26 September 2012
My name is Amanda whoplimg and this is my story about the weirdest week and a half of my life, I'm only fourteen years old but I don't think I will ever have another experience like this in fact I don't think many people at all will ever have an experience like this...
It all started last Monday, I've never liked Mondays, I don't think anyone does. But this Monday was the worst of them all I was just walking to school, like I do everyday when I tried to move my fingers but I couldn't so I pulled my hands out of my pockets but my fingers weren't there, it was just the palms of my hands. I started to scream of shock but quickly stopped after causing a lot of attention, everyone was crowded around me wanting to know what was wrong and as soon as a new person would see my hands they would scream "alright, alright enough" I yelled through all the people "I have to go home". I had an escort home by everyone, when I got home I thanked everyone who helped me and ran inside, when I showed my parents, my dads eyes just widened and his jaw dropped while my mum squinted her eyes and scrunched up pursed her lips to make them look a bit like a cats bottom "what happened?" mum asked me, obviously trying not to freak out. I told them what happened. "What do think I should do?" I asked "let's take you to the hospital" was their idea but I have Nosocomephobia its a fear of h h-hospitals., I don't know why but every time I see one or anyone mentions anything about a hospital then I just freak out. So I came up with a different idea, I went to go see Lenny, Lenny's my friend who always knows what to do. Unfortunately he was at school and there was still another 4 hours to go. I'm very impatient, so I ran in and told the teacher I needed Lenny's help, but the teacher was very dubious and didn't want Lenny to go so I showed them my fingers and almost all the girls in the class screamed, so did Jimmy but he's pretty much a girl anyway, after that the teacher was happy for Lenny to go and wanted to know if she could help in anyway, but I said "no thanks, Lenny will know what to do" and left. I told Lenny what happened and asked him if he might know where my fingers were but he just shrugged and said "I think I'll go home and study it, I'll tell you what I find in the morning" the he walked out the door and left. Lenny is an odd one, out of all the kids in the school my first friend was Lenny, which is fine because he can help me with all my problems and his super nice but sometimes I wish I could just have some normal friends, but I guess it wouldn't be as fun. The rest of my day was easy everyone was fussing over me do much that I didn't need to do anything, the whole no finger thing was working out alright, I could get very used to it. Tuesday morning, Lenny called me early and told me that he still wasn't sure what happened and said that I should stay put for the day which was easy considering I couldn't do anything anyway. The only problem about staying home was that I had mum nagging me to go to the hospital all day but after a few panicking moments I just blocked it from my mind. That night Lenny called me and asked if I could meet him at 9:00am the next morning at the park. So that's what I did Wednesday morning. Lenny was still very confused about what had happened but seemed to have an idea weather it was right or not was irrelevant, because I was sure it would be better than my idea that a little fairy came and stole them. Lenny's idea was this "on Monday" he said " ah, when your fingers fell off I think that, ummm, well the truth is I have no idea what happened" "what?" I was shocked Lenny had never not had an idea before "surely you have an idea" still shocked from what he'd said "nope, no idea" he replied "Orwell, I guess your are just a human being right there's not much we can do" So we left there and went our separate ways. That's where I found Holly, Holly is a girl in my year, I don't talk to her much because my friends find her way too weird but I like her. Unlike everyone else she said "wow, how did that happen?" instead of screaming, I said I don't know And told her the story "well I'm sure Lenny will be able to help you" holly said in a confident voice " in fact I would of thought you would have talk to him by now" "I have" I replied " but he didn't know what to do, he'd only just left when I saw you. Do know what could of happened?" I asked her "umm, I think, they ran away to go and have a holiday in Bali and that that's where we should look" she laughed " well, that's the best answer I've had so far, in fact it's the only answer but it's a pretty good one anyway" I laughed back " I have to go now" she said " I've got a hand yoga class, cya, I'll tell you if I find one!" " ok, bye" I yell back at her as she runs off I saw her the next day, which was a Thursday and I saw Holly at the park when I looked at her hands I realised that she had 11 fingers instead of 10 "HOLLY, you've found one of my fingers" I