Joe Douglas Age 10
Surbiton NumberWorks’nWords

The Package

My name is Jackson Adams I am 16 years old and live in a dump have no money or so I say. “Jackson you should have been up 30 minutes ago!” cried my Mum.
“I’m coming I’m coming” I shouted back. Another rubbish day at school again. Mum says Marble High is the best choice for me because she went there but I hate it. Finally I make it out of the door. Now the streets are ruled by two gangs the Downs and Mcbar, the Downs rule the east and Mcbar rules the west. I have always gone by the Downs because Marble High is on the east. The rains starts and tiny little fists of water hit my face and just then a RMW (Rich Mans Wheels) pulled up along the curb I feel the hair on the back of my head start to prick up. “Jackson Adams stop right there my name is Alex Mcbar” said Mr Mcbar “H hello Mr Mcbar” I slowly said ” h how may I help”
“Ah so polite just as I remember I believe your very clever”
“Yeah”
“Well could you make some deliveries for me.”
My brain went mad I didn’t know what to say.
“Y yes sir” I said
“Very good- here is your first package just give it to this adress and but make sure no one sees you”

He shoved a package in my hands and left just like that. I had a lot on my mind Mcbar had gave me a package and worse he knew my name.

I waited till the dead of night to deliver the package and checked if Mum was asleep ( I only did it because I knew what Mcbar did to people who didn’t do what he said).l arrived just before 4:30 outside the hotel. It had been 3 weeks since Mcbar and I had our chat and I was really scared. The stairs went on and on so I had a rest. My short brown hair had been drenched in sweat there had to be atleast 1,000,000 steps. I decided to have a sneak peak but thought against it. When I got to room 173 .lt had to be about 5:30 so I had the sneak peak I put my hand down in the bag and pulled out the object it was tube no longer than a piece of A5 paper with 3 wires one red, one blue, one green and the give away a timer with 5 minutes on the clock.lt was a bomb. I dropped it and ran down the 30 flights of stairs and ran to the doors but they were locked so ran into the kitchen and ran to the fridge cleared out the contents and jumped inside and waited.

Waiting the worse part. Waiting to die. BOOM

“This is 4 news and a bomb has gone off at 5:35 killing everyone in the hotel.. “ the news
reporter was cut off
“Hey there is something moving over there” cried a fireman.
As a door opened from the rubble.
“It it its a kid”