Author: Shivani Ajmera, Class VII D
Splash!” And the poor little lady cried out, “I’ll HAVE to go tell your parents about your mischief, though they already know it,” and went away muttering, “These children…I’ll have to clean the floor once more now.”
The spoiled brute went slipping through the staircase, two steps a time and “Raaaaaaaaah” he cried. The fat girl who lived in the house next door ran home with wet cheeks and soaked eyelashes. Miles dashed back home and shoved little Minnie right into a chair. His mom couldn’t bear it anymore, but what could she do?
He went straight to the living room where the TV was located and grabbed his video game controls and won every game in a row. Next, he reached for his laptop and clicked on the Xbox button, like, a 100 times or so.
Now he swung his cupboard open and grabbed a handful of Hershey’s chocolates. He didn’t bother to look at his round tummy.
He clutched the mic system from his father’s room, opened the window and shouted his heart out,which was his new hobby.
But Miss Improve-that-Kid wasn’t gonna let this Miles guy get his filthy hands over any more mischief ideas. A wave of her wand and…
Everything turned really really huge. Miles could see a blue wormy thingy instead of his legs. He saw himself in the dirt covered mirror. In the mirror Miles saw a really green and really tiny worm, with a nose and a pair of eyes, and nothing except these 2 things. Miles pulled his cheek, not his plumpy ones, but just a thin layer of green skin. It wasn’t a nightmare. He spent days just getting really really bored. Nothing to do!
The fairy, Miss improve-that-Kid handed him a book. She felt really bad for him now. He had no hands, so he had to use his wormy tail. He couldn’t understand most of the words, but a dictionary helped him. He started spending days reading books, nights mugging up the dictionary.
This was because he didn’t have hands to shove his sister, legs to knock the poor lady’s soap water bucket, masks to scare the fat girl or voice to burst people’s ears. He now only had eyes to read, and nose to have-his-nose-in-a-book. Miss Improve-that-Kid was really impressed and offered to change him into a boy again, but he was like, “No, thanks.” She called him the Book Worm.
He married the Reading Bug soon after this and they both lived in their little burrow, reading stories to each other. The reading Bug was another rotten girl who had turned into a reading bug. You’ll never find him in any corner of this world, because he lives in his own world of books, so very happily!
