Here is the short story I wrote for my English course, it took me quite a long time and a lot of effort to write it, so I hope you enjoy it:-
Jamie was riding his bike through the park. Although it was June and the weekend before
his school was due to break up for the summer, the weather was cold. Jamie was wearing his wellingtons, his jeans
and a red and green striped jumper
Jamie rode his bike through the park, his red
hair blowing in the wind. As he peddled,
Jamie suddenly noticed he was being chased by a small Jack Russell dog. Jamie
increased his speed to try and get away from the dog.
Suddenly Jamie skidded, he veered off the
path directly into the pond. As Jamie
plunged in, something very strange happened, it was dry under the water. Jamie fell down to the earth. It was very dark, just enough light to
see. Jamie landed on the ground gently.
He looked up and realised he was surrounded by some strange looking people.
The people around him were called Ceeiabs
(pronounced Chi-abs), although Jamie did not know this. They were the size of humans; their heads
very similar to humans, but everyone was wearing a beanie hat, the hats were
all different colours. Everyone of the
Ceeiabs had seven arms and one leg with two wheels at the bottom.
There must have been about fifty Ceeiabs
surrounding Jamie. They were all taller
than him. Jamie felt scared, he did not
know what was going to happen. He had
lost his bike and all the Ceeiabs were staring at him, but not saying anything
or making any noise. That made Jamie even
more scared. Some of the Ceeiabs started playing with Jamie’s hair.
Just as Jamie was beginning to panic, one
Ceeiab came towards him from out of the crowd. He was exactly the same as the
others, except he was not wearing a beanie hat, he was bald. The bald Ceeiab waved to the others to go
away, but they just stood and stared at Jamie. The Ceeiab then pushed Jamie
sideways through the crowd, Jamie was terrified. The Ceeiab used his seven arms
like swords to make a path through the crowd. The other Ceeiabs were so
surprised they did not fight back.
Once through the crowd Jamie began to run, he
could go much faster than the Ceeiabs on their small wheels. But when Jamie glanced back, he saw the
friendly Ceeiab being chased by all of the other Ceeiabs. Jamie didn’t know what to do. Should he run off by himself or go back to
help his new friend? Jamie knew the right thing to do was to go back to help. He ran back to his friend and dragged him by
one of his arms, pulling him along behind him.
Together they escaped from the other Ceeiabs.
Once Jamie thought the unfriendly Ceeiabs
were far enough away he stopped running.
He was out of breath. Jamie had been running with the Ceeiab for about
five minutes and they had travelled almost a kilometre.
Just as he was feeling more comfortable, in
front of him Jamie noticed another group of Ceeiabs. At first he felt scared again, but they waved
to him and his new friend, with all their seven arms. They looked really happy and friendly. His
friend waved back with his seven arms and also looked really happy. It is clear to Jamie they knew each other.
Jamie pulled his friend over to the group.
The Ceeiabs all hugged each other.
Jamie’s friend introduced Jamie and all the other Ceeiabs started
hugging him. Jamie was delighted he has
got his friend who had helped him, safely home. He then wondered how he would get
safely home himself and felt scared again.
Through the group of Ceeiabs a small Ceeiab,
about Jamie’s size appeared pushing Jamie’s bike. Jamie noticed that the handle bars were a bit
bent, but otherwise it looked fine. The
Ceeiabs encouraged Jamie to get onto the bike. His new friend, the bald Ceeiab
also handed him a navy blue beanie hat, which Jamie put on his head. Jamie climbed on to his bike and peddled
hard. As he did he felt the bike rising up out of what would have been the
pond. Jamie turned and waved to the
Ceeiabs, they all waved back using all their arms. They all looked happy. As he peddled Jamie got higher and higher,
until he found himself out of the pond and back on the path where he had been chased
by the wee dog. Jamie was very happy to
be back. He was surprised by his
adventure, he wondered if he had imagined it, but he could feel the navy blue
beanie hat on his head, so he knew it had been true.
(c) Adam Bojelian 2013
