Once there was a sedimentary rock named Beth. When she was little, her older brother sat on her. He was trying to turn her metamorphic. It failed, however, so he tried again.
This time it worked. She became the correct type of rock and hugged her brother. She, unlike her brother and parents, was born in a compaction lab.He was trying to turn her metamorphic.
When her mother had heard she had finally become the proper type of rock, she sent her off to school at a volcano in Hawaii to study volcanology.
One tragic day on top of the volcano, there was a huge thunderstorm. Beth fell in off the top. She was very scared, and struggled against gravity, but to no avail.
After a few days, she gave in and melted. As she flowed along the path as almost magma, Beth found an empty underground chamber and slipped in. That cavern gave her the extra heat boost she needed to turn, officially, into magma.
Beth was just starting to adjust to being magma, when a big rumble shook her out of a peaceful dream. She looked around, startled. Another rumble made the volcano tremble. Finally, it dawned on her that the volcano was erupting, and she tried to run, scared, forgetting she was magma.
The volcano erupted, spewing Beth and a bunch of other magma and lava out. She landed on the ground with a painful jolt. A few days later she cooled down and hardened.
The volcano shook hard, throwing Beth into a lake, where she was eroded into tiny pieces of sediment.
After becoming igneous, she managed to find her way home. Her parents and brother gave her such a hug, she once again became metamorphic.
After some therapy for being in a volcano, and, you know, melting, Beth went back to school. This time at a local college instead of Hawaii.
The rocks at this school were snotty. They bullied Beth and scared her. She was admitted to the hospital at the end of the term for high blood pressure and stress. Those girls had bullied her all term and she was getting tired of it, but she couldn't do anything to stop them.
When she returned to school, the rest of the school was studying for finals, she joined in and, like the rest of the school was put under a ton of pressure.
She graduated with honors at the end of the year. After graduation, she went back to Hawaii, to a different volcano, of course.
A month or two after her plane landed, there was a thunderstorm almost equal to the one back home. She wasn't on top this time, thank goodness, but on the side. A powerful gust of wind blew her up and into the mouth.
She was sent flying through the air, and landed, PLOP!, in the lava.
Soon after landing, she began melting, back into magma.
A few weeks later, she looked around nervously. All the other rocks were starting to run away as fast as they could, being, you know, magma.
Then she heard it. How she missed it before, she didn't know. The rumbling.
The volcano started to shake,throwing the first layer of lava out the top.
She knew she was next, as she was the second layer, but she was excited this time,because this time, it meant getting out of this hot pile of rock.
THE END.
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