Campie Primary School Short Stories

The Director’s Mystery

  Jamie McDonald

  Er ... Hello! I'm Mark. I work in a film institute, with my producer, Namquil Surname, my friend Jack and my director, John Gnihtemos. Today I'm going to tell you a secret story that I made up happened to my director, only last week. So, here we go ...

  Fizz! Bang! The lights couldn’t quite decide whether they were on or off. Ow! I tripped over a camera wire. I picked myself up and sat down on what I thought was a box and considered that, maybe, paying the electricity bill might have been a better idea than having a cup of tea. There was a spark of electricity and the lights went back on. I went to apologize to Namquil and then I noticed that the director was not there, the toilet was engaged by Jack, and John had not signed out of our studio. I could see the entire studio from where I was standing, on the balcony, and I could not see him anywhere.

  That was when I noticed something strange. There was a red stain on the carpet, next to the director's chair. It was not there when the power went out. I walked down the short flight of stairs from the balcony, to where the stain was. It peeled off when I pulled at it, so I put it in a little container, so I could examine it later. Then I went for a burger.

  Ten minutes later, I was wiping Ketchup off my face, and heading back to the Film Institute Of Somewhere (FIOS), when I noticed that no car was parked in the Directors spot, when it was there earlier in the day. I decided to call the director, but when I looked on my contact list, on my mobile, he wasn’t there. I walked in the revolving doors, and after remembering that they didn’t work after power cuts, I went through the automatic doors. After remembering that THEY didn’t work either, I just went through the normal doors. I felt my mobile buzzing in my pocket. My director had texted me! I read it, glad to get news of his disappearance. But when I looked, I was disappointed. It read: !!!!!!!!!!!!! In the££££$$$$place***************!******!aargh!!!!

  I gave it to the receptionist, thinking she might be able to make sense of it. She said “the !!!!’s and ****’s mean that he is annoyed, and ‘the I am in ££££$$$$ place’ means the bank. Simple, really, all you have….”

  THE BANK!!!!

  I caught the bus at the nearest bus stop, and headed for the town bank. I walked in the revolving doors and fell over. Seeing a rope at my feet, I called out. Then I saw black….

  What felt like hours I found myself in a locker, without the little container of blood. I was losing breath…

  I’m Best Friends with a Jelly Baby!

  Charley Millar

  I had moved house, I didn’t know why, mummy had said something about a new start but I wasn’t in love with the idea. As the car pulled up outside my new school, my heart was thudding hard in my chest. I kissed mummy good bye and I shut the door. I walked slowly towards the front door. As I stood at the little window a small beady lady peered over at me. “What is your name?” she asked me

  “Tod Munch.” I mumbled

  She flicked through a yellow folder

  “Ooh the new boy” she said in surprise.

  She took me through a large corridor and at the end was a small yellow and green glass windowed door. The lady opened the door and introduced me to my new class, I sat on my chair, all eyes were on me and I was the only one in school uniform. Mummy told me to wear it and I always did what mummy said. I loved mummy because she calls me her little elf and ruffles my blond curled hair. No one had spoken to me at all that day, but I wasn’t that bothered anyway I only really spoke to mummy and even then hadn’t said much. I don’t remember much about the rest of that day but people kept calling me names and stuff, I didn’t tell anyone, not even mummy.

  It was that day, I had come home with tears in my eyes, I ran up the stairs only to fall on the last step and the tears to come flooding out. I burst into my bedroom and lay flat on my bed crying into a pile of my fluffy toys, but I only cuddled Bongo, my monkey.

  My mum had called me downstairs, it was pasta and apple juice for dinner. After dinner she handed me a packet of jelly babies. I began eating slow, looking at every one before popping it into my mouth. But there was something strange about the last one at the bottom of the packet. It was then I realised that the jelly baby was the same as me. It had a small dent in its back, it was yellow my favourite colour and all though it was at the bottom it didn’t seem to care what I or anyone else thought of it. I decided we would be best-friends and we would do everything together, and we did. I took him to the park, the movies, to school even in the bath.

