Writing Projects ~ Fiction Stories

Rolly's Race

“Rolly rolls across the bunny loop, crossing the finish line and…. she won!” shouted the deer with the microphone.
“There’s my Rolly,” said Ms. Roger, Rolly’s mom, with a big smile.
“I heard you won the big race,” said Dad.
“Yes,” said Rolly. Then she explained how she had dodged leaves that were falling down off trees to win the race. Then, how she had stood up talking with the microphone in front of the animals watching the race.
After she told everything about her day, her dad offered her a wonderful surprise. “So, what do you want to do this week, my little racer?” her dad said with a big smile. “Anything you want, it’s yours for this one week.”
“I want to go to Bug’s Donuts,” Rolly whispered to her parents. She felt a bit embarrassed because that was where you ate junk food, but it was every one’s favorite place.

When they got there it was very full.
“Look at all these animals. It’s as if we were at the fly-market,” shouted Rolly. “Look at all these different types of donuts I could eat! I want that one,” she said pointing to the biggest one. After finishing the first one in just one bite, she wanted more. Within 10 minutes she had eaten a total of 33 donuts!

One whole, wonderful week passed. Every day Rolly’s proud dad took his little racer to Bug’s Donuts to celebrate. On the last day of the week Rolly woke up to the rain pounding on the ground above her. She woke up quickly, very excited to see herself -the great racer - in a puddle mirror.
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,” she suddenly screamed so that all the animals in the valley could hear. Rolly was so surprised she fainted. When she woke up again several hours later she was in the medical help center.

“What happened?” asked Rolly, trying to remember.
You fainted!” cried her father.
Rolly was still thinking hard to remember what happened. Then she remembered the vision she saw in the puddle. “Oh!”
‘I’m afraid you have gotten overweight,” cried her father.
“Oh well, that doesn’t matter, so long as I can walk,” said Rolly as she got up. “Nooooooo!” She fainted again.

When Rolly woke up, her parents took her back to their habitat where her friends tried to help her. They brought her healthy food, her favorite toys and new leaves for her bed. They even tried to take her to the gym. But it didn’t work: she couldn’t move, roll or run. She was too fat to do anything.
The whole valley heard through the leaf-news that Rolly the racing champion was too overweight to even walk. They rushed to help her loose weight, but she was getting fatter and fatter by the week.

What they didn’t know was that Rolly could still crawl just a little. When no one was looking she was sneaking out to go to the Bug Donuts, next door - she was addicted.

Rolly’s parents were worried, why wasn’t she loosing weight when so many people were helping her? They decided to hire a snail spy.
Every night the snail stayed in front of Rolly’s door. He would slowly put his antennae up to the window. Then, whenever Rolly looked at the window he would quickly retreat into his shell.

One night as he was napping in the cold he heard foot steps outside his shell. He woke up quickly and peeked out of his shell. He saw Rolly crawling slowly into the Bugs Donut store. “So that’s why she isn’t loosing weight!” he thought to himself.

The next morning, Rolly’s parents had a serious talk with Rolly and grounded her for a whole week. However, she still sneaked out to the store next door when they weren’t looking. Finally, her parents decided to move away from downtown to where there were no stores.

One morning, several weeks later, Rolly woke up to go get a drink of water. She didn’t even realize she was walking normally again until she opened her eyes, as if she was barely a baby.
“ Thank you, thank you, thank you! Mom! Dad! I can walk again!!”
“ That’s wonderful news!” exclaimed Rolly’s mom. “I heard on the leaf-news that there is a big race tomorrow. You better hurry up and practice if you want to join!”
“ Thanks Mom!” shouted Rolly with excitement.
The next morning Rolly was really nervous. As she walked to the starting line there were lots of boys laughing at her. She tried to ignore them, but it was hard.

It was 1:55pm; she did a few stretches. It was 1:58pm, she wished the boys would stop laughing. It was 1:59pm with 30 seconds to go and the boys were still laughing.
“ All racers ready! Ready, set… roll!!”
Going up the mountain was hard. Rolly wasn’t doing very well. She keep getting farther and farther behind the others. She started to walk. “I will not give up,” she thought to herself.

When she got to the top of the mountain, she began to roll her way down. She couldn’t believe it! She was going ten times faster than before. Her extra weight was helping her roll faster than ever.

She quickly caught up to the boys. “See ya at the finish line!” she shouted as she rushed past. Down the zip-zag path she rolled. She was ahead of everyone now. Then, crashing across the finish-line she….WON!