Liz Pichon

The Competition Kid

I was in my bedroom, reading my TWO favourite stories,

when I heard a VERY loud noise coming from outside.

I thought it was probably just a BIG spaceship flying past, so I carried on reading.

I only had a few pages to finish when Mum started SHOUTING at me to come

downstairs.

“HURRY UP!” she called.

What now, I wondered?

Mum sounded a bit cross.

“Have you been entering competitions again?” she asked me,

while pointing to the doorway.

“NO I haven’t!” I said. (Which was true – not since the last time.)

“Then what do you call THIS?”

Finished by Hanna Bricklebanks,aged 12, from Derbyshire

In the door way was a…. a…well I didn’t know what it was. It was big, it was luminous green and it looked slimy. Whatever could it be? I know I enter a lot of competitions and I tend to lose track of which ones I have entered and which ones I haven’t but I always make sure that the prize is a useful one. For example: a life’s supply of chocolate, an exercise machine that only people aged over 18 are allowed to use (it WILL become useful when I’m 18), a life’s supply of liquorice (I don’t even like liquorice but it is useful to feed the hamster with), a box of worms, a life’s supply of clothes (only when I entered the competition I didn’t know that it was a life’s supply of GIRLS clothes!) See all perfectly useful things!

At this point I wanted to laugh out loud because mums face was hilarious. It reminds me of a monkey that has just met a bear and we all know how that is going to end! I couldn’t remember entering a competition that the prize was some big, luminous green slimy thing. But it looked like I had or it wouldn’t be here would it? I knew I had to come up with an excuse.

“Well mum I think that you have just met my new best friend called erm… Barry!”

Barry. Is that seriously the best I could do?!

“Well then would you like to take your new best friend Barry up to your room?” mum asked in a tone of voice that looked like she was catching on to my lie, er I mean plan. Well I mean I couldn’t really say no could I so my answer was,“Yes mum,” in the voice I have ever heard come out of my mouth. (Usually I’m quite noisy).

As the big, luminous green slimy thing moved out of the door way I saw something even bigger in our front garden. It looked like a spaceship. Well that explained the spaceship noise I heard when I was reading my book, unaware that there was a big, luminous green slimy thing outside my house.

Shyly, I took the monstery thing up to my bedroom afraid that he was going to rip my head straight off my neck! I tried talking to him but the answer always was blub, blub, blub. Then about an hour later the monstery thing put his hands to his head and he started to take his head off. I screamed. The monster had taken his head off but now I could see another head. My best friend Jack’s!!!
“Got you!!!” he yelled in my face, laughing so hard it was difficult to tell what he was saying.

So all of the worry all of the panic was just a practical joke!!! Jack isn’t going to get away with this. I gonna get him back someday when he least expects it!!!