Alrightey. In no time Adi had the planks laid across the threads or rungs so that he was able to hop on up to the rest of the stairs. The higher he got, the shakier the stairs became. Literally, yo. Like the thing REALLY did shake so he had to slow his pace. But he eventually did make it to the top, giving a whoop of triumph when he made it to the roof. WOOT!

Now. WHERE was that flag?

Adi pushed his glasses more snugly up the bridge of his nose as he turned in a full-fledged circle, scanning the roof. A flag shouldn’t be too hard to spo- OH HEY! THERE IT WAS! Straight ahead, was the fluttering flag. The Puffer started towards it in a jog, his eyes fixed on his prize. But wait! He halted suddenly.

WOAH!

There was a HUGE gap separating him from the flag. DRAT! Adi shouldn’t have known that things wouldn’t have been so easy. What to do now? What to do? If only he could be like Peter Parker in that first Spiderman movie, able to leap across great lengths. Unfortunately and regretfully he was not Spiderman so he would just have to make do with another alternative. Speaking about alternatives… his left hand had just absently touched the rope that was still draped around him. An idea occurred to the Puff at that moment.

His brown eyes scanned the part of the roof where the flag was. AHA! That’s what he looking for! There were a few rung like thingies protruding from the structure where the flag was situated. Adi uncoiled the lengths of rope. Thankfully the distance from where he was standing to the flag wasn’t THAT big so he wouldn’t have to knot too much pieces together for him to swing across. Actually, it only took two lengths to get the job done.

Getting the knotted rope hooked on one of the rungs was a whole different story. Even with Adi’s good aim (which stemmed from his many years as a cricket bowler), it wasn’t until his sixth try that the rope finally caught. Wheee! Time to test the rope against his weight now. With a good amount of healthy tugging, he determined that everything was safe enough to make the trip across.

[b]“Here goes nothing. I love you, mom, dad, Uncle Amir, AJ and Benny,’’[b] Adi muttered. You know, just in case things didn’t go his way and he fell down… down… down. Nah, that wouldn’t happen. Put on your usual positivity, Adster! He did just that and was oooooffffff!

What fun he had swinging over! The rope held his weight, thank the great, majestic Hippogriffs! Anyway, he dropped safely onto the other side of the roof, falling forward on his knees as he lost his balance but the next second, the energetic man child was scrambling to his feet, grabbing the flag!

SUCCESS!

After he was done celebrating with himself, he needed to realize he needed to find a way down. LOL.