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My Friend
It happened when I was a child. I studied in the 8 th grade. I had a friend whose name was Ken. I was
very thin, skinny and not very tall. In fact, I was quit short. I also wore glasses, so.. My classmates
thought that I was ugly. My family was poor. I had no mother and father. They got divorced when I
was 3 years old. Soon they died and I and my twin brother moved to our grandmother. She was old and
ill. She couldn’t look after us. My clothes weren’t new and fashionable. My books were old and torn.
My classmates often bullied me because of this. At school they took my books and copybooks, they
called me names like: dirty, stupid and skeleton with glasses. I want to cry when I remember these
years. I had only one friend Ken. My brother Jack didn’t like me. He was taller, more handsome and
he didn’t need to wear glasses. He studied in other school, had a lot of friends and was popular,
because he played football well. Jack pretended that he didn’t know me. I talked only to Ken. He knew
everything about me and helped me. At school teacher thought I wasn’t clever and tidy. They never
noticed that my classmates bullied me and they called me stupid. I often got bed marks because my
copybooks were torn.
One day I was going to school and heard an announcement: ’’Join our competition! If you can run fast
you must hurry! If you win the race you will get 500,000euro. Visit us in building seven, Forest Hill
Avenue. We’ll choose 100 fastest runners’’. At this moment Ken touched my shoulder and said: We
must hurry to school. The Whole day I thought of it and in the evening I told Granny and Jack that
wanted to enter this competition. Both of them laughed at me but I decided to enter this competition. I
told Ken but there was one problem I didn’t have trainers and new T-shirt and shorts. Ken helped me.
He told his mother he needed new clothes for his sports lessons. She gave him money. It was enough
to buy clothes for me.