Lucey was eight when she first met johnny smith ,she was walking home from school one day when she decided to take a short cut through a patch of trees that she had seen the older kids going through many times before on their way home from school ,they always seem to be laughing and running when they came out the other end .Lucey lived on a housing estate where there was’,nt much greenery or tress ,and she always wanted to see what it would be like to go through that short cut where the trees closed in the road it looked so peaceful ,lucey started walking it was lovely she thought she was completely in a diffrient world when all of a sudden she heard a voice saying HELLO little girl lucey looked over and there leaning over a wooden gate was an old man ,hello she said my names lucey .pleased to meet you he said my names johnny smith. There was three stone steps leading down to johnny smiths gate and lucey sat on the second step from there she could see over his gate and into his garden it was lovely with trees going all the way down his path .lucey started talking to johnny asking him all sorts of questions and lost track of time ,she said her goodbyes and asked could she come again tomorrow to sit on his step to chat ,johnny smith gave her the biggest smile and said he would be delighted to chat again ,so the next day and everyday after that lucey sat on johnny smiths step chatting and asking him about his life lucey loved hearing his stories about the war and when he was a little boy and all the things that made him happy .then one day the older kids came passing by they started calling johnny smith names and taunting him lucey looked at johnny smith and the sadness in his eyes made lucey so angry that she stood up and shouted leave him alone that johnny smith is my granddad and if they did,nt stop she would get her father after them ( luceys father was a big man and all the kids on the estate were terrified of him ) that put a stop to them and
Lucey was eight when she first met johnny smith ,she was walking home from school one day when she decided to take a short cut through a patch of trees that she had seen the older kids going through many times before on their way home from school ,they always seem to be laughing and running when they came out the other end .Lucey lived on a housing estate where there was’,nt much greenery or tress ,and she always wanted to see what it would be like to go through that short cut where the trees closed in the road it looked so peaceful ,lucey started walking it was lovely she thought she was completely in a diffrient world when all of a sudden she heard a voice saying HELLO little girl lucey looked over and there leaning over a wooden gate was an old man ,hello she said my names lucey .pleased to meet you he said my names johnny smith. There was three stone steps leading down to johnny smiths gate and lucey sat on the second step from there she could see over his gate and into his garden it was lovely with trees going all the way down his path .lucey started talking to johnny asking him all sorts of questions and lost track of time ,she said her goodbyes and asked could she come again tomorrow to sit on his step to chat ,johnny smith gave her the biggest smile and said he would be delighted to chat again ,so the next day and everyday after that lucey sat on johnny smiths step chatting and asking him about his life lucey loved hearing his stories about the war and when he was a little boy and all the things that made him happy .then one day the older kids came passing by they started calling johnny smith names and taunting him lucey looked at johnny smith and the sadness in his eyes made lucey so angry that she stood up and shouted leave him alone that johnny smith is my granddad and if they did,nt stop she would get her father after them ( luceys father was a big man and all the kids on the estate were terrified of him ) that put a stop to them and