The Daddy Long Leg Spider Named Sheldon (:
by Jenny Lee (Schenectady)
On a hot, stressful day, a young girl named JennyLee and her friend Erica went to a camp. On their way, they needed to pick up wood. JennyLee wanted to be kind and help. She thought
“What would the chances be of a spider crawling on her?”
Knowing she was afraid of spiders, but she just wanted to be helpful. About an hour later JennyLee and Erica arrived at the campsite. They were hot and couldn’t wait to go swimming at the beach right next door to their camp. On their way to the beach Erica screamed.
“What?”
JennyLee screamed.
“Spider!”
Erica yelled so that only JennyLee could hear her.
JennyLee looked to where Erica was pointing and saw the biggest, hairiest, daddy long leg spider she had ever seen before, on her right shoulder. The weird thing JennyLee noticed about the spider was that he wasn’t scary at all. She thought that he didn’t look like other spiders. The spider went up about his way crawling up JennyLee’s arm and for the first time JennyLee found herself putting her arm back down because she saw that he wasn’t there to harm her at all.
Then she heard some words that weren’t expected to come out of a spider’s mouth.
“Please help me, I’m hurt!”
She stopped and began to listen surprised and scared at the same time. The spider began with his name…
“My name is Sheldon, I am very hurt. My leg was stepped on on my way to my web on a tree nearby and I crawled on you because you were going in my direction, and it would have been a painful walk for me to travel across the beach where the tree is located.”
JennyLee seemed frightened not because there was a spider on her shoulder but because a creature that she never expected could talk actually talk to her. Later that day JennyLee spent the whole day with Sheldon and they talked about how he could he talk and what had happened to his leg. JennyLee ended up becoming friends with Sheldon, which was a little weird for JennyLee but she felt like she was talking to a human being.
“So let me get this straight Sheldon. You were a bully all your life up till when you were in ninth grade and what happened, like how did you end up being put into a spider’s body? ”
Sheldon wanted to be honest with JennyLee because she seemed worth taking a risk for.
“I picked on the wrong kid one day, and I was introduced to one kid’s parents and I guess one of the mothers did witchcraft, and she didn’t allow no one to mess with her baby. So to make a long story short, I was walking to the store, alone one night to get some munchies and suddenly I was snatched up and put into some vehicle. I remember a big stab into my left leg and then I remember falling asleep. All I remember doing from there is waking up in a circle of candles. I was tied onto a chair and I remember my leg that I was stabbed at was burning still. About twenty minutes of pain asking for help, the little boy I picked on once in my life and his mother was entering a room with a big book that read Spells on the cover of it. I asked scared, ‘what’s going on?’ No answer. Then all of a sudden I heard the whispers of the child and mother say something about spider and until last kiss. Then I remember somehow reforming, painfully into a spider’s body. Then I realized it was time to run. I mean yes I was shocked that I was shaped in a spider’s body, but I knew it was time to run. After that night no one ever saw me again.”
By the time Sheldon explained the best way he could, he was almost out of breath.
JennyLee really couldn’t say anything but, “Wow, I’m sorry you had to go through that Sheldon. So how did you end up here?”
Sheldon was still out of breath from explaining what had happened to him.
(Deep breaths taken from Sheldon)
“I honestly don’t know.”
After a few conversations they wanted to get to know each other more, so they talked as if they were best friends that were waiting to be made. They talked about their favorite color and common food likes.
A Few Hours Later…
“So how old are you Sheldon?”
JennyLee asked worried he would say an older age that her mother wouldn’t allow her being friends with.
“17, what about you?”
(Woo)JennyLee thought.
“I’m 16.”
JennyLee said looking at Sheldon with a great full smile.
“That’s cool.”
“JennyLee?!”
Erica yelled from the top of the hill.
“It’s time to come in!”
JennyLee replied…
“Okay, on my way.”
“Well I guess this is good-bye till tomorrow”
The Fight for Sheldon’s Love
“Hurry!”
Yelled JennyLee to her friend Erica.
“Stop rushing me, I can’t run that quickly,”screamed Erica, running as fast as she could, worried she would trip and fall.
“Sheldon is waiting for me to come see him this summer!”
As JennyLee ran to the tree where Sheldon’s web was built.
“Oh Sheldon?”
JennyLee yelled with joy.
“Hey, I’m glad you could make it. How have you been?”
“Great.” JennyLee began explaining.
“How about yourself?”
Sheldon gave JennyLee a concerned look as he started telling her what had been going on.
“Uhmm I’m going to go unload the things into the camp while you two catch up?”Erica said in concern towards the car before she left.
“There are some things we need to talk about,”Sheldon said afraid JennyLee would get worried.
“What’s going on?”
“I’ve been thinking about some things.”Sheldon began.
