Dolan Tales: Nolarella, A Cinderella Story

The Accident

"You can't catch me, Ethan!" Grayson exclaimed, running to the other field laughing.

"Of course I can!" Ethan shouted, chasing Grayson happily.

"Hey, can I play?" a much smaller voice asked from the corner.

Grayson and Ethan stopped in their tracks. It was their triplet, Nolan Dolan.

"You must be out of your mind, Nolan!" Grayson shouted.

"Well, I was thinking, maybe we could play this game called hide and seek," Nolan said, playing with the zipper of his brown coat.

"What's hide and seek?" Grayson and Ethan inquired in unison.

"It's this game where one closes their eyes and counts to one hundred, and the other people hide," Nolan exclaimed, holding pride in himself.

"Yeah, uh, we were just thinking about playing that right now," Grayson stated.

"Yeah," Ethan said.

"But like five seconds ago, you didn't know what hide and seek was!" Nolan exclaimed.

Grayson and Ethan began to yell insults at Nolan.

"STOP SCREAMING!" Grayson screamed at Nolan.

The two were both screaming at the top of their lungs, while their silent triplet stood there in his odd clothes.

We wore glasses with black framing on top, a brown plaid jacket, a yellow shirt, brown plaid pajama pants, and white ankle socks, heavy with dirt.

That was pretty much his every day attire, despite the efforts of his mother trying to get him to wear different clothing.

The boys were still screaming at Nolan, when red and blue sirens flashed from the distance. Nolan, being quite observant, shouted, "Grayson and Ethan, look, police cars!"

Lisa and Sean Dolan, their parents, should have been home by now.

The red and blue lights got closer to their house, and out came a bald police officer.

"Boys, I need you to pack your things and get into the car..." the bald officer instructed.