Literacy

**//__The Stupid test!!!__//** The teacher handed out our test results. "Oh no!"I whispered. I thought I might get a C- or up,but I was wrong!I looked at my mark...It was a F-! I tried to hide my test results but all 14 girls in my class wanted to look at my mark! I ran out to my locker,stuffed my result into my bag & took a deep breath. I felt like crying but I knew that it would not help. I don't know how I could of got a F-! I just wished that Jake was here because he would be a great helper for all my tests but he moved to a different school in our 2nd year of high school,but he is still in our town. I liked Jake and he liked me. We made a perfect match. Suddenly all the boys in my class came out. Yes...All 15 boys in my class. ! "I got an

A+!” I heard a few boys say. The other boys got a B+,B-,A-,C+ or C-. One of them got a G- or a G-! When I was walking home I saw something. It was a piece of paper. But not an ordinary piece of paper. It said:

Do you want a million dollars plus lots of Disappointed prizes? Well call: 0800-532-1953, or Email: The,amazing,__challenge@Gmail.com__. So you can enter and face 1 challenge that could make you win it all!

So I dialed 0800-532-1953. They said to be at the heliport liftoff on Saturday the 23rd of May(Which is the first day of the school holidays!) at 2:15 sharp otherwise you will miss out. so when I got home I walked up to my Room and wrote it on the calendar. I went on my pink Macbook and checked my facebook account. My BFITWG (Best friend in the whole Galaxy!)Roseana was online. I sent her a message saying:

Hey! Wanna come over? See you then!

Soon Roseana replied:

Yeah totally,I will come over in 5!

So 5 minutes later Roseana came over to my place. “Hey! What result did you get?” I asked Roseana.” Well I got a B+!” I didn’t know what to say for a moment but then something popped into my mind. ”Well that’s excellent,you won’t want to know my result I suppose” Roseana was stunned and puzzled. She rose one eye and her face actions looked as if she was saying:

Why don’t I want to know your result?

It was silent for a few minutes and then I changed the subject. ”Hey,are you free on Saturday the 23rd of May?” ”I would love to but I can’t. My family and I are going camping for two weeks so sorry Jennifer. By the way I have to go!” So Roseana walked out the door. I looked through my window and I saw Roseana walking looking sad and disappointed. I felt completely bad. But on Saturday the 23rd of May at 11:00 I felt really excited but I wished Roseana came with me. I had my bag all packed with:

My phone, camera, towel, Spare clothes, Hat, Torch, Tent, Portable toilet, Germ-X, 3 Bottles of ice cold water, GPS, Heaps of food including lollies,fruit,vegies,meat(Even though I hate meat!),seafood and other yum foods that I like!

It was 12:45 and I was eating lunch. I was having cheese and pineapple pizza and I was drinking coke. I had lots of energy! At 1:50 I was ready to leave. I had;my bag,me and I was carrying my keys. I said bye to my Mum,Dad,my baby sis and my big brother who was 28 and was just visiting. “Bye! I won’t miss you!” I shouted to them as I open my blue car door. I put my luggage in the back of my car and sat down on the drivers seat I put my key for the car in the cars keyhole and I started the car. I check my reverse camera and no one was there. I drove to the heliport lift off. It was 12:14 I look my luggage out of the car and I waited “One more minute,one more minute.” I chanted. The buzzer went. The announcer spoke”Hello all 4...” The announcer was stunned. There was only 4 people there. He continued “Of you. You will get paired up with another person. So Jennifer and Jake you are pairs. Kate and Kevin you are also. “Who’s Jake? Wait...is he the one I liked?”I asked my self. Jake walked over. I smiled. I knew something good might of happened. “I am so glad that I saw that sign!” I said to Jake. “Yeah me too Jennifer! I am also glad that we are pairs” Jake replied. “Lets get our things!” I suggested. “Good idea” So we got our thing. It was 2:20. We had 3 days.If we didn’t come back in that time the helicopter would come and the other pair would win. Other wise who ever is fist to push the red button they will win a big prize each. Everyone understood. Kate and Kevin looked relaxed. Me and Jake just knew that we would be the first to push the red button. The announcer spoke again”On your marks, get your luggage...**GO**!” We ran and we ran we didn’t stop. Kate and Kevin we only walking and the were talking about winning the big prize but that would never happen. We ran up the helicopters ramp and we put our thing in the helicopters luggage area.”This is going to be exciting Jake” I said, We got on the helicopter. We sat on some seats. They were very comfortable.We put our safety belts on. I checked my GPS as we took off. We were high in the sky.My GPS said that we were in ‘the sky.’

