The White Key to The Golden Cheesecake by Naomi Feeney

Junior Short Story Entry

Once upon a time, on a far away planet named Cheese, there lived a young girl named Ella. She lived with her family of younger twin sisters (Moe and Joe) and Mum, in a very poor town called Cheesedale. The only way to cure this poverty that everyone in Cheesedale suffered was to find the legendary Golden Cheesecake. And the only way to get this Cheesecake was to find a white key, which was equally as legendary (meaning these two things probably didn’t exist). So, back to the story, Ella and her family were picking cheesepops one day when all of a sudden the ground began to rumble like a Blue Vein cow trying to pass wind. It was the Cheesedale earthquake. Moe and Joe were clinging to each other as if they were on an ice cube floating to Antarctica. Ella was shaking like she was trying to do a … well, we won’t go there. Everyone was afraid when all of sudden, out of nowhere came … the Cheese girls! Protectors of the cheese, guardians of the yogurt, bla bla bla, you get the picture. Their names were Chiki, Chilli and Chinti, and have a tendency to wreak havoc in every town on Planet Cheese, and the earthquake heralds their coming. Upon arriving, they devour their secret, spiced cheeses, say well done and POOFF! They leave. And don’t clean up. So today they did exactly that. Just before they left, Ella noticed a white object in Chiki’s hand.

As Ella returned to help clean up, she thought of what the white object could be. Ella believed that the Golden Cheesecake actually did exist, and that the white object could in fact have been the White Key to the Golden Cheesecake.
That night, whilst all was quiet, Ella snuck out of the house and ran to the Cheese girls’ lair. As she crept inside she discovered a red velvet box, containing the white key sitting upon the mantel above the fireplace. As she went to get it, one of the Cheese girls walked into the kitchen. Ella hid and saw where the cheese girls hid their secret spiced cheeses. As Ella left with the White Key, she took some spiced cheeses, just in case of an emergency. Ella ran home, just as dawn was beginning to break. When she got home, she told her family of her adventures. After finishing her story, she said “I need to go and find this golden Cheesecake to save the whole of Cheesedale from poverty. Mum, I’ll need you to make me a humungous lunch, plus a peanut butter and honey sandwich, please. I think I’ll take my friend from school, William to help me.”
So off Ella went to find the Golden Cheesecake, with William her friend to help her. They crossed mountains thousands of times bigger than Mt Everest (so they thought) and rolled down the other side. Crossed oceans thousands of times bigger than the Pacific (or so they thought), when they came to a beautiful castle made of the finest cheeses that Ella and William had ever seen. As they walked into the grand hall of this magnificent palace, out of nowhere appeared the cheese girls, with there spiced cheeses and catastrophic earth quakes. “So, you thought you could find the Golden Cheesecake, did you?” asked Chiki. “Thought you could get away with stealing our White key, did you?” said Chilli. “Well we’re gonna make you pay real good. Hand us over the key or you, your boyfriend here and the whole of Cheesedale will be blown to kingdom come,” said Chinti threateningly. “What am I going to do?” thought Ella. As she was thinking, her hand found the spiced cheeses that she had taken from the Cheese girls. Realizing this, she popped them all in her mouth, swallowed them and all of a sudden, a rumbling came from Ella’s stomach. It grew louder and louder until POOFF! The stench of a thousand blue vein cheese cows just having passed wind blew the Cheese girls all the way (amazingly) to Cheesedale Police station. Luckily, William was smart and hid behind a grand piano. After Ella recovered from such a massive explosion, she took the White Key from her pocket, opened the safe in the palace’s reception room and took the Golden Cheesecake out. It wasn’t big, it wasn’t edible, but it was certainly worth enough to keep the whole of Cheesedale out of poverty for another thousand years to come. So Ella and William returned home to find a great welcoming party. The mayor of Cheesedale took the Golden cheesecake and stored it in a safe place. When asked however, how Ella had defeated the Cheese girls, she replied, quite hastily, “Time for a spot of macaroni cheese, say what?”

I guess we will be the only ones to know how the Golden Cheesecake was ever recovered.


~FIN~