Emojis on the Loose E-Book

Simone Johnson

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 41

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

Emely`s mobile gets left behind in the forest. This was, of course, everyone else`s fault, and not hers. So that means a new (and much better) smartphone had better be waiting for her on her birthday! Not a bad outcome really, thought the 10-year-old wannabe teenager. But her old emojis were not nearly so impressed. Things started off OK, with a lucky escape from the abandoned mobile, but then the problems just came thick and fast. Some of them could be blamed on the forest, but others were entirely homemade. Only one goal could unite the squabbling emojis - the grand plan to confront their girl face to face - an encounter that the first guest of state of the Free Emoji Republic would never, ever forget!

Leseprobe

OK, better get started then….

It must have been around 2020, not that that interested Emely much. In fact, Emely couldn’t really care less about all sorts of things. That was important. How else do you get to be a teenager…. at ten and a half.

: Wow, that’s gonna be a best seller…. not!

No wonder everyone needed us emojis back then, if they couldn’t manage to write anything better than that!

Yes, yes, yeees. I know. I should never have taught my emojis to be sarcastic. Gone straight to your heads, hasn`t it. Look, give me a chance. That’s just the start of the story, OK? The story itself hasn’t even finished yet. So…..

But one thing certainly did matter to Emely rather a lot. As soon as things started to turn boring it was time for radical action. Nothing off limits!

Take cover everyone!Here comes the meanest girl in the West..

Hey, can’t you lot just shut up for a minute. I can write this story perfectly well without you. In fact, I don’t have to write it at all. I can put on my MindCap and upthink it, like everyone else these days. And take this mobile phone thing to the nearest museum, where it belongs. It’s 2048, you know. Emojis are facing extinction, and not a save-the-emoji protester in sight, OK! So, let’s start again, with a proper subtitle….

And so, Emely would never again be quite sure what all the things are that cannot be.

Table of Contents

Emely

Alone in the forest

Emely and no emojis

The Red Thing

And what about Emely?

Emojis on the Loose – Part 2

The Year 2052.

Emely

Whenever things started to get boring, Emely thought up ways to save the world. Some grand plan that would make everything better. OK, you can’t expect a medium-sized girl to save, like, the whole planet all at once. But a couple of smart ideas could most certainly make her bit of the world a whole lot better. She had proved this many times. Particularly on those pointless family walks through the forest…. mind-bogglingly boring was an understatement.

And just like that, one fine autumn morning, a great, roaring mammoth of an idea just popped into her head.

Well, maybe not quite a mammoth, but certainly a larger than average, hairy mammal. I mean, who wouldn’t want to be a Tik-Tok millionaire, and it can’t really be that hard. Some girl uploads some dumb video, millions of even dumber girls click on it. I can do that. Why not? Well, OK, I’m not on Tik-Tok yet. And dancing? Bad idea. That Fortnite thing, and that’s about it. Singing?

Worse idea. No one is allowed to hear me sing. Not getting very far here. Grrrrrrrr. But wait. I’ve got it. Free cartwheels. That’s what every smart girl dreams of, isn’t it? And that must work too… millions of smart girls, I know at least two, so there must be millions of them out there somewhere on this planet.

So, free cartwheel it is. I can do that…. a bit. But it’ll need to look cool. Film it from the ground, looking up. No frantic run-up, just from the spot, right over the mobile, tops of the trees, clouds, blue sky in the background. Yes! This is gonna be big…… VERY BIG!

Emely threw her mobile down onto the leafy forest floor. Better try it out a couple of times first. She’s going to need a short run-up, just not some mad sprint from miles away like little boys do when they get to take a penalty.

Just don’t step on the mobile, and most certainly don’t land on it. After all, it can’t be that easy, or some girl would have done it long ago. Emely turned and walked a few steps away, shutting her eyes in deep concentration.

Kaarhruummf……… (short pause)….. Waaaaah. Not far away Liam is lying on the ground looking rather crumpled. Obviously just fell off that oak branch above. Mum and Dad rush to the scene. Probably twisted his ankle again, or maybe, just for a change, a broken finger? Or why not both? Whatever, he’s certainly having a good wail about it, like always. What on earth is the point of little brothers anyway? Emely had no idea. So, off to the hospital again. Just what I don’t need today. And do you think anyone carries me back to the car when I’ve hurt myself? No chance. Just cos I don`t cry like a toddler. I just hope Lana’s home, then at least I don’t get dragged along into town with the baby.

Thankfully, she’s there. And, of course she can do a free cartwheel too. Let’s do it together, syn