The Juice War

Fighting Words Kildare, St. Conleths National School, 15th June 2026

Last year, I tried blackcurrant for the first time, I had a thought in my mind: I want to be famous for drinking blackcurrant.

I went to the bank and asked to withdraw all my money.

I returned to my house where I met Gerald, my friend and told him about my plan.

“I want to grow blackcurrants!”

I asked him to help me plant them but we forgot that the water supply was off. We went to the shop to see if we could find any water to find that it had all been replaced with orange juice. I started screaming. The employee at the shop asked

“Why are you screaming?”

“whenever I look at orange juice, it just scares everything out of me! Where has all the water gone”, I said.

“Someone has bought it all”, he replied.

“OK. I have a new plan. If I buy filter machines with some of that money, we can go to the ocean and filter the water.”

Gerald said: “That’s a great plan, but I can’t go with you. You go and I will stay here. But before you go, I want to show you something in my house.”

At the house, I saw Gerald’s phone on the table. There was a text on the screen saying:

“The orange juice is ready. Where do we deliver it?”

Gerald saw me looking at the text and suddenly threw an orange at my face. I fainted…