Story hour.

In 5th grade English we've been reading short realistic fictional stories under the theme "Nature's Fury". I assigned the students a creative writing assignment where they had to write about volcanoes, storms, etc. And this....this is my favorite story. I cried in laughter when I was reading it aloud solely because this girl is a genius. This story is copied exactly how it was written- punctuation, grammar, spelling the whole deal. Enjoy.

“Charlie’s Adventures” (with Henry)
by: Yada Fishlock, grade 5

Charlie was a chatterbox. When he was in school he was always chatting with his friends. Do you know what he was chatting about? Right, he was always chatting about his adventures. Once he’s been in a snow storm. And he said that he couldn’t even open the door! And when he looked out of the window he only saw snow! He’s been in a thunder storm, hale storm, a tsunami, an earthquake, sand storm and a flood. You know why he’s been in all this breathtaking adventures? Because he liked traveling! And he liked reading books (he couldn’t read any books now because he’d read every book in this house!) He played computer very often. But his lastest adventure was a lightning storm. It was all very boring for him because he couldn’t play the computer. Why? Because the computer would crash! And the storm was so noisey, loud, windy, rainy (it was raining like crazy!,) scary, incredible, fantastic and breathtaking.

And now he was going to the old ruins of “The Volcano Place”. There had been lots of volcano eruption there, with all the red, blubbling, hot lava, that ruined all the houses and killed all of the people. Now he had to sleep in a tent. He was not ure that it was safe to sleep in a tent there. Oh! And I forgot to tell you that he was going by himself! So he would be the only on there.

But he was wrong.
When he got there he was so hungry, so he found something to eat. It was some mouthwatering chocolates.

After that he saw a little cave near where his tent was, so he stood in the front of the cave and asked “Is anyone there?”
He heard something moving so he went inside the cave and asked once again “Is anyone there?”
“Don’t come in!” someone said.
“I won’t harm you.” Charlie answered.
“Really?” The person asked.
“I promise.” Charlie reassured.
“Wait, don’t laugh at what I’m wearing, ok?” that person said.
“I promise.” Charlie promised again.
“Sure?” That person said.
“Sure! Wait, by the way I’m Charlie. What’s your name?” Charlie asked.
“My name is Henry, nice to meet you.” Said Henry walking out of the cave.
“Your clothes are cooler than my clothes!” Charlie told Henry.
“Really?” Henry asked.
“Really!” Charlie told Henry.
“You are the kindest person I’ve ever met” Henry told Charlie.
“Do you want to have a bath? I have some spare stuff I can share with you” Charlie asked going in his tent.
“You are too kind!” Henry said.
“Here you go. There is soap, shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste, a towel and some clothes for you to use. And go to the cave at the back of my tent so you can have a bath. And after you’ve had a bath you can have something to eat” Charlie told Henry.
“Thank you very much!” Henry thanked Charlie.

When Henry was having a bath, Charlie was thinking How did Henry get here? But he didn’t dare ask Henry.

After Henry finished having a bath, he could smell nice cooked food waiting for him and the smell made his tummy rumble.

Charlie told Henry “Here have this cooked food”.
“You’re being too kind!” Henry said starting to eat.

The next day the two boys woke up as early as they could just to make sure that the lava wasn’t coming out of the volcano. Luckly, they were safe.

Two days past now and still no lava.
Charlie asked Henry “Do you know when the lava is going to come?”
“I don’t know, why?” Henry asked.
“I just want to keep some lava and bring it back to London” said Charlie.

Later that day, the two boys heard some strange noise when they were packing their bags. The two boys finished packing their bags and put everything in Charlie’s private plane. They were getting on the plane when Henry shouted “LAVA!!”

Charlie looked at the lava and shouted “WHIRLPOOL LAVA!!”
Charlie quickly took a picture of it and got some lava. He put the hot lava in a metal bucket and the two boys quickly jumped into the plane and Charlie flied the plane all the way back to London.

From then on Charlie and Henry were best friends for ever. Charlie even taught Henry how to fly a plane. And the picture that Charlie took became famous, even Charlie and Henry became famous just because they survived from the lava. And the lava that Charlie got it was still hot and bubbling. Charlie was keeping it in his room.

One day the two boys were going to pay at their neighbor’s house. When Mrs. Watson opened the door she said “Henry!”
“Mom!” Henry said
“Thank you very much Charlie! Thank you!” Mrs. Watson said.

Eleven years later they were still best friends! And the lava was still there!”
THE END.

(This is why I love my job.)