Poppy writing: Hang On!

It all happened so quickly! One minute he was standing on the platform, the next he was hurtling through the air, hanging on for dear life… Jack was so scared. He only wanted to take an epic picture pretending to fall off the platform, but it ended up him hanging off a moving train! 

That morning, Jack and his dad were going to go on a nice train ride in town together. When they got there, the train wasn’t there yet so they decided to take some cool pictures. Jack’s dad told him to pretend to fall off the edge of the platform in the picture. So Jack did what his dad said and walked over to the edge of the platform. He leaned over, but just as his dad was going to take the picture, the train was coming!! It was so loud from the crowd of people so Jack couldn't hear his dad yelling at him to get out of the way. And SWISH! The train scooped Jack up and was zooming through the station. Jack was screaming to his dad to get him off, but he couldn’t because his hand was stuck in a crack between the train carriages. ‘’ Dad!! Help me! ‘ yelled Jack.’ ‘’ Hold on Jack! I’m coming! ‘’ cried his dad. The train was going closer and closer to the end of the platform. Jack’s Dad ran after the train but eventually, Jack’s dad didn’t see the train anymore because it had gone into a tunnel and disappeared with Jack. 

The tunnel was dark and Jack was scared. He banged on one of the windows of the train but no one heard. Then he realised that he was holding the camera, so he had an idea. Jack put on the flash button and shone it in the dark tunnel so that the driver would notice. He flashed the camera and the driver saw and at the next station the driver stopped the train. The people on the platform next to Jack were all shocked and tried to get him down. “What happened?” they said. Jack grinned. “I want to do it again!” he said!