Mrs Applefro of
Googaberry
By Jaide Britton, Zyla Geonzon, Chloe Sowerbutts, Samara
Smith, Dylan O’Brien, Emma Clulow, Daniel Loader & Zali
Scott
Front Cover: Zali Scott
Text Copyright © 2014 by Jaide Britton, Zyla Geonzon, Chloe Sowerbutts,
Samara Smith, Dylan O’Brien, Emma Clulow, Zali Scott
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Chapter 1: Last Day of School
It was the last day of school and the students of Mrs. AppleFro's science
class are waiting patiently for the school bell to ring so they could start
summer holidays. Mrs. AppleFro was snoring loudly as she was sleeping;
which she always does. Her hair is a bright, cherry, red colour in its usual
messy afro and her teeth are yellow and jagged. She wears a bright, purple,
turtle neck, long sleeved shirt and a long flannel skirt. Some younger
children used to thing she was a witch; that's why she started wearing
brighter clothes. She isn't your usual science teacher. She's always
cantankerous and pretends she can predict the future.
"Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock". It felt like hours had past waiting for the
bell the ring so we could finally start our summer holiday, although in
reality it had only been 25 minutes. Only a couple more minutes until school
is finally over. 'BBBRRINGG'. As the school bell rang, children punched the
air with excitement and Mrs. AppleFro woke up from her deep sleep spilling
her tea over. "Oh, great now my delicious homemade herbal tea is
everywhere! And it's cold!" she cries. She starts sipping her spilled tea that
now drips down her desk, "Oh well, taste just as good". "Anyway" she begins
"Thank you everyone for such a wonderful school year and I hope everyone
has learned something helpful this year" she say grumpily. As everyone was
leaving to start there summer holiday, Mrs. AppleFro started slowly drifting
back to sleep. Just before everyone left, a student named Peter went to
Mrs. AppleFro, "Excuse me, Mrs AppleFro" waking up from her 1 minute nana
nap, "Schools over. Now go away" she said grumpily. Peter continued
anyway, "I just wanted to say your the best science teacher ever! You sleep
all the time, so we don't have to do any work and I just wanted to thank
you", Mrs. AppleFro raises an eyebrow, "Your welcome" she say awkwardly.
Mrs. AppleFro locked her classroom and walked down the long hallway. It
was hectic! Some students were running around like maniacs and others
were gossiping. Some of them were packing there bags while others were
cleaning out there lockers. Teachers were trying to escape the chaos,
including Mrs. AppleFro. Not only was the hallways hectic, so was the car
parks. Parents waiting for there children, children waiting for there parents.
When Mrs. AppleFro got to her old, rusty, red, Holden, she had to wait 15
minutes for the carpark to be less crowded so she could reverse her car. She
turned on the radio while she waited for the carpark to be less crowded and
the radio started playing her favourite song by her favourite girl group. "This
is my jam!" she cries from the top of her lungs and started singing on the
top of her lungs. She didn't realise it but a huge group of her science
students where laughing historically at her and one of them was recording
her singing with there iPhone. She was furious. The car park started to clear
up so she could finally drive home. As she reversed she heard a 'THUD'...
Chapter 2 beached
"Pedestrians these days." sais Mrs. Applefro after hitting a innocent old lady
with her car.
The drive home was rather short. She changed the channel, and turned the
volume to the max. "ALL THE SINGLE LADIES ALL THE SINGLE LADIES, PUT
YOUR HANDS UP OH, OH OH OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! The lady luckily just
turned out of the trucks way.
After a 10 minute drive to the beach, she finally ended at the top of the
sand dunes. She walked down the creeky wooden boardwalk to find herself
at the bottom of the sand dunes. In a distance she saw a lifeguard with his
dog, who wouldn't stop barking.She decided to have a swim before she
worked on her tan. She tried to impress the lifeguard by diving but ended up
belly flopping with a loud SPLASH! She walked into the water dizzly. Very
surprisingly a whale had come up under her, and shooted her into the air
with its spout! She screamed in horror so the lifeguard could hear her, for
the seconds time in 20 minutes she belly flopped again this time with a
louder splash. The life guard hopped on his board and swam out to get her.
