The boy who would not play outside

 

In the beautiful town of Peddie lived a boy named Demea. Demea lived with his parents and two sisters. They went to school together everyday and after school they worked on their homework after which they were free to do anything they liked.

While his sisters enjoyed playing outside a lot, Demea always preferred to stay indoors playing video games. No matter how much his sisters pleaded with him to come outside, he would refuse and rather stay indoors playing his video games. He feared all the insects flying outside. He believed he would get stung by one. He was also scared of their neighbour’s dog who always ran around in excitement whenever the other children played outside.

One day while Demea was engrossed in his play indoors as usual, he felt something crawl up his leg, but he was too distracted to check what it was. A few minutes later he felt it again and he took a quick look at his feet and screamed loudly. There was a long line of ants marching up his leg and crawling straight into his body!