I am a pencil

Hi! My name is Mapy. I come from the Mapel family. I live in a book shop with my friends. I am grey and orange in colour. I am the prettiest of all pencils in the book shop. One day a boy took me. When he was doing his homework with me, my point broke. He sharpened me. He always sharpened me like this. I grew short. The boy put me in his pencil case and put it into the bag. He ran to school. The teacher saw that I was short. “Throw that away” the teacher said. The boy threw me. Now I have no one.

Sanujana Maheepala Fernando,

Grade 3,

S. Thomas College,

Mt. Lavinia.