The Easter Adventure: Tale of a Mean Old Cat

*It's "Throw Back Thursday"! This was written (dictated) in May 2017 when Jocelyn was 6 years old... hold on tight and get ready for a wild adventure!

Ruby and Jade take a walk with their pets, pup and pig and bunny.

Pig goes down into the sewer with bunny. The friends follow.

They find magical tangle fairies and discover the pet bunny is actually the Easter bunny and he was delivering presents to the tangle fairies! He becomes the Easter bunny on Easter weekend.

The tangle fairies get honeysuckle, berries, tea and tangle brushes for Easter. But they agree not to tangle Ruby and Jade’s hair anymore because they become friends.

The Easter bunny tells the friends that a family of mice is in trouble. “We need to help them. There is a mean old cat who lives on Cat Island and he’s trying to eat a little family of mice who lives two islands away!”

A tangle fairy named Abigail tells the friends about teleporting gems that can teleport the cat to a far away land where there is a city with a force field around it and he wouldn’t be able to hurt the mouse family.

The tangle fairies fly the friends out of the sewer but Abigail drops the bag of teleporting gems. The friends help her look for them and wander into the jungle. They hear ROAR

They look up and see a lion.

They hide behind a tree. There is a jaguar sleeping there. He wakes up and rides them on his back out of the jungle onto a beach. They say thankyou. But pup is gone!

Ruby sees pup in the water.

Ruby swims after pup

She sees him under the water – she swims under holding her breath

She sees a mermaid!

The mermaid takes her and gives her something to help her and the puppy breathe under water. They are under-water breathing crystals.

She wanted to help them find the cat.

They see a boat trader – Ruby reached in her left pocket and found a little American flag that can be mounted onto a boat. They traded the flag for a pink boat. The mermaid followed the boat in the water to an island. There they saw a little house with a tiny crack – Ruby reached in a pulled out a little mouse eating cheese! They put him in a glass jar. They found 12 mice and took them to protect them from the grumpy cat.

They sailed back across the water and saw the cat. It was the grumpy cat! He tried to swim out and pull the boat apart but Ruby had the under-water breathing crystals. They all fell into the water and swam deep down where the cat couldn’t reach them. He swam to the island to look for the mice but they were all safe under water.

They saw a great white shark. A GREAT WHITE SHARK. He was a nice shark who only ate seaweed. He was a vegetarian so he would not eat animals or humans. The friends swim back to the surface and get back into the boat. The shark swam along with the mermaid and they found a place to camp out on the beach. They made a camp. They each found a rock and put a blanket and pillow and laid down.

In the morning the mermaid came up from the ocean and the fairies came out from the nature cottages on the beach. Ruby woke up. They all got back into the boat. The shark popped out and said “Wait for me!” and swam around the island. All of a sudden they looked back and the Easter bunny wasn’t there! They said “Where will he deliver presents now?” But he found a treasure chest under water and was picking up treasure to buy camping supplies so they could have a better campout next time. He was going to buy a tent and firewood.

They saw a town and sailed there. They found a shop that sold camping supplies. They bought four tents, five pieces of fire wood, stones to make a fire place, and something to make the fire burn bright. They also bought 10 coconuts and 10 oranges that were grown on the island. They pulled the boat back to the ocean and got into the boat, except for the shark and the mermaid who swam along.

They had to cross between two islands where people were living that stole boats! They got their boat and flipped it over them and took it under water so no one could see them! They swam under the island blocks and finally got to the other side. Then when all the people were distracted they paddled their boat quickly away.

They came to another island. This island was a new island to camp out on because there were no people living there that could steal stuff at night time. They went to bed.

In the morning they heard MEOW. It was the mean old cat! He had been hiding and spying on them to he could get the glass jar of mice. They went running to get in the boat and they realized they didn’t see the jar of mice! Then they saw the cat. The mean old cat had it! Ruby bravely ran with piglet and banged the cat with a big stick! Then he started crying and he dropped the jar. Ruby picked it up and ran to the boat and sailed away! They could still hear the cries of that poor old cat. But they heard something else. It was kittens crying! They were on Cat Island! And the mean old cat was stealing the kittens toys! 

So Ruby had to sail all the way back so she could pick up the kittens. She lassoed the kittens with a rope and pulled them onto the boat. She also pulled the mean old cat onto the boat because she was going to tie him up and put him in the middle of the ocean. They sailed the boat into the middle of the ocean. She untied the mean old cat and threw him into the ocean! He didn’t know which way to go so he followed Ruby’s boat under water because he thought they were going back to Cat Island. But they were searching for the teleporting gems. Ruby reached into her right pocket to get out a telescope and discovered the bag of teleporting gems! It fell into her pocket and she didn’t know! She used the telescope and discovered the cat under water following them. She jumped into the water and threw the teleporting gems onto him. She made a wish “I wish he would go away forever!” and he disappeared! 

Then she said “What a good Easter this was!”

The End!

The Henderson Sisters

Chapter 1: The Picnic (Berlin)

My family and I are at the park with our father. We all live in California. My name is Berlin and I am the oldest of seven children at 18 years old. I’m preparing hotdogs for a cook out. Father is helping me, even though I don’t want his help. I’m independent. Jane, who is the second oldest at 16, shouted, “When are the hotdogs going to be done? Cookies is eating my sock!” Cookies is our white labradoodle and loves to eat. 

Hannah is on the computer writing a story. Hannah is the storyteller in the family. She is the middle child at 10. Sophie, who is the youngest at 5, ran over and accidentally touched the burner a few minutes ago so she is crying to death. She is very loud and I can’t concentrate. 

Pearl, the third youngest at 8 who is a fashion model, has beautiful blonde hair. My hair is only black. Pearl also has the most pretty blue eyes. I’m jealous of her in some ways. I have black eyes. 

Ann is the second youngest at 7. She’s into crafts so has just bought a new sewing kit and is testing every last ribbon and needle out. One time, I bought her a pack of ribbons for Christmas and she used them in one day! Chloe, the third oldest at 14, is always helpful. She’s helping Sophie get the band-aids out of our first kit inside of the car. Our father always keeps band-aids in the car. 

Then father called, “Time to eat the hotdogs!” We all gathered at the table. Jane said, “I want the biggest one!” Then Sophie said, “No fair! I called biggest one hour ago in the car!” 

