It was Friday
afternoon, another day of me being on lockdown with my family. I am getting
really fed up at this stage. I am missing all my friends terribly and I miss
school so much. And I hate seeing my Mum go into work and having her deal with
the whole situation in the hospital, but she is saving the world. It is a
terrible thing this Covid-19 (coronavirus). I haven’t seen my Granny’s,
Grandad, Cousins, Auntie’s, Uncles, Friends, BFF Ella in WEEKS. I miss them all so much. I just can’t wait to be able to see
them all once again. I really want to go back to school because it is my last
year in primary school and if I don’t go back to school I will never see any of
my friends ever again. My confirmation has been cancelled as well.
Anyway it was Friday
afternoon and my Mum was getting ready to go into work once again. She always
said she wished she could do something more to help the sick people. But I
always tell her that she is doing everything she can and that she is doing an
amazing job.
That night when my Mum
went into work she saw some people in the hospital in the lab trying to find a
cure to the Covid-19 problem. They looked extremely stressed and overwhelmed
she told me. She walked past them because her boss was telling her to get to
work. Her boss was horrible. Her name was Acantha, name of Greek origin meaning
“thorn, pickle”.
All night long while
she was working she kept thinking about the lab, and how maybe she could
possibly help.
Before she became a nurse she went on to
do this chemical course about all these different types of strange and exotic
chemicals. She remembered a few of them but one particular one stood out from
all the rest. Nobody had ever used it. It was form an exotic plant deep down in
the bottom of the Amazon rainforest. It had a label on that said
EXTREME DANGER
When
my mum was getting ready to leave work she walked past the lab once more. All the
people in the lab had left. My mum snook in as quit as she could be. She went
in and tried looking for the ‘Extreme Danger’ one but couldn’t find it
anywhere. Just as she was about to leave something caught the very corner of
her eye. It was the big label over the bottle of ‘Extreme Danger’. It was meant
to cure the worst sicknesses in the world but you had to mix it with something
that my Mum couldn’t remember. The bottle was in a big glass container. All
night long she tried and tried to find the thing that you had to mix it with.
Then it came to her mind. It was just one simple drop of water and there she
had it... the cure to the coronavirus (hopefully).
She brought it to the health inspector and he
did a few tests with it to see if it was ok and after about a week or 2 he
tested it on a person who had covid-19 who was about to die. Once he gave him
the medicine he fell asleep. Everyone was very scared but after about an hour
of good sleep he woke up and the covid-19 was gone. In fact he said he never
felt better and that he was extremely grateful. My Mum was a super hero even
though she didn’t wear a cape, after all not all superheroes wear capes!
The
end.
By
Beth Brady.
