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Carmen Mikes joyfully skipped up
her houses stairs to get her new iPod.
She wanted to show it to a
friend. When she got to her
room she looked in the
drawer where she usually kept
it. No iPod. “Where is
it?” Carmen asked herself. Then
she looked in her
brother Steve’s room. (He had
been trying to steal her iPod forever.)
Still no iPod. She went back to
her room to check again.
Carmen looked in her bookcase
and also by her computer in
case she had left it there,
downloading a song. Still no iPod.
At that point Carmen got very
mad at Steve for, she
suspected, hiding her iPod. She
stormed into his room and took
his diary (which
she had been secretly reading
for the past two years)
and ripped it apart. Each page
with his careful writing
got torn into 10 pieces. Carmen
knew that she would get
in trouble for doing this but
thought that Steve would get in
even more trouble for hiding her
iPod.
Two miles away from Carmen’s
house Jessica Merse was in
her room when she heard a W H O
O S H sound. She looked
around her room to see what it
was. On her dresser was a
pink iPod. “What on earth?”
Jessica whispered to herself.
She picked it up and looked to
see if there was music in it. At
first Jessica thought the iPod
was a gift from her
parents, but when she saw that
it was loaded with pop
rock she knew it wasn't for her.
Pop wasn’t Jessica’s style. She was more of a country
girl. She thought maybe the iPod
belonged to one of her
friends, but none of them had
come over lately.
Meanwhile, Carmen got in
trouble for deleting her
brother’s report for school.
Carmen was supposed to stay in
her room for 30 minutes
to “think about what she
did", as her parents put it.
(They hadn't discovered Carmen's
vandalism
of her brother's diary. Yet.)
Steve swore he didn’t steal her iPod but Carmen didn’t
believe him. Carmen’s parents
believed Steve and told
him that Carmen would have to
retype the report after her 30
minutes were up. Carmen told
herself that she would never in
a million years retype Steve’s
report.
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While Carmen was sitting in her room she heard a
Zim Zam Zoom sound. It was
coming from under her rug.
Curious, she lifted up a corner
of the rug and found: a
black
hole. It was making the
weird Zim Zam Zooms. Carmen had
heard about black holes in space
but had not been led to
expect one to show up in her
bedroom.
Jessica had just finished
cleaning up her neat and tidy
room when again she heard a W H
O O S H. It was coming from
her dresser drawer. She opened
it up and blinked,
amazed.
Inside Jessica’s drawer was a
white spot. Jessica was a
space fanatic and knew all about
black holes, worm holes,
stars, and white holes, but
never in a million years
would she have guessed that a
white hole could turn up
in an earthling house.
Jessica knew that where there is a white hole there must
be a black hole. She put up
flyers all around her
neighborhood that said: “Do you
have a black hole in your
house? If you do, please call
601-8012.”
Some of Jessica's flyers were
carried
away by a big wind, and, as luck
would have it, Carmen
stumbled across one on the
sidewalk. As soon as she got
home Carmen dialed 601-8012, and
all was revealed.
Carmen and Jessica talked
excitedly about their mutual
discovery. Jessica was
interested in astronomy; Carmen
was interested in getting rid of
Steve's diary. Every day Carmen would put a note
to Jessica through the black
hole, and so their friendship
began.
One day a scientist intercepted
one of Carmen's notes
floating through the hole, but
despite making all kinds of
calculations he couldn’t find
any explanation for its
uncanny appearance. Eventually
Carmen and Jessica became known all over the world, but they were
just glad that the black hole
and white hole had brought
them together to become best
friends.
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