  He was getting smelly, I didn’t care but mummy did. She chucked him in the bin, I was so sad but this story has a happy ending. I finally found some friend’s they are so nice to me and understand me.

  THE ALIEN WHO CAME TO EARTH

  Cameron Mills

  H! I’m Allen and I’m an alien.

  It was Monday first day of the summer holidays; I just woke up from a nice long lie and went to get breakfast. Then there they were, all three of them Jack , Jock and John , all they did to me was bully me , I tried to get away without them seeing me but I was too late Jock saw me.

  “Look!” said Jock “There’s that we slug let’s get him!”

  When they say that that means I’m going to get it. I ran as fast as I could but they caught me.

  The next again day I could hardly walk because they had hurt me so badly. I woke up on Wednesday morning feeling a wee bit better, I went down stair had my breakfast and went back upstairs to get changed, by that time Jog (my big brother) Jock , Jack and John were up, and that’s how I’ve ended up here EARTH!! I ran away from home, well I flew away, I had to they were just bullying me every time they saw me and that was going to be all summer.

  So I’m here on earth and I’ve met this boy called Jack not the Jack that has been bullying me another boy, he’s quite a nice boy he has help me fix my ship and he has took me up to the park a place where humans can play. Then while we were up the park we play this thing called football and I found out that I have a talent for it, and I also enjoy playing it.

  When we got home Jack asked me a question

  “What are you?”

  “An alien” I said.

  “But I thought aliens were green not black and blue?!”

  “AWWWWWW!!!!! That’s just bruising because my brother and his friends bully me and that’s why I’m here”.

  I woke up on Thursday morning and one of Jack’s friends came round to see if we were coming to play football, we went up and there was a big crowd of people playing football.

  When we went over they looked at me and said “What is that?!”

  Jack told them what had happened and then we played football when we were going home a couple of boys asked me if I played for a football team, I said no, they said that I should because I was really good. We got home and played a wee bit of football ourselves, then we got something to eat and then we went to bed.

  I woke up on Friday morning and went to see if Jack was up, he was he was already dressed in a red top, white shorts and long socks. I knocked on the window and ask if I could come in. I climbed in through the window and asked him what he was wearing.

  “My football strip because I have a football game”

  “But what I’m I going to do while you’re at your football game?”

  “ Well you could come with me if you want?”

  “ YES!!! I would love to!”

  When we got there Jack ran over to his coach and asked him something. When Jack came back he asked me if I would like to play football with the team. I said yes and then Jack gave me a football top and shorts they were a bit big but I managed. We ran about the football pitch and did some stretches that was called a warm up, then we got into a huddle and got told were about we were playing on the pitch. I was playing as sticker.

  When we got home Jack went in this thing called a shower, he got changed and then we went out to play. Jacks mum came and said there’s someone at the door for you two we ran round it was a slim tall man wit
h a bold head, Jack said hi and asked what he wanted.

  He was looking for an alien called Allen, I said” hi I’m Allen”, he said to me that he was watching me play football this morning and that I was really good, so would you like to come and play for Barcelona

  “Mmm!! I’m not too sure” I said

  “Well why don’t you have a think about it and then you can call me” he replied and handed me a wee piece of paper with his information on it.

  I went back to the garden and had a think about it, I asked Jack about it and he said “Well if I was you, I would take the chance”

  “OK!!! I’ve made my mind up! I’m going to take the chance and go and play for them! Go and get the phone and I’ll call him!”

  After I called him I went to bed at 8:00pm because I had to get up really early to go and train for Barcelona. I woke up on Saturday morning feeling really excited and got dressed; I climbed into my space ship and flew to the Nou Camp (Barcelona stadium). When I arrived I saw all the players like Messi, Danni Alves, David Villa, Valdes, Puyol, Pique, Pedro, etc. , Then I saw the man that asked me to come, his name is Pep Cardiola (Barcelona manage ) He took me inside and it was HUGE!!!!! I went into the changing rooms and the manager introduced me to all the players. After that we went out to the pitch and done some training and then went back home.

