Ellie's Adventures With Pumpkin

Ellie was packing up his little suitcase when Sam came running into the room with the good news. “Guess what, Ellie, I’m going to summer camp this year. It’s on a lake and there are canoes!” Sam was so excited, at first, he didn’t notice what Ellie was doing. Then he saw the suitcase and stopped talking about summer camp. “Is it time for you to go, Ellie?” “Almost,” Ellie answered. “Pumpkin will be here to get me soon, and I want to be ready. I will miss you Sam, but I can’t go with you to summer camp, and you know I will be back in the autumn.” “I know,” Sam said, trying to smile. “You always come back, and you have so many new stories to tell me about your adventures every time. And this year, I will have stories to tell you about summer camp.” “I can’t fit my pillow into the suitcase,” Ellie said. “So how about you keep it for me and take it to camp with you.” “Yes!” Sam was happy about that idea. “It will remind me of you. Your pillow is so soft and smells like peanut-butter cookies. I know you hide cookies under your pillow, Ellie. I hear you eating them at night.” Then Sam continued telling Ellie all the details about the summer camp. His friend, Evan, would be going too, and there was going to be games and campfires and marshmallow smores. For sure, they would have so much fun! It was just two days later, very early in the morning, when Pumpkin knocked at the door. Ellie was all ready to go. Sam was still sleeping, so Ellie gently ruffled his hair and whispered goodbye leaving his ‘peanut butter cookie’ pillow next to his little friend on the bed. Then closing the front door quietly behind him, Ellie turned to Pumpkin and said with excitement, “We’re off on another adventure!”