Running through the dark night in a furious panic my body fell stumbling down the hill in a forward summersault before halting. Some kids thought hide and go seek was a game for the feeble minded, nevertheless; I loved it. I still continued to meet at our local park every other Saturday just for this very reason. As I jumped up and broke for the base, with all my might I hustled for the position of safety and succeeded.I yelled, “Home free”. Playing hide and seek through out my neighborhood was one of the most enjoyable things for me growing up as a child. Every person in this block new of each other and it was a very friendly neighborhood. Which made this the best block to play such a game, when you need to utilize other people’s front yards.This wasn’t any ordinary game of hide and seek. Where one-person counts and the others hide. This was intensified by creating teams where one team being the hunters who protect home base and the hunted who are trying to reach it before being tagged by the hunter. It was a hot summer night and all of my friends and I had decided to get a big game of hide and seek going down at the park. This was going to be the biggest game we had ever organized. This game consisted of about 16 people, which was a lot for the size of our neighborhood. This had been what we all had prepared for. All those late nights in the neighborhood strategizing and organizing plans to safety. Finally their was chance to prove our skill at this game, hunters versus the hunted. I remember a couple of my friends that I played with that night. Alicia, who was the ruffian of the hood, was fourteen and a lot bigger than I was. Chris, who was the slimmest and the tallest of the bunch, we called him the beanpole. Andrew, who had been a long time childhood friend that always wanted to be in the army; this game obviously gave him the inspiration. Lastly, I remember Tess. She always had a thing for su...
