp right turn into his parent’s room.

“Mom, Dad, this flyer says that there is a bag of 100, able to stand on their own, GREEN, toy soldiers for only $7.99!

His parents were confused why he was so excited about a little bag with plastic people. They simply said,“Well your birthday is coming up soon so we will have to see.”

The suspense of whether he was going to get them or not was killing him but, he would have to wait.

The very next day he set up a little spy station which included a sound magnifier in case his parents were talking about it, binoculars to get a better view, and a bounty of snacks to get him through the day.

Then, his mom came home, looking suspicious, holding a bag behind her back. Ricky couldn’t see the label on the bag and his binoculars weren’t cutting it either. Trying to be stealthy, he tiptoed downstairs when his mom was taking off her shoes, but it was still around the corner.  Before he could get to the bottom of his stairs, his mom made a swift move and hid the bag in her room. Unfortunately, his plan too find out his present, had failed.

A couple of weeks passed and all of his efforts to figure out his gift had failed yet again. Now, it was his birthday! The people attending were him, his mom, his dad, little brother, big brother, little sister and Grandma and Grandpa. Ricky was super-excited to see his family and extra-excited to see the mountain of gifts he would be opening like any 8 year old would be. Ricky was itching to open his gifts and his mom could tell. She gave him permission and he took no hesitation for that offer.

He started opening all the gifts and wrapping paper was flying everywhere! He had already gotten: Hot Wheels, a Spider-Man action figure, a soccer ball and some more items. Yet he had still not gotten the item that was at the top of his list, the toy soldiers. Then his parents handed him their present. He opened it and it was them!

His parents were showered with hugs. Ricky did a little dance he was so excited. He immediately started playing with them. He was playing and playing, but then he got hungry and went for a snack. His favourite was Pizza Blasted Goldfish crackers but they were out so he had to settle on the regular flavour.

When he came back one of his toy soldiers, Colonel Randy which was a soldier that he previously named, was broken! Snapped right in half. Ricky was devastated and wanted to figure out who broke him as fast as he could. He set up an interrogation area.

He draped a bedsheet over a few chairs and set up a lamp that would point into the suspect’s face just like in the movies. As he went through the people attending the party he narrowed it down to either his mom or his grandpa. The thing that made his believe it was one of them was they both strangely, kept looking at one of their feet and wincing in pain. This made him believe one of them had stepped on Colonel Randy.

Then it dawned on him, his mom was in the bathroom at the time and she had rolled her ankle the day before! It had to be his grandpa! When Ricky explained his reasoning and exposed his grandpa, he finally confessed he did it. Ricky was so mad and threatened so as to not invite his grandpa to his next birthday,   until his grandpa said that he wouldn’t get him a gift. Ricky forgave him and all was good again. Colonel Randy was glued back together and everyone lived happily ever after. THE END