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                                                              Good friends

Mary and I are very good friends.  We always play together, share toys with each other and help each other with the homework.  We have never argued until last week.

Mary was absent last Tuesday because she had caught a cold.  When she came back to school, I told her what we had learnt in the English and Mathematics lessons.  She was weak in Mathematics and so she wanted to borrow my Mathematics notebook.  She said that she wanted to read that again at home.  I lent my notebook to her and asked her to return it to me as soon as possible.

The next day, we met and I said good morning to Mary.  She looked really unhappy and worried.  Then, she took out my Mathematics notebook and said sorry to me.  I opened the notebook and found that there were a lot of pictures in it.  Some pages were even torn and some pages were coloured!  I was really angry.  I said, “How could you do that?  Your should not draw pictures in my notebook and tear pages from it!”  Mary wanted to explain but I was too angry to listen to her and went away.  I decided not to talk to her again.

I felt really bad when we did not talk with each other.  Then, on the third day, Mary came to me during recess.  She was crying.  She said, “I’m really sorry.  It’s my little brother who drew in the notebook.  I stopped him immediately but it was too late.  I am really sorry.”  At that time, I understood that it was not Mary’s fault.  Now, we are very good friends again.