By Noa Sheidlower
CHAPTER ONE: THE SCREAM
Once in a far off place, there was a scream. It's not what you think of when someone says there was a scream. It's actually a funny story. Now let me tell you the real story of the scream before you run off telling your mom how scary your new book is and that she should return it or burn it to a pile of ashes in your fire place and ask for your money back.
The beginning of this story takes place deep in the forest. A boy is walking around climbing trees. He's lost in a forest so there's really nothing else to do. A couple yards ahead, he sees a tree. The biggest tree the boy had ever seen. Bigger than the trees in Canada! He SO wanted to climb it. The boy grabbed on to the nearest branch and hauled himself up. Branch after branch the boy climbed the tree.
I'm sorry. I shouldn't be calling HIM boy. He isn't a boy any more. I mean, you wouldn't call a twelve year old... person BOY now would you? Because I would feel a bit silly. Oh great! NOW what should I call him?! HMMM.... I've got it. I'll call him, wait. I er lost it!!! Give me a minute now, would you? I'm sorry. I can't er remember it. So, if you don't mind, I will continue calling him BOY until you figure out what his name is. OOPS!!!! I'm sorry I gave that away. Um back to the story?!
The boy was still climbing. He thought this tree would never end! By now he was reconsidering ever climbing the tree in the first place. He looked down to see if he should climb back down or try to make it to the top. if he did make it to the top he might even break a world record for CLIMBING THE BIGGEST TREE!! But when he looked down, he suddenly felt very dizzy. The ground was at the least 2 miles away. All the other trees he had thought were big looked like POLLY POCKET TOY TREES. The only thing that made the boy know that the trees weren't fake was the wind that rustled through the luxurious green leaves and the branches.
(The boy decided to continue climbing. So far he had been climbing for over an hour, but the boy only thought he had been climbing that tree for twenty minutes)
The boy tried climbing for about another fifteen minutes, then his foot slipped. The boy squealed. (Sorry about the whole squeal thing. I know you’re probably
thinking: Oh my gods! This person is soo weird for saying squealed in the book. How lame! But really it's because I couldn't say screamed, because that wasn't the real screaming part so I couldn't have said scream Whew! Sorry for yelling at you. I feel sad now. :( Please leave me alone for a few minutes please. Thank you. Now you guys "sniff" should get back to the "sniff" boy. "sniff, sniff") Trying to get his foot back on the tree, slowly, very slowly, HAIR began to come down from above the boy's head. Then the boy saw that the hair was coming from a window at the top of the tree, about six feet above his head. When it came into reach he grabbed on to the hair and started, or tried, to pull himself up. But the minute he began to pull there was a scream. ("sniff" HA!) Then the boy heard voices coming from the window. "Un-do it un-do it!
"I can't it'll kill the person who is on the other end!" "Why not?" "I just said why."
"Okay but I don't get how or why it'll kill the person on the other end!"
"Fine. If we un-twist your hair well, we can't with a person on one end because we would need to either find a way to make you fly to get your hair off the place or-" "wait why?"
"Let me start differently. Okay. If we undo your hair from around the...house, well if we manage it, the sudden pressure of all of your hair coming undone, will send the vibration of the pressure from undoing your hair through all of the strands of your hair all the way to the bottom where the person is holding on, the force of all the threads of your hair causing the person to fall to their death. Or if we let all of your hair down, the weight of the person will rip off all of your hair, supposedly ripping out the roots of your hair, so your hair will never be able to grow again without the planted roots of your head."
" Um... English please?"
"UUHHHGGG!!!!!!"
chapter two: who are you?
