The Giant Banana 🍌🧨

Once, I was walking away from school like normal, going towards Mum. ‘Hey, Audrey! I got some fruit from the supermarket. Some juicy apples, delectable oranges, and some fresh bananas!’ Mum said as I slunk my bag to the other side of my back. ‘Thanks! I haven’t had bananas in a while. Maybe I could eat the fruit with you.’ I replied, then dropped my book. My brand new shiny hardly read book, on the wet slick ground. ‘My book!’ I wailed. It had fallen into a puddle, and now it was soaking wet and dripping with mud. ‘Mum, my book is gone! It’s sinking into the puddle-’ I pick the book up and all the pages fall out back into the puddle, then break apart. ‘Audrey, I’ll get you another copy of the book, don’t worry.’ I  felt the tears rolling down my cheeks. At least we were a bit far away from the school so no one could hear me. I had already realised I had overreacted… 

‘Okay, here’s the fruit. And your new book,’ My Mum said, sliding a plate full of fruit onto the table in front of me. ‘Thank you so much, I’m sorry I was so fierce yesterday when I dropped the book. It wasn’t your fault it was mine. It was so kind of you to get me a book on the weekend. Okay, let’s dig into this fruit!’ I took an apple and wolfed it down, along with some other bits of fruit and a banana slice. ‘Audrey, you’re looking smaller- Are you alright?’ Mum asked, with a worried expression on her face. I sat on the table and held a banana. It was now huge, my hands were the size of an ant. ‘Mum! I shrinked! HELP ME!’ I yelled. Meanwhile my mum picked me up, crying. ‘That’s why you never get the science grown fruit, It must have been the bananas…’ She croaked.

A month later… I was famous. People made me mini books so I could read, and I didn’t go to school. I got a tiny computer and a small room in my huge bedroom. Scientists took awhile, but they made a small jetpack for me to get around. I have a trophy of the smallest living person on earth, and it looked like the poisoned banana I ate that made me small.

This is made up, if it sounds real. I didn’t shrink and I didn’t eat a poison banana. This is fantasy…