Magnificent Charlotte

By Beatrice Muncaster, aged 8

One day, a girl called Charlotte was struggling to sew a pair of socks when suddenly she realised that she was finished. “Wow, I didn’t realise that I could do that so well” said Charlotte as she packed up her sewing bag.

Later that day she was reading and finished the book almost in an instant. “Wow, how did I do that?” gasped Charlotte as she put the book under her bed.

A few days later she was planting flowers and she appeared to have an expert knowledge of plants, without ever needing to read a single book!

Charlotte, from being a normal girl in the class suddenly became a brainbox and got 100% in every subject. Even her mum and dad noticed a difference and began to watch Charlotte very carefully. The amazing thing was that if you asked a question on any single subject, Charlotte knew the answer quicker than lightning.

“How is this possible?” thought mum and dad, “is it something we’re feeding her?” they would think. Everyone was puzzled about her knowledge.

One day her mum took her to see Doctor Bones and described all of Charlotte’s brilliance. Whenever the doctor talked, Charlotte interrupted and finished off his sentence. “How do you know all these medical facts Charlotte?” asked the doctor, very confused himself. “Er, I don’t know, I mean what did I just say?” She only had to think and any facts just came to her brain!

“Don’t worry Mrs Cranberry, I think your daughter is just super intelligent” said the doctor. It wasn’t long before Charlotte’s talents were beginning to get her noticed outside of school and her home.

One day she was walking down the street and came to the rescue of an old man who had fallen. She managed to save his life before the ambulance arrived. “Unbelievable”, said the paramedics.

Charlotte received an award from the Queen for her cleverness.

Charlotte never worried and said that her knowledge always came in handy. If there was anything you wanted to know, then Charlotte Cranberry could give you the answer, no sweat!

She soon became very popular and famous, although little Charlotte didn’t want to be such a clever clogs all of the time. She just wanted to go back to being normal.

One day, without warning Charlotte could not think properly. “What’s the weather doing tomorrow Charlie?” asked dad. “I dunno” replied Charlotte grumpily. “You don’t know?” he replied very shocked.

Dad suddenly realised that mum had unplugged the internet to do some hoovering.

“Could it just possibly be?” he murmured. Quickly, he switched the internet back on and asked her the same question over again. Back came Charlotte’s usual quick and very precise response.

In that moment everyone realised that Charlotte was possibly the very first wireless person on earth to be connected to the internet.

“How is this so?”, but even Charlotte, the very person you would think would know, didn’t know.

How very confusing but magnificent all the same!