When Luna turned three, she was sent to kindergarten. Carol and Harvey were nervous about sending her at first, but they figured they should, because they believed meeting other children would be good for her. But unfortunately, they were quite wrong. Kids laughed at her for her abnormal appearance, while other people who happened to be there screamed or just stared. at snacktime, Luna had to sit alone.
Luna may have been young, but she understood the behaviour of evryone else. this didn’t make her feel good about herself, and deep down, she wished she was normal. But then, a girl from the corner walked over and sat next to her. she smiled warmly. ‘Hi. my name is Mabel. you spell it M-A-B-E-L. what’s your name?” ‘L-Luna.’ Luna replied, surprised that someone would willingly sit beside her. Mabel was a very good-looking girl, with long, black curls and smooth brown skin and kind, hazel eyes. ‘Will you be my friend?’ asked Luna, a little nervously. ‘OK!’ smiled Mabel.
Over the weeks, Mabel and Luna became best friends. they ate lunch together, played together at break, and for christmas, they even got one of those “best friends’ necklaces. But, despite Luna having found a true friend, she still had troubles at school, which made her adopted parents worry about her a lot. Other kids bullied her and called her a nasty monster and an ugly witch. This gave Luna a bad temper, but she tried to keep it inside. One day, as Luna and Mabel were busy playing with building blocks, Seb and Deb, the twins and bullies, came over aand started taunting her. ‘Hey, nasty monster! this kindergarten is for humans ONLY! You are ugly and stupid and you should leave!’ they said together. ‘Go away.’ grunted Luna, none to happy that these mean kids had seen her. The twins were very indignant about this. ‘Nobody can tell us what to do!’ shouted Deb, shoving her. ‘especially not horrid monsters!’ added Seb. Suddenly, Deb yanked of Lunas necklace. ‘OH NO’ muttered Luna.
“Give Luna back her necklace back or I’m telling the teacher!” threatened Mabel, standing up to defend her friend. Deb ignored her, and simply stared at it. Then all of a sudden, Deb threw it on the floor and she and Seb started stomping on it! ‘Noo!’ wailed Luna. Tears squeezed out of her eyes.. her inner anger and sadness built up inside her, until suddenly, with a shout of anger and despair, she burst into purple flame, knocking back Mabel, Seb and Deb. then, when her rage died down, so did her flane. She heard faint weeping behind her. She turned around to discover it was Mabel, having fallen on the toy bricks and hurting herself. ‘Mabel!’ Luna gasped, suddenly feeling a pang of regret for her outburst. what didn’t help was that now evryone in the room was staring at her.
Luna sat in the time-out corner, feeling very ashamed. teachers looked at her disapprovingly, whispering things to one another. the bell rang. it was hometime. She saw Mabel with her parents. Luna could hear what they were saying: ‘Oh my baby, what happened to you? did that nasty girl hurt you?’ asked her mom. ‘Mama, it was’nt her fault. And she isn’t nasty, she’s my best friend! It was those mean twins, Deb and Seb.’ said Mabel, looking close to tears. ‘Nonsense! Deb and Seb are very nice children.’ replied Mabel’s father. As well as Mabel, Luna could see Deb and Seb, running to their parents crying crocodile tears, pinning the whole thing on Luna. last of all, Carol walked in and came over to Luna with a look on her face that suggested sympathy, worry and calm all at once. ‘Come on sweetie, let’s go home.’ she said. she took Luna’s hand and the two walked home in silence.