Fiction: Group 3
Meili gasped as she lunged out of the water heart beating. She rummaged through her bag and soon found
what she was looking for, the medicine her grandma had given her to give to Meixi. She also found Amber
snuggled up in her coat but Inez was nowhere to be seen. “Inez?” Meili called out “Where are you?”
Suddenly a head popped out of the water “Inez!” Meili helped Inez get onto land
“Look!”
Inez was pointing out to a huge dark figure sinking into the sea. “That must be the ship and all its
cargo!”
“Oh no! Those poor souls” Meili uttered.
“Well we have to get going, we should try and find a place to stay before sundown.” Inez suggested
“Yeah good point” Meili said
They turned away from the wooden shipwreck and found a path which they followed with amber on their
heels.
“Hey look!” Meili pointed to a sign that said ‘Qing Li's Guesthouse’
They walked through the doors and a receptionist greeted them
“Hello, how may I help you?” The receptionist asked.
“We were wondering if you had any more rooms left.” Inez questioned.
“I’m sorry but everything’s been booked out because of the Guangdong annual parade!” The receptionist
informed Meili and Inez
“The Guangdong parade? Well could we please sleep on the sofas or something?” Meili asked and the
receptionist replied back with an eyebrow raise.
“Okay…” The receptionist said.
Inez opened up her backpack and took out some fish and gave it to amber. Then they laid down and as
soon as their head hit the pillow they were in a sound sleep
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Meili was woken up by loud Chinese drumming and cheering.
Looks like the parade has started
Meili
thought
now it’s going to be even harder to find my sister.
Inez woke up with a start, Hair shrivelled, face
red and she was breathing heavily.
“Are you ok?” Meili asked, concerned.
“Yeah I’m fine. Just a bad dream” Inez calmed down a bit “Seems like the parade has started!”
“Yeah! I’m going north since that’s where my sister lives. Please tell me you are too?” Meili Hoped she
wouldn’t be alone walking north.
