Let's Play Pretend Novels & Stories

Massimo quickly took off his coat, placing it in his lap, before Millie could walk up to him “I never realized that your mother and I could have so much fun together.” “We have to do this again!” Millie jumped in place, far from noticing Alice's red cheeks “And tomorrow too! And on my birthday! We can pretend that your chair is a rocket and that we are astronauts! Mommy, mommy! Can we do this for my birthday? Can I dress up?” she turned to hug Alice's legs, who just picked her up. “We can think about it. We still have week until then. But for today, I think Massimo is getting tired enough. We need to let him rest so he doesn’t end up sick again.”

She walks into the kitchen and texts me back. “Pretend to take the trash out back and go. Something is off with those guys. They look like they want to eat you or something.” I send a quick reply. “Ok, what about my stuff?” I pretend like I’m doing something, not looking up at them at all. I need to get out of here. “Trash bag, put your stuff in one and pretend it’s trash to take out, then run.” She replies and my eyes widen as I look for a clean trash bag and I find one. I bend down and open the bag, stuffing my things inside it.

It’s wonderful! “Let’s play never have I ever!” Lynn suggests a little too cheery for her normal state. “What’s that?” I question, looking to Karter for an answer. He pulls me into him, “if you’ve done something someone says, you drink, but if you haven’t done it, you don’t drink.”

He was grateful to be able to go outside with his friend once again. They moved to the door and Randey glanced down with a grimace. “Are you wearing those again? ” She looked at her sandals and frowned at him. “Yes. I told you, Na’Himara don’t wear boots!” He sighed, accepting her stubbornness. They hurried down the steps, across the field beside the house to the trees beyond. They spent the next few hours playing a variety of games, including play-acting at being a true Black Knight and Na’Himara, fighting off the forces of some inhuman, terrible foes. They were, of course, victorious, though Keyla didn’t like it when Randey pretended to cut the head from the non-existent Troll that led the

Jason Peters opened his eyes slowly; he was beginning to come out of his extremely droopy state finally. His eyelids fluttered as though they were in the making of a slow motion video. All these were the after effects of staying up the whole night playing video games and at the same time hiding from his mom to avoid any of her reprimands for his"unethical behaviour". He was allowed to be up till at least 9pm during holidays, but he stayed awake till a whooping 2am the next morning.

Uncle voiced reached out and I had to pause on the steps hearing those words. Pretend? Yes! We all pretended before her all this time and everyone did it without missing anyone and she is doing the same now. She is showing her anger this way and I don’t know from when she knew everything but I can’t let her be like this and make sure she let out everything. With that thought, I left their house after nodding at her parents and told them I didn’t tell her the truth which made them think how could she know everything then. *Mihira Pov*

Before I can stand aside, his big toy truck knocks my toes and falls on its side. "Ouch!" I yelp in pretend pain. Jeremy's face frown in pity. "I tried to warn you," he says and guilt fills his face. "Gotcha!" I yell as I jump onto the bed and grab him by the arm. "I faked it!" I tell him and put him on the bed. He starts giggling as I drive his toy truck over his belly. "Boys?" Amy calls us. We immediately stop our childish play and stand upright. We try to organize the bed but it won't be as neat as Amy left it.

It wasn't fair that someone this cold could smell that good. "There are a few things you need to know if we want to make this work. This..." He gestured to the both of us, "is make believe. There is a possibility that my parents will be visiting, we have to pretend like we are madly in love with each other in front of them."