The Runaway Pencil
There I was in my room hitting my pencil on the table trying to think of what to write for the comprehension questions. “UGH! I don’t know what to write!” I yelled. I was finally doing my homework but my pencil started skipping across my page, leaving a few pencil marks behind. My jaw dropped. I didn’t know if I was shocked or amazed. I think I was more a mixture of both. Pencil marks had already filled my page, covering my sentences. I looked at my pencil. It looked normal so it was probably me that made a silly mistake. I ignored what just happened and finished my homework.
Suddenly, my pencil dragged my hand again and wrote ‘loser’ on my paper. I looked at my pencil and saw it wriggling like a worm. Then it leapt out of my hand which made me flinch. “What just happened?” I asked myself. As my pencil dashed out of my hand, I stood there frozen like a statue.
I snapped back to reality and realised that I let my pencil run away. I sprinted my way from one room to another. I searched every where but it was no where to be found. What shall I do? Shall I put missing pencil posters on everything I see? Or shall I carry on looking for it? I searched the whole house one last time, but didn’t find it. What will my teacher say? Will he believe me?
Nadirah