"Oh, why thank you, Mr. lifeguard" she said in a toned voice. She was trying
to show off once again, by synchronised swimming right in front of the man,
she was trying to do what looked like a hand stand but looked more like
some body drowning. She slowly swam back to shore failing breaststroke.
lShe laid her towel down on the white sand, she laid down on the towel and
fell asleep. 15 minutes later the sand dunes fell to a halt. It looked rather
like a purple ice cream was stuck in the sand, but that was just her head
and hair. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" The life guard hurried over
as fast as possible to help the lady get out. The dog was digging like a drill,
whilst the lady was screaming her head off. The man finally had enough
strength to pull her out. "What just happened?" said the life guard. "Oh, mr.
Lifeguard you will never believe it!" said Mrs. Applfro
"The sand dune fell on me leaving me in smutherings!"
"Are you ok?" said the lifeguard
" I, I... guess." said Mrs. Applefro
" Do you want me to take you home?" said the lifeguard
" NO I NEED TO WORK ON MY TAN!" said Mrs. Applefro
"Oh, ok, sorry." said the lifeguard
Mrs. Applefro picked a new spot on the beach and dreamt about her
at her house. She was at her house with the lifeguard and the dog.
The walls came off and they got sucked up into the air and beyond.
She woke up. She went over and sat beneath the lifeguards tower.
Chapter 3 the new dimension
"Oh Derek your so kind" says Mrs. AppleFro with a flirty smile, yet her flirty
smile looked more like she was planning something evil, but yeah, that's
Mrs. AppleFro. Derek took a few large steps towards the door but then Mrs.
AppleFro said something that made him stop in his tracks "um Derek you
funny bunny, what about your doggie" "come on Sherbit, let's go" shouted
Derek. Obediently Sherbit sprinted to Derek's side puffing and barking very
loudly. Mrs. AppleFro gave him a funny look, "I uh, feel sick I need you to
stay" says Mrs. AppleFro with a strange look on her face, almost like she just
ate something sour, "sorry Mrs. AppleFro I can't, I have to do my job
remember? I'm a lifeguard" said Derek apologetically "yeah at a beach no
one ever comes to" mumbles Mrs. AppleFro under her breath. "Goodbye Mrs.
AppleFro" then Derek adds "um, get better soon?" "Yeah whateva muscle
man" says Mrs. AppleFro with a psycho look on her face. As Derek opens the
door he almost has a heart attack, "I know you don't want to leave Derek,
but you said it yourself" Mrs. AppleFro says sarcastically. "N-no it's not that"
says Derek still as pale as a blank sheet of white paper, "come look-k". Mrs.
AppleFro gets up grumpily, "no more fun and games hotty with a body" she
mumbles, but as she stares out the door she makes a low half growl half
scream sound. Mrs. AppleFro's weird, you can tell Derek thinks that too by
the strange look he's giving her, "what do you want punk" says Mrs. AppleFro
eyeing him up and down. They look out and see a endless vally of things big
and small, "why is that flea so large and furry!" Shrieks Mrs. AppleFro "it's
the
size
of
a
fat
elephant!!!!"
She
shrieks
again.
"Supercalifragilisticexpelidocius isn't it!" Says the flea calmly "oh sorry to be
rude, my names Javan mannn" "oh my gosh" says Mrs. AppleFro just before
she faints. When Mrs. AppleFro wakes up the flea throws questions at her
"so who's then lucky man?" "Huh" she says, "who's Mr. AppleFro?" Said the flea
sounding very interested "oh uh, um, he's uh, um, dead" says Mrs. AppleFro
looking very very sad. "Oh I'm so sorry" Javan said softly. "I'm not much of a
romantic myself but I know how hard it is too lose someone" Javan says as
some sort of comfort, "nah it's fine, he's dead for a reason, I mean when you
try to catch a great white shark as a pet it doesn't really go down well..."