Just letting you know, Hannah got the biggest. It was after we finished eating our delicious hot dogs, that I made of course, we decided to go home. 

Chapter 2: Girl Scout Cookies (Jane)

            Chloe promised me she would make her special cookies for my Girl Scout ceremony. If I handed out 20 cookies in a week, I would move from Brownie to Girl Scout! I am jealous because my best friend Sandy is already a Girl Scout. 

            Suddenly, Hannah ran down the stairs carrying a package in her hands. The package had “Ann” written on it... Ann’s birthday was coming up but I haven’t found her a present yet. I guess Hannah had! 

Chloe was at the stove and Hannah bumped into her when she ran down. That caused the cookie dough to splatter on the floor. Berlin, who was quietly reading a book on the couch, was not surprised that she had made a mess with her cookies. She had seen Chloe make so many messes in the kitchen. 

            I heard a knock on the door. Sophie rode down the stairs on her brand new scooter. Ann ran behind her trying to stop her because she thought she would get hurt! Berlin was not surprised to see Ann was holding a ribbon spindle. It rolled and rolled down the stairs and made a giant mess. Daddy heard the knock on the door so he also came downstairs to answer. He saw the giant mess downstairs. He saw ribbons, dough, and a little girl crying on the floor.

“Sophie...”, he said. He finally answered the door after spending a few minutes cleaning up the mess. 

            Surprisingly, it was Alexa. Daddy had been dating her. He was thinking about marrying her, because we don’t have a mom, but we don’t like her of course. She was on our bad side. Last time she was over our house on a date with our father, well, we actually planned to wreck it! 

            Pearl said, “What’s all the noise?” from upstairs. “Do you like my new dress?” asked Pearl. Berlin said, “Isn’t that my sash for prom?” Pearl said, “Yes! I am just borrowing it. I made it over!” Berlin was very mad. She was going to prom in a few days and had her outfit picked out and everything. It was perfect and neat, just like all her outfits. Now the sash had been ruined! Pearl took it, added a few other ribbons she found in Ann’s room, and put it together to make a dress! Berlin was so mad she almost fainted! She didn’t have enough time to buy a new sash.

            Alexa walked in the house and said, “We’re going to go upstairs and have a little talk.” Then, she and dad walked upstairs. Chloe said, “Finished the cookies!” I took them, put them in a basket and put on my Girl Scout uniform to go out and sell cookies. I ran out the door. While I was selling cookies, I sold 23! That was just enough. 

I ran upstairs to share the good news with dad but I overheard something. They were talking about getting married! I told my sisters about what I overheard. 

“Oh, no!” said Sophie. “I don’t want a new mother!” 

“I know, we need to stop them,” I said. 

“I’ve got it!” said Ann. Then she whispered to me and my sisters, “We will grab my old confetti popper and slide it under the door where father can’t see. The weird thing is, they don’t know the confetti has ribbons in it with spoiled milk on it and it will get all over them!” 

“Let’s not get so violent,” said Berlin. “Maybe we should aim for Alexa only?” 

Chapter 3: The Big Fail (Ann)

I had the whole thing ready for the confetti launcher. My sisters and I creeped over to the bedroom door. We grabbed the confetti launcher and slid it through a hole in the door that our dog, Cookies, had made. Cookies is always hungry. I pulled back the lever and shot it. It was supposed to land on Alexa’s head and she was supposed to say, “You’re a yucky brute that you did this to me!” and was supposed to run far away. But instead it landed on Daddy’s head! 

Daddy said, “Who did this to me? You, Alexa?” We all ran right away into our bedroom. We all share a bedroom and it’s very squished in there. 

Sophie said, “I hope dad doesn’t find out what we did!” 

“He won’t,” said Jane. 

“I’m going to go check and see what he did to Alexa!” said Chloe and creeped out of the bedroom. 

I got really worried about her. I didn’t know if she was going to get in trouble. Chloe peeked through the little hole. She could see father kneeling down and, even worse, giving her a ring! That’s what she told us when she returned. We just didn’t believe her! We all crept over so Chloe could prove it to us. There we saw it. She was wearing a ring and they were dancing. We ran away, thinking this was a bad plan and had made it even worse for them. 

Then I had it! A new plan! Chloe had a really cool ring. We believed it was a hypnotizing ring. We would hypnotize Alexa for the rest of her life and would never be seen again. I told my sisters my idea and they started to giggle about it. 

We heard a knock at the door. I opened it up and we saw someone who was supposed to be the mail-man, but he looked younger. “I’m the mail-man’s son,” he said. Only Berlin knew him because that was her prom date. “I got you something.” He heard about the accident with the sash. He gave her a package and she opened it up. There she saw the most beautiful sash ever that would match her dress perfectly! She exhaled with relief and joy! She ran to the door to tell him thank you, but he was already gone. She thought, “I must go to his house to tell him thank you for giving me this! But it’s getting late and it’s too dark. I’ll have to go tomorrow.”

Chapter 4: The Big Fight 

(Hannah)

Alexa left the house. It was bedtime.

In the morning, Berlin got up and headed out the door. “Jane, you’re in charge!” she said, and she left to find Luke (the mail-man’s son) 

Father said he would take Ann and Sophie to the mall. They were going shopping for Ann. Sophie wanted to come. He said, “Jane, where is your sister?” He was talking about Berlin.

“She left,” said Jane. “She wanted to go talk to somebody.”

“I need her here! I will not leave the house unless she is here.” (He wanted her to be in charge because she was older.)

I am on the computer upstairs emailing my pen-pal. Her name is Layla and she lives in Texas. I’m waiting to get a note back to see if she’s seen a rattlesnake before. I have my own computer. Berlin has her own, too. None of my other sisters have one. I use my computer for only telling stories and sending emails. 

My pen-pal is my best friend. I knew her before she moved to Texas. She lived in Nevada. My father and I have been everywhere around the world. He loves to bring me where he goes. I met my pen-pal in a restaurant when we traveled to Nevada! Then, we became pen-pals. 

I heard father stomp upstairs. “Where’s Chloe?” She was finished with her baking and was upstairs, demonstrating to Pearl how to play dominos in the playroom. 

Chloe said, “What, Father?” 

