That Face!

• Isaac Wilkinson, Grade 5
• Short Story
• 2016

That face!
I did not like his face. It had old lollies and
other weird stuff stuck all over it. I turn around and snigger.
Why am I doing this? I shouldn’t be laughing
at a toddler because of his face.
I’m a teenager now. Anyway my name is
Adelaide. I’m in Adelaide too. Then suddenly the toddler
stares at me. It’s giving me the shivers. I start walking
the other way. Well, kind of running, not walking. That’s how much toddlers
can scare me. I look back. Now the toddler is chasing me.
Now I really hate this toddler!! Then its eyes go red and green.
No I mean one eye goes red and one eye goes green.
They are flashing. They are like car lights. I start picking
up more speed. But then the toddler picks up speed
too. No!!!!!!!!!
He falls on me. He kind of tackles me! “Owwwwwwwwww!!
He pinches me! Finally I can stand up.
Then I see something silver.
It’s a knife. I grab it. Then I look back at the toddler.
It doesn’t have any skin now.
It’s a roooobooooooooot!! I stab it right in the guts.
Its eyes go black.
It’s dead.
Then I stand up. In the corner of my eye, I see something else.
It has green eyes and red eyes and they are all flashing.
And I don’t like its face!!