I walked slowly into the darkness I heard voices coming from the rock pool under the cave. I thought I was dreaming when I saw a … mermaid.
The next morning I woke up on my bed. I thought about what happened last night, was it just a dream? I didn’t remember getting back in bed. ‘’Anne get down here! ‘’ my mom called. I went down stairs to see my mum holding a piece of paper with my name on it.
‘’Anne you have taken this test 3 times now and you have failed again’’ Mum said.
It’s too hard to pass the test. The questions don’t make any sense! I replied. Mum didn’t like me arguing with her so she said that if I don’t pass this test I’m grounded for a month.
At school I met up with my friend Monica. Monica was always got great test results. My greatest was a d- which I think is pretty good for a 13 teen year old.
Our teacher Mr. Martian had the horrible habit of giving us assignments every 2 weeks. Mr. Martian is my mom’s favorite teacher. ‘‘Good morning class as you all knows last week’s topic was to make a volcano, some did well and others didn’t “Mr. Martian said looking at me. Our next assignment will be to write an article about your greatest adventure yet.
After school I started thinking about my greatest adventure yet. I had nothing I couldn’t think of anything. “What about the time we went to the zoo and the panda ate your cookie” Mom said. “That was when I was four” I replied. That night I went back to the rock pool it had a magical mystical feeling about it. I was think if I saw a real mermaid. Then the rock pools water started bubbling. Bubbles started rising from the water. Then I really could see a mermaid. The mermaid had rainbow scales and colorful sea shells in her hair.
“Who are you?” I asked
“I’m Shelly I’m a mermaid”
“My mom owns this cave and the rock pool” I said
Over the weeks Shelly and I became good friends. One day I went to meat Shelly like I promised but she wasn’t there.
I stood there waiting for her but she didn’t come then I accidentally fell into the rock pool. I didn’t sink though I grew a tail and turned in to mermaid. I swam into a small cave in the rock pool that led to a river. I was wondering how to get back to land when I heard a voice screaming for help. I followed the mermaid’s voice. Then I came to find the mermaid yelling help was actually Shelly.
Shelly was caught in a net. Shelly told me she was trying to swimming with a dolphin when she got caught in a net. I recognized that the net came from a boat and the back of the boat had my dad’s company logo on it. I found my back to land and got out of the water then I turned back into a human. I ran back home and saw my mum preparing dinner. “Hi Anne would you like to watch a movie?” She said. “No thanks I replied I have to call dad”. I went and called dad. “Hi sweetie” He said. “Dad I need you to stop your boat that’s fishing near our house”. “But why?”
I was about to tell dad that a mermaid got stuck in the boats net but he wouldn’t believe me. I told dad that one of my friends was swimming and her necklace got stuck in the net. Dad stopped the net. I ran back to the rock pool I turned back into a mermaid. I went and saved Shelly. Shelly was so happy, she thought she would die. Shelly told me that I turned into a mermaid when I went into the rock pools water because the water was magic and only people with mermaid DNA could turn into a mermaid. She also told me that my great grandmother was a mermaid. Shelly asked me to keep her a secret I agreed but she said it was okay to write about her.
It was the day we had to hand in “My greatest adventure yet”. I wrote about Shelly. Mr. Martian said it was a great story but not true so I got a B+. I continued having fun adventures with Shelly.
Now I’m older and I write award winning children’s books. I call them “ My great adventures’’.