FerryGirls

Mr. Ferry's Girls' Story

1 It was like a wind up mouse, walking on its tiptoes through the dark night. What could that disturbing noise be in the hallway? Ughh, Georgie was out of bed again. That child has such an imaginative mind; he could create a whole new world in one day. I followed him down the hall, wondering what game he is playing tonight. Of course, it's his favorite, he is pretending to be a soldier. Marching up and down the hall acting like a general of an army getting ready to invade a country.I finally blurt out," Go to bed, Georgie. It's really late and you know you shouldn't be out of bed when Mom and Dad are sleeping". "But Jenny", said Georgie. "No buts, go to bed now!" I spat out, as angry as a rat that doesn't have anything else to bother. I didn't want Mom and Dad to find out that Georgie was up until twelve o'clock midnight!" Goodnight and don't get out of bed again, Georgie", I said, yawning. "Fine," said Georgie. So he pouted as he marched down the hall in his army pajamas, into his midnight blue room. I knew he wasn't going to stay there for long. "But, maybe, if he could fall asleep now, hopefully he won't wake up and get out of bed again," I thought out loud.

2 Georgie is a very strange kid. His creative mind is always whirring. Last night, for example, he did his second favorite, having a picnic. The weird thing is he doesn't just have a sandwich. He has baked Alaska, or something really elaborate that six year-olds wouldn't care about. The same routine happens every night. The kid is like a robot. He gets up at the same time, goes down stairs, and plays his game. He never sleeps! I don't know how he does it. My parents aren't oblivious about the situation, they have just given up. He has done this since he was two. He even pretends that a boy named Keith always joins him. He says Keith always knows that Georgie will get up at nine thirty. That is when Keith joins him for his nightly game, or how he likes to call it, "When the magic happens." I can here him talking to whatever character he wants to be asking questions, like, " How was school young lad?" My mom says he gets it from my father, but I say he is hiding something else.

3 Lying in bed tonight, I almost envy Georgie. He can escape this world and enter another so easily. I wonder if he is too young to have problems to escape from. I am worried about him, though. I had heard Mom and Dad talking about him a couple of weeks ago when they thought that I was in bed, asleep. Mom was saying that they needed to do something about his late night play dates with Keith. She said that it needed to be stopped and that he was going to have to grow up sooner or later. Dad, good old faithful Dad, just said to give it time, that Georgie was growing up, but at his own pace. It was then that I realized that Mom and Dad knew more than I thought they did. Ever since, I’ve been trying stay up, so that I can get Georgie back into bed as soon as possible, but I know that I can only keep doing that for so long. He's already fallen asleep once during arts and crafts. Mrs. O'Brien, Georgie's kindergarten teacher, said that if it happened one more time, she would have to call home. I assured her that it wouldn't. I can only hope that I was right.

4 When my head hit the pillow, I immediately fell asleep. As soon as I did I had a dream, it was different than all the other ones I have had. First in the dream; I was walking down the hallway in our house, and saw Georgie running back and forth in his room. When I got in there, it was like I had entered a whole new world. I was outside. Then, I got scared because Georgie tried to enter but couldn’t. Finally I woke up from the dream. This happened to me for the next eleven nights. Now I lay here on the twelfth night in fear of what might happen tonight.

5 I hope that after eleven nights of one dream I will have a different dream tonight. I can’t fall asleep but I think to myself that might be a good thing. Maybe if Georgie played in the hall tonight I would hear him, and he would give my mind a new inspiration for a dream. I think I hear something. Is it Georgie? No, it is only the wind. Finally after a long hour I think I am about to close my eyes for the final time for the night. Then, all of a sudden, I am more awake than I had been all day. I certainly wish I was dreaming.

6 Even though I knew I was not dreaming I closed my eyes as tight as I could and hoped I could end this nightmare. Sadly, this nightmare is real and I got out of bed, ran down the hallway, and stared in fright. The back door was open, Georgie was gone, and I had this feeling that some object of pure importance was missing from the house. Too tired and terrified to think straight, I ran outside to try and find Georgie. As soon as I walk outside, I realize how dizzy I am and before I could even think about where to look, I fall into a pit of darkness. All around me there is black until suddenly I see a red light. Soon the red light has enveloped me and a fear prickles through my spine as if I was staring into my own death. Finally the red light is gone, the darkness is back, and it becomes cold, as my mind goes black. = =

7 I could see Georgie. He was shivering and crying behind a bush. I went to comfort him but when I did he pushed me away. He said that he didn’t want to talk about it. I brought him back inside and gave him a glass of water before I put him to bed again. I walked back into my room and then I realized what those red lights were. I can’t believe I didn’t see it before. It was right in front of me all along. I could still hear his tears from down the hall. At that moment I started to cry and my face became wet. I could still hear the sirens and so could Georgie. It was an ambulance.

