One time, when my gang and I were exploring Rome, we came across a grand, majestic, circular building. It was a strange-looking theatre, like one we’ve never seen before.
“Let’s go in!” cried Bluey, “We might know the history of this theatre.” “Yeah,” said Tom Servo, “Who knows what this place will hold.” So off we went inside.
The hallways were dark and patterned with cobwebs. The screech of a bat made Crow scared, and Tin Tin had to hold Bingo’s hand because she too was frightened.
Then we had to go through a brightly lit hall of mirrors. At first, we all screamed, because our reflections were ugly, and the walls and floor were covered in mirrors!
But then we all laughed when we looked, and saw how funny we were - we were all wavy and divided and weird. Even Crow and Tom riffed on their own reflections.
At last, we reached the centre of the theatre. Tom found a light switch. Sure, the lights went on with a loud, ear splitting bang, but before our eyes was the most spectacular sight.
There were millions of chairs for the audience to sit, and in front of the auditorium was a stage with some unpainted, giant wooden props. That gave me an idea.
“Guys, why don’t we put on our own private show? We can do it as if no one is watching!” “YEAH!” Everyone agreed, so loudly that our voices echoed through the theatre.
So Crow and Tom did a really good but sometimes sloppy job of painting the sets, which were crudely coloured when you look at it this way.
The rest of us dressed in funny costumes and danced around the stage.
Bluey and Bingo made funny faces at each other!
Suddenly, we all felt hungry after all that performance and fun. “There must be some food somewhere,” wondered Brains, but then I said, “Let’s go into the cafeteria. All the meals are served there.”
So we went into the glistening blue walled cafeteria, and oh boy did we find such a sight - it was a table laiden with fried chicken, sausage rolls, cupcakes, ice cream, cheese sandwiches and pork cocktail sausages. Instantly, we got stuck in. It was so delicious, and Crow ate so much he could hardly squeeze out the door when we went back into the theatre.
In fact, we were so full from eating in the cafeteria, we all went to sleep on the stage.
We were sleeping for so long, we didn’t know that there was going to be a big show tonight…
Until we heard the sound of a gasping crowd of millions of people. We woke up to see a gaggle of actors standing around us. They went completely out of character when they saw us.
“My, my,” said one of them, dressed as a musketeer. “It seems these robots have painted the sets for our show!” Tom and Crow looked at each other in amazement.
“And it seems you have chosen the right clothes for our show too,” said one man, dressed as a pantomime dame. We all laughed at how funny she looked.
“And you, Sybil, you made the show completely possible!” said the lead actor, lifting my hand up as if crowning me in a tournament.
At once, the crowd stood up and cheered, and all my friends cheered too. I could hear everyone chanting my name loudly. I could feel deep success in myself and-
“SYBIL!”
It was Emily! She had woken me and my gang up. We were back in our room. It was morning. It had all been a dream. “Morning, Emily,” I said, “We just had the weirdest dream.”
“Well, whatever that dream was, I could hear you guys chanting quietly in your sleep. Let’s go down to the cafeteria to have breakfast, then we can go and check out the old ruins in the corner of Rome.”
“ROME?!” Crow and Tom yelled. They were so shocked, they fainted.
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