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Potato: A Fictional Narrative

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“Stay put and do your homework!” Tobys math teacher Mrs. Murt yells at him before slamming the door shut. Toby sits in a desk sluggishly and takes out some work. After a while Toby checks the clock. “It’s only been 10 minutes!?!” toby sighed placing his head on the desk and slowly drifting to sleep. He woke up when something hit his head “hey!” he yells looking at the small jelly bean that hit him. “What the…..?” he looks up and sees a rainbow? He slowly walks towards it “Am I still dreaming?” he thought to himself. He decided to climb the rainbow to see where it led to. When he finally reached to top he saw that he was surrounded by……..potatoes?!? He gets up and walks around confused on how this is happening. He walks until he sees a pink potato. He looks at it closely and sees it has a face. “Hello human!” the potato said excitedly “uh….hello?” Toby says confused “What are you?” Toby questions the small potato “I am a magical potato” the potato says clearly proud of …show more content…

Toby steps back trying his best not to get crushed by the quickly growing potato. “HEY BE CAREFUL!” Toby shouts as the pink potato starts rolling towards him. “Wee!” the potato yells as it chases the running boy. Toby keeps running till he sees the rainbow that led him here. He turns his head back and sees the potato close behind. He sprints to the rainbow and quickly climbs down it. When he reaches his classroom he looks up to see the potato rolling down the rainbow picking up speed. Toby hides under a desk waiting for the impact. Suddenly Toby is startled out of his sleep by Mrs. Murt slamming a stack of books on Toby’s desk. “Sleeping is not aloud in class Mr. Rogers” Mrs. Murt says bitterly. Toby with his heart pounding lets out a shaky yet relieved breath “It was only a dream”. Mrs. Murt walks off with her nose sticking up. Thrilled to be back in his class he quickly finishes his homework, only to find a small jelly bean on the corner of his

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