Talking Pet by Michelle

I woke up and this was my pet, a spider called Joe speaking to me. “You’re not going to school today.” I screamed, but there was no sound out of my mouth. I tried again, no sound. Oh my god!! “Hey man, my friend, I said you’re not going to school today!” Joe said. I listened to Joe carefully and the conclusion was, Joe was using my voice and I was using Joe’s voice. I could talk!!!

While I was thinking all of these terrible things, Joe spoke out, “I know you’re afraid and confuse now, so do I. But please listen to me. How can you go down and speak to your mother without a voice? And how can I meet my friends without my spider voice?”

Oh yeah! This was a problem and we just have 5 minutes to solve it as my mum would come up after that. I grabbed a paper and pen by my shivering hands. I wrote, “Stay with me, Joe, and help me to talk to others. I will write on the paper that what you should speak out."Few seconds later, my mum knocked my door. I immediately write "Good morning" on the sheet. "I know that, you say that every morning...Good morning, mum." Joe grinned. And my mouth was doing the shape of that. "Good morning girl. Get up and go down to have a breakfast." My mum said. I wrote quickly "Mum, can I have my breakfast here? Please!!" Joe spoke out the sentence. "OK!"

After mum had went down, we sighed together. I wrote again, "This is terrible. I can't write so fast. Em... Let me think about it... Oh! Joe, are you understand me?" "Quite" It answered. "OK! Let's do it like this. If there are some long questions with long answer, you help me to answer them. But please keep it polite and meaningful, or else I will kill you." I wrote. Then we went to the library to check to reason why we would change our voice.

By the way to library, I met a lot of friends. They all asked me the same question "Why are you bringing a sketch book?" Our answer was "For fun!" We ran to the library at last since we didn't want to answer question anymore. We went to the library but of course we couldn't find anything about the exchange voice between human and animal. While we were going to give up, a man with a strange dress talked to us. "Oh my dear, you must be the girl who had received the magic by Mr. Tinglory. Hello, nice to meet you. I'm the assisstance of me. Tinglory. I'm..." He talked quickly but sorry, we needed to stop him. "Wait man! Please speak slowly! We can't here you." This impolite sentence was talked by Joe.
"OK! My boss, Mr. Tinglory had play magic on you guys. He is so regret and order me to bring you guys to his studio to clear the magic." The strange guy said. Then, he brought us to the "studio".

"Hey! Do you ever know that I hate living in the Barbie's house? That's why I'm always escape from the "house" and go out to meet my friends!" Joe said. I wrote, "Sorry I never know that. I will think about that. But don't you know that I hate to see the net everywhere in my room? If I change your room, will you keep my room clean?" In this journey, we just talked about this since it was so boring. We knew more about each other.

Finally, we had arrived the studio and met Mr. Tinglory. He gave us to drink a small bottle of medicine and our voice change in a right position.

Although the things happened to us was strange, shock, frighten and a bit amazing, we understand more about each other. For example, what Joe’s like, his hobbies, what whishes had he made before he became my pet…

“Ling…Ling…Ling…” The alarm was ringing. All of them were a dream. “Sigh…” I grinned. Joe was looking at me with a big shiny eyes and said, “You’re not going to school today!”