“What things?”
JennyLee started thinking.
Sheldon took a deep breath before he began.
“I have a few things I’m hiding from you. I just want you to know that even though we’ve just met a year ago we’ve done a lot for each other, and that we’ve been real close and we talk a lot.”
“Okay? I don’t get what you’re really trying to say Sheldon.”
JennyLee replied confused.
“What I’m trying to say is…”
(Ughh)
Sheldon thought of a way to tell JennyLee how he truly felt about her.
“Honestly, JennyLee I feel like we’re really close.”
“Well,”
JennyLee began.
“I understand what your trying to say but I really have great news for you. I found a way to get you back into your human body. It’s kind of harsh but it’s the only way to go back to living your life.”
“Great…”
Sheldon said sarcastically, feeling like JennyLee was trying to avoid how he felt.
“See I got the information from here!”
JennyLee showed Sheldon a witchcraft book she brought from a library.
Jenny Lee's Superhero
By Sheldon( Schenectady)
The Abandoned Building
Once upon a time a girl named JennyLee was a good friend that was in love with me. She knew my deepest darkest secrets but she didn’t know about my super powers. I have x-ray vision, telepathy, super strength, super speed, eternal life, unlimited knowledge, and I am irresistibly charming. All these powers came about when I was walking through an abandoned building with my older brother Evan and my cousin Joey.
While I was walking down the hallway, I heard a noise come from the southern end. So I went to check it out and I found a graduated cylinder full of some colorful liquid that read “CAUTION” and the rest was scratched off. I later found Evan and Joey and showed them the container, and then Joey dared me to drink the weird substance for a few bucks so I did, but I still felt the same.
Later on that day I started feeling dizzy and nauseous when JennyLee called me to meet her at her house. On my way to her house I took a short cut to her house by going through an alley way and I suddenly dropped and fainted. Meanwhile I was going through excruciating pain all throughout my body, but when I woke up I didn’t feel like me anymore, I felt like…like… a new person! After waking up I checked the time and noticed I was 13 minutes late, so I started to jog and eventually started to run faster than I have ever run in my whole life. I was in awe. That was my cue to go test out my curiosities. It soon became obvious to me that I had super powers.
The Arrival
When I reached JennyLee’s house I couldn’t stop running and accidentally ran through the front of the brick house. Everyone that was in the living room ran like the world was about to end.
After JennyLee realized that it was me she freaked out but was in relief that I made it through the wall in one piece! I explained to her that I had tuition money saved up for college and I would use that to pay for the damages. JennyLee then picked up a phone book and called Paladin Projects to come fix the damages. We left to go to the Chinese joint to grab some food, but of course I paid for everything! Then we got a ride to the bank to go get the money needed to pay for all the damages and I had enough money left to pay for 5 semesters at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Shortly after the damages were paid for and fixed, JennyLee and I went for a walk when she remembered she had an appointment for a physical.
She found out she had a severe case of Glaucoma! So I drove her to go get her prescription for her medical marijuana, but we ran into her friend Kayla Vasquez on the way. Kayla came and told us that she heard someone say that Obama was going to shut down the medical marijuana center! It then struck my mind to get two first class tickets to the Netherlands, Amsterdam.
After me and JennyLee reached Amsterdam I came up with an idea that was so crazy it just might work! I left JennyLee at a coffee shop with a few hundred dollars to make reservation at a hotel for us. I went to the store to grab a sewing kit to make my costume, so when I decide to use one of my super powers no one would recognize me.
I went to the American Eagle Commons to pick out some clothes to make my costume out of. So far I have a sky blue t-shirt with a pair of white washed out jeans. I then cash out and create my costume in the bathroom in a matter of like 3 minutes. My costume read Sheldonator 5000.
When I left I started to the chemistry lab in R.P.I. campus. When I reached the chemistry lab I attempted several times to make a cure for JennyLee’s glaucoma. Then it happened… something struck my mind and I just had to try it. I juiced a pot plant and mixed it with a couple drops of my blood to create an elixir.
Shortly after I had created the elixir I headed back to the coffee shop and one of the waiters there said that she went to the Hampton’s Inn. I ran to the hospital and grabbed an IV so I could attempt to treat her glaucoma. When I arrived she was sleeping and she had ordered everything room service had to offer. So I woke her up and stuck the IV in her vein and started the treatment. She claimed she had felt better so I took her to the hospital and had the doctors perform a test called OTC (Optical Coherence Tomography) and she came up negative for glaucoma, we both jumped for joy.
A few hours after that I took her on a shopping spree and then ended up getting an apartment together and being the best of friends... at least that’s what some people called it. JennyLee and I became very successful in life, she owns her own salon and I own my own city. I also very rarely ever use my powers; I only use them to when I need to.
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