Thump! by Lily
Molly and her friends couldn’t wait to go camping in the forest. Molly wanted to make a real campfire and tell ghost stories round it, and sing campfire songs.
‘Molly, hurry up,’ her mum shouted from downstairs.
‘Coming,’ Molly called back. She was so excited and she couldn’t wait to put up her tent.
‘Wow,’ Molly gasped when she saw the forest. The trees looked like they were leaning against each other, shutting out the sun.
‘Mollie,’ someone called.
Mollie turned round and saw her friends, Bella, Ann and Ellie. ‘Hi, guys.’
She hugged them tightly. ‘Let’s get our tents up.’
…’Now what?’ said Bella. They had set up their tents, and got the campfire going. The sun had gone down and where the light from their campfire didn’t reach it was dark, really dark.
‘Time for scary stories,’ Anne exclaimed, and they sat round the fire, toasting marshmallows.
Ellie started the story. ‘Once…’ She insisted that it was true, but she was making it all up to scare her friends. ‘Once there was a man who stayed in a hotel very close to hear, right on the edge of the forest. He thought it was a good hotel until they gave him some food, which he was allergic to. It made his feet swell up and he was furious, really angry. He had told them he was allergic, had even written a note which they should have pinned up in the kitchen but they hadn’t taken any notice.
The cook came out of the kitchen to have a word. ‘We didn’t make any mistake, sir. No food you are allergic to when into that stew.’
‘Then who put it there.’
The man realised someone was out to get him. Perhaps the scoundrel had run into the forest.
‘But I’ll find him,’ said the man, ‘and when I do, I shall teach him a lesson he will never forget.’
Off the man went, out of the hotel close to hear on his swollen feet. Thump! Thump! Thump! The cook and the people who ran the hotel, and all the other guests could hear his footsteps fading into the forest. And that’s the last they ever saw of him. People say he is still in the forest to this very day, looking for the person who had given him the wrong food….
Everyone round the fire was speechless. It was all so scary. Ellie looked pleased with herself. She’d fooled them. Everyone believed the story was true now. Thump! Thump! Thump! It was very hard not to laugh.
‘Come on,’ Bella yawned at last. ‘The fire’s nearly out. Let’s go to bed.’
Everyone got into their cosy sleeping bags, zipped their tents shut and went to sleep. Ann woke up in the middle of the night. She could hear something.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
It was the man from the hotel, still looking for the person who had given him the wrong food.
‘It can’t be,’ Ellie confessed. ‘I made the whole thing up just to scare you guys. ‘
But there was the sound again. Who was making that noise then?
Thump! Thump! Thump……!
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