Mrs. AppleFro pauses for a moment "it didn't go down well for either him or
the shark...". "So who do you live with now? Where do you live? Where did
you come from?" Says Javan, obviously he couldn't keep the questions in, he
was just to curious. "I live alone, I come from Googaberry and I came from
Googaberry" says Mrs. AppleFro not looking very pleased. "But may I say, you
are one FINEEE looking flea" says Mrs. AppleFro with a wink, although her
wink looked like she had something in her eye. "Uh thanks" Javan says
looking a bit disgusted. "Ok wow that's enough Mrs. AppleFro" Derek says
with a tone that sounded very disturbed. "So I see you brought your house
along with you" says Javan, "uh yeah, wait, how did we even get here!!"
Shrieks Mrs. AppleFro "well what I gathered tips that a extreme cyclone
carried you both here" says Javan calmly, "yeah but where are we!" Shouts
Derek "oh right it's called Narby, it's sort of like Atlantis, you know, the lost
city? But it's called Narby, weird name huh?" Replied Javan. "So let's go
inside your 'house' and talk about your life" says Javan. "Um ok then" replies
Mrs. AppleFro, as they walk inside Derek and Mrs. AppleFro tell Javan what
happened before they got to Narby, as they all sit down and eat rum cake
Derek asks Mrs. AppleFro "so what's your job?" "Oh me? Right well I work as a
science teacher and my students are all rotten little kids, obviously there
parents didn't teach them any manners.... But there is a few they respect
me even when I find time to have naps during the lessons. Non of them even
really care about science, neither do I, it just comes to me and I actually
know what I'm talking about. Which actually doesn't happen a lot", "really?
That's fascinating, I just always thought that you were some freak but you
actually have talent". "Thanks I guess, it is really, really cool that I have
talent" replied Mrs. AppleFro. "oh yeah" says Javan, then he adds "now I
have to tell you something very important, one last thing"
Chapter 4 the bad news
" I'm Jamaican and my brother is Usain Bolt and I'm here to tell you some
good news, and some bad news. But first, let me take a selfie, Joking! Who
would like to go to the cupcake store and buy a cupcake?"Said Javan
quickly. Everyone but Javan was in shock. Finally, Mrs AppleFro said in a
shaky voice " Sure, but how are we going to get down from this huge
building may I ask" " No problem, just hop on my back and I'll fly you down,
when we get to the shop, I'll tell you my life story." So when they arrived at
the cupcake store called Cupcake Palace, they went inside. Inside, it looked
like the inside of a rainbow cupcake. The chairs was made of Oreo's and the
tables were made out of pink marshmallows. They all took a seat at a rather
large marshmallow table. Soon, a gummy bear waiter was serving them.
Javan ordered Derek and Sherbet and him a blue berry muffin while Mrs
AppleFro had a bacon and raisin muffin." I'll tell you how I came to this city,
We'll it was a long time ago and My mum, dad lived on a dog, but one day,
mum and dad got poisoned by the flee treatment that the owners. Now, I'm
a orphan." Javan's voice trailed off " I can relate to that, I'm an orphan" says
Mrs AppleFro " No wonder, they probably through you out" said Derek but
luckily Mrs AppleFro didn't hear him. " Now we can go to the park and I'll tell
you the bad news." So that all flew to the park and the first thing that Javan
went on was the blue, little kids slide. "Last one down is the rotten egg" said
Javan. As he went down the slide, he got stuck half way! " Help! I'm stuck!"
Yelled Javan. Luckily, while they were in Cupcake Palace, Mrs AppleFro
grabbed lots of little packets is butter so she knew what she could do " Ok
Javan, what I want to do is rub some butter all around you then slip you out
of the slide Ok?" Assured Mrs AppleFro. So with ease. " Thanks for freeing
me. Now for the bad news," said Javan " What!?!?, We save you and your still
gonna tell us the bad news?" Gasped every body except Sherbet and Javan. "
Sorry, but I have to tell you this very important news that I know is
important so don't blame me! I'm just trying to warn you about this big
cyclone that is going to hit the city of Narby and probably destroy every
thing in its path but YOLO. Even though this has been my home ever since I
was living with my mum and dad so it's hard for me to so don't be so selfish.
