The Exaggerated Day by Brittany Wang

It was a rainy day at Weaver Lake, and we were all inside typing away. A teacher popped inside with a loud noise like popcorn popping, and whispered something to Mr.S. Mr.S jumped right through the ceiling, smashing a huge hole. When he came back down to the classroom, it was a miracle he didn’t smash a hole in the floor too. After he assured the astonished teacher he was OK, he told the class the surprising news.

“There will be no break, due to the fact that the playground is floating away.” Mr.S announced. Gasps of horror sucked the air out of the classroom. They quickly turned into sounds of amazement.

“Mr.S, we’d love to play on a floating playground! Please can we go out?” the class asked as one. Just at that moment Gary strode inside the classroom with his loyal servants blowing trumpets.

“My, my, my! What a tremendous hole in your classroom’s ceiling! What have you been up to? Making soda and mentos fountains?” Gary boomed grandly.

“Gary, can we please play on the floating playground?” the class pleaded.

“Of course you may! That is if you can catch it!” Gary yelled, throwing bright yellow raincoats for the class. There was an enormous noise as the class stampeded to get raincoats, and an even bigger noise as the class hurried outside to catch the floating playground.

“Well there they go.” Mr.S sighed, “Leaving their paper and computers to get soaked.” By now, the wind blowing all the rain in the classroom through the hole was enormous. And while Gary and Mr.S chatted over a cup of coffee, the class had caught up to the playground and was playing awesomely in the rain.

The Fatal Mistake by Brittany Wang

“Go, go, go! Kick faster! ” shouted Coach Jones. We were practicing swimming in the ocean. I swam a bit faster. Then all of a sudden, I saw the reflection of a shark fin beside me. I ignored it, as my friends played pranks on me often. But when I felt searing pain on my ankle, I

knew this wasn’t a prank. This was a real shark.

I woke up in the hospital. The nurse told me that I was lucky that my foot hadn’t bitten off by the shark. I thought I was unlucky that I hadn’t fell for the “prank”, and that my friends tricked with that prank soo much, that if it were real, I wouldn’t fall for it. What has my life come down to?

When I went home, my mother scolded me for not swimming away from the shark. When I told her that I thought it was a prank my friends had played on me. She got angry me for making up an “excuse”. You know, I feel like I want to kill my friends. 1. For playing pranks on me, and 2. For not coming over to see if I was okay. There’s the doorbell. And it’s my friends? Scratch #2. And their apologizing for playing so many pranks on me and putting me in danger? And promising not to play anymore except on April Fool’s Day? Are they reading my mind here?! But strange enough, I feel all my anger trickle away like water down a drain. And I forgive them.

But little did I know that this was the mistake that would cost me my life.