8 Over the past two days, Georgie hasn't gone to school. He stayed in his room and slept. I'm glad he's making up for all that sleep he loses during his nighttime adventures. Today when I got home from school, I went into my room to do homework. I tried to concentrate,but I couldn't. The x's and y's of my algebra homework jumbled like an unsolved puzzle on the page. I feel back on my bed and looked at the ceiling. What happened that night with the ambulance? Who got hurt? Why is Georgie so sad?My thoughts were interrupted by a thump. Georgie was up; I crept down the hall and was about to knock on the door, when heard voices inside. I could tell what was Georgie's but who was that other person? They were talking about Mrs. Sullivan, our neighbor. She lives in a small house and I see her a lot.Georgie goes over to her house everyday. I try to step up to Georgie's door but I trip and accidently swing it open.

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When I walked in he immediately covered up a sheet of paper with his comic book. I asked him what he had just covered up. He said it was none of my business. Being the curious person I am, during dinner I asked mom if I could be excused, and she said yes. I crept up to Georgie's room and pushed open the door gently. I looked under his comic book and saw a piece of paper with a dark black hole, as dark as night. When I touched it I found myself in a entirely new world. I looked up and, Bam! There was a sign that said " Keith's World". I wondered what was going on.

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I felt something tapping my shoulder and I quickly turned around. I looked ahead and saw nothing. I felt a tug on my shirt and looked down to see a little boy, about Georgie's age. He had a little cap on that said "Mel's Market". " Hi! My name is Keith Peterson!" the boy said. " So...you're the one that Georgie always talks about?" " Yeah. We play soldier a lot and sometimes we eat crembrulay together! Well, we pretend." I couldn't believe it. He was...real! All this time I thought my little brother just had an imaginative mind, but it was real. “ I know you must be confused. How ‘ bout I buy you a soda and explain what is going on.”, Keith offered. “Uh…ok.” It turns out that Georgie carries this special piece of paper around everywhere, which allows him to enter ‘Keith’s World’. Georgie and Keith can communicate through the hole in the page, and sometimes Keith even comes to our world. But when he visits, he’s invisible.

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Did I really just talk to a boy from an imaginative world? Or was I just crazy? To tell you the truth, I really didn't know. Keith invited me to his world at 9:30pm. I had never been invited to a non-existing party, but I'm open for change. Finally, I could prove to my parents that Georgie really wasn't crazy. Wait, then that makes me the crazy one. Ugggh! Maybe Mom and Dad were right, I do think too much. At the moment I still can't figure out if I'm in a dream or if this is the fantasy reality I live in, but whatever it is, it is about to get crazy!

12 Keith's world was a crazy one. There was a place called Mel's Market which was the hot spot of his town. The soda and the crembuley were fantastic. While taking a walk with Keith there were these strange trees that popped up. These trees were called bobaloose. Apparently when ever something was drawn on the special piece of paper it would turn up in his world. "So when Georgie draws on that piece of paper it will turn up in your world?" I asked. " Yep, see that statue of George Washington that's from Georgie. It represents our special soldier game. Oh and Mel's Market was also drawn by him that represents our picnic game. That soda you drank a while ago was one of his secret recipes. He is a genius when it comes to food and soda." Keith said. " Wait so is that why Georgie always caries around that old, ratty comic book with papers jutting out from the sides." "Yeah, that is his prize possesion if lost that I don't know what he would do." The interesting thing about the conversation Keith and I had was that there was this little voice in the back of my head saying something, but I just couldn't figure out what it was. Over the next few days I wish I had really listened because something terrrible happened. His comic book was stolen.

