The Spider In Me
By Kelsea Carter, 11, 6th grade
Leland Elementary School
I think spiders are taking over
my life. For the past two weeks, everywhere I go I find at least one spider. I
woke up from school and found a spider on the wall. As I ate breakfast a spider
darted across the floor. On the bus a spider crawled onto my seat.
“I must be losing my marbles! " I thought
aloud. During lunchtime my friend asked me about a riddle from the Harry Potter
series, but I ignored him.
After school he asked me
again. Then he read this from a J.K. Rowling book:
“First think of a person
that lives in disguise who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next
tell me what’s always the last thing to mend the middle of the middle and
end-to-end. Finally tell me the sound often heard during the hard to find word.
Now string them together and answer me this. What creature would you be
unwilling to kiss?”
All of a sudden, I heard a
blood-curling scream, and realize that it was my own. My friend had turned into
a nine-foot tall spider. I ran in horror as I heard “ AFTER HER!!!” Every
single spider in the world started running at me. I ran three miles and fell of
exhaustion as three billion spiders crawled on top of me.
He asked me the riddle
again. "Spider’’ I croaked and they swallowed me whole.
I awoke with a weird
sensation. It felt like I was lying on a dozen of cacti. I slowly got up but I
can’t see a thing. My vision blurs as a horrible stench comes in the room and I
pass out.
"Wake up my bride” I
heard and realize it was the spider king. I woke again, with horror. I thought
I had died! I screamed a blood-piercing scream and a piece of tape went over my
mouth.
The next thing I knew I am
being hooked up to a machine to keep me from coming back to my senses. A
servant comes and rolls me down the aisle and I heard wedding music. I had
enough strength to unhook the machine, rip off the piece of tape, and my senses
came back.
“NO” I scream and run toward the
exit. The spider king chased after me. As I tripped on my heels, he picked me up
and bends down and bites my neck. He drops me to the floor as I started to
change.
I sprouted 8 long legs and 8
eyes. I become hairy and now I am a nine-foot spider. I looked back at the king
and I fell in love. The wedding went on and I remained a 13-year-old girl stuck
in a spider’s body.