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"Now class," said the teacher, "Before we begin, I have some exciting news to share with you. As everyone knows,
graduation is just around the corner." The students buzzed with excitement. All of the fairies were looking forward to graduating from school- at least all of the ones who had passed their tests. The teacher waved her hands and the students quieted down. "At the graduation ceremony, we�re going to have a very special guest. The Queen of the fairies will be coming to visit. Her Royal Highness will be passing out your golden wands." The students looked at each other and screamed with happiness. The pixies flew off their perches and went looping through the air. Joan sat in her seat and watched as the other fairies jumped to their feet and went dancing around the room. Except for Joan, everyone seemed to be excited by the thought of graduation. The golden wands were only given to the fairies who graduated. The younger fairies who were still learning how to use magic had to make do with the old wooden sticks that belonged to the school. Hundreds of students before them had used these very same wands and the tired old things barely glowed at all. They were plain and ugly and covered with nicks and dents. Everyone was excited by the thought of receiving golden wands and to know that they would be receiving their wands from the hands of the fairy Queen herself filled the students with tremendous excitement. Joan slouched in her seat and thought about the golden wand that she would never have. When the school year ended in two weeks, the other fairies would graduate - but Joan would be left behind with the younger students. Her friends and classmates would leave the school as full-fledged fairies. Some of them would stay in the enchanted forest but others would travel beyond the Emerald Sea and across the Empty Desert to the land of the unicorns and the far off mountain homes of the flying horses. While Joan was stuck in school learning and relearning all of the lessons that she had tried to learn from the year before, the other fairies would be starting new lives and having wonderful adventures. The large fairy sighed to herself. It wasn�t her fault that her father was a giant. Everyone knew that giants had no magical ability. Since Joan was only half a fairy, her magic was very weak. Without the ability to cast spells how was she supposed to do magic? How was she supposed to visit the land of the humans to gather the hopes, wishes, and dreams of children? In order to graduate, Joan needed gold stars in magic and dream gathering. Smiles at Dawn smirked at Joan from across the room. She waited until the teacher wasn�t looking and flicked her wand. A crumpled wad of paper appeared in the air over Joan�s head. It fell to the floor, bounced off her head, and landed on top of Joan�s desk. Joan looked at the paper. Was someone passing her a note? She opened the paper and read the message. The word, "LOSER," was written in big red letters. Joan crumpled the note and shoved it inside her desk. Her eyes filled with tears. Why did the other fairies have to be so mean to her? It wasn�t right. It wasn�t fair and there didn�t seem to be anything that Joan could do about it. |
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