EMO:D

About the questions of why boats floats but not sink?
I found it at this website:http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/sciencekids/float.html

EMO
12:43 AM

The owl hooted eerily outside my window. I was sleeping soundly as I was dog tired. The house was so quiet that I could even hear a pin drop. My father and mother were not at home as they had something important to attend. Suddenly, I suspected that something was suspicious. I stole out of my bed and tiptoed quietly out of my bedroom. I opened the door and crept out of the house. There was no one.

“Is there anyone?” I asked. There was no answer too. I decided to check each part of my backyard to make sure that it was safe. It was so dark. I was shuddering in fear. I just had a strange feeling of someone in the house but there was no one outside. Nobody.

All of a sudden, I smelt something burning and smoke billowing out. When I turned back, I gasped in horror. Someone had set a fire! Without hesitation, I ran into my house. The curtains were all burned. Beads of perspiration were dripping down my forehead ceaselessly. My heart sank, body iced and mind blanked in an instant. I did not know what to do. I prayed for god to plant an idea in me. The fire was spreading and spreading and the flames were bigger and bigger.

Immediately, I called for the fire brigade. Suddenly, I remembered that my precious bear was in my room! It was the most memorable present I had gotten from my grandmother. I was trying to get my way through the fire. No matter what, I will still try to get my toy bear. No choice. It was the only present my grandmother gave me before she died.

When I looked at my precious toy bear, my heart felt like as if it had been stabbed. I cried like never before, at the scene. Torrents of tears streamed down my cheeks and my body shook as I sobbed uncontrollably. I could not believe what I saw. The toy bear had been burned! Plumes of black smoke were billowing out of the house like giant mushrooms. Tongues of red and orange flames licked the walls of my room. I was horrified. Utterly horrified.

The fire was getting fiercer and bigger by the seconds. It seemed to be devouring everything which was obstructing its way. Time was running short. My heart was in my mouth. My stomach was churning non-stop. I could hear the loud thumping of my heart. Will I die so terribly? Every minute, every second was crucial. I was once again finding my way out but to no avail.

Help had not even arrived. I did not want to die but my face was very pale. Wails of siren could be heard finally. The fire brigade had came followed by the police. The firemen clad in red immediately connected the fire hose to the fire hydrant and started spraying at my house in sweeping motion. They rushed into the house and rescued me. I was sent to the hospital by the ambulance as I was slightly burned by the fire. I was groaning in agony and could not resist that excruciating pain anymore.

When I was awake at the hospital, my parents were already there accompanying me. The police were there to gather clues from me. I was too weak to make any statements but I forced myself to do it. It was a traumatic experience for me. As the saying goes, “Fire is a bad monster but a good servant.”

After a few days later, the police found out that the fire is caused by a man who was a loan shark that had mistaken our house as somebody’s one. The man actually had narrow sloping shoulders and his eyes were twinkling with mischief. I was very frightened by that harrowing experience. Fear. My life is almost filled with fear...

EMO
7:18 AM

“That’s it! My patience is exhausted and I am at the end of my tether!” I screeched furiously. This is not the first time my classmates named me as a nerd. I was walking with heavy steps and dragging my feet home from school. It was such a tiring day after a whole day of work! I decided to take the shortest route that is quite deserted.

Suddenly, someone caught my attention. Was I dreaming? I could not believe what I had seen. It was our school’s head prefect, Kelly. She was with two boys extorting money from a young boy named Jack. Muscles were bulging out from the boy’s broad arms. Their eyes were twinkling with mischief. They were in a group of gang trying to bully a small and scrawny boy. I could see a smirk on Kelly’s lips. Her penetrating eyeballs and an evil glint gave me a glance. She also had a sinister smile on her face.

“Give me all your money now!” one of the boys, Chris, shouted at him. Kelly ordered them to punch Jack if he refused to give them. Chris pulled Jack’s collar and threatened him to take out all his money. He was staring daggers at Jack. They were clenching their fist, ready to punch him. The terrifying apparition approached him with an evil, menacing smirk on its face. He was petrified out of his wits. He was paralysed with fear. Tears started to stream down his cheeks.

Those words from the gangster weighed me down like an anchor. My heart sank, body iced and mind blanked in an instant. Should I help him? He was wobbling like a jelly. Tension and fear mounted. Plucked up my courage, I immediately run towards them and was trying to prevent him from being bullied by any of them. He was about to gave him a punch but luckily I shielded the young boy.

“I... thought you are...a head prefect,” I mumbled and my heart was palpitating wildly. Would I get into serious trouble? My heart thumping faster and faster each time frightening thoughts raced through my mind.

“Shut your gap! Do you think that I really care about it?” Kelly sneered. It gave me a sudden impression of her and I realise that she was actually a hypocrite. The two boys were standing at the side crackling their knuckles. They were all showing a sign of impatience and were ready to punch us at any point of time. Being a kung fu player that is unexpected by anyone, I decided to used the easiest way to tackle them. I brought them to the ground each at a time and they were all groaning in agony. I could not imagine that I so brave and strong.

The two boys wanted to give me a kick in the stomach as revenge. Ironically, it was true. I tried to resist the pain I had and continued to fight on. I kept shielding Jack from preventing him to be injured or hurt by them. The pain was too excruciating that I could not resist anymore. I quivered in rage. My eyes bulged and the veins on my forehead looked ready to burst. Using my last ounce of strength, I gave them a punch. It made two of them feel weaker and they could not fight back anymore.

Without hesitation, Kelly and her gang had gone away. They were still swaggering to other places. Fortunately, we did not have severe injuries. It was such a traumatic experience for Jack and me. I did not know Kelly has such a bad characteristic that is unexpected. He thanked me ceaselessly for shielding him. He wanted to reward me with a handphone but I declined it politely. Actually, he came from a very rich background that was found out by Kelly so they planned to extort money from Jack.

The next day, the principal announced about the incident. Kelly was shamefaced and hung her head in mortification. Her face was full of regrets but it was too late. We could not turn back the clock. I was no longer called a nerd but a hero...

EMO
9:48 AM