One day Joe saw a pencil that he really liked. He was writing with it every day. He loved that pencil. One day he lost that pencil. He searched in his desk ten times. He looked on the the floor. Then he got some friends together and they looked. They didn't find it. He looked on the playground, no pencil. He stopped looking and he had to use another pencil. He did not like that pencil. He saw a pencil in the trash. He wondered if that was his. He ran over to the trash, it was not his. He wondered if someone took it. He saw someone with it in a backpack. He wondered who the boy was that took it. After school he followed that weird boy. The weird boy went to his house. Joe followed. The boy used the pencil for his homework. Joe was shocked. Then he came out of hiding. And said "That is my pencil". The boy didn't not listen to him. After Joe was done talking the boy jumped out the window. Joe did not want to hop out the window so he used the stairs. Joe caught up to the boy. Then Joe jumps at the boy and he missed. Joe was hurt. Joe didn't want to run after the boy anymore. Joe went home after what had happened. The next day Joe was a lot better and he wanted to get his pencil. He made sure after school he followed the boy again. After school Joe saw the boy. When they got out of school grounds. Joe jumped and hit the boy. It was the wrong boy. Joe hopped up and didn't say anything. He tried to see the boy but he was the only boy on the block. So Joe went back to his house. Then he went to school the next day. He made sure it was the right boy. It was the right boy. He made sure he had the pencil. He did, it was the right time to jump. Joe jumped and missed again. Joe went home failing again. The next day  he talked to his teacher. About the pencil thing. The teacher said "I don't know who that boy is". "I just know it is me," a little boy said. "You are the one who took my pencil," said Joe. " Can I have my pencil back," said Joe. "No," said the boy. The boy ran. Joe ran after him. Joe ran as fast as he could. Joe jumped and hit his target. The boy dropped the pencil and Joe got it back.

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By Jake