My Summer Adventure

Created by Bonnie Chen

It all started on a clear sunny day, when the sky turned dark and rain clouds filled the sky that used to be clear. I was just taking a swim in the shallow parts of the Pacific Ocean when I saw this happen. This had to be the most terrifying moment in my life. I was contemplating what to do when a gigantic wave crashed above me, and I was pushed forward by the water. I didn’t know I fell asleep until I woke up. 
I was on a sandy beach somewhere. The silky soft and warm sand felt soothing underneath my cold body. Thankfully, the wave didn’t wash me up too far, as the tips of my toes were moist and still touching wet, warm sand. Unfortunately, I couldn’t seem to move. The sun shining on me seemed to be pinning me down to the ground. Before I knew it, I fell asleep of exhaustion again. When I gained consciousness again, the burning afternoon sun was scorching me. I never felt this dehydrated before until today. A cool breeze suddenly swayed the trees, and a sudden wave cooled my body… but wait. I wasn’t on the beach anymore. I was in water. This water didn’t seem very natural though. I was inside some kind of container. The first thought that came into my mind was that I was being kidnapped. Then suddenly the container holding me rocked back and forth and the water sloshed loudly inside. I was lifted and carried away. 
My body hasn’t regained power yet, so I helplessly floated inside the half empty container of water. I was put into a trunk of a car and my mysterious kidnapper and I drove around for a while. I heard screams and a girl towered above me. I glared at her and her family came to see what was happening. I sent a side eye to each of them. The next thing that happened outraged me. The family of three left me in the container. 
I sat there for hours and hours until a new day came again. The girl, I think her name was… Ellie? She took me to a huge campus. The campus had multiple buildings, and I couldn’t keep track of where I was. I heard her talking to an adult saying: I brought a friend today… its, ok?... Alright… Despite what Ellie said, she still placed my container roughly by her desk. I was glad that I was the center of attention, but I wasn’t enjoying how everyone thought I was “so cute”. When class began, the teacher rambled on and on about playwriting and boring stuff like that, but when we got to writing the plays, I was interested. It seemed so fun to write a whole story and plot how the characters talk with each other.
After the class, I thought we were going home, but Ellie took me to a cafeteria, and she ate her lunch. She tried to feed me some smelly leftovers, but little did she know that I couldn’t eat it. Finally, I got ready to be packed into the car to go home. Surprisingly, Ellie brought me to another class. In this class, the teacher didn’t make any introductions, and we got right into the activity. Ellie opened her computer and started dragging colorful blocks around. It was like playing with Legos but on a computer. Later I learned that this activity was called coding. My head was spinning with all the colors of the blocks. Ellie dragged all the blocks into one monstrosity, and with a click of a button, a beautiful animation popped up. It was magical. I couldn’t help thinking about how this was alike to the playwriting camp. The actors were the blocks, and the result of the coding was how the play came together and smoothly ran. Time flew by and we had to go home. I didn’t realize it back then, but nobody seemed to realize the weird container by Ellie’s desk. 
The week of camp passed by fast, and Ellie had to return me back to the ocean, she knew it. The drive to the beach seemed to pass in the blinking of an eye. During this week my human owner seemed to warm up to me, although I don’t think I feel the same… Not long after Ellie’s family said goodbye to me, Ellie released me into the water, and I swam freely as a moon jellyfish once again.
THE END