Alone on a Wide Wide sea: Ida Barrington

My literacy group is currently ready 'Alone on a Wide Wide Sea' by Michael Morpurgo. We had to pick one character and make up a event in the past for them, and this is when she meets Piggy Bacon.

 Ida Barrington was just like any school girl her age. She was at an okay intelligence level, she was pretty and she was, well, good. Some might have gone as far to label her as an angel. That was until she became friends with Martin Bacon.

Ida had just transferred to a new school because hers had burned down due to some silly kids who really hated school. Ida always wondered how and why some 9 year olds burnt down the school.  As she was walking across the front of the school Ida felt as if she would throw up. “I can make new friends and be away from dad at the same time!” Ida thought to herself. This thought was enough for Ida to ignore the fact that her legs felt like jelly. She ignored the tug on her stomach that tried to turn her around. She ignored the small voice in her head that told her to go back home and call it a day, “your father won’t care” the small voice said. Ida knew this was true, when her father wasn’t sleeping he was drunk. She trudged across the grass and pushed all these thoughts to the back of her mind. “New friends” she repeated the words under her breath all the way to the principal's office. It took her a while to find it but she found it eventually. After talking to the principal a bit, he led her to her classroom and knocked on the door twice and walked in, without waiting for an invitation.

After Ida finished introducing herself to the class, she took her seat next to Martin Bacon. “What a weird last name” Ida thought to herself. Little did she know that would one day be her last name. She glanced to her side and saw Martin staring at her, “what?” she asked, it came off a bit harsher than meant “nothing” he said simply and turned away. That was how she met Martin Bacon. After class she was rushing to her next one when someone caught up with her. That someone was Martin. Ida sighed and then turned to him, “yes?” she asked politely. “I was just, uh, wondering if you would like to be friends?” he asked with a hint of uncertainty. Ida stopped in the crowded hallway, people bumped into her but she didn’t care, “you want to be my friend?” Ida asked excitedly, “yes, that’s what I said” Martin replied with annoyance. From that sentence Ida knew he was temperamental but she didn’t care. “Yes!” she practically shrieked, and ran off, hoping not to be late to her class. From that day forward her and Martin were friends, the best of friends, but in time Ida would come to regret that simple ‘yes’.