Toms adventure
“Just a little bit longer dad” Tom groaned as his dad was trying to wake him up. Late after Tom woke up, he went to the bathroom to polish his beak. After that, Tom was getting ready to leave and for the first time, he was flying to school alone. He was afraid that something would happen and Tom didn’t want to go. After Tom was done with his breakfast, he cleaned his dishes and realized, he had lost his house keys. Luckily he had finished eating so early so he had a while to look for his keys before he had to leave. Right away he started searching for them everywhere he thought they could be.
“What are you doing” wondered Tom’s dad.
“Nothing” Tom snapped!
“Tell me” Toms dad pleaded Finally, Tom told his dad he had lost his keys and asked for help finding them. They looked everywhere and there was only one last place to check, under Tom’s bed. When he looked, he found them perched in a hidden wrinkle of his bed. But, finding his keys wasn’t his biggest concern of the day. He was most worried about the flight to school.
Now, it was time to go to school for the first day, of 8th grade, and Tom was freaking out. He’s so scared and he’s asking himself, will I know anybody, will I be bullied, and will I have a safe flight? When Tom started flying to school, all of those thoughts were racing through his head, and he, was, scared.
He saw so many animals of so many beautiful colors, flaring in the hot light of the sun. The vibrant colors are so gorgeous all he can do is look down at them as they flutter in pretty patterns. Tom had never seen such of an amazing sight of all of the different creatures running, swinging, jumping, and flying in that unique, beautiful pattern, and now he loved the idea of flying to school alone. He started to get tired of flying so Tom perched on a small branch on the closest tree he saw and breathed heavily catching his breath.
On the branch, Tom wondered, “Do I have my homework?” he quivered as he checked for his homework in his back-pack. He looked and looked through his bag everywhere and he gasped. He had left his homework papers on the dining room table back at his house. Tom looked back and right away started flying home to get his homework.
He flew under the dark canopy of the tall forest trees where he usually fly’s above the towering tree tops. He looked around and couldn’t recognize anything. Tom was lost in the dim under parts of the surrounding jungle. He was scared, and he didn’t know what to do. Suddenly, he had an idea, he flew upward until he was out of the trees, but all he could see was tree tops and he didn’t know which way to go. Tom flew furiously in a direction he was guessing went home, but there were too many flying birds to see anything. He asked a few birds which way he could go to get home, but nobody knew where to send him. Then, Tom saw an irregular shaped tree top and for some reason, he thought he recognized that one tree. He raced to the tree as fast as he could like he was Super Bird with amazing flying speed. When he reached the tree it had vines with blue flowers hanging down and red flowers blooming in the bushy top. “Oh yeah”!!! Tom said as he remembered everything about the tree.
When Tom was little his mom would take him to this tree to swing on and something’s even tie him to a vine to swing around as if he was flying. He loved the breeze of the fresh air between his feathers and how his mom would swing him around so gracefully.
Tom instantly flew in the direction to get home since he knows how to get home from the old tree. Then, Tom saw Valery. His all-time crush and she looked beautiful. So he decided to stop by and say hi being distracted from the real problem by her.
“Hi Valery” Tom said pleasingly.
“Hello, Tom” Valery said like she was annoyed.
”What’s up” Tom wondered?
“Don’t you have something to do besides annoy me?” Valery snarled”.
“Oh yeah” Tom remembered, I have to get home. Well I’m already late for school, and I guess Valery is skipping school. At home, Tom’s dad was just about to leave to take his homework to him and Tom was so relieved. Tom was so scared and was breathing heavily, which led to his dad asking what had happened. Tom had to catch his breath so he could explain everything to his dad.
As soon as he caught his breath, “I forgot my homework and got lost out in the forest and ran into me and moms tree and remembered how to get home and found you and I was scared and I love you dad” Tom pushed out of his mouth all in one breath.
His dad came over and hugged him and said “I love you too”. Tom was still breathing pretty hard from the rush home flying as fast as he could.
He was thinking his dad might be mad but when he asked he just sighed and said “why don’t you take the day off, I think you’ve had enough adventure for the day”.
“Thanks dad, I promise I won’t be bad and I’ll make sure I’m fully prepared for everyday”. Now Tom was happy for the day and he decided to go take a nap. Sleep peacefully, think quietly, and be perfect just like you already are. “zzzzzzzzzzz” Tom snored