The two voices finally came to an agreement and decided to pull the person up with the extra hair that the person was holding on to. Both people grabbed on to the hair (including the person who owned the hair) and began to pull. But of course the boy on the other end didn't know that the people were going to pull, so one minute he's holding on to the hair, relaxed and finally gotten used to holding on to hair two miles above ground, the next minute he's screaming his head off and clinging on to the moving hair for dear life! Finally, the boy stopped screaming when the two people pulled him through the window. The boy lay sprawled out on a wooden floor. A couple minutes later the boy pulled himself to his feet. Standing in front of him, there were two girls. One of the girls looked like she was around and about his age. The first girl was younger than the other girl and him. She had extremely long hair that she was trying to unwind from hooks and wooden boards all over the (I guess you could call this place a house type of thing.) House. The girl had brown eyes, blond hair; she smiled a lot, and seemed to dance as she moved. She had finally finished unwinding her hair from the house and was now giggling at the boy. He was the first one to speak.” Why are you laughing at me?” he asked the giggling little girl. “Sorry,” the little girl said. “It's just. With all the screaming, and the way you were screaming, I thought you were a girl!” The boy started chasing little girl, who squealed in delight, thinking that this was a game. They ran around the house until finally the boy caught the little girl and held her captive then asked her, “Who are you?” The little girl looked puzzled for a moment and glanced at the other girl as if for help or advice, then said, “my name is Elaine. Who are you?” The boy cleared his throat and said, ”My name is Jesse. How old are you?” Elaine again looked at the other girl desperate for help. “Remember?” the other girl said. Her voice reminded Jesse of wind. The girl went on, ”We talked about this. How many times have you seen snow?” Elaine thought for a moment then shook her head and said, “I forget.” The other girl turned to look at Elaine and said “Why don't you go to the calendar so you can tell “ The girl looked at Jesse for his name. “Jesse,” he told her. “Jesse how old you are.” She pointed to something on the wall for Elaine. Elaine scampered over to the calendar, going so fast she almost banished March. Then the other girl asked, “How old are you?” Jesse simply said,” 12.” Just then Elaine came dancing over to Jesse, stood in front of him, hands on hips looking important. Elaine took a deep breath and said, ”I am 9 or 10 years old.” The other girl congratulated Elaine and told Jesse, “ You can call me Jenna or Jenny,” before walking back to her little desk in the corner, pulled out a giant book and started to read. The book was about a 16 inches by 12 inches and about six inches thick. Jesse thought it would be 5 billion pages long, and when a big gust of wind sent the back pages flying up, Jesse found out that he had been right! "What in the world are you reading?" Jesse asked. Jenna rolled her eyes but said, " The Wonderful World of Science. Can't you read? I mean, if you live down there don't the other humans- I I mean people teach you how to read?" Jesse was confused about a couple things in this tower and for some reason he began to talk to himself. " 1. Why did Jenna say humans instead of people? 2. Why do Elaine and Jenna live in this dump any way?"
"We heard that!"
Jesse ignored them and continued. " 3. Why don't they just leave here?" And that was pretty much it. Except for one other thing about Jenna that Jesse really did not want to say it aloud. He didn't even want to think about it. He went up to Elaine who was drawing pictures on the walls with Jesse seriously had no idea what she was drawing on the walls with. And so (Of course / obviously), he asked, " What in the world are you painting with?" Elaine stopped painting and looked at Jesse.
" What do mean?" She asked. Jesse was a bit caught off guard by that question.
"Um... What are you painting the walls with? Like crayons, markers, paint?" now Elaine looked at Jesse like he was crazy.
" What are those things any way? But I'm using my fruit just what ever you do; don’t tell Jenna that I'm using my fruit. Okay?" Jesse promised that he wouldn't tell. Then he asked quietly, "What type of fruits did you use?" Elaine leaned in close to him and lowered her voice and said, "I'm using I think straw berries, grapes, carrots, mangos, broccoli, apples, tomatoes, spinach, limes and coli flower."
Jesse didn't think that coli flower was a fruit but he didn't want to make Elaine feel bad. So instead he walked over to Jenna and told her, " You really need to teach Elaine the difference between fruits and vegetables."
"Hey! I did!!!!!" WHAM!!!!!
chapter three: meeting her
And After that Jesse had no idea what happened. Jenna had knocked him out cold when he had said that Elaine needed to learn about fruits and vegetables, but Jesse learned the hard way that Jenna had already taut Elaine the difference between fruit and vegetables. When Jesse woke up he blinked a couple times and got up. He walked up to Jenna and said, " Oh I hate you." Jenna got up from her chair and walked uncomfortably close to him so Jesse could feel her chest brushing against his and she sized him up. "Oh yeah?" She asked him.
