Our "Stand By Me",-- part2

We had decided to go on an adventure.

The problem was that we didn't know what to do.

We discussed it.

It needed to be something remarkable, great, and cool.

But we, 11 years old and in the 5th grade at the time, couldn’t come up with a good idea.

I was enthusiastic about the plan.

But Kazuyoshi strongly opposed the idea of physical activity.

He advocated that adventure doesn't always mean physical activity.

He said that cycling along the Yamanote Line was boring and far from cool.

I was also enthusiastic about the plan.

But Shuzo strongly opposed the idea of testing our trivia knowledge.

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Then I brought up the idea of testing our courage by going to a nearby graveyard.

There was a rumor in the neighborhood that a ghost appeared night after night there.

But Shuzo and Kazuyoshi denied my plan saying that we could not go out late at night.

Pretext is used when you do something in order to do something else

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They alleged that it would our parents would pick up on the fact that we were doing something strange.

We woke up to the fact that making it a "secret” would turn our adventure into a real one.

We became convinced that the most important point to make this project remarkable was the fact that it had to be done in deep secrecy, especially from our parents.

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In the heat of our argument, our plan began to take shape.