“I need you to go get Berlin.”

“I don’t know where she went!” 

“Well, find out,” said Father. “I need her at the house to watch you while I take the little ones to the mall.”

“I’ll go see if Jane knows where she went.” Chloe went downstairs.

Chloe asked Jane, “Where is Berlin?” Jane said, “I don’t know... I think she went to the mail-boy’s house. He was strange.” 

“I’ll go,” said Chloe. She shut the door and left the room. I saw Chloe walk down the street and run into her friend Linda. Then, I looked one more time out the window and she disappeared into the mist. It was very smoky today because our neighbor put their house on fire on accident.

Part 2: 

Chapter 4 (Pearl)

            

            I’m sad Chloe had to leave. We were in the middle of our Dominoes game! Then, Hannah walked in holding her computer. It was folded up and she had finished writing a letter to her pen-pal, Layla. I said, “Hannah. Isn’t that my jacket?” Hannah said, “Yes, it was very cold and I borrowed it.”

“You have to ask before borrowing things,” I said in a sassy way. 

Then Hannah said, “Well, you borrowed Berlin’s sash without asking, huh?” 

“It was a fashion emergency!” I exclaimed.

“Being cold is an emergency, too...” said Hannah.

“Well, not as big of an emergency as myemergency...” I said.

Chloe opened the door and came in with Berlin behind her. Then Father said, “Come on, little munchkins,” to Ann and Sophie. They skipped out the door. 

I said to Hannah, “You might as well go on your computer again like you always do. That jacket is mine!”

“I’m just borrowing it!” said Hannah.

Berlin was wearing a brand new dress in a yard sale that she found on her way home. 

“What’s the noise about?” said Berlin.

“Well,” I said, “She grabbed my jacket without asking!” 

“I was just borrowing it!” said Hannah.

“I think you guys should stay apart for a little bit because I don’t want any noise. Jane is in the middle of her homework. She’s studying for her test tomorrow, on Monday!” said Berlin. 

Chloe said, “Pearl, are you ready to finish the game of Dominoes?” She was holding the box. “Sure!” I said. 

Hannah took her computer to her room and opened it to see if her pen-pal messaged back. Her pen-pal was also always on her computer. 

Chapter 5: The Cookie Almost-Fail (Chloe)

            The game was over. I won, like always. I’m the best at Dominoes. It’s my favorite board game. It was Pearl’s first time playing and she did ok. 

            I realized that since Ann was gone, I would work on the cookies for Ann’s birthday! I went into the cabinets and found sugar, powder, milk, and vanilla extract and set it on the counter. Then I grabbed pink food coloring and all the ingredients for frosting. Then I grabbed my rainbow pack of jimmies. 

            First, I mixed the batter together and put it on the tray individually. Then I put the cookies in the oven. While they were in the oven, I made the frosting. It turned out ok, but not great. It’s ok – Ann didn’t mind what things tasted like. But other people might, I thought. So, I grabbed more sugar than I was supposed to and put it inside the frosting. Then I added the food coloring and made it pink. I looked at my hands – they had turned pink! I had been mixing them inside the frosting to try and get the sugar mixed in because Father said not to dirty another spoon! I dirtied eight spoons in a week, only for cooking. We didn’t have any left! 

            Then, Berlin walked downstairs holding her favorite book. Hannah had written it! It was about a character named Olivia and she was on a journey across the Savannah in Africa. 

            “How is the story going?” I said. “Did you ask Hannah to make me a copy, too?” 

            “I told her! She’s doing it right now on the computer.”

            Berlin sat on the couch and began to read. She said, “I feel like I’m in the Savannah!” 

            I took out the cookies and put on the frosting. Then I thought, “I’ll just use a plastic spoon to spread it on! Father won’t mind that!” So I used a plastic spoon to spread on the frosting. “I better measure my jimmies,” I said. So I got a cup and measured about a jar full on each cookie! “They are finished!” I said, and I hid them under the stove so Ann wouldn’t find them. 

            The door opened and it was Ann. “I found new clothes!” she said. She had a new jacket, a new dress and a new pair of jeans. Sophie said, “I got new light-up shoes!” 

            Ann was so excited because her birthday was tomorrow. I felt humiliated. I made cookies for the party, but I didn’t get Ann’s gift yet. I was thinking of getting her new ribbons, but Father was too busy with his new job to take me. He was writing children’s books. A few weeks ago, he had no job, but then he got the idea from Hannah to be a story teller! He writes stories on the family computer that we all use.  

            Hannah walked downstairs. She was holding a new beautiful skateboard. What was really cool about it was she decorated it with letters to make it look like a keyboard! 

            “Isn’t this cool?” she said. “I went to Pearl’s room and she taught me how to decorate this!” 

            “I see you guys are getting along,” said Berlin. 

            Then Jane said, “I finished studying for my math test!”

Chapter 6: Sophie’s Imagination Runs Wild (Sophie)

Daddy told me that it was time for my nap. I take 2 naps a day! I don’t sleep so well at night and always have bad dreams. So, I went upstairs with my favorite blankie, that I call “Mr. Henderson” because our last name is Henderson. I put on my most favorite jammies I call “Berlin’s jammies”. They were Berlin’s when she was five. The top is purple with flowers all over it, and the pants are pink with unicorns! 

Daddy came up to kiss me goodnight. I got under my covers and fell asleep. I had a very strange dream! My dream was about me in space! My sisters were with me, too! And Daddy was there, too! But the weird thing was, Hannah’s space suit was pink. She hates pink! Mine was black. I hate black! But Hannah liked black and I liked pink, so it didn’t make sense to me!

Then I woke up from my dream. I went over to tell Daddy about it, but he was asleep, too. Then I went downstairs to tell Berlin about it. Berlin was not there. Where had she gone? None of my other sisters were there! Maybe I’m still dreaming, I thought? Turns out, I was. That was weird. I woke up from my dream, in my dream! 

Daddy was on the edge of the bed curled up like a puppy. Cookies was next to him. Cookies woke up and licked my face! I snuggled up like a puppy with Cookies and Daddy. 

Ann came in. “Where is Cookies? Pearl and I want to try a tutu on her.” 

“He’s here, but I want Cookies!” I said.

“It’s my turn with Cookies! You had a whole nap with her!” said Ann. 

