bed. She said a short “hi” to her family who had grown accustomed to her fleeting out the door. Kayla ran outside in the front yard toward the weeping willow tree. She looked upward toward the fork in the tree and saw a familiar sight—a message tied to a limb.
Kayla climbed up to retrieve the message and opened it up to read what was writ:
T’is the day before Valentine’s
And the latest surprise you will find;
Near the tree of cherry blossoms
If you are not all thumbs!
Kayla ran toward the backyard screaming with glee. Bird and squirrels and other living things moved out of her way as she did flee. Kayla approached the cherry tree and looked up and down it as far as she could see. She saw cherries and blossoms and limbs and leaves, but nothing like a message if you please.
Kayla was stumped for she saw nothing. She looked up and down one more time when she spotted a bird holding a piece of paper. “Oh, no” she cried. “What am I going to do?” Kayla clamored and hollered and yelled and screamed, but the bird did not seem to mind anything. Then the bird had enough and flew away with message in tow. Kayla was disappointed and turned away when all of a sudden she saw her prey. He flew up above her and dropped from his beak, the message he was holding so she could take a peek.
Kayla grabbed the paper in mid-air and opened it hurriedly. She laughed out loud as she read:
If a bird did not take
This message from you.
Then it’s not too late
To read this clue!
On the back of the message wet with bird beak stuff was the following clue: “What you seek you will find behind something that tells you the time.” “Tells the time” Kayla repeated. Clocks tell time she thought and so do watches; but there were no clocks or watches outside. “Oh!” Kayla screamed. “Yes there is. The sundial in the corner of the yard!” Kayla ran as fast as she could to the far corner of the yard. She stopped in front of the sundial and found another box as before wrapped in aluminum foil. Kayla unwrapped the foil and opened the box. Inside she found two passes to the local cinema. “Hum?” she thought. “I wonder what I shall do with these. Perhaps my secret admirer and I will go to the movies if you please!”
It was the eve of Valentine’s Day now and Kayla lay in bed thinking happily of the mystery and adventure of the past 6 days. She smiled as she recalled the surprises she discovered: a tiny doll wearing a big red heart; a rose encased in a glass snowball; a heart-shaped chocolate chip cookie; a golden wrist bracelet; and now two passes to the local movie theater.
Kayla felt very special for the attention shown her by her secret admirer. She wondered, “Will I ever find out who is giving me these surprises?” Kayla was lost in her thoughts and drifted off to sleep.
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