Oh and only animals with some sort of flying device can escape so you guys
should be glad that I'm telling you instead of having you roaming the streets
and going flying to another parallel universe because this is the best one
and I don't think you'll like to land on planet Snorkel where the nasty wild
water buffaloes will tear you apart. " In about.... 5 minutes a huge cyclone
will wipe out the city as we know it, and no human will survive, it happens
every year and when it does, only the animals with wings survive" said
Javan. Sherbet barks and howls almost as if he knew what was going to
happen. " What's going to happen to us? wanders Derek. "Are we going to be
wiped out with every body else?". Mrs AppleFro and Derek exchange worried
looks. " But we need to..." Said Mrs AppleFro but being cut off with a loud
thump at the roof " THE CYCLONE HAS STARTED, QUICK, GET TO SAFETY"
screams Javan. Sherbet wails and cries. Derek screams and hides under Mrs
AppleFro's bed. I can tell you that it was hectic, very hectic indeed. Actually
hectic is an understatement. It was a CATASTROPHE!!! Sherbet was barking,
Javan was shouting safety instructions, Derek was screaming like a girl and
Mrs AppleFro was muttering something under her breath. Suddenly, the
little house gave a lurch and the whole household was shaking and Mrs
AppleFro's crystal ball fell off the table and when it hit the ground and
smashed into 10000 pieces and Mrs AppleFro gave a yelp. Her collection of
decorated teapots cabinet tipped over and all the contents smashed. By the
end of the smashing catastrophe, Derek looked out of the bed covers and
saw all the broken china. Mrs AppleFro was muttering Tick Tock Tick Tock
Tick Tock under her breath. "What is she saying?" Asked Jevon sounding very
worried. "No, she hasn't because I met her about... 5 hours ago or something
close to that time." Said Derek. "Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock"
Chapter 5 Tick Tock
The cyclone was getting huge now and it was destroying the city. “We need
to leave Narby” said Derek. Mrs AppleFro said “tick tock tick tock.” Then
she ran out of the house. “I want to go for a quick swim” she said. She got
pulled in by Derek. “We aren't at the beach anymore you stupid women”
said Derek. “Why do you keep saying tick tock you crazy lady?” They played
a game of Scrabble to try and find out what she was saying. She kept making
the words tick tock. “Are these even word in Scrabble?” Asked Derek. She
just changed the words to tock tick. She had started saying “tick tock” even
faster now and she wouldn't stop saying it. Derek said “it's alright, lady. Why
do you keep saying that?” They played other mind games but it didn't help.
Mrs AppleFro wouldn't calm down. The cyclone was getting stronger but Mrs
AppleFro kept saying “tick tock.” Mrs AppleFro went outside.
Chapter 6
Mrs. AppleFro points to a large clock on top of a huge old looking tower.It
was so tall they couldn't
see the top of it."How do we get up there."Derek said?"Climb on my
back"said Javan and they flew to the clock ,it took a long time but they
finally got there."Now we have to climb onto the hands of the clock and
turn them"said Mrs. AppleFro.Just then a huge spider came out of nowhere.
It was about 6 metres tall and had huge fangs and giant legs.Derek didn't
care he just threw it away."So how do we get up there"said Javan, "we can't
fly up because my wings hurt"We will have to climb it then"said Derek"and
that will be hard so it will take a while. They started climbing, it felt like
forever but it was only five minutes. Mrs AppleFro walked around and she
said “tick tock.” She tried to get somewhere but Derek didn't know where.
She kept opening doors and they were all locked. Nobody knew why she was
doing that.Then Derek noticed what she was trying to do she was trying to
go back in time.
Mrs. AppleFro of GoogaBerry is the most wild science teacher
ever, her swimming drives the lifeguard Derek insane and
her class naps drive her students insane to. Her science
teaching is the thing that keeps her from the beach, but
when the school holidays start Derek's in for a long 2 months.
As soon as the holidays have started Mrs. AppleFro already
hits trouble, but when she's sunbathing and she almost
buried alive by a sand dune, Mrs. AppleFro can't stop
thinking about a cyclone, Derek takes her home but on his
way out, he's not where he was before, something strange is
going on. The smallest thing will be the biggest.