All Because of a Crisp Packet
THIRD PRIZE
All Because of a Crisp Packet by Paola Hagen-Zanker
Izzy lived with her Grandma. This sounds all nice and cosy doesn’t it? Well it wasn’t. Izzy had the nastiest Grandmother ever. Her Grandma would sit around watching TV, eating crisps. Whenever, something was broken Izzy would have to fix it. And this is where our story begins.
One day Izzy was fixing the sink because her Grandmother’s crisp packet was stuck inside the pipes. She had managed to unplug the pipe, now being able to put her hand in and pull it out. But when she put her hand in she leaned forward too far and fell in. She screamed as much as she could, but it was no use. Izzy had fallen down the pipes. It felt like the pipes were getting bigger and bigger when she went down.
Izzy wriggled – she had ended up in a tangled net. “Whahahaha!” she heard a squeaky voice. And another one: “We’ve got her!” Dazed, Izzy looked around. She saw strange green slimy creatures with five eyes each all around her. They must be aliens she thought.
“Where am I?” she stammered. An alien stepped forward and said, “You are under the pipes and will become our queen.”
“Oh no, I won’t!” she shouted.
“Oh yes, you will!”
Izzy felt defeated and devastated. She would much rather be wiping her Grandmothers bottom right now. (Otherwise she might get captured by the aliens and have to live under the pipes forever.) But then she had an amazing idea. Yes, she would become queen, but, yes, she would escape. Pretending to be reluctant, she gave in.
“Fine, I will be queen.”