{"id":8062,"date":"2021-12-24T16:57:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T08:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/?p=8062"},"modified":"2022-01-27T15:41:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T07:41:20","slug":"a-mouses-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/8062","title":{"rendered":"A Mouse&#8217;s Life (2D Rosanne Chan)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2018Ding ding&#8211;\u2019 The annoying alarm clock went off suddenly, snatching my sweet dreams away. I was irritated by it so I yawned and stretched lazily. However, when I squinted, I was startled by what I saw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The alarm clock was ringing but the clock wasn\u2019t in my reach as I was not even in my bedroom! Glancing around, I found myself curling up in a dim corner of a cave and piles of food were heaped everywhere. When I was still overwhelmed by shock, more unexpected things struck me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Squeak squeak!\u2019 Someone near me squeaked. I jittered and tried to figure out who squeaked. All of a sudden something hairy touched me. I turned around instantly and saw a mouse staring at me! My heart almost popped out of my chest and that mouse started squeaking, \u2018Good morning my dearest guest. My name is Paul and sorry for scaring you out of your wits. Please make yourself at home even though I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any difference between your house and mine&#8211;\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Hang on, what do you mean there\u2019s no difference between your house and mine? And why am I here, with you?\u2019 I finally spat out some questions in my mind as there were too many questions in my head and I couldn&#8217;t bear this anymore.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Oh well, we are both mice and\u2026 I think our houses don\u2019t really have any difference..? And for the second question, you\u2019re with me because you fainted in front of my house and.. I just brought you inside here in order to take good care of you. You still look sick. Let me go out and grab you some food,\u2019 That mouse answered me with a slight stutter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018I can\u2019t be a dirty, ugly mouse! It is impossible! I am supposed to be a human!\u2019 I thought. Still, I tried to stay calm and stammered, \u2018N&#8211;no, I\u2019ll come wi-ith you&#8211;u.\u2019 \u2018There must be a way for me to turn back into a human but first I need to get out of here to investigate.\u2019 I thought, trying to confess myself and be calm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I went out with Paul and realized that Paul was actually living in my house. He was the nasty mouse who nibbled my food! He \u2018led\u2019 me to my kitchen and clambered up to the sink with his limbs while wagging his chubby body stupidly. I almost choked by stopping myself from bursting into laughter. Suddenly, I heard there was something miaowing. Paul shivered, jumped down from the sink to the ground and scurried back into his \u2018cave\u2019. I didn\u2019t know what to do and froze. A cat slowly strutted from a corner and gazed at me with its eyes slinting. I soon noticed that it was my cat, Lucy. I winked at it, trying to let it know that I was its owner. However, it didn\u2019t work at all. It was still approaching me with evil stares. \u2018How come it didn\u2019t appear whenever I needed it to catch those disgusting rats and only showed up when I didn\u2019t need it?\u2019 I thought when I started running for my life. I scampered as fast as possible. However, Lucy was trotting and stomping after me. I made twists and turns but I was still not able to get rid of it. I started feeling dizzy and my legs started to feel wobbly. I was too small in size and I started to get lost. Lucy was storming now. I was so giddy that I slumped on the ground and saw Lucy beholding me. \u2018Oh no! What will Lucy do to me?\u2019 I gasped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lucy first grabbed my tial and lifted me up. It gawked at me and started swinging at me! \u2018I wish I could turn back into a human.\u2019 I hoped. Lucy seemed that it would like to stop me from thinking. She stopped swaying, kept lifting me up until I was right above its mouth and opened its smelly mouth. It wanted to smelly me! I shut my eyes tightly, thinking that I would be dead. However after a while there seemed to be nothing happened and I slowly opened my eyes. Just then, I was dropped by Lucy and beaten on the ground.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Ouch!\u2019 I let out a cry. After that, Lucy and Paul came and sat next to me. I was baffled so I asked feebly, \u2018What was happening?\u2019&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul looked at me and answered straight away, \u2018We are just fooling around. You were turned into a mouse by us and we frightened you in order to teach you a lesson.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018What do you mean by \u201ca lesson\u201d ?\u2019 I still had lots of questions but I was more curious about the meaning of the \u2018lesson\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018We want you to know that although we aren\u2019t human beings, we still need to be treated nicely. Mice aren\u2019t as grubby as you thought and cats aren\u2019t that lazy or useless. If you treat us badly again, we will turn you into a rat again!\u2019 This time Lucy declared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was worn out already and I just wanted to turn back to a human. Lucy and Paul started to mumble and wiggled their fingers. I gazed at the ceiling and closed my heavy eyelids \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:paragraph --><p>\u2018Ding ding--\u2019 The annoying alarm clock went off suddenly, snatching my sweet dreams away. I was irritated by it so I yawned and stretched lazily. However, when I squinted, I was startled by what I saw.<\/p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>The alarm clock was ringing but the clock wasn\u2019t in my reach as I was not even in my bedroom! 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