Leepike Ridge
By: Alyssa Gerritsma
Tom and his mom Elizabeth live in a house on top of the ridge. No one knows exactly how Tom’s dad died but they think that he died in an explosion in a plane crash. Elizabeth is in love with Jeffrey and Tom does not like Jeffrey at all.
Tom and his mom got a new refrigerator that came in a big piece of packing foam. Tom kicked the foam down the hill and it tumbled down by the river. Tom’s mom told him to go find it so a duck would not choke on it. So Tom went down the hill and found the piece of foam. He kicked it again it fell in the river and it floated. Tom was curious he carefully put one foot on the foam, it still floated. Tom put both feet on the foam, it still floated. Tom slid his whole body onto the foam. His body gently swayed on the foam. Tom started to relax, as he did the sky got pink and orange and the light started to fade away. The first stars started to shine faintly. Tom floated down the river below the stars.
When tom woke up he was cold. The foam was going faster. Waves were licking at his feet! Tom sat up immediately and the water poured in from the sides, he layed down again shivering and sitting in a pool of water. Tom saw a hole water was being sucked into. His raft got pulled into the hole and rock was scraping him. When he was conscious again he found himself on a dark cold beach. Tom found a dead man and he used his headlamp and ate his sardines. Tom also found a dog. Later he fell down a waterfall and got caught in a net. He found Reg and that the dog he found was Argus, Reg’s dog. Reg showed Tom his fathers grave and that the treasure hunters killed him. Phill had killed Tom’s father and almost killed Reg. Phil was pretending to be kind to Elizabeth.
Tom and Reg found a way out of the caves. They found statues and a sarcophagus. Elizabeth’s bed opened up and Tom and Reg came out. Reg killed Phill by shooting him with a gun.