Our writing prompt for last class was to make up a name with the initials G.L.S., pick an age between 3 and 10, and then make up a bunch of characteristics for this character. I chose Gretchen Liane Smith for my name. She's 8 years old, and as you'll soon find out, very adventurous and rebellious. So here goes :)

Even though my dad yelled at me not to do it again, I couldn't help jumping off the roof of our shed into the huge pile of fluffy snow below. I mean, this was enough to break my fall, wasn't it? Dad didnt know what he was talking about when he said I would end up hurting myself. Parents are so boring... they never know how to have fun. So with this mind-set, I once again scurried up the trellis to the roof of the shed and picked my way to the edge where I peered down on the Gretchen-imprinted snow bank below. I flinched as my dad's gruff voice once again barked at me to "get down from there" or he'd ground me until I'm 80. My confidence in my mission to prove to my old man that really, this escapade was completely safe and maybe he wants to try it? grew by the second and without glancing at my tomato-faced father again, I launched myself into the waiting snow bank, where I promptly fell onto my still-healing arm that I had broken not 3 months earlier. With a wail, dad came running and rushed me to the hospital. Guess he was right after all, I guess...

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