I wanted to go outside and play with this beautiful red tractor. It looked brand new it was nice and shiny with a candy apple color. Momma told me not to go outside because it was too cold and I was still in my tractor pajamas. I told her I wanted to play with that shiny tractor but she told me no. I went and ran up the steps to get dressed. Red was my favorite color so I put my red sweater on. I looked in the bathroom mirror but I couldn’t see anything. All I could see was my dirty blond hair and my bright blue eyes. I decided I was ready and told mom that I am dressed. She ignored me again so I didn’t listen and I went outside anyway. When I went outside I ran to the tractor and hopped on. …show more content…
I thought to myself that it was my lucky day because one I love tractors and two the keys were in it. When I saw the keys in it I remember from Friday at school that my friends at Jefferson Middle School were talking about this terribly mean tractor. That tractor ran over their house and knocked it to pieces. But this didn’t look like a mean tractor so I turned it on and it roared like an angry lion and pitch black smoke clouded around me. Maybe this was the mean tractor? But what was it doing by my house? My mom ran out of the house and yelled at me. I Tommy Gerrard was in the most trouble I have ever been in. I told my momma that there was this mean tractor that destroyed everything in its path. Earlier that week it destroyed my neighbor’s house and I was worried it would get mine. Momma told me not to worry because everything’s okay. When I looked out the window there was somebody sitting on that mean tractor, he had a name patch that read Richard. I went outside to talk to the man named Richard the mean tractor but he told me to get lost because he had business to take care of. I asked him what business and he said “I tear down houses who aren’t making payments, now get lost”. I went inside since that driver of that mean tractor told me to get lost. Inside I had my momma make me some deliciously rich hot coco topped with little marshmallows and fresh whipped cream. I told her what Richard said he was tearing down people’s house that are behind on payment. I have never saw my mom cry so hard. I overheard my mom talking to her friend Cindy about how things were going downhill since we are in the drought. Since we were in the drought my mom had lost her job. And since she did, we have been really behind on our payments for our house. I went to take a nap on the couch when I hear this ginormous