"Yeah. Any one who knocks me out, I hate. And you knocked me out, so naturally I hate you." Jesse took a step back wards and before Jenna could step towards him and diss him, Jesse raised his arm and slapped her across the face. Jenna staggered back wards, her mouth open but no words came out. Only a squeak escaped from her lips. Jenna took a step forward. " You did not just do that." She said.
" Oh he did he did!!!" Squeaked Elaine who had apparently been watching the whole time. Jenna and Jesse looked at her. Elaine smiled, embarrassed and sat down but continued to watch. Now it was Jenna's turn. She smiles at Jesse and touched his shoulder. Then she raised her leg and kicked him in the shin. Jesse swept her legs out from under her. On her way down, Jenna made a fist and punched Jesse in the stomach. Then when he was bending down, Jenna used her fore- arm and shot it down on his neck and then stood behind him and kicked his back so Jesse was laying face first on the ground. He groaned. Jesse looked up to find a girl looking at him. She had long very straight dark hair that dipped protectively over the right side of her face. Jesse yelled in surprise and scrambled back.
"Who- who are you?" Jesse asked. Elaine said, "That's Vhadia She doesn't talk much though." Jesse nodded warily. Elaine introduced Jesse and Vhadia. "Vhadia, this is Jesse. Jesse, this is Vhadia."
"Hi Vhadia. Um, How old are you?" Jesse asked. Vhadia nodded in hello and put up in one hand one finger and in the other hand two fingers. Elaine translated, "Vhadia means she's twelve years old. Right?" Vhadia nodded in agreement.
"Soo," Jesse started. "I know how to get out of this dump-I I mean place. Do you want me to help you?" Jenna and Elaine both said at the same time "Yes!!" And Vhadia (As she always does,) stayed quiet but nodded. Jesse beckoned Elva, Jenna and Vhadia to him, (Though Jenna wasn't to happy about it,) and Jesse told them his plan.
CHAPTER FOUR: LEAVING
Five minutes later Elaine had just finished pulling all her hair through an iron metal hook on the side of the window. (This might be a good place to stop if you're reading
"You first Jenna," Jesse said. " Go ahead." Jenna nervously took hold of Elva's hair and Elaine quickly grabbed onto the hair that was on her side of the hook.
"I'm sorry." Jenna said as she jumped out of the window. Jesse, Elaine and Vhadia rushed to the window to see Jenna screaming as she slid down Elva's hair like a fire pole until she let go of the hair way to early and crashed onto the ground it and Jesse, Elaine and Vhadia didn't see Jenna get back up. Now it was Jesse's turn. He took hold of the hair and jumped out. Again, Elaine and Vhadia looked out the window as they watched him screaming souring like a rocket down Elaine's hair and at the right time let go before he crashed like Jenna, but he still skidded and rolled in to a tree. Elaine couldn't help but smirk. Now it was Vhadia's turn to jump. She nervously put her hands around Elaine's hair and thought to her self, " Don't ever look back." and she stepped onto the ledge of the wind sill, shut her eyes and let go with her feet. Vhadia plummeted to what she thought would be her death. As she fell, her feet flew above her and she yelled, " Don't ever look back! Don't ever look back!" and as Vhadia said that her fall slowed down and she began to think to her self, "Don't fall. Don't look back. Stay up." Vhadia slowed down visibly. Her eyes had been closed this whole time as she thought. But right then when she opened her eyes Vhadia saw the ground coming towards her a yard away and she lost concentration and the earth came faster than it had for Jesse or Jenna. Vhadia tried to think more but she let go of the hair and ended up jerking upward and crashing into a tree and hang there limply not quite sure if se was still alive.
And now we're going back up to the tower where Elaine is still waiting and looking down as Vhadia crashes into the tree and this time Elaine didn't smirk, giggle or laugh. She just winced as if she felt it too.
Bobbie stepped backwards thinking about the things that Jesse had told her to do. Elaine nervously grabbed onto the hair that was a couple inches from her head and jumped out of the window. As she fell, Elaine softly felt the loose knot that was attached to the hook turn as she fell. When Elaine reached the ground, she let go of her own hair and plopped on to the ground landing on her back. Elaine had to pull on her hair so all of it would come down, but when it all came down; the hair knocked her down again with the force. Elaine gathered up her hair and went to Jesse. He was still sitting under the tree moaning. He had a cut on his cheek, but other than that he looked okay. Elaine grabbed his arms and pulled him up.
