THE BLUE BOTTLE

One night, Millie was up late reading in bed. She finished the book she was reading (The Story of Ferdinand) and looked over to her shelves to see what else she might read before she went to bed. Right there on her shelf was something she had never seen before. It was a blue bottle. The blue bottle was about as tall as a small book, had a round bottom, and a thin neck. And while the bottle looked as if it were made out of glass, Millie could not see through it. Millie got out of bed and went over to the bottle. She picked it up, carefully, afraid that it might break. She was surprised at just how heavy it was. Certainly heavier than any other bottle this size she had ever before lifted.
She looked down into the bottle, but it was too dark inside to see anything. So she shook it. She heard a rattling sound. There was something inside! She turned the bottle upside down and shook it again, to see if anything would fall out. Something almost fell out and then it didn't. Whatever was inside was now stuck in the bottle's neck. Millie shook harder and harder. Finally, something small fell onto the floor. It was a letter from a stranger.

The letter said, ”Dear Sir/Madam, if you read this, it is because you have found this bottle; be careful! Maybe you are not going to believe this, but this bottle is magic! I called it the ``Black hole bottle´´ because it can absorb anything. Destroy the bottle, or it will absorb you!
Then Millie started getting nervous, thinking “It´s real or it isn't´? I don't really want to know it, it's better if I destroy it”.
But Millie realised it was too late to do that, and, suddenly, the bottle started vibrating on the floor, and inside it a tornado was formed ! The tornado trapped Millie, and she was introduced into the bottle.

Alejandro

When that happened, Millie appeared in a world parallel to hers. All her family, friends and people she knew were there, but no one recognized her. She started to get nervous and didn't know what to do. So, she went to a quiet place and began to think about what she could do to return to the real world, until suddenly something appeared …
It was a giant spider that was looking at her!

Ana María

The spider kept shouting “What are you doing here, you Millie!” She wondered, how does he know my name?. Suddenly the spider was next to Millie and they were in a house that she felt familiar with. Had she been there before? The house was full of clocks, they all showed the same time, except one, as they were getting closer the clock hands spinned faster and faster.

Nuria

What are you doing here, you Millie!

That spider was chasing her, so she started running as much as she could, but she didn't have the strength to keep running so she went somewhere that would serve as a hiding place. It worked! She distracted the spider and little by little she got farther away so she came out of her hiding place and the idea of calling with the cell phone she had in her pocket came to her mind. She called her mother and father but neither believed her, so she had the idea of staying there until they started thinking about where she might be. Later, when one week had passed and no one had called her or anything, she thought that she would never get out of there.

África

Millie felt lonely, no one had answered her calls or called her in weeks. He had been in that strange place for a long time and could not find a way to return to his reality. Millie stopped to think and remembered that house with clocks, she was so nervous because the spider was chasing her that she did not see if there could be any clue to be able to return to her world, she remembered that room with so suspicious clocks, it even had a very strange smell, similar to the smell that came out of the bottle when she uncapped it ...

Alba

Millie returned to that strange house, the spider was nowhere. Millie took the opportunity to run as fast as she could to get to that room with clocks. The room was exactly how it was when she left it, and that strange smell was still there. She saw that one clock didn’t have any hands; instead it had a big black hole, a keyhole. Millie inspected the hole, it was small. She always used to bring a key with her. Her grandmother had given her a necklace with a key and Millie always used to wear it around her neck. What if she introduced the key into the key hole? Millie did it...The hands of all the clocks began to spin. It was a matter of seconds, everything happened so fast! Millie closed her eyes and when she opened them again ... she had a girl in front of her.

-Oh, I am a normal girl AGAIN! Thanks for saving me!- Millie didn’t understand anything...
-Who are you?- Millie asked
-I’m that big spider! I found the blue bottle and came to this world. Now I can return back!
-But...What about me?
-You? Now you are the Spider Queen and you are stuck in this world. You're stuck until someone else finds the blue bottle; the blue bottle is cursed. Now I need to do the same as you did. It is the only way to return back to your world...However, thanks!
That strange girl disappeared. In a few minutes, Millie turned into a big spider ... He would have to wait for the next person that finds the blue bottle!

THE END

ALBA E