Jeremie’s Mission
By Benjamin Ward
5/7/2026, 5.00am
HARRY KANE … HE SHOOTS…HE SCORES, ENGLAND WIN THE
WORLD CUP… Wait. Never. Jeremie woke up from his brilliant dream and realised,
alas, England didn’t win the world cup [sorry to everyone who thought they had]
and that he needed to do his homework. Great, another boring two hours of
chemistry [ugh] for him.
Jeremie was tall for his age, standing at around
five foot six [ some people would say that is quite short, until you realise,
he is only sixteen]. He had short dark hair like the bristles on a hedgehog
[poor hedgehog, I would personally get bored of getting nearly drowned every
time Jeremie got a shower]. Jeremie had blue eyes, his mom used to joke about
him being a son of Poseidon, [Percy Jackson fan alert!]
He was obsessed with all things Star Wars and
especially Darth Vader, however his favourite thing to do on a weekend was
going down to the Mersey with his friends and drawing ideas of a Hydro Electric
barrage across the river. You see, he was very paranoid about climate change
especially flooding, ever since his dad, Geoff, had been carried away on a
flood and was never seen again. He knew that if we wanted to stop climate
change, we needed to all do our part.
2/5/2018, 9:24pm
Crosby was a quiet town where nothing much really
happened. Jeremie’s dad was out for his usual evening stroll along the
waterfront. Suddenly, he noticed a change in the weather, and it began to rain
cats and dogs…and turtles! The weather shocked Geoff as he had not come
prepared for this extreme weather. Within minutes the water was gushing around
his feet, how was he going to get back home? He didn’t feel safe. Suddenly Geoff got swept up by the flowing
water, it was fast and furious and there was not much he could do to stop what
was happening. He screamed and shouted for help but there was nobody there to
come and rescue him as they were all in their houses. Geoff was carried away
unnoticed by the big blue angry sea.
Jeremie and his family raised the alarm later
that evening when Geoff did not make it home but sadly they could not save him.
As Jeremie was known for making music they played one of his songs at Geoff’s
funeral.
6/7/2026, 12.30pm
Jeremie stood outside the house of the local MP
with his friends, Virgil and Max, holding their plans of a Hydroelectric barrage
across the Mersey. The local MP was Virgil’s dad Mr Vladkolski. They usually
passed by Mr Vladkolski’ s house on the way back from school to chat about
building the barrage and how to process the energy made from it. But, strangely,
he was not in. They found a letter under the doormat. This is what the letter
said:
I
am in a meeting right now and cannot be round the house. I will be back at
around 8.30pm, there is some spare curry in the fridge for tea. The meeting is
about the barrage. TRADE.CORP do not want us to build it because they use that
waterway to ship their cargo to their customers.
It was exactly 8.30pm and a black car pulled up.
“Dad!” cried Virgil.
Mr Vladkolski climbed out of the car
“Virgil, Max and of course Mr Jeremie!” chuckled
Mr Vladkolski.
Mr Vladkolski was a big man around 6”5’ with a
head of messy brown hair. His eyes were like those of whom are always happy and
had a permanent smile on his face, but not today, he had a solemn expression.
“Mum is ill, Virgil,” he said.
Evra Vladkolski was Virgil’s mum and captain of
the Slovenian Women’s Tennis team. She was a loved member of the community, and
everyone was sad she had fallen ill.
“I am going to take a break off work tomorrow, so
you need to gather materials by yourself, look out for my friend Albi he has a
list of all the stuff you will need to start the barrage. After you have the
materials Albi’s workers will start work immediately, I will talk to the Trade.
Corp representative,” said Mr Vladkolski.
Jeremie crossed the street to the car park of
BOBBY’S MATERIALS and saw Albi walking towards him with the list of materials.
“My men will start building the barrage whenever
you have the materials on the list,” said Albi.
This was the list:
136 bags of cement
10 metal filter wheels
Metal guardrails.
The very next week Albi started construction on
the barrage. Jeremie stood on the part of the barrage that had already been
built. It was like standing on the brink of insanity, the water was the dark
raging pit and the metal guardrails were the only thing keeping him from
plunging in. Day after day, night after night they finished the dam. Soon by
the end of the summer holidays the dam was finished. It worked magnificently.
The barrage generated enough hydro electric
energy to help power most of the town. The following year the town’s fossil
fuel usage went down by fifty percent. Geoff would have been so proud of all of
Jeremie’s hard work in helping to save our planet.
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