Fang The Monkey

• Aftab Ahmad, Grade 3
• Short Story
• 2018

Once upon a time, there lived a monkey named Fang. He loved to say, "Hello my name is Fang, what is your name?”
One morning, Fang went for his morning climb in the trees. There he saw two boys riding their bikes. Fang got very excited when he saw them and greeted the boys with his favourite greetings. “Hello my name is Fang, what is your name?” Both the boys couldn’t believe what they were hearing. They told Fang their names. The boy riding the red bike said his name was Tom and the boy riding the blue bike said his name was Ben. Tom and Ben said goodbye to Fang and rode away. Later they decided to meet at around 3:30 pm in the park near Ben's house. There they decided they were going to kidnap Fang and make him their pet. The other day while Fang was having a nap, both boys quickly and quietly grabbed Fang and took him to Tom's house. There was a small problem, Tom's mum hated monkeys, so both the boys had to hide Fang from Tom's mum. One day Tom had to go to WET'N WILD with his family and Tom could not leave Fang all alone in the house so he called Ben. Tom asked Ben if he could take care of Fang while he was gone. Ben apologised and said he had to take care his little sister and gave him the number of an animal hotel. When his mum went shopping, Tom called the animal hotel and a lady came and picked up Fang from his house. The other day after coming back from WET'N WILD, Tom got on his bike, his mum asked him where he was going. Tom replied, “Nowhere mum. Just visiting Ben.” Tom waited in front of Ben's house for him to come out and when he was out, they both went to pick up Fang from the animal hotel. There they were told that Fang had escaped this very morning and the hotel had sent people to look for him. Tom and Ben came back very disappointed and decided to look for Fang themselves. They thought of where he could be and instantly Tom remembered how much Fang had told them he loved New York. Ben and Fang bought tickets to New York with their pocket money and told their parents that they were spending the night at their friend Joshua's house. They reached New York at 8am and started looking for Fang. They showed everyone his picture but no one had seen Fang. Disappointed, they went straight to Tom's home. As Tom tossed himself on his bed, he heard a small shriek. As he looked under the bed, he found Fang looking right into his eyes. Tom and Ben both hugged Fang and told Fang never to leave the house without them ever again. The end