13 I'm sitting waiting for Keith to come in the room when all of a sudden it hits me. This is the worst thing, I'm stuck in here and I'm never going to be able to come out until that comic book is found. Then it's like someone has stopped the clock and there's this big pause as if nobody wants to do anything but sit. After sitting here for so long the clock starts again and my mind starts to function. I go back to the thought of what could possibly happen if someone or something were to find this? So many ideas pop into my head at once I feel like if I can't get a vaccum to suck them out I'm going to burst which the idea sounds cool but at a time like this it's not very cool for me. I finally loose some ideas and only the the ones a little kid could would come up with are left. One of my favorite is a little kid finds this book and shows his mom yet his mom throws all her dirty dishes on it! And it's like I'm frozen and when Keith comes back he has to poor water on me before a let out a big yelp! He ask me what I was doing and why I was in such a big daze. I'm deciding whether or not to tell him when all of a sudden a baby falls on my head!! I don't know what to do when I look at his diaper and it says, "My name is Petunia, if you find me please send my back to 101 Baby Come Back to me Lane."

14 When I was about to give up hope I finally find house number 101 on Baby Come Back to me Lane. It's a dirty, baby blue brick house with filthy pink bows above all the windows. The whole place gives me this feeling that I'm not supposed to be here, but I continue walking anyway. As I'm about to knock on the door a huge gust of wind ruffles my hair. I hear some rustles of paper nearby in a bush. Is it? It can't be!? Georgie's comic book! That child is always forgetting things after his midnight games, he must've left it here after his last visit with Keith. Before I forget about them, I rush over to it super quick like someone is chasing me in a real intense game of tag. After almost letting the tagger win I dive on to the sidewalk and catch the comic book with great triumph, but I almost forget about the baby! I run to the door to grab whimpering and frightened Petunia, still managing to keep hold of Georgie's comics that held the key to me escaping Keith's world. When I knock on the door no one answers. It's kind of weird because the note specifcialy said,"...if you find me please send me back to 101 on Baby Come Back to me Lane," and no one is home. I take a look around back, only to find an old lady wearing a lime green afro that's way out of date. She is gardening near this exotic speckled plant that looks like it could eat you. She didn't notice me for a while, but when she finally did she came hobbling towards me with this nasty grin stitched on her face. 15 Once the old creep reached me she asked me to give the baby to her, but I wasn't to sure about it. To reassure me she told me her name is Ms. Isteel Chil Dran, and a little more about herself. After I got a chance to breath, it all came back to me, her name means "I steel children" in Russian! I run away as fast as I can with Petunia in one hand and the comic book in the other. Mrs. Isteel Chil Dran is really fast for an old women. Finally I loose her off my trail. I sit down and look through the comic book, the key to getting out of Keith's world. Now that I have it, do I want to get out? Do I want to put a halt all this adventure? While all these thoughts were spinning in my head, I feel a slight tap on my shoulder. I look and nobody appears to be there. Then I get another tap and it is the old woman. She grabs the comic book from me and tears it into a million shreds. Now I'll never find my way out of here! Then I find one of the pieces on the ground and it says, "Petunia belongs to us, bring her to 13 Have a Nice Life Road." That sounds so creepy, and I don't want to go there! "Who does this mystery Petunia belong to?" I wonder aloud, "Does she have mystery parents? Is she and orphan? Are her parents being impersonators? Are her parents bad people?" All these questions, and none of them answered, at least not yet. I'm going to be the one to unravel all these questions and this mystery, weather it takes me all night or not. I have a feeling that this is going to be a long mystery to solve, and a short night to do it in.

16 A week later, I thought of some reasonable explanations for all of those questions. I thought long and hard until something hit me. BAM!... like a strong, intense feeling rushing through my mind, like a giant volcano exploded on me! I thought of maybe if I spy on her I could get some information about her from someone else, such as Georgie. But I mostly concentrated on Petunia's background. I thought for hours and hours trying to string bits of information together like repair broken pieces of noodles. I wanted to know so much about her but I knew I couldn't figure this out on my own, without Georgie I am hopeless. My only question now is, How?

17 First I needed to find Georgie. The only question was, Where was he? How could he of left Keith's world if his comic book wasn't with him? He must still be in this mysterious world. I ran around looking for him when I ran into Keith. "Hey", I said, "Do you know where Georgie is?" "I think I saw him running around looking for his comic book." "Some old lady ripped it up into little, tiny pieces. I need to find him or else we will be stuck in this world forever. I wouldn't mind staying here, but my parents would be worried if I wasn't home in the morning." "Well, the last time I saw him he was at the statue of George Washington. I'll come with you." "O.k." We both sprinted to the statue where we found Georgie curled up in a little ball bawling his eyes out. What had happened? "What's wrong?", I asked him. "I don't want to talk about it.", Georgie said while trying not to cry. "Well, the good news is I found your comic book. The only bad news is that some old lady ripped it all up. So, I was wondering if there is another way to get out of Keith's World. You do know that Mom and Dad will be very upset if you and I aren't home by morning." "I'm not sure if the other way out will work, but we can try." "Well, let's give that a try, but first we have some business to take care of." I pulled out baby Petunia. "Do you want to go on one last adventure before morning comes?", I asked Georgie and Keith.

