Chapter one
Discovering the Cement Graboids

On a bright sunny Monday morning Matthew was on the bus, which was headed to Inglewood JR. High. When he got to his first period that was science he noticed that there was some shaking and every one got under their desks. But as soon as someone started speaking over the intercom, they heard a loud scream. So since Matthew knew that on the news he saw that the news reports said, "That there were Graboids coming from perfection valley".

Next thing he knew was that all of his classmates started to talk and then all of a sudden a big Graboids came up from under the cement ground and that was so weird to Matthew because he thought the guy on the television was talking about Graboids going under the dirt. But I guess he was wrong. So the classmate that talked got eaten. So Matthew read a book on Graboids and it said, "That you can survive for a five days if you are on a roof and you have food and water.

So what Matthew did was he asked his teacher if there was a way to get to the top of the Inglewood roof. The teacher said, "That there was a way", Matthew said "Okay you get the rest of the classroom out of here and I will go worn the other teachers". So Matthew went to the classroom next to there's and told them to get the students out of there". Once he had done all of the upstairs he told the teachers down stairs and when they were coming out Matthew saw one of his good friends Andy and he also saw that a grapiod was coming straight for him. So he launched himself at Andy and told him to keep quiet.

After they lay on the floor they ran outside. Andy jumped up against the roof and the teachers pulled him up. They were waiting for Matthew and the teachers told him that they already warned all of the teachers and students that were in the portables. Then Matthew ran as fast as he could and the teachers grabbed him and pulled him onto the roof. Matthew said, "They were trapped.