Lemonade

There was once five kids - Matthew, Alfie, Donald, Sophia and Lily.

They had a beautiful treehouse of their own.

' Oh no!' Sophia cried. ' Everyone, come here quickly!'

Sophia's urgent call brought the four kids to her. ' What happened? Did you get hurt?' Matthew cried.

' It's not anything with me.' said Sophia. ' It's the treehouse! Look!'

Everyone peered, she was right.

It was braking.

' We need to repair it.' said Alfie. ' It had been our most loved treehouse, and I wouldn't like it broken.'

Everyone had agreed that they had to fix it.

Unfortunately, their piggy banks were empty.

Donald was shaking his so much everyone was scared he would drop it.

' It's useless.' said Lily, ' We don't have anything except the few pennies we got from our father when we woke up early.'

' Yes..' said Matthew, as he sat on a rocking chair to think. Everyone was sitting and thinking for a few minutes, when Matthew exclaimed which made everyone jump, ' I know, I know! I've got a brilliant idea!'

' What is it?' Donald yawned.

' We can make a lemonade stall. We will make a chart of how much money we got each day.'

' I will take the pennies and buy a bunch of lemons,' Sophia said, ' Do we have enough sugar?'

' We've got a bunch full! I don't think it's needed.'

So Sophia left to the market.

Meanwhile, everyone was carefully working on the stall.

' Alfie, carefully, ah, yes, put the table down here now.'

' I'll get a jug and a couple of plastic cups.'

' Lily, will you also make a sign written " Lemonade"?'

' Yeah, sure.' Lily said, and left to work.

It had been a few minutes when Lily was done.

Lily took a stool and tippy-toeing, on it, tried hanging the sign.

' Cool!' Sophia said with a bag of lemons. ' Looks awesome so far! I have got lemons and some straws.'

' Well, said Donald. ' I froze some ice, we can keep it on the lemonade.'

Once everything was ready, everyone waited patiently.

Their first customer was a lady in specs.

' Well, how much for one glass of lemonade?' The lady said, looking at all of the kids.

' Five dollars for each cup.' said Lily, roughly.

' Do you want some ice in it?' Donald piped.

' Well, alright.' the lady blinked.

Sophia took one cup, and started squeezing lemons.

Then, Lily added the sugar, Donald kept some ice, Matthew poked in a straw and gave it.

The lady gave five dollars and tasted it.

' This is delicious!'

Next, an old man came with two small girls.

' How much for one glass of lemonade?' said the old man.

' Five dollars each.' Matthew said.

' Alright. I will have three glasses,' he said, carefully taking fifteen dollars from out of his purse.

And so it went.

Sophia squeezed the lemons,

Lily added sugar,

Donald put few pieces of ice,

Matthew kept the lid, poked the straw in and gave it.

The man liked the lemonade also. ' Yummy!'

And so it went again and again.

But, the kids were a little irritated and the question of how much it was.

So they kept a sign "five dollars each".

The five were earning a lot of money already.

' By the end of the week, I think it will be enough.' said Donald.

On Wednesday, one of their customers was a circus boy.

He was juggling three balls as he spoke.

' It's five dollars?' He said. ' My name is Oliver.'

' Tomorrow I am going to keep my circus over there,' He said, pointing to a big open area.

' Okay.' said Matthew.

The boy took out two more balls from his pocket, yellow and green, and juggled with those two more.

The next day it was Thursday.

Today, the kids found it really weird that they had no customers so far, no matter how much they waited.

Suddenly, Donald spotted a crowd in the distance.

Curious, they went to check out.

And, it Oliver!

He was getting ready for his performance.

' I've got an idea!' said Lily, and ran off to the boy. ' Oliver, can we keep our stall near your circus?'

' Sure!' The boy said.

Soon, the stall was shifted inside the circus.

There were many people, and most were drinking lemonade and watching.

' I am so glad there is so much people.' said Matthew, looking at everyone's purses.

They were bulging with money and pennies!

The next day, they closed their stall and decided to repair their stall.

But for everyone liked their lemonade, many people asked to keep the stall.

' Well, alright.'

And now, they had a lemonade stall.

They have so much fun.

What's the best thing? - They make friends with the customers.

One day, while Matthew was in the shop buying some tools for the treehouse, one lady came and told him, ' I love your lemonade, why not you make a juice shop?'

' Wait, are you the boy from the stall?' said the man selling the tools. ' I have tried your lemonade, I liked it too! Please make a juice shop!'

With everyone pleading him, now, they had a big shop.

With the money they had, they bought a little bigger shop.

Everyone liked it, and the ratings were mainly four-to-five stars.

And, their best customer was Oliver.

He would come everyday to their stall and pay extra and refuse change.

And, he was teaching them juggling.

Once, Oliver gave them a kitten.

It was a black cat. ' What do you want to name it?'

' Nightstar?'

' Twilight?'

' Starry?'

' Shadow?'

' Wait! Why not we give the choice to Lily? She chooses nice names.'

Lily looked at the cat. ' Maybe.. Sparkle?'

' Alright! Sparkle it is!'

With the help of Oliver, they trained Sparkle.

And, now you know what it does?

A girl with her big sister came to the stall.

Before they could ask what they wanted, Sparkle let out it's paw for a handshake.

The younger sister giggled. ' I like your cat.

' Her name is Sparkle.' Matthew said.

Well, but the main thing is that they have a lot of friends now.

Old people, young people, adults, they don't care.

They just spread their friendship through a glass of juice!