The+Haunted+Creek...Young+Authors

Cassie Hall
One bright spring afternoon in Nashville, Tennessee, where you could hear the majestic ocean waves slamming onto the sandy shore. The sweet smell of fresh cut green grass was floating gracefully in the air. The two twins Mia and Maiya were playing with their husky Max in their backyard. Mia was 4 foot 10 inches tall and she had light brown hair with green eyes. Mia wore her hair down everyday no matter where she was going. She wore a purple long sleeved shirt with lace at the bottom and white skinny jeans. Maiya was the same height, but had light brown hair with pink and blue streaks in it. She always wore her hair in a bun or in a clip. Maiya had sparkly green eyes just like Mia. She wore a short sleeve blue shirt with black shorts. Both of them wore flip-flops, but Mia wore purple and Maiya would wear pink. They both had wonderful personalities but, Mia was the good well-behaved kid. On the other hand, Maiya was always arguing with her mom. A white fluffy rabbit with one humongous brown spot over it's left eye ran by, and Max ran after it. Mia and Maiya ran after Max, that dog was running as fast as a vibrant bolt of lightening. Mia and Maiya never could catch him. So they went back to the house, and hoped Max would come home soon. Turns out later that night Mia and Maya heard Max barking outside their window. They ran outside and hugged him so tightly they almost sqeezed him close to death.

"I missed you so much Max don't you ever do that again," said Mia.

Then Max ran off again and they followed right behind. He led them to a dark cave with screeching bats and sharp pointy rocks everywhere. They went threw the cave but they couldn't see the whole time. The cave finally came to an end. At the end of the cave there was a beautiful creek. It was so beautiful. The creek had waves probably 2 foot high. There was a big long yellow and brown rope tied to a tree up above the creek. It was just dangling up there and

Maiya said, "I’m going to swing on it over the creek.”

"Nooooo!", shouted Mia.

"Why?” said Maiya.

"You don't know how long that rope has been there,” said Mia.

"I know but that’s what makes it even more exciting,” said Maiya.

"How about we come back tomorrow and fix the rope and then you can swing on it,” said Mia.

"Works for me as long as I get to swing on it I’ll wait,”said Maiya.

Max led them back home. Their mom was cooking their dinner when they got back. They were having corn, mashed potatoes, and steak. It smelled so good. Mia and Maiya couldn’t wait till it was done. It was about 45 minute later when it was done. Their mom sat out napkins, silverware, and their plates. She cut up 3 pieces of steak and sat it on each one of the plates. Then, she took the corn and mashed potatoes and put it on the plates. “Mia, Maiya time for dinner,”said their Mom.

“Coming,”said Mia and Maiya.

As soon as they got downstairs they ran to the table. They all sat down and started eating. They were all done eating in less than 20 minutes. When they were done Mia and Maiya ran back upstairs.

“When are we going to replace the rope,”said Maiya?

“Tomorrow morning, as soon as we get up,”said Mia.

“Ok,”said Maiya.

They went to get their pajamas on and brush their teeth. So Mia went and got her pajamas and went into the bathroom to brush her teeth. She was out in less than 2 minutes. Then Maiya went in and got ready for bed. They both jumped in their beds and covered up and went to sleep. The next morning they got up and got dressed. When they were done getting ready for the day they ran out the door. They were on their way to the creek they had discovered 2 days ago. They brought Max along with them in case something went wrong. It was about 15 minutes later when they arrived. It was just as they remembered it would be. Only the creek was overflowing with water. Maiya and Mia stepped very close to the edge.

“I’m going to go look around are you coming with me,” said Mia?

“No I think I’ll stay here,” said Maiya.

“Ok but don’t do anything stupid,” said Mia.

“Whatever,” said Maiya.

Mia went off to look around and Maiya grabbed the rope. She wrapped herself around the rope and was just hanging there. Mia came back and saw her.

“Maiya get down from there,” said Mia.

Mia saw the rope breaking at the top. The rope snapped. Maiya screamed and at that second she was gone. Mia ran to the edge of the creek and looked to see if she could see Maiya. Maiya was nowhere in sight. Mia just knelt down and cried. Max came by her and whimpered. He ran back home and tried to alert their mom. She couldn’t make out what he was trying to tell her at all. Finally she figured out that Max wanted her to follow him. He led her though the cold cave with pointy rocks and finally they came to the creek. Their mom saw Mia knelt down so she ran over by her.

“What happened,” asked their mom? “Where’s Maiya?” “She was hanging on the rope and the rope wasn’t strong enough,” said Mia.

“It snapped and Maiya fell in, I tried to stop her but she just didn’t listen,” said Mia.

When they walked up to the casket Mia noticed that Maiya had moved her hand. Mia looked at it and studied it. then Maiya opened her eyes. Mia was so confused. She didnt know what to do. So she went and told her mom. "Mom maiya's alive,"said Mia. "Your just seeing things,"said Mom. "No she's alive, here I'll show you,"said Mia.

Then mom followed her to the casket and saw Maiya breath. Then she told Mia to go sit down. Maiya started to talk She said that she didn't remember anything. Then her momtold her that she was swinging on a rope over the creek and it snapped. Then it snapped and you fell in. We fou d you a couple days later but you weren't breathing. I know I woke up sometime but I don't remember where I was though. Then mom went and told everybody that the funeral was canceled.

"Why,"said everybody. "Because Maiya's alive,"said Mom. "Yea sure,"said everybody. "It's true come look for yourself,"said Mom.

They all walked over and looked. Maiya just layed there staring at all of them. They all stared at her right back. Then her grandma yelled Halleugah, It's a miracle. They all pullef Maiya out of the casket. They just stood there and smiled at her. She just stood there and gave all of them a big grin back. They all went outside and got into the cars. Theyall went home. I tfelt such a short ride. When they got there Mia took Maiya to get some comfortable clothes on. She put on a pair of sweatpants and a baggy t-shirt. When they walked in the living room her mom brought her a big plate of food. There was turkey, ham, corn, mashed potatoes, regular potatoes, fresh greenbeans from the garden. It was on a really fancy glass plate. Maiya started to cram all of the food in her mouth at a time. When she was done eating she went straight to bed. The next morning she woke up really early and woke up Mia.Maiya told Mia to get dressed.They vwere ging to go outside to swing on the tire swing. Mia jumped out of bed and they ran outside. I t was the most fun she had had in the past week. When they were done they went back inside.

"You have no idea how much I missed you,"said Mia. "I missed you too Mia,"said Maiya.

The years went on and they celebrated the day that they all found out that Maiya was alive.