"You'll be fine. C’mon. Let’s get Jenna." Elaine told him. Together they walked over to Jenna who was awake. But her arm didn't look too good. It was red and bent in the wrong angle.
"My arm isn't supposed to look like this is it?" She asked. Elaine and Jesse shook their heads. With a grunt, Jesse lifted Jenna by her hips and put her over his shoulders like a sack of potatoes.
" Hey," Jenna protested. "I'm fine I can walk."
" Fine. But it was your choice not mine." Jesse set Jena down and second later Jenna’s knees buckled and she said, "Okay, maybe a little help will work. And Jesse again hefted her onto his shoulders and started walking until Elaine cried, "Wait!" Jesse stopped walking and turned around to look at Elva.
" Vhadia. We can't leave without Vhadia." And before Jesse or Jenna could say or do any thing, Elaine was gone in a flash. Elaine found Vhadia, her waist caught in two branches and her legs were wrapped around a twisted branch way above her head, and Her arms were hanging limply near her head.
"Vhadia!!!" Elaine called. "Vhadia!!!" Elaine climbed up the tree until she got to where Vhadia was hanging. Elaine grabbed her by the arm and dragged her down. It took all of Elva's strength to keep Vhadia upright when she got to the bottom.
" Help! Jesse!! Come!!!" Elaine called out. No answer.
"Dang it." Elaine muttered. She ran around until she came to a stream. It's clear water slithered through the forest like a snake. Elaine quickly made a cup out of some dry old wood and filled it with water. She ran back careful not to spill any water on the way and then dumped the whole cup of water on Vhadia's head. Vhadia jolted awake. But screaming.
"Flying." She mumbled, "I was flying! But then I was falling. Elaine what happened?"
"It's okay," Elaine reassured her. "You just had a little accident. You're fine. Can you walk?" Vhadia got up and wobbled a bit. Then, Suddenly,
"Elaine!" Vhadia screamed as she went toppling over. But there was no where to fall, as far as Elaine could see, but when Vhadia disappeared, Elaine ran as fast as she could to where Jesse and Jenna still were.
"Jesse!! Jenna!! Help! Come quick!" After Elaine told Jenna and Jesse what had happened, Jesse threw Jenna onto the ground (Which Jenna didn’t look to happy about) and ran off with Elaine to where Vhadia had disappeared. When Jesse saw what had happened, he laughed.
"Haha. She just fell into a ditch. It's fine!" Jesse reached his hand down the ditch and helped Vhadia up and out of the ditch. Just then, Jesse got a great idea. " Hey! How 'bout we go into town and... realafy you guys." Jenna, Vhadia and Elaine all nodded. Jesse grinned. " Well, come on then!" And they all followed Jesse to the town, or what they thought would be the town.
Chapter Five: Funky town
As Vhadia, Elaine, Jenna, and Jesse were walking towards town, Jesse had been telling then little things about it. Things like this, " So, this town isn't called town. It's called 'Funky town'. Named by the skater duds. The skater duds are like, the coolest people in town. They skate board, and the thing they're famous for is their singing." Vhadia liked that one. So, three hours later, they got to town. Jenna, Elaine, Vhadia and Jesse were sitting in a weird house type of thing, discussing what they each were going to do to realafy themselves. Jesse helped them by telling them all the things that were going on.
"Well, there's a marathon coming up," Jesse offered. Elaine raised her hand and said, " Oh! Oh! I want to do that one! I love to run, and I'm very fast!" Jenna and Vhadia both nodded in agreement. Jesse, who had been reading from a newspaper, signed her up uncertainly. He flipped the page of the newspaper.
"The skater duds need a girl who can skate and sing." Jesse told them. To Jesse, Jenna, and Elaine's surprise, Vhadia raised her hand. Everyone but Vhadia looked uncertain. Jesse piped up. "Are-are you sure Vhadia? The skater duds... sing. In front of people. And you don't even talk." Vhadia looked hurt. Jesse held up his hands in apoligy and said, "Oh, no-no offence. Hehe. Um, back to realafying you, so, Jenna do you want to join a cooking group?" Jenna made a face. "No thanks." Jesse turned the page.
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