Magic Candy

• Emma Brown, Grade 6
• Short Story
• 2012

Once upon a time in a small country town there was a little girl named Emily, she is just an ordinary girl, but she has a secret, it all started 2 years ago when she was 8 one morning Emily was getting dressed in the usual red t-shirt with overalls and to pretty plaits, she was going out to play with her friends sarah and paige, when she found a small blue bag it was very heavy so she peered inside the bag it was filled with candy she ate a piece and it was the best candy she had ever tasted so she ran back home and hid it in her room, then when she was playing with her friends she was stronger and more courages then that night she worked out that it was magic candy. So thats her secret she owns magic candy that day at school there was a big hairy spider on her desk she was scared so she pulled a piece of candy from her pocket and ate it she was not scared anymore so she picked the spider up and she put it outside her classroom on the grass. But one day she was in a fight with a boy at her school and she got punched and kicked so she reached into her pocked and shoved 5 pieces of candy in her mouth she instantly grew bigger and stronger and meaner her clothes ripped off her body as she grew and she was a big mean and scary giant everyone ran away from her she ran after them but she squashed all her friends and family Emily sat down and cried she cried all day but then she heard a voice calling her name 'Emily, Emily wake up you will be late for school' she woke up and she was her normal size and all her friends and family are still alive because it was all just a dream and then that day at school she got in a fight with a boy at school and she got punched and kicked she pulled out 5 pieces of candy and as she was about to shove them in her mouth she remembered her dream and how she was a big mean giant so she only ate one but then she popped another in her mouth for extra luck and then another but then she grew bigger and she punched and kicked the boy back and thats when she realised that she had turned into a big mean giant only she wasn't big and tall she was just mean she tried to tell her friends that it was the candy but they didn't listen to her and she had no friends. Then one day there was a new kid at school who was also mean and had no friends so Emily became friends with him so they were mean together her mother didn't like who she had become but she was still pleased that Emily had found a friend so as long as Emily was happy her mother was happy


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