Jacob the Great

Jacob saved up money from raking leaves in the Autumn, watering flowers in the Spring, then combined that with his birthday and left it all in a shoe box next to the abandoned guitar under his bed. Jacob packed decided whether to bring his metal detector or not. In the Summer, he waited for Saturday morning to go to astronaut camp. He waited for people to have their turn in the line so that he could feel lighter that air in an anti-gravity room. When he got to that front, a camp leader said that he wasn’t old enough and steam filled Jacob’s ears. Jacob set up a bet with a newly-found friend. The bet was that if Jacob could get into the anti-gravity room, then, until the end of camp, his friend would have to call him ‘Jacob the Great’.

In the middle of the night, Jacob retrieved the torch from under his pillow. He went to the anti-gravity room and found that the door wasn’t going to move from the wall. Jacob fled back to his tent and took the metal detector out of the box. Jacob found a key behind a ‘space plant’. Jacob went into the room and quickly realised that it was boring without any other kids to enjoy it with. Jacob locked the door as he left, crept back, hid the key, and woke up his friend. All Jacob heard was “Congratulations, Jacob the Great.”