Story Bird: The Crazy Tree

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~The Crazy Tree~

I was walking through the woods one day, bored out of my mind. With no friends to come over, I had to find something to do, so I decided to find a tree to climb.

 I found a tree in the distance. It was huge, and had long weird branches.

 I walked what felt like forever, when I finally reached the tree I started to climb. I climbed all the way to the top; the tree must have been like 100 feet tall.

Then, all of a sudden, the tree began to move. The branches were waving around like crazy arms. It seemed to be trying to knock me off, but that’s crazy I thought because trees can’t think.

 The trunk of the tree started moving like rocking back and forth, while the branches were freaking out. It was whomping. I was so scared, I was screaming like a crazy person, holding on for dear life.

I started to slip, I was falling, I fell from the tippity top of the 100 foot tall whomping, angry tree.

On my long way down I landed on a swinging branch and held on to that, once again for dear life.

 The tree whipped the branch I so desperately clanged to back and forth, up and down. Tirelessly the tree was trying to make me fall off to my death.

Then it just stopped, as quickly as it began it was over, or so it seemed. I relaxed, lying almost lifeless on the branch that had saved my life.

But then BAM!!!!

The tree gave one good shake and I was on the ground.

The wind was knocked out of me and I couldn’t breathe. The tree started to move back and forth. At first I just laid there watching in total amazement of what just happened.  This tree just tried to kill me.

My friends were never going to believe me! They would think I wa….. OH NO!!!!

The tree was taunting me? It was teasing me with the back and forth, I think, because it was coming down faster than my dad with a fly swatter. It was going to land right where I was laying.

I didn’t have time to get up and run, so I rolled as fast as I could. I got away just in time the tree was inches from my face as it crashed so hard on the ground it popped me off the ground for a split second.

I got up and ran, I ran so fast and so long. I didn’t stop until I was home. I got home went straight to my room climbed in bed and vowed to never again climb another tree as long as I live.