Chalk Grid Hop

I slipped past the front gate and trotted down the sidewalk until my sneakers skidded to a halt in front of a giant hopscotch grid! Someone had drawn ten huge boxes in fiery magenta and lemon-yellow chalk right across the paving stones. *Gasp!* Challenge accepted! I scooped up a smooth, flat pebble from the curb and tossed it with both plush hands—*tink!* It landed smack in the middle of square three. *Hup, spring!* I bounded into square one, leaped clean over three, and planted both feet wide across four and five—*whump!* A tiny puff of chalk dust poofed around my ankles. I stuck the landing without wobbling once!