Another book. Ugh! School STINKS! My teacher, Mrs. K., has always given my class triple the amount of schoolwork than any other class, especially when it comes to reading textbooks. I HATE her! I just wish I could go inside a book and die. My life is TERRIBLE!
I slumped down in the brown chair seated at a library table.
“Where to start…” I whispered to myself, glumly. I fidgeted with the plastic zipper on my coat pocket.
“May I help you?” A middle aged woman in a purple dress smiled down at me. I was mesmerized by her bouncy golden curls. Her smile was warm, and it made me feel like I had just eaten my mom’s famous chocolate chip cookies straight out of the oven!
“Uh-u-uh,” I stammered. Her gaze burned into me- Her features, the wonderful smile, the pretty features. I sighed a big breath as the smell of roses filled my nose.
Snap out of it, I thought to myself.
“Ummmmm. Well… I was just hoping to find a book on pyramids and Ancient Egypt. Can you help me find one?”
“Ahhhh. Yes! We have a whole section on Ancient Egypt! Fun! I have a book in right now called Treasure of Egyptian Mythology and Voices Of Ancient Egypt! I have some more available over this way as well!” She lead me over to a bookshelf labeled Egypt.
I rolled my finger over the bindings looking for a book that I could use, but I wasn’t entirely focused on finding one. Her scent was just so fascinating! Roses, happiness, warm chocolate chip cookies! I was going into a trance.
“And I shall leave you to find what you would like!” she smiled.
There was something weird about her though. She was too perfect. I didn’t like that.
I realized that I was still in the library and not in a fantasy world of my dreams. I picked up Voices Of Ancient Egypt and flipped through the pages.
“This seems okay….” I sat down at the table I had previously been seated at. I flipped to a random page.
Inside the pyramids, the center contained the pharaoh. The pharaoh was placed inside a sarcophagus and…….
“Hello, Jessica.”
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!” I screamed. The book flew out of my hands and hit the floor with a loud WHACK!
“No need to be frightened,” The sound was coming from the book, lying with one page bent on the floor. I was breathing heavily.
“WHAT IN THE NAME OF- Oh, it’s you. Ummmmmm… Are you okay?” The librarian had come back over. Immediately, all the fear inside my body left me.
“Oh, uh ye... yea, yeah, I’m fine,” I said, struggling to make myself sit straight. Why had the book been talking? What was happening to me? I felt like I was in a dream.
The beautiful librarian walked back to her desk, the bottom of her dress swaying with her hips. I watched as she sat down and started reading a magazine.
I opened the book again. This time there wasn’t a voice. Something even worse happened. I felt wind brushing against my face, I was falling endlessly. I landed with a hard thump on the ground. I looked around, there were pyramids everywhere. The pyramid for King Tut was right in front of my face. I looked around, everything was an orange glow around me, the sun was blinding. It looked exactly like the picture in the book that I had been reading that was when I realized I got sucked into the book.
To Be Continued….