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The Banana Slug

November 8, 2016
By Anonymous

I love camping! Whenever I go camping I stay up late playing with my friends, while my parents are at the campfire talking with their friends.

   

 One day, one of my parent’s friend’s kid came out of his orange tent to play with me. He was only a few years younger than me, and his name was Nikhil. It was pretty cold outside, but we decided to look for some “unique” wildlife. Sadly, it was boring because 90% of the time all we saw was trees, dirt, and more trees. Until at one point my friend found something that he thought was moving, frozen pee.
   

“What the what, is that frozen pee!” he said screamed in laughter. Gross! I knew this was impossible, so I went up to the “frozen pee” and saw a gooey blob, so I jerked back, away from the blob, and told my friend to stay away from it.
   

 With the mind of a seven year old, I told myself to destroy the blob thingy before it could destroy the world, and by using my amazing eyesight I grabbed a few stones, and I started throwing. Whack! I had missed. At this point, my friend, Nikhil, joined me, but had no idea why. So I told him, “Nikhil, the reason why we’re throwing rocks at this thing is, what if the blob has the power to blow up  the Earth.” I said pretty seriously. He was convinced of my reasoning, so we took turns throwing our rocks. Whack! Crash! Whack! Crash! Both of had us had missed the creature.
     

“I agree, we have to kill this before it blows up the Earth, or worse, the UNIVERSE!” Nikhil said to me extremely LOUD.


I knew I had to destroy the creature to save humanity. Whack! Crash! Whack! Crash! Glub... One of us had penetrated enough into the blob to make a small dent, and  make it start to rapidly roll in the other direction. But as it rolled over rapidly it stuck to almost everything it touched. We had no idea what just happened, so we just walked away triumphantly. In a matter of a minute that changed.
   

 A little girl sprinted over, and started to complain that my buddy and I killed this thing called a banana slug. “Hey, did you two just kill this banana slug, OMG!” she said really loud. Almost everyone around was looking at us. Oh boy, I felt guilty, but my friend had his own excuse to get out of this whole mess.
   

 “I was only trying to get the rocks as close to slug as possible.” Ya, right. She didn’t believe him, but when Nikhil gave her the “five year old eyes of innocence” she said fine and walked away. So much for helping me...
     

Both of us started frantically kicking the dry redwood leaves on the ground extremely hard into the air, and onto the dead banana slug. At one point it looked like it was camouflaged into the ground, but we still kept going. When we knew we should finally stop, the cover up for this mess made me feel extremely guilty. God had already seen, so I was in  big trouble. Because of this, I asked my mom what to do. I expected she was going to make me pray or something like that, but instead she told me to do nothing. Just to never to do it again. I felt a hundred times better when my mom said that, because then I didn’t feel like a murderer...


THE END!



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