“Um...Jake...I got a...um...F-...in my all subjects test” I said nervously.”Well I suppose you shouldn’t blame yourself. It was probably my fault because I moved to a different school. Sorry Jennifer.” In a few minutes we were at the island. I put my GPS on the seat while I looked through the window.”Wow.That looks beautiful !” I said. I was amazed. We soon landed.”Take your things and go. You need to find a red button that makes a buzzing sound. When you find it push it. It will call me to come so I will take you back.” Said pilot James.”Good luck!” We took our things from the luggage area and put them in a locked cage. Pilot James took of in his helicopter. I took my rainbow coloured phone from my bag. There were no signal bars on my phone. We were only carrying a light backpack each. We were taking turns to push the locked cage(That was on wheels!) We looked around. Jake thought he heard a buzzing noise so I followed him.”It might be the red button!” I said smiling. We looked behind some flax and I scared away a tui that was making a beautiful call! We ran to it... But it was a radio! “ Damm it!” we both said!

We kept on looking. We were exhausted. We had finished 1 and a half 500ml water bottles each. We found a tree. We thought it would be a great place to rest. We sat under the tree. “I think this was a scam. I mean we might even be dead by the time we get out of here! ”I said. “Just calm down Jennifer. It is 11:00 in the night can we go to sleep now?‘ “Yeah sure. I know.. let sleep under this tree. It is a great place to sleep. It is not at all damp or not at all to hot or cold!” I got out my tent. I made two beds. It was 11:05. We changed into our PJs(One at a time in my portable toilet!) We got in bed hoping that tomorrow would be a better day.

When we were sleeping Jake had a dream.

//It was that I fell off a cliff and hang onto a branch. I found a hole and I went through it and I found the red button and we were the first people to find the red button. So we won and//...

He woke up. He told me about it and we thought it might come true! We had faith in it happening. We were walking. We were looking. We made up a riddle. It went like this:

//If one of us fell we would not care, as long as we were going to find a way out of here.//

We quietly said the riddle. We were looking at each other and saying the little riddle we made up. “Jake..Do you know how long it will take?” “I honestly don’t know!” Before I could say anymore I fell off a cliff. “Oh,No!” I cried> I hang onto a branch. There was a hole in the cliff. I pulled myself in so much that my feet went into the hole. “Jake. Come! I found a hole! It might lead us to the red button!” I shouted out to Jake. We both jumped into the hole. Rocks started to collapse on top of us. “Oh,no! Lets go down here.” It was a tunnel. We thought we were safe.

The tunnel was clear. It seemed as if we were walking on water. Me and Jake took out our cameras. We took good photos. It was amazing. But the rocks started to follow us. “OMG! How is this happening?” I asked. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! We heard the rocks following us. The glass tunnel was cracking. We ran. Suddenly we saw a latter. “Hurry!” We went into a

single file. I climbed up the ladder first. Once we climbed up the ladder and we looked around. Wow! We saw a sign. It said:

WELCOME TO TIRITIRI MATANGI!

The beautiful birds were flying everywhere. We were going to take a picture but we saw another sign. It said:

NO FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY!

So we turned off our flash on our cameras. The birds were amazing! There were hundreds of birds. It seemed as if there was over a million birds!

“This is the life. Now lets not get distracted and find that red button!” “Good idea Jennifer!” We ran and saw that something was flashing. A tui was calling. We pulled some flax away from us. “Yay! It’s the red button!” We both shouted. We both pushed it at the same time. The helicopter was high in the sky. We saw it coming towards us. Pilot James was still controlling the helicopter.

“Um...do you want to come straight back to America or explore Tiritiri Matangi for a while using my helicopter?” Asked pilot James. ”Um...James if we choose to explore will we still get the prize if we were first?” “Yes Jennifer. You and Jake were first so you will get a prize pack each.” Me and Jake were excited. “Ok! We will go exploring!” So me and Jake went on James’s helicopter. We could see lots. After we were done on Tiritiri Matangi, we went to a place called Rosedale heliport. It was in a beautiful city called Auckland. We took some more photos. Then James gave us a prize pack each. It contained: $2.5 million dollars each,1 free car of our own choice voucher,$1 million towards a house each and $1 million apple gift voucher for us. “Thanks James!” We said at the same time. “Um sorry but we will walk from here, Because we will buy a house here.” “Ok thats fine with me!” We looked around and saw a beautiful house for sale. It looked like this:

So me and Jake called Sarah hugh. “You can have the house. We don’t want it. It can be reduced down to $2 million.” Said Sarah. ”Thanks so much Sarah. We appreciate it.. Can we have it now?” i asked. “Yes Jennifer and jake you can.” So we met Sarah. We gave her our house vouchers from the prize pack that me and Jake won. She was really happy that we gave her home vouchers. Me and Jake smiled. We both had a new home. We were happy that we were away from boring America because we had been everywhere in America. We knew that we would have a good new life together. The ‘stupid‘ test that I did and how I got a F- was brilliant.

THE END!