i finished, I finished! Imagine me doing a dance, and you will be correct! That is what I'm basically doing right now. I finished!!!!!!!
I cant believe I wrote the words, THE END! I couldn't bear it, so next year I may write a sequel. I hope you like it!!!!!!!
(I wont post the whole thing now because i want you to enjoy the small part i just wrote. I will post the whole entire thing later, but right now I'm going to bed)
It was almost too good to be true!
“Go on. Find them. They are here, you know. They are waiting for you Nikki.” Bub said.
“Mom? Dad? It’s me, Nikki. Are you here?” Nikki whispered, her voice strained with excitement.
“Nikki? Is that really you?” Naomi, her mother said weakly.
“Mom! Is dad there?” Nikki cried, sprinting toward her parents.
“Yes, I’m here. Oh, how we’ve missed you!” Her dad said, trying to reach through the cell bars to get to her.
“Bub! Do you have the keys?” Nikki called; ready to set her parents free.
“Yes, Nikki. Here, look out, I’ll get it.”
Bub said, walking over to the cell and pushing the key into the rusty lock. Bub struggled with it for a few moments, and just when Nikki thought the key was going to snap, the cell door swung open.
Nikki rushed through the door to hug her parents. “Mom! Dad! I’ve missed you so much! I thought that, I thought that you left me!” she sobbed.
“No, we never would have. Simban Tramble caught us by surprise. Some thing that he will never do again, we promise.” Her dad said, catching her by the shoulders. “We promise that we will never ever leave you. We love you, you know that, right?”
“Yes! Yes, I know that! I knew it all along, but I, I,”
“Sh! We know. Calm down, it will all be okay.” Naomi said.
“Oh, I almost forgot! Jacques, Mrs. Pinebaum and my two friends Riley and Kylie are waiting for us! We have to go.” Nikki said, jumping up.
“Jacques? Oh, I didn’t know that old guy would still be around town!” Naomi said surprised.
“Well, apparently he had been talking with Mrs. Pinebaum almost everyday to make sure that I was safe.” Nikki said.
“Yes, we better hurry. Mr. Tramble will get suspicious if we’re down here too long.” Bub pointed out.
“Who are you?” Naomi said.
“I’m Nikki’s friend. I’m helping you get free.”
“Mom, he has been helping me for a while. At first he was my captor, but now he’s my friend.”
“Nice to meet you then, Bub!” John said, pumping Bub’s hand up and down.
“Yes, Nice to meet you too. But time for that later. We should really be going.”
“Right. So, do you know the way out of here?” said Mr. Harleson.
“Follow me. Nikki’s friends will be waiting outside.” Mr. and Mrs. Harleson and their daughter nodded. Bub led the trio of Harlesons around the cell, and through the door. “All right, now’s when it counts. I’ll pull my gun out, and pretend that Mr. Tramble wants me to take you to him, and then we’ll sneak away. Ready?”
The newly reunited family nodded. They were ready for anything now that they were back together.
“Halt!” yelled a nearby guard as Bub propelled Nikki, Naomi, and John with his gun.
“What?” Bub replied menacingly. Bub had at least a foot on him, and about twenty pounds too.
“Uh, uh, uh...”
“Spit it out, man! Stop beating around the bush!” Bub yelled at the unfortunate guard.
“Uh, yes sir! You need authorization to pass by here with those three highly dangerous prisoners!” the poor guard said, snapping to attention and saluting Bub.
“Authorization? Ha! I have all the authorization that I need. I have the orders from Mr. Simban Tramble himself. And you think these three are dangerous? All I had to do was threaten the precious little twerp (here he pinched Nikki’s cheeks in a very demeaning manner) and the poor distraught parents did and thing I asked.” Nikki glared at Bub very convincingly.
“Oh, I didn’t know sir. Sorry sir! It will never happen again!”
“You make sure of that, now.”
“You may pass through, sir!”
“That’s what I thought, little man. Never mess with the Bub. Or you might get hurt!”
Bub led them on a trail outside, frightening every guard with his gun and size. “Stick with me, for now it gets to be tough going.”
“Right. We will,” panted John. “Who knew that being in a cell for five years could get you so out of shape?” he grinned.
“Aah, the good old days, where Dad was always cracking jokes. This is how I remember it, and how it should be.” Nikki said dreamily. Her life was going to be normal again!
“Eagle!”
“Hey Jacques!” whispered Nikki. “Good to see you, but why do you have your gun out?”
“Because of him!” Jacques growled, pointing to Bub.
“No!” cried Nikki, jumping in front of Bub. “He helped us escape! He is on our side now! Do not hurt him!”
“He did, Jacques.” John said, jumping up from the ground. “How you doing, old friend?”
“John!” Jacques said, hugging him.
“In the flesh. Nice to see you too!”
“Naomi?” Mrs. Pinebaum asked.
“May!” Naomi cried, running to Mrs. Pinebaum.
“How are you? I have not seen you in five years! Oh, Nikki and I missed you!”
“I missed you too, old friend.” Naomi said with tears in her eyes.
Nikki wandered sheepishly over to Kylie and Riley. “Hi, guys. Sorry about messing up your lives with my adventure plans.”
“Messing up our lives? You have got to be kidding.” Kylie and Riley said together.
“You totally gave me an adventure and a chance to see other places besides the orphanage!” Kylie said, hugging Nikki.
“I agree, but you had me worried sick back there!” Riley grinned, joining the group hug.
“Get in the car! Now!” came Jacques commanding voice. “We’ve got to go!”
Nikki, Riley, Kylie, Naomi, Mrs. Pinebaum, Jacques and John jumped in right before a shot rang out.
“Go go go go go!” cried John as Jacques floored the accelerator.
