Vegetables

• Keeley Brett, Grade 4
• Short Story
• 2018

Hello, it's no one (there is actually someone, but I can't tell you my name for security reasons). Let me just say I'll be telling you about something horrible, something disgusting. Yes, vegetables.
It was dinner time and like most fussy eaters, I wasn't looking forward to it. But my sister was. (I can't tell you her name for security reasons.) I was closing my eyes, waiting for what my parents would place before me. I could hear my sister squeal in delight. I could smell that dreaded smell fill my nostrils with pain. Vegetables.
Broccoli, rhubarb, peas, corn, lettuce and carrots.
"Arggg!" I groaned. "No, no and noooo!"
"Eat or NO DESSERT!" my parents yelled.
Oh no! I thought. I haven't had dessert in a week!
I decided to try the corner of a carrot. My stomach was knotted and my taste buds got ready to DIE! I slowly brought it up to my mouth to take that disgusting nibble. It was... It was... DELICIOUS! I gobbled up all of my veggies before my sister could finish!
My reward was TWO scoops of ice cream!
So what's the moral of the story? Never tell your name for security reasons and always eat your veggies! YUM!