Cookie's Bad Day

Chapter 1:

It all started on a Saturday afternoon when I was walking

back home. After playing video games over

my friend Vicky Dragonfly's house.

 I almost reached my front porch when I noticed a 

mysterious metal box. That was half buried next to a big

maple tree beside my house. I walked over

to it and dug it out

minutes later I slowly opened it. Inside the box was

a beautiful silver collar with a note next to it

which read:

Warning:

Who dares to wear this collar

you'll only have bad luck for the rest of 

your life

Frowning I took the collar out and looked at it 

closely. Before putting it on I thought to myself

This is probably some kind of joke. There's no way

that such a beautiful collar like this would 

cause any kind of bad luck

I wasn't even inside for five minutes when my mom

stormed out of the kitchen and yelled

"Cookie, where have you been? You should've been

home an hour ago."

"Sorry, Mom, Vicky and I started playing video games

and lost track of time," I answered 

"That's no excuse, young lady." my mom frowned

"Now go and clean your room. I'll call you when dinner's

ready."

"Aww Mom, do I've to?" I whined

"Don't aww mom, me. Now go!" My mom snorted 

 

Chapter 2:

From that day my luck turned from bad to worse

not only was my mom still mad at me. But the 

next day I forgot to study for my math quiz

the night before and barely passed it. But I also forgot

that Miss Dragon, one of my favorite actresses was coming

to my school that afternoon. To speak on the 

importance of reading

"Hey, where have you been? my friend Daisy Penguin

asked me. As I met her by the school gym double-door

"I've been waiting for you for more than ten minutes."

"Don't ask," I mumbled. As we walked inside the gym

and even though it was almost full. We managed to find

two seats in the front row next to the door

then after what seemed like Miss Dragon finally walked

through the doors

Kids started clapping and yelling out her name

including myself. In fact was so excited that I

forgot that I put my water bowl down next to me

and accidentally knocked it over with my paw. A 

moment later all the kids inside the gym gasped 

When they saw that Miss Dragon, slipped on the wet floor

and fell right on top of me

"Oww, my ankle!" She cried out horrified

Her ankle? What about my paw? Believe me, she wasn't

as light as she appeared to be

Miss Fisher and some of the other teachers rushed

over to Miss Dragon, who was still crying

about her stupid ankle. None of them even bothered

to ask me if I was okay. All they cared about was her

precious ankle

A few minutes later Miss Fisher came back inside the

gym and informed us that Miss Dragon had a real

bad sprain and wouldn't be able to speak with us

today

"Oh nice going Cookie, you just had to spill your water

bowl. Didn't you?" Daisy scowled at me once we

were outside

"Hey, it was an accident. And how bad of a sprain could

it be? When she landed on top of me and not

the floor?" I snapped

"Yeah, that part was pretty funny. You should've 

seen the look on your face." When she landed on  

you it was hysterical." Daisy giggled. "Well, see you

later I promised Vicky, that I'd help her. With 

her science project." She added

"Gee, what a pal," I smirked to myself

Chapter 3:

When I got home my paw began to swell up like

a balloon. And if that wasn't bad enough a few

minutes later. It started to go numb from all the 

ice pack that my mom kept putting on it

Later that night as I lay in my bed waiting for

the feeling in my paw to return. I knew that I

had to return the collar. So, I got up super early the

next morning. And sneaked outside before my mom

noticed that I was gone and went straight to the 

maple tree. And started digging for the box

which was missing

"Oh, great now what I'm going to do?" I sighed

I was about to go back in when I noticed a note

lying on the ground. Which read:

If you want your bad luck to change

you need to return the collar inside the 

metal box. And rebury it where you found it

"Right? And how am I going to do that?"

If I don't know where to find the stupid thing."

I started to crumple up the paper when something 

caught my eye. On the back of it was a drawing of my 

bedroom

"Now that's weird." I thought to myself as I stared at

the drawing again and noticed the missing metal box

was sitting on top of my toy chest inside my room

Feeling both nervous and confused I ran inside

and just like the drawing showed

there it was. And though it was driving me crazy how

it got there. I was just so happy that I found it

I quickly took off the collar and placed it inside the

box. I was about to go back outside and return it

when my mom walked into my room

"Oh good you're up. Well, we'll be leaving in a

few minutes." She smiled

"Leaving? Leaving where?" I frowned

"I promised Ms. Tiger, that I'd help her with the 

school bake sale." She answered

"Aww Mom, do I really have to go? Can I just 

stay home?" I whined

"Sure, sweetie."

"I can? Really?" Wow, thanks." I began

"Yes, you can. in about ten years from now move

your little tail. And start getting ready, we don't

want to be late." My mom laughed

"I really hate when she does that." I frowned to 

myself once she left my room

Chapter 4:

The next day I guess that my mom noticed that

there was something wrong. Because when I

got home from book club she had my favorite

snacks waiting for me

"Cookie, you look a little down. Is there something

bothering you?" She smiled

And after I finished the last bite of my meaty

bones. I told her the whole story

"And did you return it?" She asked after I finished

"Yeah, right after we got home from the bake sale,"

I told her

"I see. Well, I sure hope that I never find something

like that." Her mom shrugged

"Trust me, I learned my lesson the next time I find

something that doesn't belong to me." I'm going

to leave it just where I found it."

Cookie told her

"I'm glad to hear you say that Cookie. Because I've

to tell you a little secret." My mom began

What

"It was me. I'm the one who left you the box."

My mom answered

"What?" Why?" I cried out

"Well, remember last week when I told you not to

play with my stuff? Without asking me first

what happened?" My mom asked me

"I lost one of your favorite rings. Then lied to you

about it but you grounded me for it." Cookie mumbled

"I know. But you still didn't

learn your lesson even with me grounding you." 

Did it?" My mom frowned. "So, I figured

if you went through a bit of hard times. You'd finally

understand or hopefully will." What do you say am I

forgiven?" She added smiling

For a minute I was so upset that she had me go 

through all this. But even though she drives me crazy

and acts weird and annoying sometimes. She does mean 

well and I'm sure she thinks the same of me

I went up to her and gave her the biggest hug and 

smiled before I answered her back

"Of course I do! You're the best mom in the whole wide

world!"

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