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The Book of Happiness
“Elara!” cried Michael. Jennifer started cry-
Once upon a time, there was a girl named, ing. They took her to the hospital where
Jennifer. She was in the First standard. She the doctors treated her for 4 days. But……….
used to live in Manchester with her parents. On the fifth day……..she died.
Her father Michael, 30 and her mother
Elara, 28, both worked for the government. For many months being a human had be-
On a stormy night, Elara went to a party come very difficult for them.
at 7:00pm and she told them that she
would come back in one hour. It was a stormy night. Jennifer was just go-
ing to sleep, when she found a book lying
One hour passed, she did not come back. on her desk. She was about to touch that
“Dad, where is mom?”, she asked. book, when a voice said,”Hi, Jennifer”. She
completely freaked out. It’s not everyday
“She will come, don’t worry”, Michael said. that a book talks to you.
Two hours passed, she did not come. Now “Don’t be scared. I’m your friend,” the book
they started to worry about Elara. said. After that she kept talking to the
book everyday. Each day that book would
“Jennifer, get into the car, we are going to tell Jennifer an inspiring story. She was just
find your mom.” like a machine who works on fuel and that
fuel was that book.
They went to search for her but she was
nowhere to be seen. Finally, after searching Everyday jennifer would meet that book.
for 3 hours, they found a crowd of people Her dad was shocked to see how Jennifer
gathered in a circle. overcame the stress of losing her mother.
Her dad asked, “How are you so happy
Jennifer and Michael pushed their way and joyful”.
ahead of the crowd. A truck and a car had
collided some hours ago. The truck driver “Because of the book”, Jennifer explained.
just got away with some injuries. The car
was heavily damaged. All its windows were Michael and Jennifer went to her room to
broken and the front window had shat- meet Mr. Book. It was a stormy night. The
tered into a million pieces. During the colli- book had vanished!!!
sion the car overturned and had to face
serious damage. The rear part was dam- Pranav Mishra
aged a lot and the person sitting in the VII
car………
