Wake Up

• Kelsie Coburn, Grade 5
• Short Story
• 2013

Help!!Help!!No one can hear me because the windy tornado is too loud. Help me!!Hel-……….Done. It’s all over. My life is done.?
I felt something. I felt something. Does that mean................I’m alive? Am I absolutely positively excitedly finally alive? I am!!!!!!!Yes!!!!I SLOWLY open my eyes. (Sometimes I’m as slow as a snail!) It is really hard and my view is all blurry but I see something. I actually see something. It’s still blurry but I think I see a brown, fluffy but short haired kangaroo. It’s soooooooo cute but how!!The last time I was awake I was in the beautiful, posh and extraordinary England and now I’m here. Wait, where am I??!!
I quickly get up and my view isn’t as blurry. All I can see are big green trees and birds tweeting and my mum? Wait. No. That was just a bear. Hang on, did I say bear? Runnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!I run as fast as I can and I see a cave, but that might be where the bear lives, so I keep running. I stop. I run so far that I can’t even say it!
I couldn’t run anymore because I’m at the end of …….......wherever I am! I can see the smooth blue ocean so I’m guessing I’m at the edge of this place. I see a tall shady tree and make myself comfortable underneath it. For the rest of the afternoon I sit under that tree watching the shiny dolphins do amazing tricks and they’re making me hungry. I start wandering around and find a big tree next to another and I tie some long vines (from one tree to another). All I need now are some big leaves to put over the top for a shelter. I keep wondering around and find some green leaves but their too small. I realize that I can use lots of seaweed from the beach!!I’m so stupid!!!Why didn’t I think of it before! I go to the beach and get as much seaweed as I can before it gets dark.
I still need to find some food because I’m starving!!!! The dolphins are beginning to be my only chance of food but I can’t eat them because they’re cute and it would be cruel to eat them. What about the kangaroo I saw earlier? I’ve never actually eaten one but it’s all I’ve got. I search everywhere but I can’t find it.
The ground is shaking, the trees are moving. What’s happening! I see something but not clearly, it’s a massive gust of wind! Help me!! Help!! The tornado is getting closer and closer and closer and closer. Help me! He-……………
“Wake up Jazmine you’ll be late for school”. I slowly open my eyes and see my mum. I jump up as fast as I can and hug my mum. ”I missed you so much mum!! (It doesn’t take a genius to work out it was a dream!!