How you survive a trip through your older brothers bedroom.

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Imran Miah         20/11/2002

GCSE ENGLISH: Personal Writing –Fiction

How you survive a trip through your older brothers bedroom.

Before starting, you think twice about whether entering the room is a good idea. There is a sign pinned to the door that offers little if any encouragement what so ever, as it reads  “Enter at your own risk, Who ever enters may never see the front of this door again." This note is aided by a image of a fire-breathing, slimy, saliva-dripping, blood soaked monster.   Carefully you weigh up your thoughts, whether entering is a good idea or not, the money that your going to spend on therapy afterwards to recover are worth going in just to get a CD. If you wish to enter, you may want to consider the necessity of a nose plugs, knee and elbow pads, some string shoes, and if you are male, you might need an athletic cup. Before entering the blacked out, grotesque cave, your initial priority is to take several deep breaths. So that your lungs are prepared for keeping hold of your breath for a lengthy period of time.

Next you carefully reach through the door and scarcely turn on the light. The view now luminous in front of you you, is similar to a wasteland. A rat running around is not surprising in this mess. Piles of dirty clothing, wet towels and smelly gym socks, cover what used to be the carpet. Old school papers and dozens of playboy magazines compete for space among the rest of the debris. Glasses with dried milk rings in the bottom, lie upside down on the edge of the bed. Shoes and football boots with mysterious substances on their soles, mix together with coats and backpacks. A bucket, which is marked with a hazard sign on the lid, is sitting in the corner. Assuming it contains something that is alive or perhaps a scientific experiment. Whatever it is you ignore that its there.

After your feet are inside the door, you need to look over each pile of debris to find the safest path to walk through. As you pick and choose where your feet will be placed, try avoiding the nail gun that is littered on the floor. It can put a hole through even a sole of a combat boot. Take no notice of the piles of clothing and towels, as they cannot hurt you.

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After making your way through the pile of rubble near the door, you notice laundry baskets that are being used as storage facilities instead of containers for dirty laundry. Ignore them. They will have hangers and string attached to them. Do not even think of untangling the mess. You don't have enough time or air in your lungs to do this task. Just step around them and carry on walking.

You may have forgotten your reason for being here. This attack of amnesia is due to a lack of oxygen as well as your shock at seeing this mess. While ...

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