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HUNGRY CAT

by Allie B.

One day there was a hungry cat who lived in a tree. Her name was Percy. Percy didn’t like to go out of the tree. One day a girl named Megan had some food. Percy just stared. When the girl was at the tree the cat jumped at her head. Megan almost got killed but she just hurt her neck. Megan never went under the tree again.

The next day Megan called Percy’s name. “Oh, Percy! Where are you?”

Percy jumped out of the tree. It was that girl that I jumped on yesterday, she thought. “Meow!”

“Okay,” said Megan. “Let’s go in the house to play.”

Megan’s mom saw the cat. Her face turned red. “Ahh-choo!”

Uh-oh. Megan forgot that her mom was allergic to cats

“You are punished young lady. Get in your room now.”

“Okay. First I have to put the cat outside, though,” cried Megan.

She stayed with Percy without letting her mom know. “I am going in the house to get some things for us to eat. I’ll be right back,” she shouted as she put Percy in the tree.

“Mom, I’m starving. Pretty please can I have food?” asked Megan.

“Okay, only if you eat it in your room. Make sure you clean up the mess. And stay in there until I come up. Ahh-choo!” sneezed her mom. “What do you want to eat?”

“I’ll have two ham-and-cheese sandwiches,” said Megan.

“Wait a second,” said her mom. “Why do you want two sandwiches?”

“Ahhh, I’m very very hungry because I missed breakfast. Pretty please with sugar on top?”

“Okay. Here you go.”

Megan went to her room. She opened the window and started to climb out with the food for Percy, but she got stuck when the window closed on her back! She struggled to get out. She struggled some more. But the window closed all the way. What do I do now? Megan thought. She wished it hadn’t closed. Finally she got out.

When she was bringing the sandwiches to Percy, Megan tripped over a root of a tree. Percy saw Megan trip. Megan couldn’t walk because she had twisted her ankle. Right away Percy went to find Megan’s mom.

“Where is she?” said Percy to herself. “Huh, huh. She’s in the computer room doing her work.”

“Ahh-choo!”

When Megan’s mom saw Percy she went up to Megan’s room and saw that Megan wasn’t there.

“WHERE IS MEGAN?” she said.

Percy rubbed against Megan’s legs and meowed.

“What do you want?”

Percy ran outside. Megan’s mom followed her.

“Ahh-choo!”

You should have seen Megan’s mom’s face hen she saw Megan. “We are going to a doctor!” she said.

Megan got a cast.

* * *

The next day Megan went outside to see Percy with her mother.

“You can keep Percy,” her mother said.

“Really? Why?”

“Percy was extremely helpful to tell me that you were hurt. How about we build a house for Percy outside so I won’t sneeze all the time?”

So from that day on, Percy got her food.

Allie is in the fourth grade and known in the Writers’ Circle for her lively prose style and natural writing ability.