Journal #2 Chapters: 4-7 Perspective:Dill

10:15 am The great summer has just started. I am so excited to go to Maycomb to be with the woman I love most, Scout, and I guess I'm a little excited to see Jem. I am going to ask Scout to marry me when I get there. I'm a little nervous I think she might laugh at me because of how short and fat I am. Oh how do I hope that she will love me like I love her and I also hope that she will say yes when I purpose to her. I wonder where I will find the money to buy her a ring oh I guess I'll just buy her one of those candy ones you get at the corner store. I really do hope she takes me seriously otherwise my heart will be broken forever. Well that's enough about that. Right now I'm on the train heading for Maycomb and I am more excited than anyone can imagine. I need to think about games Scout, Jem, and I will play once I arrive hmmm I think that the Tarzan game is definitely a possibility. With most of our games we use picture shows and act them out. One day I want to be the star of one of those picture shows and I want Scout to be the co-star and one day hopefully we will produce our own picture show together. I also want to get a chance to see Boo Radley every summer I go to Maycomb I never see him but this time will be different I think that Jem and I need to utilize all the ideas we've come up with until we see Mr. Arther Radley. I really don't know why this is so important to me but I don't know something inside of me makes me really want to see him. Well the train is about to stop so I have to go but I'll right about my first day in Maycomb later on tonight. 9:00 pm Today was such a good and fun day. It was even better than I thought it would be. When I got off the train, Auntie Rachel and I got to ride in a taxi all the way to her house from the train station. It wasn't very long of a drive but it was an honor to be riding in Maycomb's very only taxi. After that, I ate dinner and then I was off the play with Jem and Scout. As we tried to figure out what we should play, I said that we should play Tom, Dick and Sam because that would mean that everyone of us would get a good part and not feel mad because we got a little, unimportant part. Scout ended up not wanting to play it because she was tired of it but I just could not see how she could get tired of that great game. Then Scout suggested that Jem made up a game and he said that he was tired of making them up. I was amazed at how tired they were on the first day of summer break. Then I had this really strange smell that I had only smelled about twice before and the people I had smelled it on died. I smelled it down the street toward the Radley place and I did not like that. I told Scout and Jem about what I smelled and I think that made them scared so they told me to hush as if I were making it all up. Then Jem told me about the “Hot Steams”. He explained that its someone that isn't able to get into heaven and they just walk around on roads that people rarely drive by and if you walk through one of them, when you die, you will become one also. I almost peed my pants of terror until Scout assured me that it wasn't real and it was just a story. I think Jem got kind of frustrated with how Scout contradicted him. Then we began rolling in the tire and that made me feel bad because I couldn't even fit in the tire so only Scout and Jem could play. Jem ended up pushing Scout into the Radley's yard and I was scared for her life. I was expecting Boo to come out any second to get all of us but at least I would have seen him before he ate me and I died. Well it's time for me to go to sleep so I can get ready for the next adventure filled day ahead of me.