4th STORY...

Siti Nur Badriyah Bte Suherman.

F10DM0339

Exercise 2

Title: finding a way home.

Summary: Toby is a little duck who has a wish to go to an amusement park, but after going there, he realised that he doesn’t know how to get back home.

Toby gazes at the bus that stopped just a few feet away from his lake. That bus goes to the amusement park, the place that he had always wanted to go. It was rumoured to be a fun place. He made his decision at that moment with a strong determination.

I’ll get on that bus!

He quickly scrambled from his hiding spot and jumped as he might on the bus’s steps. He then alighted at a station that has the advertisement on the amusement park. He followed the other visitors into the amusement park and was brought speechless. How huge the place is! He went from ride to ride and enjoyed himself until evening. Until then that he thought of how will he get back home. The place is huge and he can’t find his way to the exit. So he just walked on the side walk to avoid getting stepped on. Toby was mulling about wondering where he should go when suddenly he bumped into something. Apparently it was someone’s leg. That person is a boy about seven years old. The boy noticed Toby and was about to catch him when Toby snapped his beak and bolted from the boy.

Toby heard loud footsteps coming from behind him, getting nearer and nearer. He warily looked behind him and find that the boy was chasing him with a determine expression. In a panic, he didn’t turn his head fast enough and hit the lamp post in front of him. When he awakened, he realised that he’s swaying in a steady motion. He was actually in the pocket of that boy. Wriggling in his position trying to escape, he had brought the boy’s attention to Toby. He struggled again to get away from the boy. But the boy held him tighter.

 “Shush, calm down. I’ll get you home.” He soothed.

But Toby just cocked his head, puzzled. Since he doesn’t understand human language. But hearing that boy’s soothing voice, he began to relax a little. Well, at least he’s safe from getting stepped on, he thought. So when Toby saw a familiar place, he would gesture to that direction to the boy with his wings. With a higher view, Toby could see easily his way home.

After a while, they came across the bus stop that Toby first aboard the bus. He gestured frantically to the bus stop and the boy put him down nearby it. Toby gestured to the boy to follow him, and the boy obeyed. So he showed his home to the boy, a beautiful lake hidden by bushes. The boy’s face brightened and smiled. Toby then plucked a flower with his beak from a nearby bush and held it out to the boy. Surprised, he took it.

“Thank you and you’re welcome,” The boy responded. Toby quacked at him in return.

Both of them looked at each other. I’ll not forget him, both of them thought at the same time.