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María José Ayala, Andrés Maynez
Trouble in Paradise
Many many years ago, in a faraway town, there lived a big white shark called Patrick, a bunny called Lauren and an owl called Pedro. Patrick was known as “the bad boy. He was never seen hanging with anybody, he had a weird spiky hairdo and there was a rumor that he killed other sea animals if he got mad. Needles to say that no one wanted to hang out with him, either because they were scared or because they didn’t want to be related to him.
Pedro was an incredibly lonely animal, even to animal standards, he never left his home and was known to be alone all the time. All of the animals in the land thought he was really weird, he only hung out with his family and he had the strange custom of sleeping all day and coming out at night. He made strange and annoying noises and they were heard all through town making people mad because he didn’t allowed them to sleep.
Lauren on the other hand was quite a social animal, she was really pretty, her tail was always fluffed. She had the biggest eyes and the pinkest mouth, all the other girl bunnies wanted to be like her and the boy bunnies wanted to date her, they always went to her house with carrots as a gift.
Basically Lauren, Pedro and Patrick were quite different from each other, sometimes they even badmouthed each other, and they knew that they would never ever get along. However one day, all things changed, and their perfect little world started to come apart.
Lauren was in her room listening to music when the earth started to shake. She had never felt anything like that before. She ran out of her house and saw that all the trees were falling apart, including hers. Lauren didn’t know what to do or where to go, suddenly, out of nowhere; she heard an annoying sound, a miraculous annoying sound. It was coming from above her, standing there, in a big old tree, was Pedro, and he seemed to be offering help. Pedro descended from his tree and helped Lauren get up to a branch with him. They realized that the shaking had ceased and so they waited till something happened.
On the meantime, they decide to distract themselves by talking and realized that they had many things in common, that they went to the same school, except she went in the mornings and he went at nights.
When they thought everything was finally calm and stable, they saw a huge tornado, approaching them, they looked around and saw a Shark waving at them. They didn’t know who he was but they approached him anyways and saw that it was Patrick. They wanted to run away but he told them he just wanted to help them. They trusted him and they sat on his back, as he swam and swam and swam until they arrived at an island, there was no one there, they stayed there and lived there. They were the only ones there so they became best friends, suddenly more animals started to arrive and learnt to live life as equals.
