Children...

This is the first draft of the first part of the children's story.

"Sun-li was proud of her book bag. Other students had book bags that had cartoon characters on them. But not Sun-li.

She took school serious, and her book bag showed just how serious she was.
Her book bag had pockets and compartments and organizers out the wazoo. It had not one, but THREE, separate sections. It even had a snazzy pencil case attached to it. Her book bag was professional.

It was just like the ones the high-school kids had.

One afternoon Sun-li was finishing her homework, as she did everyday, when the other kids were playing in the playground across the street. Among her piles of textbooks and composition notebooks, Sun-li was comfortable. She was happy. She looked out her window at the playground, full of children laughing. She didn’t need them.

Why would she need a see-saw, when she had a ruler? A ruler does more anyways. You can measure with a ruler, you can draw straight lines with a ruler. All a see-saw does is make you go up and down and get sick from going up and down. Where’s the fun in that?

Her mom appeared in the doorway to her room.

“Are you sure you wouldn’t like to go outside? It’s such a nice day, and you’ll have lots of time to finish your homework later,” said the mom to her daughter.

“Why would I want to go out there? I’m happy here,” said the girl, pulling her books towards her.

The mother sighed and left.

Sun-li sighed too, and placed her homework in her bag. But she didn’t see the pair of glittering eyes peering out from the darkness of her book bag.

The next day at school her teacher began to collect the homework as the children lined up to go to recess. Sun-li reached into her book bag and where her homework always was, there was nothing. “I must have left it on my desk at home. Sorry Mrs. Jackson,” said Sun-li."