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SCMP Reporter

One day while walking in the park, I saw a fairy who offered to grant me a wish.

  I wished for the power to know what was in other people's minds. She agreed and I was granted my wish.

  At first, it was a fantastic power and I impressed my friends with my ability to read their minds.

  So legendary were my feats that I never realised they could land me in serious trouble.

  The news reached Mr Chow, our biology teacher, who asked me to meet him after school.

  'Henry, I want to give you a present,' Mr Chow said with a smile. 'But I have left it at my house. Let us go and fetch it.'   When we got to his place he locked the door and, to my horror, seized me and tied me to a chair.

 'Mr Chow!' I cried. 'What are you doing? What do you want?'   But I knew the answer because I could read his mind.

  He wanted to experiment on me and he urged me to tell him how I got the power.

 I kept silent, which drove him crazy, and he started hitting me again and again.

  The chill of death began to creep over my body.

  'A fairy gave it to me,' I eventually whispered through trembling lips.

  Knowing what was on his mind, I became terrified and burst into tears.

  I tried to think of ways to escape.

  'Let me call the fairy and ask her to give you the power,' I said in desperation.

  He agreed and took me to the park.

  I called the fairy and she appeared. I was so happy that tears of joy streamed down my face. I begged her to give my power to Mr Chow.

  This she did and Mr Chow ran away, crazed with his new power. I never saw him again.

Karen is a student of SKH Lam Kau Mow Secondary School 



Beware! Wishes can come true