The Magnifying Glass

Once Lisa's brother Darren bought a magnifying glass home from school and said he was going to be able to see through her skull into her mind and see everything in there. This troubled Lisa, she went to bed that night and wondered how she could possibly stop the entire contents of her brain being exposed. After think really hard until steam nearly came out of her ears she decided she'd wear a hat. So the next day as soon as she woke up she took a woolly hat out of her cupboard and fixed it tightly upon her head. It was boiling hot outside and everyone kept asking if she was a bit warm but she didn't care. Lisa had read lots of books about the brain because she found it interesting. To her it was a container that contained all the memories she'd ever made from the very first day she was born. She was worried that Darren might see the memory of where she stole all of his sweets at them and pretended a stray dog had gotten in the house and took them. She felt like she had a jewellery box sitting on her shoulders, like all the things she thought, all the magical ideas she had were little coloured jewels that sparkled in the sun. Red ones, green ones, blue ones. She always had good ideas, everyday she'd wake up and think of something interesting to do. But if her brother could see all the way into her brain then all those secret ideas wouldn't be secret anymore. She decided that the woolly hat wasn't enough, so next she found an empty cardboard box cut some big eye holes out so she wouldn't bump into things and planted it on her head. At first it was really hard to find her way through the doors but eventually she managed. Imagine if Darren had seen all the endings to the stories she made up? She couldn't have that. The next genius idea she had once she decided that even the box was not enough was to wrap foil around her head and stand outside in the sun and then when he would point the magnifying glass at her the sun would glare in his eyes. She was so intent on protecting her brain from prying eyes. Just as she was wrapping the 7th roll of foil she'd 'borrowed' out of her mom's kitchen cupboard Darren ran towards her, grinning and as if in slow motion the magnifying glass fell to the floor and shattered into three million pieces. Lisa was so happy because she was standing in a pool of her own sweat and she threw off all of her cardboard, foil armour and went back to being just Lisa. Her brain tightly concealed in her skull where no one but she could see it.