The next thing that Nikki knew, she was on the floor of the van sliding around. She had forgotten to put her seatbelt on! “Whoa!” she cried as her head hit the seat.
“Get down!” John cried, because the car behind them was shooting.
Kylie, Riley, Mrs. Pinebaum, and Naomi joined Nikki on the floor.
“Hang on!” Jacques yelled as he swung the car around. He almost hit the car that was right behind him.
“Give up!” came Mr. Tramble’s voice over a bullhorn.
“Never!” Jacques yelled back.
This high-speed chase lasted for forty-five minutes at least, until they got out of the country and into the city. They passed through, and the car behind with Mr. Tramble and Ms. Arachne stopped. The car sped back to the warehouse from whence it came.
“Wow.” Nikki said a few minutes after it was over. “That was, eventful!”
“You got that right!” Kylie agreed.
“That was cool!” cried Riley.
Nikki and Kylie looked at her in surprise. Riley did not normally like things like that. “You liked that?”
“Sure, why not?”
“Nikki, who are your friends?” asked Naomi.
“Well, mom, this is Kylie,” Nikki said as she pointed to Kylie. “And this is Riley, Kylie’s older by a few minutes twin sister. Riley, Kylie, meet my mom and dad.”
“Pleasure to meet you, ma'am, sir.” Riley said shaking their hands, perfectly polite.
“Please Riley, don’t call us sir and ma'am. It makes us feel like our parents!” john said, laughing.
Riley nodded and blushed.
“Nice to meet you, Mr. and Mrs. Harleson!” Kylie said as she shook their hands.
“Your friends have such good manners, Nikki!”
“Yeah. I’m so glad you’re back!” Nikki said as she hugged her mom.
“Me too, honey. Me too.” Naomi said, hugging her daughter.
“Yes, sweetie. But we do have to be on the lookout for Mr. Tramble, because we can’t get him while he is taking refuge in Canada. He’s a sly one, but all people get their just desserts eventually.” Nikki’s dad said.
“I know, but it just does not seem fair that he gets away with kidnapping us. And he kept you illegally imprisoned for five years!” Nikki fumed.
“Calm down, we’ll get him, because we’ll be there when he makes a mistake.” John said, giving Nikki a little wink.
“Okay, but just make sure that you are ready for him and his little tricks that he keeps up his sneaky little sleeve. And watch out for Ms. Arachne, she evil!”
“Oh, Ms. Arachne? She is evil! Didn’t she change her name? And didn’t you use to work with her Jacques?”
“Yes, and yes.” Jacques the ex FBI taxi driver said. “She was always a basket case. I heard that she and Mr. Tramble had tantrums!”
“Yes, they did. It was hilarious!” Nikki laughed, remembering the looks on the two maniacs faces when Nikki drove them to a fit.
Chapter 17
Nikki lay in her bed at her old but new home. “I’m so glad everything is fine now mom.”
“I’m glad too. Goodnight!” Nikki’s mom said, giving her a kiss on the cheek.
“Goodnight Mrs. Harleson!” chorused Nikki, Riley, and Kylie. Riley and Kylie were having a sleepover with Nikki before her parents adopted them and Christopher and Katy. Tomorrow the paperwork would be complete, and they would all have new homes with the Harlesons. Nikki had been an only child, but not anymore.
The next day the whole group headed to the orphanage. Christopher and Katy noticed Nikki, Riley, and Kylie and ran over.
“Nikki! Riley! Kylie! Chris and I missed you! Did you find who you wanted to?” Little Katy said, jukpng up and down until Nikki bent down and gave her a hug.
“Yes, Katy. We did. We found my parents!” Nikki said joyfully.
“Oh. I guess you’ll be leaving again then, won’t you,” said a crestfallen Katy.
“Yes, but you’re coming with me! My mom and dad are adopting Kylie, Riley, you and Chris!”
“You are?” Katy asked incredulously, her eyes lighting up with joy.
“Yes we are, Katy. I’m going to be your new mom.” Naomi said.
“Oh wow!”
At their house after the Harleson’s had become a happy family again, Nikki reflected on all that she learned as she walked along in her backyard. The moral of this adventure is, my parents will always love me, and that all spiders are evil! Suddenly, Nikki felt a chill. She realized that Ms. Arachne and Mr. Tramble were still at large, and that they would stop at nothing to get her.
She pushed those disturbing thoughts out of her head and ran to join her new siblings in the pool.
The End! (for now...)
Friday, November 30, 2007
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5 comments:
Yay Danielle! You did it. I was so happy that I did a dance when I finished too! I love your novel and will miss reading it! I hope you do write a sequel. You are a great writer and I have enjoyed being in this class with you. Maybe I'll see you next year for Nanowrimo...
YAYAYAYAYAYAYYY! You finished! The lava cake pushed you through!! Congratulations, authoress! I agree, your book sets up very well for a sequel (especially with Nikki's disturbing thoughts in the last scene). I really liked reading your story and checked several times a day on your blog!
Did you scramble your story and put it into Nanowrimo last night? If you didn't don't worry, because it's just a congratulations letter and a printable certificate for you to fill out. I could actually print two copies of mine for you since they're blank. =)
Yikes! Three minutes until 12 p.m. and you did it!
I don't blame you for going to bed that's late! I was in bed two hours ago.
Wow, you're going to make a sequel? Are you still going to blog regular posts after this?
I agree with Amy that those diturbing thoughts Nikki had are very well set up for a sequel. Can't wait to read more of the "Tenacious (sp?) Trio" and their adventures :)
Congratulations, Danielle!!! I was thinking about you today and wondering if you had made it. I didn't have a chance to sit down and read your site until now, and I have really enjoyed reading all of the segments you posted yesterday! I really like your ending; it's very fitting. I am glad everyone ended up happily together, and I am glad you left room for a sequel. :) Great job!!! :)
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