Hidden
Abba and Sonat had been having a lovely time staying with grandma Ikapati and grandpa Mapulon. But it was the last afternoon of their stay and they needed to pack to go home to mummy Idianale and daddy Dumangan the next morning. They told grandpa what they were going to do.
“What?” grandpa said. “Don’t you want to find the hidden treasure?”
“Like pirate’s treasure?” asked Sonat, a look of excitement on his face.
“That’s right,” grandpa said. “It’s hidden in a treasure chest somewhere in the house or the garden. Would you like to try and find it or would you prefer to pack?”
“We’d like to find the treasure!” cried Abba and Sonat.
“Well, you’ll have to be quick,” grandpa said. “Its half past three now. You can only be allowed until four o’clock to find the treasure and then you’ll have to give up.” Grandpa added, “The treasure hunt starts now.”
Abba and Sonat raced off to try and find the hidden treasure.
They started with the garden where they looked in the shed, under the apple tree and in and around the shrubs and flowerbeds. There was no sign of the treasure anywhere in the garden.
They came indoors and looked downstairs first, searching behind curtains and underneath tables and chairs. But there was no sign of the treasure. They did the same upstairs, also looking under all the beds. They still had no success.
“I know,” Abba said. “We’ll try the attic.” They got hold of a torch and climbed the ladder to the attic. Abba and Sonat had a good look round in there but could find no sign of any treasure. They climbed down the ladder from the attic and made their way downstairs.
“We’ve tried everywhere,” Sonat said in disappointment as they got to the foot of the stairs. “I don’t think we’re ever going to find the treasure.”
But just at that moment Abba’s sharp eyes caught sight of something metal gleaming inside the partly open cupboard that was under the stairs.
Abba and Sonat scrambled into the cupboard and heaved out a chest. It was locked but when Sonat went back into the cupboard he found a key. Sonat tried it in the keyhole of the chest and it worked.
“We’ve found it! We’ve found it!” Abba and Sonat cried out.
Abba and Sonat rummaged through the contents of the chest where they found lots of old jewellery – necklaces, broaches and bracelets; and a couple of old watches – one for a lady and one for a man. They also found a little blue car and a little green one; and an old book about a rabbit, called “The Adventures of Nibbles.”Grandpa appeared beside them. “You found the hidden treasure just in time,” he said, looking at his watch. “It’s almost four o’ clock.” Phew!
Abba and Sonat had a lovely play with the things they had found in the treasure chest. Abba tried on some of the jewellery and the lady’s watch, which ticked when she wound it up. Sonat put on the man’s watch but when he tried to wind it up it didn’t make a ticking sound. He played happily with the blue car and the green car. Then grandma sat down on the sofa with Abba and Sonat and read them “The Adventures of Nibbles.”
After that it really was time for Abba and Sonat to pack so that they would be ready to go home the next morning. Grandpa said that as a prize for finding the hidden treasure they could choose two things each from the treasure chest to take home to keep and to show mummy and daddy.
Sonat couldn’t decide between the blue car and the green car and in the end chose both of them. Abba chose the lady’s watch and the story book, “The Adventures of Nibbles”, which grandma had read to them.
Snuggled up in bed that night, Abba and Sonat agreed that the treasure hunt had been great fun and the prizes they had won at the end of it had come as a wonderful surprise. It had been the perfect way to end their fun-filled stay with grandma and grandpa. They soon drifted off to sleep and dreamed of pirates and rabbits and cars and ticking watches and, of course, hidden treasure.