  Later on in the night I got a phone call to say that we had training on Monday. I woke up on Sunday and went up to the park I told the boys that I play for Barcelona but they didn’t believe me. Then later on Jack came up and I told Jack to tell them that I play for Barcelona but hey still didn’t believe me, anyway we played in the park for a wee bit and then we went home I had to go to my bed early again because I had football training in the morning.

  When I arrived at the changing room doors I got asked if I could play a proper football game with Barcelona and I said yes, we went out to the training ground and I got asked to go with one of the training coaches. He told me that he was just going to do some stuff with me so I knew what to do in the game on Wednesday. When I finished I got told that I might be a little bit sore from all the hard training I have done but it would go away the next again day.

  I got home and ran through and knocked on Jack’s bedroom window he quickly opened it and I told him that I was going to be playing for Barcelona on Wednesday night, then I asked him if he would like to come because I could get the tickets for free. Jack yelled in excitement and happiness. He was that loud that the neighbour got woken up by the noise! Once he had settled down we went to bed.

  In the morning I was sore all over but I thought I would be because I was working hard at my training. Once we got dressed and had breakfast we watched some TV. When it came to Wednesday I was so, so nervous but exited at the same time. I got changed in to the Barcelona stuff that the manager gave me and left the house to go to the Nou Camp. When I got to the Nou Camp I went into the changing room and I got asked if I would like to play a game. I got changed and joined the team in the tunnel, I could hear the crowd shouting Barca, Barca, Barca…..

  KILLZONE

  Callum Mortimer

  Jock was a brave man so brave he could fight an entire army all by himself and that was his job. One boring morning Jock got a phone call from his boss Bob. Bob instructed Jock had a mission in a jungle in the Amazon because a Russian Master Mind stole money from a bank and had an army protecting, him so he would be hard to get but not for Jock.

  When Jock arrived at the Amazon he was greeted by a Scottish man with a kilt on Jock was also wearing a kilt that made Jock happy.

  “Aright” said the man, “I’m Craig Shetlond,”

  “SHETLOND!!!” exclaimed Jock.

  “Aye!” said Craig, “Shetlond”

  “That’s my second name too! Where are you from?” asked Jock

  “The highlands” said Craig, “My mum sent me here to meet some guy called Jock.”

  “That’s me, Jock Shetlond. My boss sent me here to find a Russian man.”

  “Now that we’re technically brothers, can I fight with you?” asked Craig.

  “You can, you sure can” said Jock.

  The next morning Jock & Craig came across a big water fall then all of a sudden. WOOSH!!!! Out of nowhere a bullet went spinning past Craig’s ear. WOOSH!!!!!! Then another then Jock turned around and he seen an army firing bullets at them.

  KA BOOM!!!!! A grenade landed the water.

  “RUN” screamed Jock “RUN!”

  “Good idea” said Craig.

  “Actually no we won’t run, we will fight” said Jock “CHAAAAAAARGE!!!”

  “TAKE THIS TAKE THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

  Jock had no fear so he decided to go up to a man with a fully loaded gun and say “guess what.”

  “What?” said the man.

  Craig came up behind the man and screamed “KNIFE!!!!”

  “HAHAHAHAHA” laughed Jock.

  “Hang on a minute” said Jock “The shooting has stopped we’ve won now we just need to find the Russian Master Mind WOO HOO!!!”

  “NOT SO FAST”

  “Don’t be like that Craig we’ve won.”

  “I wouldn’t be so sure” said Craig “look.”

  Jock turned around and only seen a belly he looked up and saw scary man with one I the man had a bag with about $5,000,000 and a gun .“BANG!!!BANG!!!” Went the man’s gun Craig went down with a thump.

