The Girl who wanted to go to the UK

By En

5th Grade Winter 2024

There was a girl who wanted to go to the UK but her stepmother locked her up in the attic. The only reason that she got locked up is because her stepmother hates her and wants the girl to fail in life. The girl’s father died in a car crash.

Her father left her money but her stepmom got greedy and took all the money for herself.  She thought she could get away with it by locking her stepdaughter up in the attic where no one can find her and where she can’t get out. Her stepmother also didn’t want her to be in England because that would cost them a lot of the money so the Stepmom decided to lock her up and not tell anyone about it. 

The Stepmother lied to everyone and said that her stepdaughter was in England. She would only feed her one meal a day because she didn’t want to waste the money. Since the girl didn’t get to spend a lot of the money, the Stepmom got to have fancy dinners with her fancy friends.

The girl got really skinny and weak so one day she decided that she had enough and she would try to break free. She decided that she would break the lock and make a new one out of the things she had up in the attic. In her favor there were a lot of things that could create a fake lock. She used the fake lock to replace the real one. When her stepmother came up to give her her one meal for that day she secretly switched out the lock so when her stepmother thought that she locked the attic door she didn’t. That night the girl decided to finally leave. 

As she was running out, sirens rang. She decided to sprint. She sprinted across the street to her best friend’s house. But that friend was given money to snitch on her if she ever left the house so the next day her mother came and snatched her away. This time she hid her in the basement because it was harder to get out and there were not many supplies.