“Daddy is sleeping with Cookies! It’s Daddy’s turn!” 

Ann couldn’t resist that because if Daddy woke up and Cookies wasn’t there, he could get mad at her so she left Cookies with me. 

Then I heard a knock at the door. I grabbed Mr. Henderson, my blankie, and walked to the door. I opened the door and standing there was my friend Audrey! Audrey is a red-haired girl, just like Ann. 

Audrey asked, “Do you want to play with me and Mena outside?” 

“Sure!” I said. I was supposed to be still taking my nap, but after that crazy dream I couldn’t go back! So I told Daddy where I was going and left the house. 

I called Mena “Merny” for short because it just seemed like it suited her! But sometimes Daddy tries to call her “Merlee” because, well, it’s a regular name. She prefers to be called Mena, her given name, but she’s ok with whatever we call her. She calls me “Princess of the Unicorns” sometimes because I have so many unicorn things! I call Audrey “Princess of the Ponies.” She even has her own pony. She knows how to ride horses. She’s also five. I’m not expected to learn that young! 

I went outside and we played on the playground in the backyard. Our backyard is fenced in. It has a beautiful playground and a pool. But Audrey’s swimsuit wasn’t clean, so we couldn’t play in the pool. 

Audrey’s brother has a basketball court in their backyard and they also have a playground. Audrey also has a sister, who is Jane’s age, and her brother is Hannah’s age. 

I started to get tired again. I told my friends I was going back to my nap. Audrey’s mom called out that it was time for Audrey’s nap! Audrey doesn’t have a daddy, only a mommy. My father was also dating Audrey’s mom but not anymore. Now he dates Alexa only. 

Chapter 7: The Girl Scout Ceremony (Daddy)

            I was excited for Jane. It was her Girl Scout ceremony! Berlin tried to get out of going, so she signed up for a camp instead so she didn’t have to go. It was a lot of sitting. Sophie wanted to bring her unicorn that she named Mrs. Goldie, but I said she might lose her in the movie theater. After the ceremony, we are picking up Berlin, then dropping off Sophie and Ann at their friend’s house because we are going to watch Jurassic Park. I let Pearl watch all the scary movies that we watch, but Sophie and Ann are too young to watch. Hannah was so excited for the movie. It was hers and Pearl’s first time watching Jurassic Park. The other girls have watched it already. After the movie was Ann’s birthday party! It was going to be a busy day.

            I’m driving Jane, Chloe, Ann and Sophie to the ceremony. For a special occasion, I let Jane sit in the passenger seat. Usually I’m very safe and let Jane sit in the back, but since Berlin is not here, it’s Jane’s seat. Sometimes when all of us are going together, Berlin has to drive her car, too. But Berlin isn’t coming so I asked my girlfriend, Alexa, to drive Hannah and Pearl. Berlin is at a dinosaur camp! You might not expect that. I didn’t either when she was born. But right when she was born, she said “Dinosaur!” So I call her my little dinosaur buddy, because I like dinosaurs a lot, too. 

            We arrived at the ceremony. Sandy was parked next to us. Sandy is Jane’s best friend and she took Girl Scouts, too. Then Rainy arrived. Rainy was only a Brownie, like Jane was. Rainy was short for Rylie, but we call her Rainy because it suited her. She already had an umbrella and a rain jacket. It was winter! “I’m too excited for spring! I just had to wear my brand new raincoat, that has the logo of the Girl Scouts on it!” she said. She was a little bit trying to brag sometimes. She wasn’t as good a friend as Sandy was to Jane. 

            Jane walked in with her friend Sandy. I walked behind her, making sure that the road was clear before Sophie and Ann crossed. Sophie and Ann still needed help looking back and forth first. I am a very “safety-first” man. Then, Alexa arrived! Out walked Pearl and Ann. “We just want to get out of that car...” they mumbled to themselves. One bad thing about Alexa was her car smelled like a dump because she always left her garbage in there. 

            Alexa walked in and said, “I’m so excited for Jane’s big day!” and grabbed her finger and pinched it on Jane’s cheek! Jane was embarrassed, especially with her best friend being there. I said to Alexa, “How sweet of you! You really love my children! I’m excited to marry you tomorrow morning.” The girls said, “Marry??” I said, “Yes! We are getting married!” I thought ‘I should have told them sooner. So I said, “I should have told you sooner. We will have a wedding tomorrow morning!” I heard Sophie mumble, “Oh man... I wish you would marry Audrey’s mom because I want Audrey to be my sister! I have nobody around here my age. Ann isn’t into dolls and things I liked.” Then she mumbled “I should’ve brought Mrs. Goldie.” 

            “What do you think of this?” I asked. They all replied, “Oh, it’s pretty great!” But I didn’t believe them. Sophie spoke up. “I don’t like her, she’s terrible! We’re the ones who put the confetti popper in the room!” Alexa gasped, “Arrest them!” I couldn’t believe my ears. “You’re not the girl I thought you were. You don’t love my children!” I said to her. Then I said, “I want a mother for my girls who will be nice to my children.” I sent her right away. 

            

Mermily's Big Adventure

*This book is inspired by characters in the Grimmtastic Girls series, written by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams

Chapter 1: Surprise

Once upon a time there was a mermaid who lived in a very big ocean called “Mermily Sea” and she was the princess. Her name was Mermily and she was 10 years old. She had eight sisters. She was the youngest, then Ariel, Sharina, Cora, Una, Lily, twins Ashlyn and Ashlee and the eldest Willaly.  Their father had died but they still had their mother. 

One day, her mom was saying that she’d be going to Grimm Academy. She smiled! Then, she heard she’d be learning how to go up to the surface. Mermily gulped! 

“I don’t want to go on the surface,” Mermily said.

“Well,” replied her mom, “You will be! Every Mermaid learns how to do that!” 

Her mom told her to pack. She needed to bring one of her everlasting pairs of underwear. What you do with them is you put them on, then another beautiful clean pair appears in your hands. They would be everlasting for Grimm Academy! She also needed to bring everlasting shirts! What happens when you use them is you talk to your shirt about what you want, then it appears on top! But she also needed to bring everlasting pant/skirts. They could make her have pants or skirts if she talked to them. She would appear wearing them, instead of her mermaid tale! She tried them all on and suddenly, she was a human!

