Heavy-Heart Anouncement (1) the news

Heavy-Heart Anouncement (1)

 the news

Friends, I have some unhappy news to share. When this sleepover began just a few hours ago, I had every intention of staying through the night. Like many of you,
I greatly looked forward to goofing off until midnight or so and then waking up to a full spread of chocolate chip pancakes. Alas, things don't always work out the way we plan. It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I inform you I have asked my parents to come pick me up early.

Please trust that this was a very tough decision. A number of factors came into play, not the least of which was my reluctance to abandon the group partway through our Mario Kart tournament. I would love nothing more than to keep playing as Bowser, but after weighing my options and excusing myself for a brief cry in the upstairs bathroom, I made the difficult choice to arrange for my transport home.

If you're wondering how it got to this point, I understand. I've asked the same thing of myself. In part, it's because I became frightened during our viewing of Jurassic World, especially the part when the T. rex fights the Indominus rex. Even after we had moved on to chasing Ryan's cat around the house with his remote-control car, I began to think of the dinosaur-related nightmares I might have tonight and started to panic.

No doubt this was all followed by the fact that I'd drunk an awful amount of root beer and eaten a lot of Twizzlers, and my tummy hurt.

I tried to tough it out at first. You may recall my enthusiasm as we discussed whether to watch Power Rangers Megaforce or play flashlight tag. While on the surface, it may have appeared that I was having a good time, in reality, the opposite was true. The thought of playing outside in the dark, and my attendant fears about how there might be a guy with a knife hiding out there in the bushes somewhere, made contacting my parents inevitable.

VOCAB: 

intention záměr | goof off blbnout, dělat kraviny, ulejvat se | *alas naneštěstí ale | work out dobře dopadnout, vyjít | pick sb. up vyzvednout někoho | tough těžký, tvrdý | come into play objevit se, začít působit | *reluctance nechuť, zdráhání se | *abandon ztratit, opustit | partway (through) v průběhu, během | weigh zde: zvážit | brief krátký | arrange for připravit (se) na | frightened vyděšený | chase sb. honit se za někým | remote-control car autíčko na dálkové ovládání | no doubt jednoznačně, bez pochyby |*root beer kořenové pivo | tummy břicho (zdrobnělina) | tough it out vydržet
| recall vybavovat si | *flashlight tag hra na honěnou s baterkami | on the surface ze zběžného pohledu | attendant s tím související | inevitable nevyhnutelný 

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