Crazy Jumping Acts
By: Shayla Alvirez
I was lying on the couch, staring at a fly on the wall. I was so bored I couldn’t think of anything to do, even if my life depended on it! My mother told me to go to the Mall of America, since we lived twenty minutes away from it. She told me to spend my Birthday money and she gave me a little extra money. So she gave me the car keys and I was on my way.
I pulled in the parking lot, got out and started my way up to the ginormous building. I seen so many stores and there even was an amusement park. But something was totally wrong...everybody was jumping! I stopped and stared at these people who would jump from place to place. It was so strange. I walked my way through the jumping people and I came across this crying girl in the corner, She had a...I couldn’t believe my eyes, she had mermaid tail! She saw me walking over to her a she got even more frightened. I told her I wouldn’t hurt her, she then asked why wasn’t I jumping around like the other people at the mall. That’s a question Jesus couldn’t even answer, I told her I don’t know, what’s going on?
So she began to tell me what had happed. I went into the Majestic Store, two floors up from where we were. I was being rude to this woman and all of a sudden she said I’ll regret being rude to innocent people, and then all of a sudden I couldn’t walk! And then the people around me where jumping and one of them jumped and landed right on my mermaid tail! So I moved my way to the bottom floor and balled my eyes out and then that’s when I met you.
I looked at her with crazy eyes; it was hard to believe such a thing had happened. I had to meet these women for my self, but the girl with the mermaid tail didn’t want to move so I lifted her up over my shoulder, she was as light as a feather strangely. I rushed my way through these jumping people; for they were a pain because you didn’t know where they were going to land then jump again.
Floor after floor we finally made it to the Majestic store. The lady came out and starting screaming gibberish at me. She didn’t seem to notice the girl with the mermaid tail. So she slithered back and tried to grab the lady’s magic powered to cure everyone of there jumping. But the lady saw her and grabbed her and threw her into cage and locked it. She laughed in my face and walked to the back room.
I looked around and saw a roll of mega double duct tap. I grabbed it, ran out. I would come back for the mermaid tail girl shortly but I had an idea. I grabbed the first jumping person held on for dear life and when that person hit the ground I quickly tapped his feet to the ground and then there was a ball of smoke. When the smoke was gone I noticed he was walking normal again, on his own two feet. I repeated this process over and over until every person was walking again.
I returned to the Majestic store to find the mermaid tail girl free. She said the mean lady had disappeared into thin air. She looked at me and said you did it! You stopped everyone from jumping around everywhere. I look at her tail and said yeah everyone except you. She looked at the floppy tail below her waist and said she wants to stay like this, that its ok and I shouldn’t feel bad because I didn’t fix her.
I had an idea; I picked her up and walked all the way to the aquarium on the bottom floor of the mall. I stuck her into the water tank with dolphins and all sorts of fish. She swam and swam all around the tank, and then she started crying. She said she loved what I had done for her, and that this is her new life. She thanked me over and over and then she stopped and asked if I would visit her every once in awhile. I smiled and said whenever she wanted to see me give me a call; I’m not that far away.
I was on my way home and realized this day was too crazy! I forgot to get my birthday present with my birthday money. What am I going to tell my mom? I laughed to myself and thought I would tell her I got lost and I’ll go another day.