Friend or Fiction by Abby Cooper

Author:Abby Cooper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Published: 2019-10-07T16:00:00+00:00

I looked at what I’d written. They were just messy words scribbled on a page, just hopes and dreams and ideas, but they would become reality soon enough. Zoe had told me to be specific, after all, and I had delivered. I turned around to look at her. Without really knowing what I was thinking about, she grinned at me. Then she put down the scissors she was playing with. Whew. (Where did she even get scissors? It was seriously a good thing I was around.)

At the end of class Mrs. Yang announced that she’d like everyone to pass in their free-write, so she could take a peek at what we’d been working on.

My heart raced. Pass it in? I’d written in my notebook, and there was no way I was letting that out of my sight again.

I trailed behind everyone on the way out. Some kids handed over loose papers, while others set their notebooks on Mrs. Yang’s desk.

“Um, would it be okay if I didn’t share this time around?” I asked Mrs. Yang.

“Well, I noticed you writing quite a bit today,” she said. “I’d love to see what you’re working on so intently.”

I bit my lip. This smelled fishy. Was this her sneaky teacher way of trying to get me to do what she said and take a break and focus on my actual life? She didn’t understand that this notebook, these words, they were my life. They were Zoe’s life too.

“You can just rip out some pages if you don’t want to give me your whole enormous notebook,” she offered.

I tilted my head to the side. That was better, but it wasn’t going to work either. It sounded too risky. The pages probably needed to stay in my notebook in order to work in real life.

“Can you make a copy?” I asked. Teachers were always talking about making copies. It seemed like something they really enjoyed.

Mrs. Yang raised an eyebrow. “I guess so,” she said.

“Awesome! I’ll wait here,” I told her.

She gave me a funny look, but she left the room with my notebook. When she came back a couple minutes later, she had a copy of today’s work for her and a fully intact yellow notebook for me.

I breathed out and hugged it tight. Even though her advice this morning was way off, I still wanted to be an author someday. It would probably be smart to hear what she thought of my writing.

“Thanks for sharing this with me,” she said. “I can’t wait to see what you’ve been working on.”

“Just so you know,” I warned her, “the story is sort of…real…and magical. Like, things happen that wouldn’t normally happen in our world. So if you notice anything about, I don’t know, magical water or something, just go with it, okay? Also, it’s based on people I know.”

Mrs. Yang nodded. “Noted,” she said. “I’m looking forward to it.”

I smiled to myself, thinking of the story coming true.

“Me too,” I said.

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