steamed with glee "no I didn't" she replied "What?" "it found me" "What?" I asked again "When I woke up this morning and when I look at my hand I had 6 fingers at first it didn't worry me but then I realised that it's not that normal to have 6 fingers so then I realised that one of them must be yours" she said all this very fast so it was hard to understand all of it "thats great" I said " do you think you could put it on my hand?" "sure" she replied, then she pulled off her finger and put it on my hand but nothing happened it didn't even stick "try the other hand" I said. So she did and a little puff of smoke came out where my finger joined to my left hand. "yay" holly screamed "although it would have been better if I found a different finger first" Holly was right, it would have been better because now it looks like I'm giving everyone the rude finger "yeah" I replied "probably. I should go home and tell my parents" I told her "ok " she said "wait, Holly, did you find this finger at your house?" I asked "yes" "do you think there could be more fingers there?" "I don't know I'll see" "Thanks, cya" "toodles"
When I got home I showed my parents my finger they were shocked and pleased but mum said she wished it was a different finger I found first. So anyway the journey continued, some reporters even came to my house and wrote story on me, it was on the news the next day - they told everyone to look for loose fingers and if they found any of them to call a special number which they put on the screen. We got two calls almost straight after it was on the news, the first call was from a guy who plays basketball at my school - he said he found my left thumb, that one was easy to get back because he lives just around the corner. But the the second person who called said that she found my right index finger in Bali relaxing on her seat, she told me that she would mail it to me. After that I called Holly to tell her that her prediction that my fingers had ran away to Bali was right, kinda. On Saturday 4 more calls were made telling me about my fingers one was from Sydney, Australia another from Helsinki, Finland the third in my backyard (my mum found that one) And the forth in Rio, Brazil. So Saturday afternoon I had my left middle finger, thumb and pinkie (it still looked like I was sticking up my ride finger though) plus my right index finger so things weren't going too bad. I new were four other fingers were and they would probably be here by Monday. While I was wondering where my other 2 fingers could be there was a knock on the door, it was Lenny "hi" I said "come with me" So I followed him and he took me to the Zoo, when I asked him why we were at the zoo he didn't say anything until way came to the hippopotamus' "there's one in there" he said and pointed at the hippo "What in side him?" I asked "no in it's teeth" he cringed "How did you spot that?" "I was at the zoo with my parents this morning and I spotted it" "Thanks" I replied "but how will we get it?" "don't worry I've already sorted it out" he told me Just then a team of zoo keepers came in two of them had guns three didn't I yelled at them not to shot it but Lenny told me it was just a knockout gun and I felt really stupid They asked me if I wanted to came down there with them I said no but Lenny convinced me too. It was really scary down there we had to put on these gloves and a suit, sure it was only to get a finger out of its mouth it was still so intense after they got it out they all pretended not to be interested in my other fingers but I knew that they wanted to see how they stuck back on again so I made sure they were looking when I put it on my hand they all looked quite shocked when the sparkles and stuff came out of my hand. So then I only needed to find one more and wait till the others arrived and then this whole thing would be over without even having to go to the h h-hospital once. The next three days my fingers were slowly arriving from around the world and by Tuesday night I had nine fingers on my hand although the phone call that came next was definitely the worst phone call I had all year, it was from the h h-hospital saying that they found my finger - that was great news dont get me wrong, but the fact that it was at the h-hospital was terrifying whats more was that they weren't allowed to give it to my parents I had to be there too because apparently people have been coming in saying it belonged to them (they wanted it for scientific reasons or something), SO I HAD TO GO TOO. I got in the car and we drove to the h-hospital when we got there I didn't even want to get out, but unfortunately if I wanted my finger back I would have to go inside so I did I had to close my eyes and block my ears though - I got my mum to guide my through. When I got my last finger after answering a few questions and showing the nurse my hands I slightly opened my eyes thanked her and ran out as fast as I could, mum said i
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