Grade 5
Fantasy/SciFi, NarrativeWritingThere was a girl named Star, and she was with her boyfriend Ryan and her best friend Journey walking to the park after school. Star’s bully, who was also her ex-best friend Darla, sneakily followed them there.
They got close to this portal and got sucked in, turning into anime characters. The world around them was like this, too. The park around them was weird. The grass was cartoonish. They looked at each other and screamed. The whole neighborhood could have heard but nobody
was there at all.
They saw the bully. “Why did you follow us?” asked Star.
“Mind your own business. I’m just walking in the park. I’m not always following you,” the bully said.
Star turned around to her friends and said, “WHAT and WHERE are we? We need to get out of here.”
They went to Star’s house, and everything looked like anime. They ran, trying to find a way out of the anime portal, and when they were running they traveled into another portal that turned them into kids.
The portal could understand their feelings and knew they needed to go to another world in order to become friends again. The portal turned into a magic mirror and Star and her ex-best friend saw themselves as kids in the mirror.
They thought about when they were friends as kids and how they had been friends before Star got her new best friend. Darla apologized for following them and said, “I was following you guys because I just wanted to see Star and talk to her, but I didn’t have the courage to do it.”
They knew each other’s moms, but when they stopped being friends, their moms fought about it over the phone. Each parent blamed the other for Star and Darla not being friends anymore. The girls realized that they were close after looking in the mirror and remembered that they had been best friends as kids. They apologized to each other because they missed each other. The magic mirror made a new portal because it understood their feelings and took them back to the original anime world.
When they were about to get back to Star’s anime house, the original portal appeared and they were taken back to the park where they started off. Once they were finally home, they jumped and shouted quietly, “Finally! We’re back home!”
When they got home Star, Darla, Ryan, and Journey went out for ice cream. It was ten days later because the anime portal was in a different zone. They all called their parents to tell them what happened because they had been gone for ten days.
They went to Star’s room and talked about how crazy it was. They talked about how they enjoyed their time together. Star and her ex-best friend became friends again, but not best friends, because Star already had a best friend.
They did a group hug and that was it!
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This piece was originally published in 826michigan’s Atomic!.
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