That's Rubbish

Amelia was a young girl who lived in a normal house, on a normal street, with a normal family. She'd always lived in tat house and had never seen anything unusual except for the day when she saw a moving van in front of the house across the street.

Amelia was walking home from school when suddenly she saw the blue and green removalists truck drive down the street and turn at the corner. It looked like a huge bug that had to be squashed at once or it would ruin a perfect day.

"The Harrisons are gone ALREADY?" cried Amelia as she bolted up the street and bounded onto the front porch slamming the door behind her.

"MUM! Why did they go!? They didn't tell me! WHY? MUM! Where are you?"

She was angry so angry she ran upstairs and landed on her bed.

She stayed there all night, sulking in her pillow.

"Why? Why? Why?" She mumbled over and over again.

Just then she heard a noise coming from the driveway where the new family had just moved in. Amelia jumped off her bed and made her way over to the windowsill. A short, plump girl with brown hair, clattered and clashed her way over to the wheely bin and looked around anxiously. Amelia watched in surprise as the girl opened the lid and looked inside. She then checked again to see if anyone was watching and then dragged the bin up the winding driveway and into the house. Amelia was so tired she couldn't care less. She made her way over to her bed and gradually fell asleep.

The next day she told her mother about the disturbance. Her mother thought nothing of it and quickly pushed her out the door.

"Have a good day at school, darling. Goodbye."

Her mum jumped in her car and was off in a flash.

Amelia was just walking past the new girl's house when she noticed a small, white bone lying on the their driveway. She picked it up and studied it.

" must have a dog." She thought, and hurried off to school.

That afternoon Amelia noticed the small, fat girl standing on the front porch with Amelia's mother. As soon as the girl saw Amelia she said goodbye to her mother and ran back across the road to her house.

Amelia's mother frowned, "Why are you so late? Sinneade wanted to play with you. So I told her you would go over tomorrow morning!"

She looked as cross as two sticks with poor Amelia.

"But mum, she's so weird!"

"I won't having you talk such RUBBISH! Amelia, you're going over to Sinneade's tomorrow! I think she's a LOVELY GIRL!" Snapped mum.

That night after dinner, Amelia bounded up the steps and into her room. She sat next to the windowsill and waited. Once again the short, plump girl made her way over to the bin. Once again she looked both ways, opened the lid and took the whole bin into the house.

The next day, Amelia was woken by her mother towering over her.

"You'd better get ready. You're going over Sinneade's toay!" Her mother bellowed.

Quickly, Amelia put her clothes on and grabbed some breakfast on the way out.

Amelia knocked on the door of the small, blue house.

Sinneade answered the door, "Hi I'm Sinneade."

Eventually, they got talking and became really good friends. Finally, Amelia remembered about the rubbish bin.

"Hey Seannede, what's with you taking your bin into your house?"

A smile spread across Sinneade's face.

"Go and check."

Amelia walked over to the bin slowly. She lifted the lid and saw white bones protruding out over the top of the rubbish bin. Amelia shrieked, "Sinneade, do you know that you have HUMAN BONES in your bin!!!"

Sinneade casually walked over to Amelia and said with smile on her face.

"Of course I do! I was feeling a bit peckish this morning when the postie came by!..."