Jacob's Short Story

Jake LOVES to write. In fact, he's in the process of writing two books at the moment. In homeschool we're working on focusing our writing topics. The following is a short story Jake wrote about our dinner party last Sunday:

Steeles vs. Saunders

Ding Dong! I shut my book, The Invisible Man, and dashed to the door. I opened it. The Steeles stood, smiling at me. I welcomed them in as the crisp October air kissed my face. Once inside, they put their shoes by the door.

“Come on Max and Griffin!” I said. We ran up the stairs and into my room. I crawled under my bed and pulled out the box full of Nerf guns and bullets.

“Sweet!” said Max, as he grabbed the Long-Shot. I picked up the pistol, loaded it, and shot Griffin in the chest. He laughed. Grabbing another pistol, he shot me back.

“Let’s have teams. Jacob, Griffin, you guys get the closet and I get the bed.” said Max as the Long-Shot clicked. Griffin and I grabbed bullets and dove into the closet just as a bullet whizzed past my ear. We quickly built a fort to protect ourselves and returned fire. Click! Click! Click! Griffin got shot. I got shot. Max got shot. We loved it!

After about ten minutes I said, “Cease fire. Switch weapons!” Bullets lay everywhere. We picked them up and loaded our weapons. Max traded weapons with me. I also picked up a squishy ball and threw it at Griffin. “Open fire!” I shouted, and shot Max in the chest.

The shooting and trading went on for about an hour and forty-five minutes. We only stopped to eat, and then we went back to shooting each other. After the final trade, we put Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom into the DVD player in my room. Completely drained of our strength, we flopped onto the giant beanbag and watched the movie. We all had a great time.