Its A Good Life

• Jack Coles, Grade 6
• Short Story
• 2013

Hi, my name’s Cody and this is my life, so here it goes. It all started when I was sixteen. We met at the park when I was playing soccer with my best mate, Liam. I was hypnotized, my life flashed before my eyes,
“Wow.” I said “Someday I will marry her.”
“No you won’t” said Liam “You will end up looking for ‘the one’ when your 20.”
3 years later
“Will you marry me?”
I said, as I kneeled before Renne
“Yes, yes, yes! Why would I say no?” Renne answered “Why would you think I would say no to you!”
I was just dialling Liam’s number
“Ha-ha I told you, I told you, you said I would be looking for the one when I’m twenty. THAT WAS 3 YEARS AGO!” I said.
6 years later
“Sebastian! Get back here!”
We have a 4 year old boy now, wait one moment,
“Sebastian get out of the bin!” ok my life, it’s all I wanted in my dreams, its perfect and we’ve got a baby girl on the way, she was due yesterday and Renne is trying hard to cope with it, but she’s doing well… I think, maybe
“Renne, that’s not sugar, that’s salt!” as I said, it’s my dream and it’s perfect, maybe?

Jack Coles