Henry's World

Dinner was very subdued that night. Everyone was thinking about that day, and what changes needed to be made. It was Dad who spoke up first. "This ends another Pugtacular. Tomorrow we go on with life. This was a fun and eventful day." " Not fun for me ", Bucky thought, " Not fun at all ". Dad looked at them as if to say, "don't challenge my statement." A round of applause followed his statement. Dad took a bow. "Nicely said,"said Mom."Nicely said," she said again, passing a plate of mashed potatoes to a very hungry Dad. "Well, I said it from my heart. We need to settle down after Pugtacular. It was disappointing, yes, but not enough to make us cry,"Dad said through a mouthful of potatoes."Mmmmm, these are good!" No conversation passed through the rest of dinner. Everyone was busy enjoying dinner. Eventually, everyone drifted off to bed. Bucky lay awake for a while. He thought about the day ahea

I was sweating and panting on the bench. It had been a tough basketball match, and me and my brain desperately wanted to rest. I fell back against the wall behind me. Something about the day, or the game was bothering me. My brain released the game and I began to daydream. In my head, I was stepping out onto an NBA-size court. I could see all the markings on the court. At the top of the key, there was the three-point line. I could see a heavy-marked free throw line. I could see more hash marks, more than you could ever count. Best of all an announcer was yelling like Boston announcers did, "At point guard, Henry!" I could hear the tremendous roar of the crowd as the announcer yelled my name. I was playing point guard, my dream position. Playing point guard was a dream come true. I couldn't imagine why the crowd would roar so much. I didn't score many points. but still in my head, the crowd roared. I opened my eyes as a chilling thought struck me, what if we didn't

Finally we reached our last stop. I was refreshed by an "accidentell" nap I had taken when we arrived at this last library's parking lot(it was in a basement.) I was literly bouncing off the walls. That wasen't good because we had to walk 3 stories. Soon however, we were walking in the shadow of the library. The library was gigantic. It had 3 stories full of books galore. I guessed it had about 1,000 books or maybe 2,000 books. It looked to be maybe 60 feet tall and who knows how wide. When you enter there is a long hall. The floor is made out of granite. Preety soon you come upon a rug. On the sides of the rug there is a bunch of check-out machines. The check-out machines lead you to the first section of the library. This is the childeren's section. I buried myself in it well mom went to the adult section. You know that expression"time flys when your having fun"? Well, time did fly well I was having fun. All to soon mom came to

About 2 weeks ago mom and I went on a so called "Library Hop." We visited different libraries near our house. Our first stop, our usual library, near San Jose, held no sign to show what was to come. Mom asked for something to take a picture of, as she would at every stop. She wanted a souviner to show we went to all these libraries. Her pictures are very good. Mom has this thing that allows her to take good pictures. So off we went, to different libraries, and mom got a picture at every one. But nothing really, really, really entresting happend untill the last one.