The next morning, Mr.
Tom went upstairs to wake up William but he was already up and dressed. They
both went downstairs to drink some tea and eat breakfast. A few minutes after
they had done, there was a knock on the wooden door. Mr. Tom walked away from
the tub of heated water that he was washing the dirty dishes in and made his
way to the wooden door. The door was knocked on again but this time it was
louder, “I’m coming; I’m coming,” he muttered grumpily to himself.
The door had been swung
open before the person could knock again.
“Hi Mr. Tom,” the
visitor said to him. It was Zach.
Mr. Tom replied with,
“What do you want?” as he looked down on the little boy.
“Is it ok if William
comes out to play I want to teach him how to ride a bike on the field,” Zach
said very confidently.
Mr. Tom looked back and
called, “William, come here someone is here to play with you!”
William rushed to the
front door. He was pretty surprised that someone actually came back to play with
him. No-one ever liked him or said they did. Sometimes they would lie and say
that they liked him but then never talked to him again or tried to avoid him.
“Ok you can go and have
some fun,” he said to them.
“Ok, thank you Mr. Tom,”
William replied politely.
William and Zack
started walking to the field together, “but be back soon ok, it’s going to’
start getting’ dark soon,” Mr. Tom said just loud enough so they could hear
him.
After about 7 minutes
they finally got to the fence on the side of the field border.
Zach started to untie
something from the fence.
“What’s that?!” William
said in shock and confusion.
“You’ve never seen a bike before…?” he
questioned him.
“You ride it, do you
want to learn how to?” he said with a big smile.
William was a bit
scared of the bike.
“I-I would love to
learn how to use it and I have never seen the bike….”
He looked at his shoes
feeling embarrassed and tearing up. Feeling bad Zach was bright red, “I-its
f-fine just don’t cry please…...,” he said trying to comfort him.
He got onto the bike
and started to ride it around him in circles, “Look,” he said hoping it would
cheer him up.
Willie wiped his eyes
and smiled, “I wasn’t crying of sadness.”
“You weren’t?” Zach said in relief.
“N-no I was j-just
thinking about how you are such a good friend and that you actually came back
to play with me today like you said you would…” he said with also a bright red
face. Willie was thinking, ‘Why am I saying how I feel, I don’t think he wants
to hear.’
Zack was blushing and
said, “W-well off course I would why wouldn’t I come back?” Zach turned away
from him.
“Ok do you want to
start to learn how to ride the bike then?”
“Can you stand on one
leg and not fall over?”
“I-I don’t know I’ve
never tried it…” Willie said to him.
“Try,” he said
confidently.
William stood on one
leg and after 7 seconds he fell onto the field.
“Good for a first try!”
he said in shock he said this to make him feel better, 7 seconds isn’t that
good but I can’t tell him that.
“R-really!” he said
proudly.
“Here…” he held
Williams hands.
“Try again.”
Zach’s hands felt so
soft. As he was telling him tips William just about managed to hear them
because he was wondering how he kept his hands soft.
Once again William
stood on one leg and after a few minutes on each leg to warm up he let William
hold on to his shoulders for about 20 more minutes. When William was holding
his shoulders, he felt the jacket he was wearing it was almost as soft as his
hands.
“Ok now try without my
help,” he said to William.
He tried on his own and
held it for 1 minute and 12 seconds although he was quite wobbly.
“Would you like to try
the bike now?” Zach asked William.
“Sure,” he said.
Zach showed William all
of the stuff he needed to know like how to stop, how to go and how to turn left
and right.
He helped William get
on to the bike.
“I will hold the side
of the bike so you don’t tip over, ok,” he said to him.
William felt more
comfortable that he heard that Zach will hold the bike for extra balance support.
“When you are ready you
can start pushing the peddles on the bike.”
“Ok,” William replied.
He started to push the
peddles and not long later her was moving quite fast.
“If he gets faster I
will haft to let go…” he thought.
“but would he trust me
still…?”
“Zach” William said.
“Yeah William.”
“You can let go now,” he
shouted to make sure he could hear him.
Zach let go and William
was doing fine.
