7th Heaven (Draft)

Blamed for being blank.

SMASH!!

“Who did it?” Annie's voice roared down the hall.

“Ruthie” said Simon “She had her basketball inside again”

“RUTHIE CAMDEN, you get down here young lady”

confused and half awake “Yes mum?”

“How could you honey? I specifically told you all, no ball games in the house”

“huh? But mum, I just..”

“you just got yourself grounded for a week now go to your room”

“somewhere where I was all morning” replied Ruthie

“Did I say a week, make that two” Annie angrily growled.

Ruthie marched back upstairs to her bedroom still confused as to how she ended up getting grounded for being woken up by her mum, but as she walked passed she noticed a stone and Simon with his slingshot and straight away knew that she got blamed for something she never did.

“Your grounded for a week, make that two, for playing inside, I didn't even do anything Argh!” mimicked Ruthie, just loud enough for Eric to hear.

“whats wrong honey?” “just go away dad” “you sure you don't wana talk about it?” “Dad, just GO AWAY!!”

“Good Morning Honey” “Good Morning Annie, Ruthie? What happened?” replied Eric, “oh just the usual Ruthie, playing with her basketball inside, and broke my grandmothers vase, argh this girl sometimes worries me Eric” Eric then embraces Annie “Honey, remember, that vase is only something materialistic, our daughter was made from love” Anne then releases and long sigh and just hugs Eric.

After talking over the event in that occurred in the morning, Eric stood up and took their cups to the sink and notices something outside, “Um Annie, you might want to see this” Annie stands up and walks towards Eric, “You said Ruthie had her basketball inside, her ball is outside next to the hoop”

Right then, Annie was confused and tried to fit in the pieces to her confused puzzle, like the pieces to the shattered vase. “If Ruthie didn't have her ball inside then it means … SIMON”

Annie more furious than when she grounded Ruthie, searched the whole house for Simon but it was too late, he had already left for his holiday programmes.

While Annie was working on dinner, Ruthie had sneaked into Simons room and retrieved a few of his things and messed it up to make it look as if someone has broken into his room.

BANG!!

“Who was that?” yelled Eric, “Simon Dad” replied Ruthie.

Right there and then Eric and Annie understood that Ruthie was playing revenge on Simon, which he deserved and called her downstairs to talk.

“Ruthie I am so sorry, its just that, I've been under so much stress and that vase just broke the ice, I am so sorry, but throwing mud back onto your brother isn't going to help the situation, its just going to make it worst, by doing so, when he returns I will talk to him” they all embraced and were happy again.

Simon and his friends returned home, and as he walked in Ruthie walked upstairs from having a snack and just grinned at him.

“Simon, in here, NOW!”, Simon knew something was up and sent his friends home instead.

As Simon walks into the kitchen he throws his bag on the floor “woooh I had a hard day on the courts, and man am I hungry, whats to eat mum?” “Simon, you want to eat? Here” She places a platter in front of him. As Simon removes the lid the broken vase was on the platter, “umm? Whats going on?” “Simon I can't believe you, you break this vase, then blame it on your sister, how could you firstly lie to me, and then blame someone else for your wrong?” “I'm sor..” “Save it young man, you will glue piece by piece back together, until then you are grounded, you will not join anymore holiday programmes OH by the way, someone broke into your room, so while your at it fixing up my vase, fix up your room too”