It was late night. While I was studying for my exam I saw a shadow which seemed to be moving around my room. I was scared to death. I took my toy gun because it can shoot some bullets. My puppy began barking as the shadow came closer and closer to us. My puppy suddenly jumped and grabbed the shadow. It was my socks. The shadow had been my own socks! I couldn’t believe it. I took the sock from my puppy’s mouth. “What are these nonsensical things?” I asked. Suddenly a pair of magic eyes appeared in the socks. It began to talk. “Please Madam, don’t kill me. I’m your socks. I was born in a factory in Europe. I’m made of a role of string. I came out of the factory with lots of other friends. My friends were very colourful. We were exported to Sri Lanka. Then we were kept in a huge shopping mall. One day your mother came and bought me. Thereafter I was with you all the time. But neither you nor your mother knew that I’m a pair of magical socks. I found it very boring to stay in your cupboard. So I began to walk around your room. Ah!” The eyes disappeared from the socks. But in the next few days it came and talked to me for hours and hours. We are best friends now.
Janithya Risadi,
Grade 9,
Gothami Balika Vidyalaya,
Colombo 10.