Oh no! She was still under water! She turned herself back into a mermaid by taking off the clothes and her mermaid tale reappeared. Then she grabbed her bubble teleportation soap, put her clothes back on, put the soap on her head and she was on the surface ready for school!

Chapter 2: Grimm Academy

            When she got to Grimm Academy, she saw a lady at a stand. The lady asked her, “Which books do you want for Grimm Academy?”

She selected History, Balls class, and Magic Enchantments. The lady also gave Mermily a key to her bedroom. The key had a beautiful droplet of water with her name on it. It also had a chain that connected to her uniform. 

When she walked in, the walls were full of diamonds! She saw a bunch of other students staring at her while she walked down the hallways. She heard a clock Bong! Then it recited a nursery rhyme:

Hickory Dickory Dock

The mouse went up the clock

The clock struck 9

Today’s the time to shine!

Hickory Dickory Dock

            

She looked on a locker and the locker said “Mermily”. A magic key appeared on her key chain and the key unlocked the locker! Inside of her locker was a disguised pencil. When she wrote with it, it was a highlighter! A highlighter pencil! She stuffed it into her pocket. 

She put all her books into her bookbag which said “Mermily” and had pictures of the ocean, sea shells and ocean animals all over it!

Mermily heard someone say, “If you go to History class, please find the History room right now.” She gulped! It was time for history class already! She thought it would be in the evening! Mermily wondered if a new key would appear when she went up to the classroom door. Sure enough, she was right! When she went up to the door, a new key appeared, which was blue, and had little blue fish all over it!

She opened the door. There was a teacher in front and a bunch of students gathered up. She tried to sneak along but they noticed her and said, 

“Why are you late for class? You are supposed to be here at 8:00!” 

“Well, it’s my first day,” said Mermily. “I didn’t know anything.”

“Take a seat,” said her teacher.

Her teacher’s name was Mr. Humpty Dumpty. He wrote on the board all the dastardly things in Neverwood Forrest! Then he asked a girl to look up the most terrifying thing in all of Neverwood Forrest. 

The girl read from her book, “Wolfgang, who goes to Grimm Academy. His family protects Neverwood Forrest.”

The girl who read was Cinderella. She had only been in school for 2 weeks! Cinderella was new, too!

Chapter 3: Mermily Finds a Roommate

            The clock bonged and Humpty Dumpty said, “Class is dismissed.” Cinderella walked out. Mermily followed Cinderella into the Pearl Tower. Mermily looked and discovered she was sleeping there, too!

            “Oh, you must be my roommate, Mermily!” Cinderella said when she looked behind her. She was looking for her roommate for two weeks!

            “Come on in our room,” said Cinderella.

            Two other girls walked into Pearl Tower. Their names were Gretel and Red. Cinderella stopped. 

            “Hello, Red!” said Cinderella. “This is my new roommate, Mermily! Mermily, this is my best friend, Red.”

            “Hi”, said Mermily.

            “And this is Gretel,” said Cinderella. 

            Gretel said, “Do you two want to come into our room and play hide and seek with us?” 

            “Sure!” said Cinderella.

            Mermily said “Ok.” Mermily thought in her head that she might miss the ocean. She had never played hide and seek. She played bubble-seek! You hid inside a bubble and the bubble floated away while the other mermaid tried to catch you! She wished she could play bubble-seek. Then Red interrupted, “You know what? Today they are having a special! You won’t have to answer a riddle from the Goose knob all day! Do you want to go to the library?” 

            “What is a library?” asked Mermily.

            “It’s just a place where they put all the Grimm stuff from the Grimm brothers,” Red answered. “There are tons of things there. Plenty of books!”

            “I’ll go,” said Mermily. “Only if Cinderella goes...”

            “I’m in!” said Cinderella.

            “Ok,” said Gretel. She didn’t want to go much because she wouldn’t get to play hide and seek with the girls in her bedroom. She had a great hiding spot in mind! 

            They all split up to get ready. Mermily went into her room and saw the beautiful room! She looked at her beautiful bed. All her clothes were hanging up. Cinderella said, “Come on! We have to get dressed for the library.”

            “Ok,” Mermily said. She got dressed and she walked outside, forgetting that she had left Cinderella behind, who was her guide! She knocked into two girls. These girls were from Ruby Tower. Their names were Goldie Locks and Polly. 

            They said “Hey, I’m Goldie Locks and this is Polly. We’re looking for someone to go to the library with us.”

            “Hey, I’m going to library with some friends!” said Mermily.

            “Can we come?” asked the girls.

            “I’ll ask Cinderella,” replied Mermily.

            She went in and asked Cinderella, who said “They’re welcome!” 

Chapter 4: Mermily’s First Library

            All six girls walked down all the steps. Polly and Goldie passed Ruby Tower and said “Oh, we forgot something!” They ran into the Tower and got dressed into their clothes. They had gone to History class in their pajamas because their clothes weren’t clean yet! They had not brought everlasting clothes and underwear like Mermily did! 

            Goldie’s dress was blue with lace at the bottom. Polly’s dress was pink with flowers all over it and she had short brown hair with a big pink bow. 

            “Now we’re ready!” they said.

            While they were walking, they found out they almost had the whole school coming to the library! There was a huge line! When they got to the door, the goose knob was mad because he couldn’t tell riddles. He didn’t like this day at all because he wasn’t able to ask them riddles and see them struggle. 

            The goose saw Gretel; Gretel was his worst enemy. Gretel had hit him two times. Goldie was another enemy because she sneaked into the library at night and picked his lock! She interrupted the goose’s sleep!

            The girls looked at the huge line – there were about 1,000 people in line! They all went to Grimm Academy. Gretel started to count every single last one of them so she could find out how many people there really were. She counted 60 kids. 

            A girl in front of the line, named Snow, had just opened the lock. She said, “Tootles, little Goose knob!” and ran into the library. From there, Mermily could see into the library a little bit. She saw jelly beans and other pretty things, just like her friends had been telling her about the library. When it was their turn, Cinderella opened the door and they all went in. When Gretel passed by, she took the door knob’s bill and wiggled it.

            When they went into the library, Mermily was shocked. There were so many kids. Starting to line up were a bunch of boys. Gretel counted them up and there were 60 boys, too! That was 128 kids in total! Gretel loved to count. She had counted every single day. She went to counting class and was learning how to count to a million. 

