It was just a normal morning. Well, almost normal. Except that it's the holidays. I slept in till 8:00. Now I'm looking for the cereal. Actually, it's always in the cupboard.Whatever. There's some light buns in the frost. I'll put them in the microwave. Apparently, hours go by.I get bored. I'm going to lie down on the blue sofa in the living room. There's a TV there. Just stupid kid stuff. There's a channel that's playing My Little Pony. Another one was showing the latest news. Then the buns were finally ready. I made them with strawberry jam. That's how the day began. But it didn't go on like that. It started when the phone rang. I answered it. "Hello, this is Marie Ryther," I said, "who am I speaking to?""Hi Mie", said the voice on the phone, "Up so early? I thought you always slept till 9:00!"I had to laugh. It really did. "Yeah, yeah. So, what's up? Who am I talking to?""Haven't you got it yet, pussycat? Well, I'm breaking it down. It's Emma. I was wondering if maybe you'd like to come over to my house today. Anna, Edith, Emely and Felicitas are coming. And I was going to ask Jasmine and Isabella. Are you free?"I thought for a moment. I had nothing else to do today except for my biology homework. But then again, biology could wait until tomorrow."OK, I'll definitely come by then. "I'll just let my parents know, and...""Okay," Emma interrupted me, "bye!"I said goodbye for a second, then hung up. Maybe this holiday wouldn't be so boring after all.Fortunately, my parents agreed. So not quite. That's how you look at it. You could say, "Great, I'm seeing Emma!" But I think, "No way, I have to take my stupid homework home." But whatever. It's better than sitting around here doing boring homework and maybe listening to radio music.Half an hour later I left. It wasn't very far to Emma, you could make it by bike in five minutes. But because I had forgotten the code of my combination lock I had to go by scooter. And because the scooter was terribly slow, it took me fifteen minutes instead of five minutes.I was almost the last to arrive. Emely, Jasmin and Isabella were still missing. Although even I was almost ten minutes late."They said they might be a bit late," said Edith. "I saw them outside the shop. Emely and Jasmine needed something else for their history lecture. I think it was thick, big leaves. That's what Isabella told me."Anna wondered. "Isabella? Isn't it Felicitas' turn in the fall? I mean, it's only summer.""That's right!", Felicitas said next to me. "We are going to give a talk at the beginning of October. It's about ..."Better not tell us yet," Anna interrupted her. "We'd rather be surprised, wouldn't we?" We agreed."Yes, don't argue!" Edith returned to the Isabella theme. "Isa just wanted to come with her. Her lecture is still in October. I think we're only allowed to give a lecture in groups of two as it is. Otherwise there are too many. "If I imagine us all giving a lecture in groups of eight... I don't really know what the outcome will be." We agreed again.After less than an hour, they were still not there. Slowly we became impatient. And we slowly wondered where the three of them would stay so long. Because it doesn't take that long to go shopping quickly.Emma took her smartphone out of her bag. "I'm just gonna call Isabella and see if everything's okay. "I think something terrible might have happened to them," she said."If something bad is happening, I don't think Isabella will answer," Felicitas whispered to me. I had to laugh softly. She was right!"Don't answer it," Emma said now. "I'll call Jasmine again." Emma quickly dialed a number.We waited. At first, nothing happened. We were about to be disappointed when Jasmine's voice came out."Hi, guys.""Where are you?" asked Emma."I'm in the big meadow. You've got to see this. There's something like an earthquake here. You have to see this."What field?" I asked."Don't be angry with me. "I had nothing to do with it...""Emely?" asked Edith."No, but...""Isabella?" Anna asked."No," said Jasmine, "it's none of us. I don't know who it was. The bad news is that it's in the meadow of our ... how do you say it best?""Gang cabin," Emely said from the background."Right," said Jasmine, "in the meadow where our gang's cabin is. There's something in the ground that makes funny noises. Everyone assumes it's some kind of earthquake."Oh great, I thought, under the meadow on which our gang hut rests a monster that makes strange noises and will soon give us a great earthquake in which our beautiful newly built gang hut is banished under the earth. Well thanks a lot!"Okay", said Anna, who probably thought the same as I did, "Then we can organize a few diggers and co, which will free our gang hut from the underworld."Okay," said Edith. "then you can organize your weird diggers and stuff for all I care." "That sounds more like a new series of the goo-goolies my brother collects," Felicitas remarked. "I think in Monsterfish and Co. or whatever it's called, he has at least thirty packs...""You know what they say about packages, not just trading cards and..."Does it really matter now?" asked Edith. "Jasmine said we should look into it. So are you coming with me, or should I just watch it with Jasmine, Emely and Isabella?" We came along. I still didn't know what Felicitas wanted to say about the thirty fish.***For ages we had heard a loud grumbling."Kind of scary!" Anna had mumbled behind me. She was sitting (or rather standing, my scooter is not such a luxury car after all) on my scooter, because she only had to walk one house further to get to Emma. Therefore she had nothing to drive. And the garage key, where all the cars were stored, she didn't have."I agree!" said Emma, who was now passing us."Come on, Marie, let's pass Emma!" cried Anna. Unfortunately we didn't get very far on my scooter. I'd say it was definitely worthy of a snail. But not a scooter!But there we were. At last! Emma was the first. We parked our scooters and bicycles at a bicycle stand at the beginning of the meadow.Since we entered the meadow, the mumbling of the upcoming Earthquake's loudest ever. Actually, of course, I thought we were standing right on the spot!The further we walked on the meadow towards the crowd, the louder it got. Actually also logical. But what I found rather illogical was that suddenly a huge hole opened up. And the grumbling stopped. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)