I crossed the yard just as i spotted Catherine and her friends come out their back door. I didn't have to signal my friends as well because they were soon out of my house as we all converged under the Eiffel tower.
It wasn't fully constructed yet, but that wasn't that problem. The problem was that it was standing at the back of Catherine's house and neither side was willing to let the other have the tower.
Catherine and I had been best of friends as far as i could remember. We were always in and out of each others houses and our parents knew we were best of friends because we did practically everything together.
I and Catherine had always dreamed of visiting the world, but our dream vacation was visiting the Eiffel tower in Paris. Visiting Paris soon became an obsession in both houses to the point our parents didn't know who wanted it more.
We'd been planning to build a tree house with the tree at the back of my house but my dad had cut it down when we found a snake on the tree one night. Trying to placate us, he'd decided to cut it into logs of wood for us and encouraged us to build our very own mini Eiffel tower.
This sounded like a good project and after a lot of research, we soon had a construction plan to build something resembling the original Eiffel tower. If we couldn't go to Paris, then we'd bring Paris to us.
The construction started and everything was going fine until Catherine decided to invite her friends from school to join in the construction. I wouldn't have minded but they practically changed our original plans and I was sure we'd probably get something resembling a witch tower.
My pleas to Catherine to stop her friends from coming over to help anymore fell on deaf ears. So I'd angrily proclaimed that I was no longer sharing the tower with her.
This didn't stop her friends from coming, so i also invited my friends from school over. The result was chaos as both sides kept on ridiculing the ideas of the other side. The tower project was officially at a standstill.
Technically the wood was mine because it came from the tree in my house, the space we were building on was technically Catherine's since we were building in her backyard. No one was willing to back down.
Our standoff continued for a few days and we virtually just meet at Catherine's backyard after school to stare each other down. Today was no different as both sides looked at the other side menacingly until both our parents showed up.
They'd noticed our behaviors over the past few days and had finally decided to step in. They told us about the history of the Eiffel tower in France and how it attracts romance from around the world, infact Catherine's dad had proposed to her mum there.
We all agreed to put our differences aside and with the supervision of the adults this Tim around we were finally able to build our mini Eiffel tower.
I'm inviting @hollameadey to join in this contest. Here's the link to the post
Wow building one's own Eiffel tower. It sounds like a great project.
Thank you for joining pic1000. 👍
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I'm happy you guys were able to push your differences aside, with that you all were able to achieve your goals