Once upon a time there was a little boy who lived in Mexico with his mother and father, his name was Jake. All Jake ever wanted was a pet tortoise. He wished and he wished until, for his 6th birthday he got a baby tortoise. He named her Grace. For years and years the tortoise was kept in a very small cage for an 8 year old animal.
The tortoise on the other hand was getting bored, she wanted to explore! So one day when Jake was at school and his parents were at work the tortoise ventured out of the cage and downstairs away from Jake’s bedroom. She found the back door and went out the cat flap.
As soon as Grace got outside, a rush of bitterly cold air hit her face. Suddenly, Grace smelt the smell of pizza, it was coming from the big bins in the corner of the garden. So she walked excitedly towards the smell, when the small got stronger she found herself in the corner of the garden. The smell was coming from the big black bin that separated Jake’s garden and the neighbours garden. Then she saw a pile of cardboard boxes next to the black bin, like stairs. So she climbed the boxes and… fell into the bin!
The next day was Friday, bin collecting day. As the bin men threw Jake’s stinky black bin into the truck Grace began to worry. When the truck arrived at the dump the men emptied the truck into a pile ready to burn the next week.
Over the next three days, Grace was seen in the dump by rats and moles. She tried to make friends with them but all that happened was they ran away, shouting back at her ‘I will not make friends with such a slow creature like you!’ On the fourth day, some ants came to find food, they found Grace and invited her to their home. There was only one problem, Grace couldn’t fit into the ants holes! So the ants made a new hole just for Grace so they could live together.
Back at Jake’s house, he was so miserable about Grace till his mum got him a dog. He was thrilled! He forgot about Grace and so did his parents. As for Grace and the ants they lived safely in their holes. Every 5th of Novembers eve they came out of their holes and watched the dump men burn the trash together.
The End
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