bananas and brown sauce, chapter one hopes and dreams

chapter 1 Hopes and Dreams

Hubert Peter Prattly was 10 years old , and he hated his name, so he got everyone to call him H.P after all he also loved hp brown sauce. Hubert was quite an odd boy in as much as he liked brown sauce on everything he ate, his mum would say " Uck Hubert, how can you eat that", but all hubert would say is he loved being different.

H.P only had one freind and his name was Sabastian, or Sooty for short, Sooty's dad wanted him to be a doctor like him, but Sooty had other ideas, he was clever, very clever and all he wanted to do was play computer games all day, and perhaps he could even earn a living from it one day. H.P was a bit of a daydreamer, and didn't really know what he wanted to do at all.

One afternoon HP was on his way home from school, and this particular afternoon he was laden down with homework, yuk how he hated homework, he hoped he didn't get too much next week, as it was his birthday, there was his house no 42 with the bright red door, he found his mother in the kitchen making dinner, she always made dinner early on a Tuesday, as it was the one night she went out, out to bingo. "Hi mum, " said hp flinging his satchel down on the tiled floor. "Hi sweetie, how was school" she said grabbing him by the shoulder and pulling him towards her to plant a kiss on his nose. "Uck mum don't kiss me, its embarrassing" he said wiping his sleeve over his nose to remove the kiss. " I'm out tonight love, so be good for grandma, and do your homework" she said "Yippee" screams hp "Grandmas coming"he squealed running round the room in excitement. HP loved his grandma, she was funny, kind and the best there was, she had lost grandad last year and she was missing him, and hp always tried to make her laugh. HP
's mum called him for dinner and they sat in silence while they ate, mum was just putting the last of the plates in the dishwasher, when the doorbell rang, "Its grandma, she's here" squealed HP as he ran to the door there standing on the doorstep was grandma, dressed in a bright blue dress, rain mac blue plastic hat and bright pink wellies "Hello dearie" she said coming in and wiping her feet on the mat, "hows my big boy then" she said taking off her wellies and putting on a pair of bright orange fluffy slippers that she had bought with her. "I'm fine, grandma, just loads of homework" said hp , grandma winked a wicked wink, and smiled and went to find his mum.
HP waited for his mum to go to bingo then he sat at the kitchen table to start on his homework, maths he thought, he hated maths, he wished sooty was here sooty was brillient at maths, he got started, only to be interruppted by grandma, who came and sat beside him "Hubert, if you could have one thing for your birthday what would it be" she said HP stopped and thought carefully for a few minutes, then looking at grandma said "A dog, a small dog that i could look after and love" he said. "ok dearie" said grandma, " we shall see what we can do" she said with a smile. HP got on with his maths wishing that his grandma could get him a dog, the only problem would be mum, he thought mum had always said on previous occasions " when your older" hp was going to be eleven next week and he thought that was old enough. He finished his homework and went upstairs to his bed he was tired, grandma came and tucked him in, she sat on his bed and started to tell him a story about a little dog called Branston but 3 minutes into the story hp was fast asleep, dreaming of his birthday and the dog he really wanted.