Our Finalised Story:
* The Lucky Charm * Story Outline:Page 1 – Tommy
This is Tommy. Tommy never has any good luck. Instead, Tommy thinks bad luck follows him everywhere he goes. Tommy loves to have fun, but no one wants to make friends with an unlucky boy.
Page 2 – Tommy’s ill luck
On Monday, Tommy wet his seat and got his pants soaked. On Tuesday, he tripped and fell flat on his face. Tommy lost his homework on Wednesday, and got a big scolding from his teacher. Yesterday, Tommy had his shirt stained with orange juice when someone spilled his drink on him.
Page 3 – Tommy – The butt of all jokes
And today, Tommy slipped and fell when he stepped on a banana skin. All these bad luck and embarrassing situations had made Tommy the butt of all jokes among his friends. His friends teased and laughed at him everyday in school! Oh boy, poor Tommy!
Page 4 – Tommy’s frustration
“Why do all these things happen to me? Why can’t I be like my friends?” Tommy wonders. He wishes he can be like his friends, having fun and playing games all day without unlucky things happening to him.
Page 5 – Fairies and their talk
That night, Tommy could not get to sleep. While fumbling in bed, Tommy suddenly heard whisperings and soft voices murmuring in the distance. “Let’s keep the good luck charm in the garden!” a small voice exclaimed. “Yes, yes!” squealed the other. “Fairies!” Tommy uttered silently to himself as he watched from his bed in amazement how the fairies buried the lucky charm in the garden. Before long, Tommy dozed off into deep sleep.
Page 6 – The Search for the good luck charm
The very next morning, Tommy sprang out of his bed and went straight to the garden to search for the lucky charm the fairies were talking about last night. “The good luck charm will help me make new friends!” Tommy yelled excitedly. With his spade in hand, Tommy started to search for the charm that would change his life.
Page 7 – A change of luck
After digging furiously for an hour, Tommy finally found the good luck charm. “YES!” cried Tommy. “Now I will have good luck!” With a wide smile on his face, Tommy is delighted and thinks happily of all the fun he is going to have, and all the new friends he is going to make!
Page 8 – Revelation
All this while, Tommy did not know that his string of bad luck was actually a result of Billy’s mischievous pranks! Billy the school prankster was the one playing tricks on him all along! Pouring water on his seat, tripping him, stealing his homework, and laying a banana skin on the floor, Billy was determined to make life difficult for Tommy.
Page 9 – Billy’s bad luck streak
However, now that Tommy has his good luck charm, Billy seems to have run into his own share of bad luck! Losing his homework, falling down in school, wetting his seat and staining his shirt, Billy appears to be eating his own desserts and being punished for his mischief! Oh dear, poor Billy!
Page 10 – An offer of help
Seeing that Billy is down with bad luck, Tommy wondered if he should give Billy his good luck charm to help him. But Tommy was also worried that his bad luck would return once he no longer had the charm. After much thought, Tommy’s heart of gold finally decided that Billy needed the charm more than he did now.
Page 11 – Billy’s confession
Surprised that Tommy wanted to help by offering his precious good luck charm to him, Billy felt terrible about his pranks. “I’m so sorry, Tommy. I was the one who played tricks on you all this while!” Billy sobbed. Never did Billy expect Tommy to give up his treasured charm just to help him overcome his ill luck.
Page 12 – New found friends
“It’s ok, Billy. If you promise not to play anymore pranks on me or on the others, we can still be friends.” Tommy said forgivingly. “I will not play pranks on you or anyone else anymore!” replied Billy earnestly. The good-natured and gracious Tommy made Billy determined to turn over a new leaf.
Page 13 – Best friends till the end
Thereafter, Billy no longer played tricks on Tommy or on anyone else. With Tommy’s good luck charm, Billy did not have any more bad luck! From then on, the two boys became the best of friends.
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
* THE END *
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