Locked Out

Maria was in year 9 at high school. She wasn't all that smart. She was in all the lowest classes. Well at leaast she couldn't get any worse. That was a good thing at least. Although, Maria did have two good friends at school. Ellie and Dana.

One afternoon, on a Friday, when Maria arrived at her doorstep, she realised that she had lost something. Her keys. She had lost her keys. Her keys! 'How dumber could I be?' She wondered. 'not a lot.' Her mind told her back. She searched her bag a second time. Then a third, a forth, a fifth and finally a sixth. Still no keys. Her mother wouldn't be home for hours, and her father was overseas. She could always just sit and wait outside the house until her mum got home.

No. Maria wouldn't do that, she couldn't. So she went to her grandparent's granny flat in the back of the yard. They were off holidaying at the minute. Over in a nice sunny spot. Maria found the secret key to their flat that her grandmother had shown her.

She let herself in and searched the flat for a set of keys. Maria tried each set on each lock on her house. Not a one worked. So, out of sheer desperation, Maria went back into the flat and found one last set of keys. That opened her grandfather's shed. The shed, contained a spare key to Maria's house.

So, delighted that she had found what she had been desperatly searching for, Maria grabbed the keys in one hand, locked the shed with the other set and gone to her house, where she finally set foot into the nice, warm cosy little abode. She then returned all the keys to their places, and that was that.

No one knew anything of the matter, until many years later, Maria told her grand daughter of the situation when she was upset about locking herself out of her own house.