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One sunny bright day there lived an ordinary teenager girl 

named Emma; she had shiny blonde hair and beautiful blue eyes. 

Emma was also very kind and neat. She was fourteen years old, 

and felt lonely, she never saw her dad because unfortunately he 

died in car crash when she was only three years old. 

Her mom was always working and traveling around Europe, so 

Emma didn't see her mom as often. But her grandma Geraldine 

was her full time carer.  

One Wednesday morning the phone rang at 8 a.m.   Emma 

shouted to her grandma before they got in the car to go to 

school: 

“ I’ll get the phone grandma!” 

When Emma put the phone close to her ear she heard a voice 

talking with a german accent. 

“Hello, hello is anybody home?” 

Emma was very confused so she decided not to speak, the strange 

voice continued:  

“Excuse me is anybody home? Can I speak to Ger…... it’s about the 

par..” but she could not hear what that stranger was saying because 

her grandma was shouting 

“Come on you will be late for school!” 

“Ok” Emma sighed and quickly hung up the telephone without giving 

any reply.

(Emma’s grandma does not have any patience). 

When Emma arrived at school she was told off by her teacher for 

being late (as usual). She was sent to detention for two whole hours 

(it was boring). During playtime everyone in her class sat and laughed 

at her, except for Tom, he liked Emma.

Although, Tom picked his nose every three minutes, he wore pink and 

purple glasses, he loved reading, but for some strange reason he never 

handed in his homework (he would get detention nearly every day). 

Tom also wore shirts with hearts and flowers on them, and he loved 

playing with dolls.

Everyone   laughed at him especially the mean girls; but not Emma. She 

accepted people as they were.  

When Emma came back from school her grandmother said:

    - “How was your day?” 

Emma replied sadly “it was awful, again, because everybody teased me 

and laughed at me just because I got sent to detention for two 

hours”.

“Emma don’t always listen to what other people say, just ignore them 

and they will stop disturbing you. Stay focused on your dreams and 

don’t copy their behavior.” her grandmother soothed her.Emma hugged 

her grandma and rushed to her room, jumped on her bed and glanced 

at the calendar. 

“Three days till my birthday,” she whispered to herself while taking 

out the huge stack of math homework still to do.

Exactly when she finished her homework her grandma shouted:   ‘‘Bed 

time!” Emma slipped into her pajamas brushed her teeth and rushed to 

bed with her favorite book, she always read before falling asleep.

“FINALLY THE DAY HAS COME, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!” Emma 

shouted out loud for the whole house to hear. 

To her surprise there were colorful balloons, pop music, lots of 

cupcakes and huge posters saying ‘Happy Birthday day Emma!’ all right 

there in her tiny living room.

The doorbell rang and a strange man walked in the living room holding 

hands with Emma’s mum... 

The man had a strong German accent when he spoke to Emma, 

“Hello my darling daughter’’ he said staring at Emma with a smile. 

“You can’t be my dad....who are you?’’ Emma replied curiously 

“Well Emma he is your step dad!” said Emma’s mum in a quiet voice, 

“He is your Step-Dad, can I speak to you Emma in private?’’ 

They both went into the kitchen and Emma’s mum said to her 

    “My Sweetie, during one of my business trips I met this wonderful 

man, Hans.   He respects and loves me so we decided to get married 

soon.   He always wanted a daughter because he lost his due to a 

sickness.   He called earlier just to hear your voice.   He is the one that 

arranged this surprise party for you.   He’s a good man and wants to 

take care of you as if you were his own.  

What do you say?”

Emma was confused, didn't know how to feel.   She understood that 

her mum was very happy and therefore she’d be happy too. 

She quickly turned around and ran to the living room (where her party 

was) and said to her step-dad: 

“Welcome to our family!” and gave him a warm hug.

After some minutes the doorbell rang again…

DING-DONG

The door slowly opened and a tall handsome teenager stepped inside 

the house. Blonde hair blue eyes who can this stranger be?

“Hello is this Emma’s party?” the boy said looking around the house. 

“Yes come in come in” said Emma’s grandma. 

“Emma, this is Johnny say hello’’ whispered her mum in her welcoming 

voice.

“Hi Johnny” Emma replied a bit reserved because she had never met 

him before.

“Hey Emma Happy Birthday!”

“Thanks, but who exactly are you?”

“Oh, I forgot to introduce myself, well I am Johnny Parker, our dads 

were childhood best friends.”

“It’s a pleasure meeting you Johnny Parker.” She had so 

many questions about her real dad to ask Johnny’s 

father, “This is truly a birthday gift!” She thought to 

herself.   “Let’s go and dance before the party’s over.”

“OK.”

So Johnny and Emma danced till midnight like there was 

no tomorrow.   That night Emma could not sleep she 

kept on thinking of Johnny and her step dad.

When Emma woke up she thought it was all a dream but 

it wasn't because her step-dad came to her room and 

greeted her good morning with a warm plate of freshly 

made pancakes and her favorite strawberry milkshake.  

Tears filled her eyes and the only words she could 

outer were   “Thank You!” 

Emma was sad that her father died when she was three 

but today she felt very happy to finally have a step dad.  

Someone who cared about her and loved her. 

Emma remembered some of the things that they had 

said last night with Johnny. 

His favorite place to hang out was the beach near by, 

and that he worked there sometimes as a lifeguard (it’s 

his hobby).

When Emma remembered those things she right away 

put on her bathing suit and headed to the beach to find 

Johnny, her true love.   Or at least that’s how she felt 

at that moment about him.

Once she arrived to the particular spot on the beach 

Emma saw him high up on a life guard tower looking out 

if anybody was drowning (but nobody was).

Emma called out his name 

“Johnny, Johnny down here, it’s Emma from yesterday’s 

party,” 

Johnny looked down right at her and gestured to her to 

climb up to the lifeguard tower where he was sitting on.  

She did with little effort  

Once she reach the top Emma saw some drawings of her 

classmates Jessica, Arianna and Clara the meanest girls 

ever. They might be pretty and popular but they were 

very very mean. Emma thought for a moment to herself, 

“Maybe Johnny likes Jessica and he just likes me as a 

friend?”

Emma decided to go ahead and ask Johnny why he had 

the drawings of such mean girls on his wall. 

“Well… long   story but I will tell you because you are 

really cool to me. Before I met you, Jessica and I were 

dating and she forced me to draw pictures of her and I 

together in my favorite area (this life guard tower), so 

I did. 

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