One day when I was coming home from school I thought of a trick I could do to fool Mister Mosely. I figured it would be really funny. It wasn’t. And it was the last trick I ever played on him.
It was the day we got to bring home the masks we’d been making all week in Miss Digby’s art class. I couldn’t wait to show mine to Mum and Dad. It looked a bit like the Joker from Batman, only better and scarier and with a lot more colours on it. I thought it would be pretty funny to fool Mister Mosely with it.
When I got to the top of our street I hid behind the big fence there and checked around the corner. Mister Mosely was waiting in his usual spot. I put on my mask and I pulled my hat down really low and walked towards our house.
When Moe saw me coming he started getting excited the same as he always did. I waited till I got about halfway down our street then I waved and called out to him. As soon as he heard my voice and saw me waving, he came galloping up at me, which is exactly what I knew he would do. That’s when I did this really stupid thing.
When Mister Mosely got close, I lifted up my head so he could see the mask and I stuck out my arms and growled at him all at the same time. I guess it was a bit of a mean thing for me to do, on account of Mister Mosely being so happy to see me and everything. But I was only doing it as a joke and I never thought anything bad would happen. I just thought Moe would get a bit of a fright and it would be funny. But it didn’t end up being funny.
When Mister Mosely saw the scary mask and heard me growl, he got a fright all right, a giant one. He tried to stop dead on the spot but his long legs got all tangled up and he almost crashed over. Then he sort of swerved really fast to run away from me. I started to laugh because he looked so hilarious and because I’d fooled him so bad. But when Moe swerved to get away from me, he ran straight out on to the road.
I was still laughing when the car hit him.