  

Chapter 5: The G Section

            They walked to the G section. Gretel started to count how many people were there. Including them, there were 10 kids. That was all of them, plus a girl named Snow, a girl named Rapunzel, and sisters named Malorette and Odette. They were always getting into Cinderella’s way. They were Cinderella’s step-sisters. She was scared they would get in Mermily’s way, and she wanted to move out of the G section but Mermily wanted to stay with the other girls. There was a box with names like Goldbach, Goldenbach, and other names. All the names were on the box. There were bunches of board games.  The board games were big: “Monopoly”, a game called “Gadget” (a game where you put little gadgets together to make stuff... from a little nursery rhyme in Grimm Academy) and a game called “Get-It”. There was a game called “Around the Earth.” Mermily saw a game she loved. It was a game she played at home. It was called “Zingo”.

            “Do you want to borrow anything?” Cinderella asked Mermily.

            “Yes!” said Mermily.

            “They just need to be back in two days. I’ll take it.” said Cinderella.

            She borrowed the game “Zingo”. Cinderella checked it out for her. 

            “Do you have any bags for it?” Cinderella asked the goose at the check-out.

            A goose took it and put it in a bin. The bin was huge! Red took the game and held it for Mermily. The bin could fit a bunch more games. She decided she could borrow as much as she wanted!

            Mermily walked over to the J section and looked down at the bottom shelf. There was a cool piece of jewelry. It was a ring with a water droplet with a mermaid on top of it. The ring said, “Magical Charm”. She didn’t know that every person in Grimm Academy had a magical charm! She picked it up to borrow it. She didn’t know if it was her magical charm. It had been there for two weeks.

            “Look what I found!” she told Cinderella.

            “Oh, that could be someone’s magical charm! Wouldn’t that be special?”

            “What’s a magical charm?” asked Mermily.

            Cinderella replied, “It’s something that every Grimm Academy student has. It’s a charm that does something that goes along with their talent. It could be your magical charm? Probably not...”

            Then she noticed a big blue fish inside of it. The mermaid was sitting on top. Mermily put the ring on and suddenly it started to shine, like it wanted to stay with her. She went over to Ms. Goose and said, “What is this?” 

            “Well, it is a ring,” replied Ms. Goose, “which someone who comes to Grimm Academy will have for a magical charm. I think it really likes you. Maybe it’s your magical charm? It’s a lost magical charm that the principal said belongs to somebody but we don’t know who yet. It’s a mystery. If you want, keep it! We can’t have it here in the library because no one else is a mermaid like you so they won’t want to borrow it.”

            “Thank you, Ms. Goose!” said Mermily. 

            She went to Cinda and said, “Ms. Goose I could keep the ring!” 

            Cinda said, “Whoa! I kept something before! It’s my glass slippers and they are my magical charm!”

Chapter 6: First Night

             “Isn’t Cinderella so bad to hang out with that mermaid? Isn’t that mermaid a bad girl?” said Malorette.  Mermily overheard her saying this in the library.

            “They are roommates...” said Odette. “Aren’t they supposed to hang out together?”

            “She’d be a perfect member of the E.V.I.L. Society!” said Malorette.

            Mermily thought in her head, what is the E.V.I.L. Society?

            Then the girls said, “Let’s check out this eye glazing potion. We better get out of here before Cinda finds out what we said.”

            Mermily went to Cinda and said, “I heard your step-sisters say you were a bad person and that I should join a stupid society called E.V.I.L.! I don’t even know what that is!” 

            “Time to leave the library!” Red interrupted. “Let’s go to lunch! It’s been a whole hour!” She was all the way in the T Section, looking at all the clocks finding out what time it was. Gretel was in the C Section the whole time looking at all the counting rulers seeing which one she would borrow for school. 

“This one!” she said and put it in a bin to check out.

Goldie was looking in the L section at all the locks and keys, things that she could use for unlocking doors and other things with her hairpin. 

“I want to borrow this!” Goldie said. It was a ball that you could practice unlocking and it reset itself. 

Then Polly said, “I’m exhausted! If they don’t have tea here in the T section I’m going to be a very mad girl for the whole day!” She ran to the T section where Red was. There was one cup of tea left in the tea machine! It was a machine where you put in a flavor tea that you wanted, brought a tea cup from the T section and it gave you the right tea bag and some hot water. She brewed up the cup of tea and found a place to read books and drink tea. 

Red said, “I’ve checked the clocks 10 times and it’s getting late. It’s time to go to lunch!” 

“That’s ok,” said Polly. “At least I’ve had my cup of tea! It’s even better than the kind I brew in my room!” 

The girls all met up and started walking toward the door. They bumped into two girls, named Rapunzel and Snow. 

“Oh hey, Rapunzel and Snow!” said Red.

“Hey, Cinda and Red,” they said. “Who are these girls?” 

“This is Mermily, Goldie and Polly,” said Red. “Do you want to come to lunch with us?”

Rapunzel said, “Sure. Also, would you like to visit me down in the dungeon? I’m lonely down there sometimes.”

“Sure!” the girls said. 

They went to lunch. In the lunchline, Goldie said, “I’ve been down in the dungeon before; maybe sneaking around there! All along I’ve always known Rapunzel and Red. Rapunzel has plenty of kitties!” 

Suddenly, Moon, Rapunzel’s cat, jumped up into Goldie’s hands. 

“I needed a little company,” Rapunzel said. 

“Missed ya, Moon!” said Goldie.

Then, Mermily’s mouth opened wide when she saw cute little gingerbread house cookies! She told Mistress Hagscorch she wanted 10 of them! Mistress Hagscorch, “Well, I’ll fatten you up just like a drum stick!” 

When they finished eating, Cinderella said, “It is getting very late. Let’s get into our room.” So, the girls left. Cinda took Mermily out of The Great Hall. They passed by Ruby Tower and said goodbye to Goldie and Polly. Then they realized Rapunzel already left to go down to the dungeon and they forgot they were going in the afternoon to visit her! Cinda decided to go warn Polly and Goldie the time. 

“Mermily, I’ll be right back. You can go in your room if you want. When you see Pearl Tower, go in!” said Cinda.

