Melanie and the Evil Vacuum: by Miriam

     At first it was all normal, Melanie was just cleaning her room. Laundry in the hamper, papers in the bin, clothes in the closet. Just ordinary messes being cleaned up ordinarily. Once she decided it looked good enough, clean enough, she went away. Melanie went to eat and play her instruments. Everything was normal, perfectly fine. Until that night.

  As she put her head on her pillow, something felt…off. The nightlight was not plugged in. 

“Huh,” She said to herself, “ I checked that this was plugged in before I went to brush my teeth. Ronnie must have plugged in the fairy lights while she was reading.” Melanie plugged it back into the wall and hurried back to bed. But she still couldn’t sleep. She had that weird feeling of someone watching her. She peered over the side of the bed and could not believe her eyes.

There was a glowing, green, evil looking, sinister portal.

She watched in extreme trepidation, her hands trembling, her forehead wet and cold. And then… 

Something popped out. She couldn’t quite see what it was, but to her, it looked like a small toy vacuum. It started to make a quiet sucking sound, and it vacuumed up the portal. She could see it clearly, now that it was glowing. The vacuum slid out from under her bed and started glowing even more and, POOF!!! There were a ton of green dust particles, so Melanie was partially blinded. Before she could start waving the dust out of her face she heard a very loud sucking noise, and then, she saw the largest vacuum she had ever seen.

“HOW DARE YOU NOT USE ME TO CLEAN UP YOUR ROOM!!!!!” It boomed. 

Melanie remembered that she did not vacuum her room when she finished cleaning it. Then she said,

 “Um, mister Vacuum, I was not trying to not use you, I just forgot to vacuum.

“THAT’S WHAT EVERYBODY SAYS.’’ The vacuum said in a small, sad voice.

Melanie suddenly felt bad for the vacuum. Then she came up with an idea. 

“Hey mister Vacuum, I have an idea! If I vacuum right now, will you let me sleep and go back to your realm? I will need you to shrink down to my size though,”

The vacuum straightened his nozzle and immediately felt happier. “YOU WILL VACUUM WITH ME?!!”

The vacuum shrank and zoomed into Melanie's hand. After everything was clean and vacuumed, the vacuum blew everything out of his nozzle and it created a portal like the one under her bed, but this time, Melanie was not afraid. She was happy. She had helped a sad vacuum feel needed. As the joyous vacuum slid into the portal, Melanie slid back into bed. She could finally sleep. 

WARNING!

¡ADVERTENCIA!

ATTENTION!

Do not dump all the contents out of your vacuum out, it will not create a portal to a vacuum realm, it will create a big mess and grumpy parents