Short Story for Kids written by: Vanesa Weber.
Not too far, where the mountains caress the sun during the day and the moon and the stars at night. There was a little wooden hut in where a shepherd and his wife were living.
After many years without having any kid, they finally gave birth to a girl called Emma.
Emma was a pretty girl, with black hair, white skin and beautiful pink cheeks, she was sweet as honey.
Emma grew, one of her favorite activities was to go out to look after the sheep with her father, sharing rolls with jam and contemplating the amazing warm tonalities of the sky at dusk.
At night, she liked helping her mom baking rolls on the clay stove, that they also used as heater. There spent the nights, in front of the fire, looking at the rolls and telling stories about the day.
Years passed, and Emma´s parents decided it was time to send her to the school at the closest village. Emma was really sad because was going to miss the afternoons with her dad, the sheep and the warm dusks of the mountain.
Emma went to school for the first time, it was not easy for her at all, because the girls in her class did not like to study with a peasant from the mountain.
They were all villagers, daughters of rich businessmen, and Emma was a shepherd´s daughter, who really desired to give the best to his little, and made a big effort for her not to stop going to school.
The other girls mocked her for not wearing neither the best dresses, nor the best shoes, they actually envied her, because Emma was a very pretty girl, none of her classmates had such a beauty.
But Emma was conscious of her father´s effort to afford her going to class, and, even being sad, every morning opened her blue eyes to help her mom and then going to school, Emma was actually a very good student.
That is how time passed, Emma became increasingly beautiful and the hate from her classmates was increasing, they murmured that she could never get to be like them, and that her future was at the mountains like a shepherd. That didn´t offend Emma because she really liked looking after the flock like her father, and contemplate the beauty of nature, really made her happy.
One day, before finishing the school year, a count assistant came to the school to announce that there was going to bee a ball in palace, in honour to the new graduates without exceptions.
TO BE CONTINUED…
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