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The Babysitter
As I begin to taste the salty water running down my face
I begin to get an exciting feeling in my lower abdomen,
I remember that the longer I am in this position that tingly feeling grows.
It was never here before and now I was forced to hide in this place,
This tight, hot, uncomfortable situation,
I kept thinking back to that loud scream that echoed, “Here I come”
And screams from the babysitter that echoed
“Run DASHA! Get you brother and hide! ”
While I was in this position I kept whispering to my brother Jake,
Saying, “Jake stop breathing so hard she is going to hear us”.
But Jake was only 3, so he never listened before and especially not now.
“Screccccccch! Screcccccccch!” the old floor cried, and I knew at that moment we were caught. One of us would soon be “it”.
So I signaled Jake and we both ran for base, with the hopes of not becoming
tagged, by Mary the babysitter and being “it”.
For the next round of hide and seek.

It was orignally assigned as part of my creative writing class to submit a type of writting into a contest, I then decided I wanted to create a poem with a unexpected ending for teenagers and "The Babysitter" is what I created