Mermily didn’t know what that meant so she just went up with Red. When she found Pearl Tower, Red left her to go to her room. Then Mermily saw the room that said Cinda and Mermily so she went inside. 

After she reminded Polly and Goldie about going to visit Rapunzel, Cinda came back to her room and went straight to the bathroom. Cinda needed to get cleaned up.

Chapter 7: The E.V.I.L Society

            When Mermily was ready to go and see Rapunzel, Cinda was already dressed and everything. Mermily was still wearing her school uniform and school was already over! So, she took it off and put on something new to wear. Then she followed Cinda out of their room. She saw Red and Gretel there. They came with them. When they got to Ruby Tower, Goldie Locks and Polly also came out. But there were also the step-sisters coming out! Cinda took Mermily and her friends to hide in The Great Hall. If they saw Cinda, they would try to make her friendships go away! When they were out of sight, Mermily followed Cinda down the steps and down into the dungeon. 

            The door was locked! Goldie started to get out her hairpin so she could pick the lock. When she was done, the door opened and they all went inside. The next door she unlocked and Rapunzel was there sitting down with her kitties! 

            The girls all sat down and started to talk when they heard a knock on the door. Cinda thought it might be her step-sisters, but surprisingly it was only Snow White! 

            “Oh, hi Snow White!” said Cinda and Mermily. 

            Snow said, “Guess what I just heard? Your step-sisters, Cinda, are having a party. It’s a party to celebrate all their evil stuff they’ve done this year! And you’re invited! Also Goldilocks and Mermily are invited!”

            “I’m not going to an E.V.I.L. party,” said Cinda. “I’m going to make my own party. It is going to be the party of G.O.O.D. and everybody good, except Malorette and Odette, are invited to it!”

            Then Snow White said, “I’m also invited to the E.V.I.L. party and I want to see what an evil party is. I’ve never been to one before! Do you want to come with me, Mermily?” Snow White stared into Mermily’s eyes.

            “I guess so,” said Mermily. 

            “Don’t go with her!” said Cinda.

            Then Goldilocks said, “I guess I could try it...” also looking into Snow White’s eyes.

            “Great! Meet me at 12:00 midnight on Friday and I am going to do decorations!” said Snow White.

            Cinda said, “Well, I’m going to have my own party and it’s going to be way better than their party. Are you coming, Rapunzel?”

            “All of you are invited to the E.V.I.L. party,” Snow White interrupted. 

            “I’m going to go to the E.V.I.L. societies party,” said Rapunzel. “I think it might be different and fun!” 

            Then Cinda got so mad she said, “That’s it! I’m leaving!”

            Snow White said, “Polly, do you want to come?”

“Well,” thought Polly... then Snow White glared into her eyes and she said, “That sounds awesome! I can’t believe we’re invited to an E.V.I.L. party! I’ve never been to one before!” 

Chapter 8: Cinda’s Question

            Cinda thought maybe she could go out at dinner and talk to some girls and see if they want to come to her party. But then she thought about what Snow White was doing. Snow White had so many people already. She already had her whole group of friends! Except she didn’t have Red and Gretel. She decided to ask them at dinner if they would come to her party. They hadn’t been asked yet.

            Meanwhile, in the dungeon, Snow White was asking Red and Gretel and they were agreeing to come to the party! They knew that the E.V.I.L. was the best society in the world and they thought of joining it! 

            “I think I’m going to join,” said Snow White. “I want to join all the evil societies, not the good ones.”

            Then Cinda started to think about how much Snow White had changed. Why was Snow White acting like that? She had been nice before. So she decided to ask Gretel. Maybe she could make it a counting party! Gretel couldn’t resist a counting party. And Mermily couldn’t resist an Ocean Party! I’ll make it a party everyone will love!

            Malorette and Odette put a spy camera on Cinda’s dress so they could spy on everything she was doing. So Malorette told Snow White what to do and told her all the things that Cinda had said. She started to do it. 

            “This party is going to be awesome,” said Malorette. 

            “No it’s not,” said Cinda.

            “What are these? These are our ideas. We had them first. Guess you have nothing to do at your party.” 

            Cinda’s party was a fail. No one decided to come to her party at dinner. Cinda was sad. She was losing friends!

            Meanwhile, in the dungeon, Mermily remembered about the ring. It was a close call that it was still there. Then the words “Glazed” appeared in the water droplet in her ring. 

Snow White said, “Oh, you should give me that ring. It needs to be cleaned.” 

“No way!” said Mermily. “I’m keeping it! It might be my magical charm!”

Then she thought about the word “glaze” in her head. She was glazed, Snow White was glazed, but not Cinda. Then she remembered what Malorette and Odette said about the glazing potion in the library. She thought maybe something was happening to her to make Snow White want to go to this E.V.I.L. party. It wasn’t real, or there would be posters of course. Back in the ocean, they always had posters so they could remember what to bring to parties like bubbles. She didn’t know why there weren’t posters for this party. I guess it was different, she thought. She decided to keep the ring with her. It was her magical charm...

“Let’s get going,” said Snow White in a sassy way.

She walked out the door.

Mermily found Cinda in The Great Hall. She was asking Mistress Hagscortch if she could help fix up some treats for her party.

Mistress Hagscortch said, “Oh no, I can’t. Sorry. I have to make cookies for Malorette and Odette’s party. They wanted ghost cookies. And what is a party? Isn’t it called an E.V.I.L. party now?” Mistress Hagscortch’s eyes were glazed!

When Mermily saw Mistress Hagscortch, she forgot all about the ring and glazing and started to think evil! Then she looked at her ring and it read “Glaze” so she decided to pretend to glaze, but it didn’t work. Then her potion was wearing off. Her one leg turned into half a mermaid tale! 

“Oh no! I better get into my room after dinner! I need to get some new clothes!” 

When she sat down, everybody asked about the mermaid tale and why words were appearing in her water droplet.

“It’s just a plain ring,” said Snow White.

Mermily moved to wear Cinda was sitting alone. She didn’t want to sit with sassy girls. But surprisingly, Malorette and Odette sat down there. 

“This is the EVIL table. What is Cinda doing here? She can’t sit here,” said Odette. They pushed Cinda down off her chair.

“Ow! I think I broke my bone!” said Cinda.

