If There's A Dragon, I'll Eat My Shoes
By David Kopp
Luke was walking to school.
He was almost there when he saw a dragon hide behind the gym. When he got into the classroom he told his
teacher.
“Mrs. Anderson, there’s a dragon behind the gym.” Mrs. Anderson just laughed, which made the
rest of the class laugh.
“If there’s a dragon,” said Mrs. Anderson, “I’ll eat
my shoes.”
After the spelling test was silent reading. Luke turned around to Ryan who was reading
about pirates. “Ryan, there’s a dragon behind the gym.”
Ryan laughed out loud and said, “If there’s a
dragon, I’ll eat my shoes.”
Mrs.
Anderson heard Ryan, everyone did. She
sent Luke to see the principal. Luke was terrified. He’d never had to see the principal before.
The principal was not pleased to see him and when Luke told him there was a
dragon behind the gym, it only got worse.
Luke’s parents were called and soon they all stood in the principal’s
office.
Luke said it again, this time he
was also a bit mad. “I am telling you,
there is a dragon behind the gym.”
“If there’s a dragon,” Luke’s mom, Luke’s dad, and the
principal all said in unison, “I will eat my shoes.”
“Fine,” Luke said,
at least eight times for mad than before, “I will show you.”
Luke ran down the
hallways of the school, knocking on all the doors. “I will show you all!”
Within minutes the entire school was standing in the
field.
Everyone looked at Luke and said,
“If there is a dragon, I’ll eat my shoes.”
They all marched to the back of the school and around to the back of the
gym... and there was the dragon.
“See,”
said Luke, “I told you there was a dragon.”
Everyone stood silent for few seconds, and then the
principal announced, “I don’t see a dragon.”
Everyone looked at the principal
then at each other, and said, “I don’t see a dragon either.”
But it was clear from the pale looks on their
faces and the way that their knees all knocked together that there was indeed a
dragon. But nobody wanted to admit they were wrong and NOBODY wanted to eat
their shoes. But that didn’t matter
anyways because the Dragon ate them all up
… and left the shoes.
The End.
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