Short Story written by: Ruth Esmeralda Cardona.

Once upon a time there was a very friendly witch called Charlotte. One day, she moved to another town, she was afraid of making friends, because she thought that nobody would be her friend, and said:

“I am afraid of making new friends, I will cast a spell on them so they will come to me looking for help, then they will thank me and I will be their friend“

And so she did, but instead of making a new friend, she made an enemy.

All the kids complained because they wanted to be normal again, but charlotte did not apologized because was afraid of it, so didn´t.

One day, one of Charlotte´s neighbor organized a halloween party, and invited everybody in town but Charlotte. The little witch was so,so sad, and went to asked them why did they not invite her, and said:

“Because you bewitched us, we look like monsters now, that is why we only can have halloween parties. Can you not see the damage you have done? My birthday party has to be a halloween party too!”

Charlotte left the place angry, but after thinking a while, turned back and apologized to her neighbors and canceled the spells. Her neighbors were very happy and forgave her. Charlotte was invited to the party finally.

Charlotte stopped of doing pieces of mischiefs and had lots o friends, she was very, very happy.

 

THE END

The moral of the story: You can not trick people to make new friends

Values of the story: It´s important to apologize, be honest and be yourself. 

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