“Everybody come sit here at the new E.V.I.L. table!” said Malorette.

Mermily went to see if Cinda was ok but Cinda was not ok. She decided to go get the doctor down in the basement. There had to be a doctor to help Cinda!

“Sit in this other chair. I’m getting a doctor,” said Mermily.

She found the Lady with the Alligator Purse. She took Cinda down to the basement to get help. Mermily sat down alone at a different table. Then she saw Polly coming to eat, looking for Goldie.

“Come sit here, Polly!” said Mermily.

“No. I’m going to see my assigned job for the E.V.I.L. society’s party”, and she glazed into her eyes again. Mermily forgot everything again and she started getting pulled into the E.V.I.L. section! She sat down and looked at her ring for a second. It said “glazed”. She noticed in the water droplet there was a symbol of a star with a big E. It was the same symbol that was on the potion in the library! 

She decided to find out why people were doing this! Mermily overheard that her class was getting moved to drama, her most not specialty! She was terrible at it! She hated acting! Of course, Red was very happy... She decided that she’d give it one try. 

Chapter 9: Her Time to Shine

            The next day when Mermily woke up, Cinda was trying to get dressed but it was hard because her foot couldn’t slide inside her pants with the cast on her leg. Mermily offered to help. 

            “Let me help you!” She looked in her everlasting pants set. “Bring me something that will be nice to wear with a cast,” she commanded. A skirt that was long and puffy appeared! 

            “Thank you Mermily!” said Cinda. “It’s time to go to acting! And guess what? Tomorrow is the E.V.I.L. Society party. Isn’t that so annoying that they are doing that?” said Cinda.

            Mermily replied, “I think it’s great!” She had forgotten all about the ring. Then she looked back down at her ring. “Actually, I changed my mind.”

            “What’s going on with you?” asked Cinda. 

            “I don’t know!” said Mermily.

            “We’d better get to drama,” said Cinda.

            When they got there, Red Riding Hood sat down, leaping with joy. 

            “I guess Mermily isn’t going to enjoy drama,” she said. 

            Mermily said, “I heard that!” 

            “Sorry... you’ve going to have to deal with it if you’re going to come to the party tomorrow!” Red replied.

            Mr. Thumb, with his cowboy hat, rode towards Red on a tiny wooden horse. 

            “Don’t say words behind peoples backs... “ he said. “It’s not super good.”

            “Ok...” said Red in a sassy voice.

            “Now, students, one and all! Look at me! I will pick three for a team to do a performance on stage. Mermily, come up here.”

            Mermily came up with half a mermaid tale. Oh right! I packed some clothes in here, she thought. She pulled them out of her bookbag and put them on. Then she was back to normal. 

            “Red Riding Hood and Snowflake,” called the teacher.

            “I’m awesome at this! It’s my talent!” said Snowflake.

            “I’m the worst at this,” moaned Mermily.

            “Now, students, get up on stage and do a performance of what you would do if you were in the library.”

            So Mermily brought out a table, sat down and read like most people would do in the library. Red went around bookshelves and pretended to talk about E.V.I.L. like they had been doing in the library. Snowflake was talking to Red. 

            “Red, you can do way better than that, I know. You’ve got more skill!” said the teacher. 

            “No I don’t. I’m the worst in the class,” said Red

            What was she talking about? She is the best in the whole world, thought Mermily.

            “Do something. Have some more emotion!” said the teacher.

            “I’ve got no emotion,” said Red.

            Mr. Thumb was surprised. He said, “You may go to the principal’s office and he will show you want your real talent is in your story.”

            When Red got to the principal’s office, she looked in her story. It said BEST EVIL PLANNER EVER. Malorette and Odette had planted that there! 

            “Well, I don’t remember that being your talent, but it’s written here so it must be right,” said the principal.

            

Chapter 10: The Day Before the Party

Mermily woke up. She saw Cinda crying in the corner of the room because she knew nobody was going to come to her G.O.O.D. party tomorrow. 

Mermily said, “I’ll come!” 

“You will?” said Cinda.

“I’ll try, if I cannot get snapped into it again,” said Mermily.

“Well we’ve got to stop Snow!” said Cinda.

“I have an idea!” said Mermily. “Let’s go to the library.”

“How is that going to help?” asked Cinda.

“You’ll see,” said Mermily.

When they got to the library, they had to answer a riddle. They were the last to be at the library so it was the hardest riddle! 

“If there were a mermaid at the school, what would the mermaid’s name be?” asked the door knob.

“I know this! Mermily!” said Mermily.

“Ding!” said the door knob and they were let inside. 

Mermily walked inside with Cinda and went to the G aisle and looked around. 

“There must be some glazing potion of good,” said Mermily. 

“What’s that?” asked Cinda.

“In the library, when Malorette and Odette were in the G section, they picked up a glazing potion and I think they were planning to put it on Snow. If we use a good potion, she should go back to normal and stop telling people about the E.V.I.L. party! Then you can tell them all about your G.O.O.D. party and they’ll all come!” 

“Great idea, Mermily! Let’s get it right now!” said Cinda.

They took it and asked Ms Goose to check it out. She said, “Ok! Go ahead!” 

She took the potion and saw Snow in the library. She was reading. Mermily wondered how to help Snow with the good glazing potion. She looked on her ring. A huge water droplet appeared. Mermily tapped it. The water started flooding out of the ring! She got an idea. Mermily transformed back into a mermaid and swam under the table, jumped up over the table and opened the good glazing potion bottle and it started flooding all over Snow and the other Grimmtastic Girls! Then she went back to the ground and she pointed at the water and back to her ring. The ring sucked the water back inside of itself. The spell was broken! The ring sucked every last drop back into itself and nobody was wet! 

Mermily grabbed her extra clothes, put them on and turned back into a human. Then Cinda started telling everybody about her G.O.O.D. party! Everyone said “Yes!” to coming! Snow was on the ground. When she got up, she didn’t remember Cinda! So they had to go back to the potion section to get a Memory potion. 

“Whoa, was I mean?” asked Snow. “I’m sorry, Cinda... and everybody!”

Cinda’s party was very, very fun. Malorette and Odette had a bad time at their party. Nobody showed up! They felt like Cinda felt. They went back to the school and apologized to Cinda and the rest of the girls. 

The End