"We're all waiting for you at Port Miller Swimming
Pool, Alison. Are you coming with
us?" ___1___ the voice on the telephone. "I can't. I
___2___ my mother I would weed the garden
today,"
replied Alison. She put the phone ___3___ a few moments
later and returned
to the garden sadly. As she began weeding, ___4___ she
could think of was
her friends having a glorious ___5___ at the swimming
pool.
"Alison," called her mother ___6___ the house suddenly.
"I overheard
your ___7___ with your friends. Why don't you
___8___
them at the pool and do this later?"
"Really?" ___9___, Mom!" said Alison gratefully.
She was out of the house in a few minutes and headed
___10___ Port
Miller Swimming Pool. However, ___11___ the pool, Alison
could not find
her friends. She searched all ___12___ the place but
they were nowhere in ___13___. She also looked for them at their favorite
places the bowling alley,
the shopping centers ___14___ the fast food restaurants.
However, they
___15___ to have vanished completely.
When she ___16___ home a few hours later, her mother was
waiting
___17___ her at the front gate. To her surprise, the
garden was spick and
___18___.
"After you ___19___ the house, your friends came here to
look for you,"
her mother explained. "They had ___20___ to help you
weed the garden!" |