Speedy: A Short Story Of A Turtle

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A 2 inch turtle’s adventure

“Speedy, you look like you could use some company like me. You probably don’t have any friends either by staying in that tank all day so why don’t you be my friend?” The boy who was no older than 7 had said to the 2 inch little turtle.

Speedy being a turtle which happens to be an animal didn’t respond to the boy but that was ok because the little boy took the silence as a yes. Smiling the two went across the room where the a table was and speedy was then set down so they could play as the kid was probably hoping. The boy soon realized that maybe to play with the turtle he had to give him more room and proceeded to place Speedy on the ground.

Ring~

The bell that signalled the end of the day rang and the boy
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Keeping on track he kept going before the sun would disappear and the moon would come out he made his way out of the forest and into the desert. Even though this desert wasn’t nearly as hot as a real one it had felt as long as a real one to him. Making his way all the through the long not very hot dry desert he reached the end with no problems except his legs that were beginning to wear out but he wasn’t going to give up even if it did cross his mind few times he kept going on. He was now about half way there to his destination by now but a few steps out of the desert he made his way through loess that didn’t really seem steady being they were built by tall humans or as Speedy liked to think of them as, mega sized weird turtle imposters, being that they looked nothing like …show more content…
Just a few minute later the teacher Mrs. Mack came in from making sure all the kids had gotten a way turtle tank. She had come back to clean everything up but as soon as she opened the door to the classroom she gasped in horror. Art table didn’t have anything on it and stead the glue was on the floor as well as all the red sparkles as well. The red, yellow, blue and green building blocks were piled up in a huge mess while the little toys that were placed in and around them earlier were tipped over and scattered all over the place as well. Over on the other side of the nice tan carpet she could without looking she already knew that markers, pencils, crayons and paper was scattered under

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