Cristy’s Bad Day Harper Doyen

Cristy’s Bad Day

It was sunny out and the first day of 4th grade for Cristy. She was very happy, until…JERKY Jemma and BRATTY Brianna came. Cristy’s head came out of the clouds and dropped down to her feet. In her head she said, “Uhoh.”

Jerky Jemma stood there and laughed at her. Cristy just kept walking while slurping her orange soda. Brianna ran up, took her orange soda, and took a drink. “Ewe!” she said and then poured it on Cristy.

Instead of going into school, Cristy called her mom to come and pick her up. She was so upset that she didn’t show up at school for three days. When she came back to school, they tried to bully her again. She told them they were not cool and that they were losers. Then everybody stopped liking them and thought Cristy was cool for saying that.

Jemma and Brianna didn’t come to school for a whole week, and when they came back Cristy bullied them. It was sad, but she thought they deserved it. She was making fun of them for the clothes they wore. It was then when the principal said as bad as a tornado siren over the speakers, “CRISTY JONES TO THE OFFICE! NOW!”

She thought WHATEVER… as she walked there. But then the principal asked why she was bullying Jemma and Brianna. There was no excuse, and he called her mom to come and pick her up. Cristy tried to refuse to leave, but she had no chance against the principal and her mom. When her mom took her home, she was mad and told Cristy to do things like wash the dishes, clean her room, dust the windows, do the laundry, and MORE! Cristy was so angry her face looked like a red tomato! When she finished, her mother told her to

walk the dog. Ugh! She thought. When will this end? She was ready to just eat dinner and go to bed.

She couldn’t stop thinking about things she couldn’t control. While sitting there biting her nails, she fell asleep thinking hard about everything. She woke up at 11 P.M. and couldn’t fall back to sleep. She grabbed her white fuzzy jacket and climbed out her window. She went to a tree and climbed it. She sat in the tree, bored. Then she grabbed her cell phone. The only thing she could do was sit there listening to music. She then fell asleep, but only for a little bit. She woke up to go and sleep in her real bed.

In the morning she said, “Mom, I’m heading to school, but she really went to…a tree. Why a tree? She likes trees because they are calming. But still. A tree. A tree. A TREE! Days went by. Cristy was still in that tree. Finally, she went back to school and said sorry to Jerky Jemma and Bratty Brianna. After that they became friends.

But still nobody knows what that tree was about.

Harper Doyen, Grade 4 Hilltop Elementary School, Henderson Teaching Artist, Stephen Peters