Banana Girl

• Shelbe Franke, Grade 6
• Short Story
• 2018

All of a sudden Anna chanted ‘Super double transforming into a tiny banana’ five times, extremely loudly for no real reason. Then she started singing the alphabet song terribly before finally counting to 107. After this she paused for a moment before turning bright yellow like a light bulb but with brown poke-a-dots. I asked "What the heck just happened?", but before she could respond she started turning into a banana shape object.
She started talking but I could not quite understand what she was trying to say, so I did what any young person from the 21st century would do and asked my favourite person, Siri but like usual, she was no help. I thought I would try to find a banana translating app on the app store. I finally found one but the cost was $3.75 and I wasn’t about to waste my money. Imagine that, how ridiculous.
But a friend is a friend, so I decided to download it. But before I clicked to confirm payment I said ‘Anna you owe me for this’.
Once it was done downloading, I opened up the app. But get this, I NOW HAD TO SIGN UP FOR MY BANANA TRANSLATING APP!!!! After 5 minutes of answering questions to prove I was not a robot, I was finally had a working app.
I saw in the distance my friends Jaycob, Samuel, Tayala, Racquel and Mary finally moving towards me. They were finally here. Anna and I were meant to be meeting them at the beach today but they were a bit late thanks to Jaycob sleeping in.
I yell out to them, "Hey guys finally you’re here."
Mary yelled back, "Where is Anna?"
‘Help’, I yelled.
They all come running over to me to help.
"Sweet, a banana. I have not even had breakfast yet", Jaycob said.
"How can you possibly be thinking about food right now?" Raquel asked.
"More importantly how have you not had breakfast by now? It is 12 o’clock, isn’t it?" Tayala said, sounding unsure. Jaycob wasn’t listening and started eating the banana.
"JAYCOB YOU JUST ATE ANNA", I yelled.
They all looked at me confused. So then I had to tell them the whole story of what had happened.