The Muffin or the Mustang
Uploaded by baller 24 on Nov 20, 2007
The Muffin or the Mustang
It was a normal Saturday morning. Kevin was lying quietly on his bed working on his homework from his Advanced Senior English Class. As he was thinking he took a bite out of his blueberry muffin. Right then he heard a knock at the door. He raced down to the door, and when he opened it, all he found was a note that read: “Meet me at the peak if you want to see it again. From Joe.” As Kevin finished, he heard a loud bang upstairs. He sprinted up to his room to find his window open. As he looked out of it, he saw Joe speeding away in his ’69 Mustang. On his way out he grabbed his coat and tried to grab his muffin, but it was gone!
He got in his mom’s minivan and drove up to the peak. While driving he contemplated why Joe would be doing this to him. Then it clicked. The next week Kevin was taking Karen to the Homecoming Dance, and Joe has been obsessed with Karen since first grade. As he pulled up to the peak and got out of his van, he saw Joe standing next to his Mustang at the top of a tall hill which led to a gigantic cliff. Kevin immediately noticed that the only thing keeping his car from hurling off the cliff, was a decent sized rock underneath one of the front tires. He also noticed that strapped to the hood was a little whitish ball. As he moved closer he realized that the lump was his muffin!
“Don’t come any closer, or else,” yelled Joe.
“Give it to me, jerk,” exclaimed Kevin.
“Only if you promise to cancel your date with Karen, and never ask her on one again.”
“You wish. I’m not going to, so give it back to me and stop being dumb.”
“Only if you do what I told you to.”
“You have five seconds before I come take it,” remarked Kevin impatiently.
“Not going to happen.”
“Fine here I come!”
Kevin started sprinting toward Joe and the car, but as soon as he got within ten yards Joe kicked the rock out from under the tire! The car was now speeding down the hill! Kevin knew he had to think fast, and he kept running at it. As he was almost to it, he realized that he could still save it and stop it from...