"Wait and See"

Story by Julia, Wall / Illustrations by Heath, Mckenzie (2007)
Thomson Nelson, Australia

Adam and Zak are twins look very similar, so people are always getting them mixed up.

One day, Zak had a nice idea, and talked it to Adam. But he didn’t talk his idea’s contents to him. He just say, “Wait and See…”

The next day, he went to the hairdresser, and he changed his hair color red instead of blond. When he walked out of the hairdresser, he thought there was no way people would mix up them.

When he backed home, he met the first person seeing him, his sister Abby. He thought she was surprised at his hair color. But she laughed when she saw his hair color, and she said, “You will have to wait and see!” After that, somehow, his mother and father said same thing as Abby. Because he was said to stay at his room until dinner time by mother, he went to his room, and he wait for the dinner time.

“Dinner time” said his mother. When he walked down the hall, they are wondered each other. Their hair color were same each other, red. Everyone started to laugh. “What are you boys going to do?” their father said. “How about if dye one of you back to blond?” said Abby. They nodded that. Finally, Adam was dyed his hair back to blond by Abby, she put some gel in Zak’s hair instead. Zak’s hair was looked like a hedgehog.

Then, Adam was called ‘Blondie’, Zak was called ‘Spike’ by friends.


I was not able to understand that Adam was called ‘Blondie’, but I was not able to understand that Zak was called ‘Spike’. Why was he called ‘Spike’? If his hair looks like a hedgehog, they should call him ‘Hedgehog’. I can’t understand that.

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