Journal #2 - Chapters 4-7 - Perspective: Jem

Today I was just walking from school and I see Scout chewing gum. She tells me that she just “found it” and that there were two pieces. She just had this face on and I can tell she was hiding something. Something so big not even a chameleon can hide it. Now I'm standing just thinking, Where was my piece of gum? Then I started thinking if she just found it, then she didn't know where it was or has been. For all she knew it could have been in someones outhouse. I told her to spit it out immediately.
Then school is over and summer is starting. Then Dill arrived to Maycomb again. I was really happy, now I won't be bored for the whole summer. So now Dill, Scout, and I started to play some games. Scout wanted to roll in some big old tires. Yawn. I thought that was a malignant idea. I didn't want to cause I was too big for that kind of stuff. Then she said she wanted to go first, Now I'm annoyed cause she interrupted me. Now it was unanimous for me that I should give that tire one my my strongest push I ever gave. I wanted her to go roll down to the street, but she ran into the Radley House instead. I saw her, but she wasn't moving. She was just wondering where the heck she was. I yelled that she has to get away from there. She got up and ran back. I asked why she didn't bring the tire ands he told me to go get it. I got mad so I ran and got the tire back.
Then Calpurnia came out and yelled “Lemonade Time!” So all of us went back to the house for a drink if lemonade. I had a great idea for a new game that we should play. Scout didn't want to play, It looked like she wanted to evade this game, so automatically in my head I think “wimp”, but then out in the blue she wanted to play. I was thinking she only did this so she wouldn't look like a wimp. We started to play this game almost every day now. Once we were playing this scene and I needed to go get some scissors. I got them from Calpurnia's sewing machine drawer. We started to play again, then Atticus caught us playing. I was trying to keep that on the down low and hoped Dill and Scout knew that I was trying to do that.
I was starting to get bored of Scout cause she got boring. She doesn't want to do anything anymore. She just hangs out in the tree house wondering what Boo Radley is doing and the rumors about him. I felt sad and sorry for her because she's all alone and bored by herself instead of being bored with us. It is kind of her fault cause she doesn't wanna do anything anymore. Then Dill and I had an idea. We were thinking that we give a note to Boo Radley and hope that he answers it. Since Scout had nothing better to do we asked her to be the lookout while we were putting the note onto the Radley Place. I was thinking of putting it on a pole and then have it go onto the house, but then the note was stuck. Then Atticus caught us and said that we should stop tormenting Boo Radley. Ha. Sure.

One Night Scout, Dill and I went to the Radley Place. When we got there we got Dill to look up into the window. He couldn't see a lot because of the curtains. I got onto the porch there was this shadowy figure, a man with a hat on. It walked passed us a couple times. After that we just booked. We all ran outta there, and we all heard the sound of a shotgun being fired from behind us. And as always nothing can just go regularly. As we were running Scout fell. We ran back to the fence, I tried to get under it but my pants got caught. I had to forget about my pants and just wiggle out. We were running and I was just halfway till I'm in my birthday suit. We walked home so we wouldn't seem suspicious then Atticus was there and asked me where my pants were. I was just thankful because I got the prince of running right here. Dill said that he won my pants in a game of strip poker. What a day.