Unlucky:
Chapter 3: Old School Charm.
So Lucky went to live with Bailey and Phil. They taught her lots of things until she was old enough to go to school. Lucky thought she was becoming less unlucky. She had only been breaking something once a week instead of every day! However, by the time Lucky started school, her luck had run out!
When Lucky was old enough she had to start attending school. However, she didnt exactally fit in at Fluffington Elementry. All the other children had been going there for a few years, but Lucky had been homeschooled.
On her first day of school, when she walked into the classroom, everyone just stared. Lucky walked to sit in the front row, the only desk open. On her way, she accidently tripped the teacher. Everyone laughed. Even the teacher. But Lucky didnt find it funny. They got to make name tags the first day. Everyone’s was in the shape of a lucky houseshoe. But Lucky made hers upside down, an unlucky horseshoe. The monkey who sat next to Lucky tapped on her should.
“You made it wrong, Stupid! Now all your luck will fall out. “, the monkey said loud enough for everyone to hear. Everyone laughed. But Lucy didnt find it funny. She walked up to the teacher.
“I made my horseshoe wrong. Now its unlucky. Can I have a new one?” asked Lucky.
“No. I guess you just have to live with that” said the teacher.
As Lucky returned to her seat, someone had pulled out the chair, so she sat down on thin air, and fell on her tail. Everyone laughed. But Lucky didnt find it funny.
At lunch, Lucky couldnt find a place to sit. She saw the monkey who sat next to her in class. She walked over to her.
“Can I sit here?” asked Lucky.
Everyone at the table stared. A pink poodle at the table spoke to her.
“Sorry, this is a bad-luck free zone. No black cats allowed”
Lucky felt so alone. She wanted to go back to Bailey and Phil’s. Atleast they loved her. All of the tables were filled. The only open spot was underneath the broken ceiling the janitor was fixing. She walked over.
“Excuse me Sir, can I sit here?” she asked the Cocker Spaniel janitor.
“If you want bad luck!” said the janitor.
Lucky didnt know what he was talking about, until she noticed that the table was under a ladder. Lucky ate her lunch there.
Lucky returned home in tears. So many bad things had happened to her at school. She was the most unlucky cat in the world. Bailey and Phil tried to comfort her, but it was no use. Lucky was just terribly unlucky it seemed.
The students were asked to bring in their good luck charm for show and tell for the next day, so the following morning, Lucky’s second day, she packed up her mirror shard.
At school, the students took turns sharing their good luck charms.
“This is my lucky horseshoe necklace. My daddy gave it to me after I won my first race” said a Clydesdale when it was her turn.
“This is my lucky four leaf clover” said a Golden Retriever when it was his turn.
“These are my lucky fuzzy dice, Snake Eyes” said a Black Lab. He reminded Lucky of Phil.
Finally it was Lucky’s turn. She approached the front of the room, hoping she wouldnt trip.
“TTThis is my good luck charm,” she said holding out the mirror piece. She spoke timidly. “I found it. When my parents adopted me…”
The class apruted into mutters.
“Thats why she is so strange, she was adopted!”
“I bet she broke that mirror!”
“7 years of bad luck!”
“Um, anyway, my mom, well, adopted mom, uh, it broke and, um..” said Lucky in a pusillanimous tone.
“She’s such a freak!”
“I bet her birthday is Friday the 13th!!”
“It is!” said Lucky.
“A black cat born on Friday the 13 who carries around a broken mirror piece and eats under a ladder? What an unlucky freak!!!” declared the monkey she sat next to.
Lucky ran from the room. She couldnt take it. She held her mirror piece tight, and ran and ran…
To Be Continued..
-Marsh
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