Rajah's Slippery Failure

• Abdullah Tasnim, Grade 8
• Short Story
• 2018

The moonlight shining from the deepest depths of the horizon down onto the earth, splitting light and illuminating nearly half the world. Everyone is asleep, no sound to be heard. The powers are off, all the crickets broke their violins and the wind stopped moving. Everything is dead still, except Rajah. Rajah wasn’t the sleeping type and was very disobedient. He got in trouble with his 8th-grade history teacher on his birthday for not listening to important information. Rajah was obviously going to take revenge on his teacher and make her ‘history’. Rajah set out with a bag with two soap in it. His history teacher lived right at the end of Makenstein street. Rajah was taught to climb when he was three and currently participates the world kids rock climbing championships. His teacher’s house was a two-story building. Rajah began to use all his might climbing up the crooked wall when he finally reaches the top of his teacher’s window. He makes a sound and hides beside the window. The teacher wakes up, opens the window and returns to her bed, unnoticing that Rajah was raiding her. Rajah put one soap next to her mouth and one beside her bed. Rajah was laughing about the ‘slippery situation the history teacher will experience’. The next morning, Rajah climbed out of bed slipping onto a soap. “Ugh?” moaned Rajah, as he was too tired to do anything. At school, as he was about to enter his history class, he slipped onto soap and noticed that it was his soap. “Aye, I see all because your history but I’m a mystery!” said the history teacher. The class laughed. THE END