Abbey Underwood's Journal (it is not a diary)

Dear Journal,
Obviously, I belong to a really strange family. As far as I can remember it had always been like this; Dad the nut case, my mom the oh so responsible woman who backs him up when he gets into trouble, Noah... well himself and me who seems to be the audience for this comedy. I have always thought of how lucky other kids are to have such a normal life however now, I believe that normal is boring and in order to have fun, you have to be willing to push a couple o rules and stick with what you believe in (at least that's what my dad calls it.) You see he recently was imprisoned for the crime of sinking Dusty Muleman's ship. However, he said that he did it because in order to save money, the Coral Queen was dumping it's holding tanks into the water which was not only polluting sea life, but the kids who would go and play at Thunder Beach. Me and Noah have always had a little agreement: he would watch out for Dad and make sure that he wasn't doing anything wrong and I would look after Mom. It has worked until now. Dad has got himself and mom has thought about arranging a divorce (I was eavesdropping!) Noah had tried to step in by getting the attention of an man who had worked with dad on Dusty's ship but then he disappeared. Now it was my turn. All I had to do was catch Dusty in the act and then the coast guards would believe my dad about what he was doing. So, I did what I had to do. After acting out a fake stomach ache, I sneaked out my bedroom door while my family was eatin' dinner. I didn't even tell my brother! I took my dad's video camera and headed toward the docks. It was now late- about 10:00 and I soon got to the cape and I spotted the target. It wasn't hard getting on to the boat because that bald man that Mr. Muleman had hired, was asleep in his car like always. The hard part was finding a place where I could shout this essential video. I chose to hide in the Crow's Nest (a higher part of the boat used for spotting fish) it had a good view of the deck. It wasn't much later until I heard voices which I later found out to be the crew members dumping the crap water of the side. It was hard to get a view because I couldn't find out how to use the zoom feature but at the time it looked like a Spielberg Grammy winner. After witnessing in full perspective of them in the act, I took off at full speed. I didn't look back but kept on running. Getting closer to the highway, I decided to turn and hide into the woods and stayed there for a while. I saw many cars go by and then one passed that looked exactly like my dads and even made me turn my head however I then laughed at the thought of my whole family all cramped up in a car in the middle of the night. Then, a half an hour later, after heading home, I found out that it wasn't a joke and they actually were looking for me. You can't imagine how good I felt when I handed the tape to dad and told him what I had been up to. Later, that feeling was gone after watching some polar bear go through a snow storm. The tape was crud! it was so dark that he tape didn't pick uo anything but two moving objects that kinda looked like June bugs. This worthless adventure in the end was still fun and inside I was actually proud of myself.