The Black Plague: A Short Story

“ Ugh!” Wes exclaimed.
“ What?” Matthew asked.
“ This poster will take forever! Too bad there was no school yesterday.” Wes said. Matthew and Wes were partnered to do a poster on the “ Black Plague” . For the poster colors they decided to use all black and when they do their speech they would were all black.
“ Class! Please Listen. Thank you. I see most of you are done with your posters. But, since not everyone is done with them. I am giving you the weekend and expect to see them on Monday otherwise you will get and F on this assignment. “ Mrs. Overwhelm said. “ You may get back to work! 14 minutes left!” Looking around the classroom Matthew realized they were the only group not done with the poster. “ Shoot!” Wes said. “ That’s not enough
“ That is not very convincing.” Mrs. Brian said looking at Matthew with a smile.
“ It was okay. In physical education we played basketball, and ran a mile.” He said.
“ Wow! You run a mile every week. You should really consider playing a sport.” She said with a grin.
As Mrs. Brian pulled into the driveway, Matthew hopped out of the gray car and and went to his room. In his room he changed into a some grey shorts and his Nike blue t- shirt. He walked out of the room and went to the kitchen and grabbed some carrots. He thought to himself Why do I eat so healthy? Whatever, I will probably have something unhealthy at Wes’s house. He barely eats veggies. How gross!

Later that day , Matthew packed his bag for Wes’s house and had his father , Mr. Brian drive him. As he approached Wes’s house Mr. Brian waved him goodbye and left. Then Matthew proceed to ring the doorbell. Wes’s little sister opened the door and said
“ Well hello Matthew. What do you want? Did your parents finally decide to get rid of you. Well too bad we are full. No rooms here!” She said with a
Wes finally got Matthew to come the got on their jackets and clothes. As Wes and Matthew tiptoed out of the room they went into the kitchen. Wes was hungry so he took 4 Oreo cookies. “ Let's go!” Matthew said. By now it was 10: 45 and the boys were about to open the sliding glass door when the hear and unusual sound. Footprints. The boys crammed and hid behind the ivory couch. It was Wes’s dad. He walked into the kitchen and took an apple . He got a red cutting board and cut the apple into 4 sections. Then he put the apple on a plate, looked around and went upstairs. The boys than proceeded to exit the house. As they were outside they decided to visit the Middle School. They were trying to act like spies and dodge traffic.They ran over to the other side of the road where the Middle School was. Then they realized.That nothing was going on Middle School. No basketball games, track meets. Nothing. So they decided to take the shortcut home. The forest. While in the forest the jumped every time a wolf cried. Stick broke. Squirrel