I wrote a shorter version of this on one of my first English quizzes in my senior year of high school. I had to pick 8 words to use from the choices given and make a coherent paragraph. (Words that are in bold are the words or versions of the word I chose for the paragraph.)

The ingenious arbiter, who was really the twins' father, stopped to consider something for a moment. For two hours now, the poor man had been subject to the pleasant background noise of his precious twin girls squabbling – again – when, at last, he couldn’t take it anymore. There just wasn’t enough patience in him to last any longer, and he had a lot of work to do besides. So now, he had a wonderful and very original solution to stop their fighting.

An aesthetically trimmed hedge maze sprawled across the manor grounds just beyond the French doors that led out to the back patio, and he pointed in that direction once he had the attention of the girls, who immediately stopped fighting when Daddy dearest walked in the living room.

“I want you two to stop fighting for a moment and look at me. Isabella, don’t give me that face. Kate, sit up straight. You girls will solve your problem, whatever it is, another way this time. You will navigate that maze out there together – without me. Find the center of the maze and bring me back two of those Queen Elizabeth roses we planted around the fountain there.”

He saw that Isabella, the mouthier of the two, started to protest, but he cut her off, saying, “I am asking you two to do this because, frankly, I am tired of your squabbles about everything and nothing. It’s time you two learned some teamwork and cooperation. Now go.” With a stern face, he gestured again at the doors, which were bathed in the warm glow of late afternoon.

Kate, the less demure of the two, did not demur but opened one of the doors and ran out as fast she could. Pouting, Isabella slowly trudged after her sister and slammed the door after her.

He waited until the two were at the maze entrance to lower his arm and allow a broad grin to stretch his face. Chuckling to himself, he couldn’t wait to see the look on his wife’s face when she discovered two beautiful roses in a vase on the dinner table when she came home. Of course, he thought rather optimistically, an added extra would be how the twins would regale their mother with their adventure, thought to be such a bane at first. Whistling a merry tune, he returned quite contentedly to his office and shut the door.