  “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH” Screamed Craig “I’ve been hit AAAAHHHH.”

  “It’s ok” said Jock.

  BANG SMACK BOOM!!!!! The Mastermind went down with a thump. Jock grabbed the bag with the money in it and ran towards Craig but it was too late. It turns out the Master Mind was actually Bob, Jock’s boss. Jock was gutted.

  The Evacuation

  Niamh Paterson

  It all started when I got evacuated to the country side. My name is Lauren Naysmith and I am 12 years old.

  When the Nazis attacked Britain I got taken to the train station and then taken to the country side. When I arrived they took me to a big hall and I got matched up with a couple called Ann and John Johnston .They have 3 children called Kate, Tom and Sarah. Sarah is the youngest and Tom is the same age as me. I was shy at first but then I got more confident around them.

  My mum wanted me to write to her at least once a week she will feel very lonely without me because my dad died when I was only 10 months old.

  “Lauren! Come down for tea!” Ann shouted “OK two minutes” replied Lauren.

  Tonight for tea I think where having Ann’s special homemade stew. Lauren started to walk down the stairs they are very step on the last step she tripped up on one of Sarah’s shoes “Lauren! Lauren! Are you ok?” asked Kate in a excited but worried tone

  “Yes I’m fine but I hurt my elbow” she said in a groaning voice

  “It’s bleeding” Sarah said

  “Oh we better put a plaster on that” replied John.

  A few months had passed and it was Tom’s birthday he got a new pair of wellies, chocolate, and a new paint set and we had a chocolate cake it was very good.

  (to be continued)

  Owner Trouble

  Karla Reid

  “Here we are,” as Billy’s owner parked the horse box in a nearby opening. She jumped out and she whispered “Bye-bye Billy”

  And opened the horse box she got Billy out and put some food in his field. Then Linda left. Two days have passed now.

  Billy thought to himself ‘I wonder if she is ever coming back for me?’

  Then suddenly the horse box drew up outside the field, and Billy’s owner stepped out, Billy thought that he was going to go back to his stable with his nice cosy rugs and all his friends! But no, it was a pony friend of Billy’s called Snowy, and she is white with blue eyes and a silky mane. Then the owner put more food out hopped back into the horsebox and drove off!

  One week has passed now and I’m so hungry. “I feel like I’m going to starve to death!
” I said to Snowy

  This strange man came to see us this morning he came and swung open the gate, Snowy was off before I could go after her.

  I walked along the road feeling lonely my feet clip clopping along the road.

  I see long green juicy grass I can’t resist having just a little nibble so I go to cross the busy road and I make it across, I decide that I have had enough to eat so I walk along the road, and I see lots of people and they give me lots of treats lovely juicy carrots and apples. A little girl came to give me some mints. They were very tasty!

  I would like her to be my owner I thought to myself.

  The sun was going down so I decided that he was going to find somewhere to rest for the night.

  In the morning I was woke up by raindrops falling down on me, so I decided that I had to get up I couldn’t face the rain any longer I just had to get up!

  I got up and walked along the road I felt so tired I didn’t know how!

  I see a shadow coming towards me!

  NEH! NEH! I rush towards the sound its Snowy I fell so happy that we are together again so I’m not lonely and more!

  But there is a problem, Snowy is on the other side of the road, so I keep going along and Snowy follows on the other side. Snowy decides that she is going to cross the road so they can settle down for the night so she does. They both settle down for the night after the long walk they had had during the day. In the morning me and snowy get up and the cars were flowing past.

  So we decide that we were going to cross the road onto the quieter side, Snowy took the lead and went first and made it across the I went but I got hit by a car!

  When I woke up I was surrounded by people. They were vets. I was in good care now not like before I was so relieved. Next thing I knew I was up for sale and I was going to have a new owner and a new home and I would be in safe hands.