18 It was early in the morning when we finaly found were baby Petunia belonged. I know Mom and Dad are probably about to call the police or the cia to find us,"I said . "Mom has probably already pased being scared she is probably horrified," said Georgie. Georgie said,"I hope she hasn't told our relatives that we aren't coming back." and I said," What if Mom has already turned our rooms into storage or what if they just forgot about us." "I hope they haven't. Jenny what would we do without them we wouldn't have anywhere to live or to get food, that would be horrible." When we finally got of the magic school bus, my mom and dad came running up to us and gave us each a big bear hug. Where have you been, says Mom, nevermind that you are going to be late for school, go go hurry up so you won't be late.

19 That seemed like the longest day of school I have ever had. I can not help but wonder what was in store for Georgie and me, and how we would fix the comic book! After school that day, I could not focus on my homework or anything, just thinking about our next adventure. Soon it was time for bed, I searched for all the remaining pieces of the comic book. When I finally found them I tip toed to Georgie's bedroom. Luckily, we had some tape to fix the book. Finally we pieced together the comic book. But, when we tried to get into Keith's world, it did not work. "Why doesn't it work!" Georgie stated. "Georgie, did Keith ever tell you what else you could use to get into the world?" "The bus is only for getting out of the world, wait a second! There must be another bus here that can take you to the world, maybe one with the same license plate!"said Georgie. "I guess I could look on the buses at school." "Look really hard Jenny, I don't want to lose my best friend." "Alright, I will look really hard, lets call it a night." I don't think I remember the plate, and in a way, I think Georgie is going way over our heads!

20 I woke up this morning, and I was startled with what I saw. My mom is in my face, trying to wake me up. "Georgie is gone; no one can seem to find him," my mom says. I immediately jump out of bed and look around the house, realizing that Georgie must be looking for the magic school bus. I don't tell my parents, worried what they would think if I told them that Georgie is somewhere in this world looking for a bus with the license plate KGR-3755. It could be anywhere! I just hope he's somewhere near here, because I don't want to have to run very far. I decided that I would get ready for school fast, get Mom to drive me to school early, and find Georgie before school. Seemed like a reasonable plan at the time, but I could only think that until I got downstairs.

21 Racing down the stairs, I suddenly stop in my tracks. I feel like a deer frozen in the headlights of a Hummer! Keith is there, or his hand is sticking out from the black piece of paper, the key to his world. About a million questions race through my brain! How did the paper get there, why is a random hand sticking out of it, and the most important one... what do I do? As I look up I see Dad about two seconds away from turning around. My brain is dead, but my feat are obviously not because they race me over there and my hand scoop it up and I race into the bathroom. I slam the door shut and whisper , "Hello?" "Jenny get me out of here! I was trying to enter your world after taping the paper together and my hand slid through one of the teared pieces!" "Who is this?" "It is me Keith." "How did you get the paper here?" "Well I got this contraption that you look into a mirror and you can see were you are on your world. Then you select it and place the paper into it. It puts it in your world and mine at the same time! Does that answer your question?" "Yes." My heart starts to pound. Did I just here footsteps in my direction? Yes! Holding my breath I hope that horrible sound won't be followed by a knock, but it does! Before I can answer the door flies opened with the paper and Keith's hand in my lap!

22. I could barly breathe I was so scared. It was.... Georgie. "Where did you go?", I asked. "Jenny, you got the paper back, but how? Where did you find it?!" "Where did you go?", I reapeted "I was looking all over for the bus. I haven't talked to Keith in a while, but you found him!" "Yes, Georgie I found the paper on the counter. I was worried and mom and dad have been looking everywhere for you! Go upstairs right now and tell them your here, but tell them you were playing around the neighborhood. O.K.?" At that Georgie ran off to tell mom and dad he was home. I thought," he is grounded for weeks." Knowing that Georgie is home safe is just another load off my shoulders. I went to school and my best friend Kailey was coming over for a sleepover today! I was so exited and completly forgot about Keiths world and Georgie. I was having fun until about 9:30 pm when something terrible happened.