Story Walker (行走在故事里的小男孩）

秋石

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Chapter Five
　　　The sudden ringing of the phone disturbed their happy talking, and the princess was even annoyed by the noises, for she had never heard any sound like that before and she didn’t like it.
　　　“What’s that?” Since the ringing went on and on, the princess asked.
　　　“It’s my teacher. He wants to report me to my mom.” Said the little boy, vexed.
　　　“So aren’t we going to mute it? I don’t like the noises!” said the princess and stood up, pointed her magic stick to the phone, well, it became quiet all of a sudden.
　　　“You broke it?” said the boy in a low voice. The phone had broken into five pieces.
　　　“Don’t worry about that. Just don’t wake up your mother.” The princess said and sat down, “Come on. We are having a good time, aren’t we? Tell me something about you!” The little boy just stared at her, worried.
　　　“We are never going to wake her up?” After a while, he asked.
　　　“As long as you don’t want her to wake up!” said the princess.
　　　“I surely don’t want her to wake up. But daddy may come back. He may find it.” He said.
　　　“Oh-oh.” Exclaimed the princess. She forgot the little boy should have a daddy.
　　　“Yea. I didn’t know you also had a daddy. You know, people in my kingdom don’t have fathers, so I forgot people here should have fathers. But don’t worry. I can fix it. I just don’t want it to work now. Come on, don’t worry about anything Sit here.” Hearing her words, the boy sat down again.
　　　“I just don’t understand why you are so afraid of your parents and you are not happy together. You are just like, Eh, not like a family. Are all the families here like yours?” asked the princess.
　　　“Yea.”
　　　“Oh, poor kids. Er, and you seem to be afraid of your teacher too. Is he also so scary?”
　　　“He always reports me to my mom. He always takes my storybooks away and gives them to my mom. They don’t want me to read story books.”
　　　“Oh. That’s not good.”
　　　“Fairy sister, can you do me a favor?”
　　　“Yes?”
　　　“I want to find my books, but I can’t find them. Can you help me?”
　　　“Sure. Are the book in your home?”
　　　“I have looked for them everywhere but I can’t find them. I don’t know where she hid them.”
　　　“It’s easy.”
　　　“You can find them for me?”
　　　“Yea. Let’s just go back to the time when she hid your books and then we will know where she hid them.”
　　　“Go back to the time?” the little boy shook his head, not understanding her words.
　　　“Yea. With me, everything could happen. Hold my hand! Let’s go back!” the princess held the little boy’s hand and then the little boy felt they had fallen into a dark hole, but the feeling didn’t last long. Soon later, he found he was standing behind her mother, who was holding one of his storybooks. He took a deep breath out of horror. He wasn’t expecting to see his mother. But the princess held his little hand tight.
　　　“Don’t be afraid. She can’t see us.” Said the princess and the mother really didn’t seem to hear them at all. She just went to a picture, hung on the wall, and pushed the picture aside. The little boy at last knew where all her storybooks were. They were hidden in the wall behind the picture. Well, that’s what he didn’t expect. He just searched the cupboards and drawers. That’s why he never found them.
　　　“Let’s go back.” Said the princess and then they fell into the dark hole again and soon later, they came back. The boy didn’t say anything but rushed to the room, in which his books were hidden. He pushed the picture aside and put his hand into the hole. To his great joy, he felt the books.
　　　“They are here! They are here!” He shouted excitedly, eyes shining and took out the books one by one.
　　　“Thank you.” He laughed and said to the princess. He really had changed a lot. He hadn’t laughed so loudly and so happily for years, though he was only ten years old. Well, his mother, the woman who was still lying in bed, was from the countryside. She acted as if she exactly knew how to educate a child, while what she did was just to compare his child with others’, and when she found the difference between hers and others’, she did anything she could to make her child like anyone else’s. He was supposed to be good at all his subjects at school and he could speak good English and do well in drawing, but for the first thing, he shouldn’t do what he really liked, like reading stories or making up stories. Living under huge pressure, the little boy lost his laughter day by day until he happened to meet the happy princess. But now, the boy’s broad smile faded.
　　　“Well, what’s going on?” noticing that, the princess asked.
　　　“If only I could get the one my teacher took away from me today.” Said the little boy.
　　　“Maybe we can, only if you know where he lives.”
　　　“I know where he lives. He can’t have taken it home. It must be in his office. But in this way, I’ll be a thief.”
　　　“Oh. Don’t worry about this. It’s your book. He took it away from you without your permission and now you just take back what belongs to you. Besides, you don’t have to do it, cause I’ll do it for you. What you should do is just to show me the way.”
　　　Smiles invaded onto the boy’s face again. He imagined how happy Liuying, the girl from whom he borrowed the book, would be. Thinking he could return the book to her and made her happy, he relieved and he just wanted to go to the teacher’s office at once and grab the book. So he smiled and ran to the door.
　　　“Or, we can do it like this.” But the princess walked slowly after him and said, “We even don’t have to go there.”
　　　“We don’t have to go there?” the boy was confused again.
　　　“Yea. We don’t have to go there. I have a good way. Come on.” In doubt, the little boy came back to her.
　　　“You just wrote a story about what happened to you and then we can go into the story and take the book out.”
　　　“Can we?” for a moment, the boy didn’t know the logic of what the princess said, but when he knew what it meant, he asked, amazed.
　　　“Somebody has forgotten what I have said! Just keep in mind. Anything might happen with my being here. Come on. Take out a piece of paper and a pen and write.” The princess demanded so the boy did what as she demanded. He took out an exercise book and a pen and started to write a story. He wrote like this:
　　　“I like reading stories. But I don’t have storybooks now. My mother has taken my storybooks away. I borrowed a storybook from my classmate Liuying. She liked the book very much. She didn’t want to lend the book to me. She was afraid the teacher would take it away. But I promised I wouldn’t read it in class. At last, she lent the book to me. But I liked the stories in that book very much. I read in class and I forgot anything around me. The prince finally found Cinderella. And the teacher found I was not listening to him. He came to me and took my book away.”
　　　“Ok. Let’s stop here.” He hadn’t finished I, but the princess stopped him.
　　　“Come on, hold my hand.” Said the princess and she held the little boy’s hand, who felt falling into a hole again. But soon later, he found he was sitting in the classroom, holding the book while the teacher tried to pull it out of his hand.
　　　“Let it go.” He heard a voice said by his ear. It’s the princess and he suddenly realized he was only in his story. Well, it’s very much like being in a dream. But knowing the princess was nearby, he loosed his hands and the teacher took the book away, and he found Liuying watching him and everything was just like what happened in the daytime. Then, the bell rang and the teacher went out.
　　　“Wait here. I’ll be back, with the book of course.” He heard the princess’s voice again. He waited there, anxiously. He saw that girl sitting there, sad. He didn’t know why he had the courage and went to her.
　　　“Sorry, Liuying,” he said, “but don’t worry. I’ll return the book to you tomorrow.” He had just finished these words when he felt somebody caught his arm.
　　　“Let’s go!” it’s the princess’s voice and then he felt falling into a dark hole again. A moment later, he was in the sitting room with the princess again and the book.
　　　“It worked.” He shouted happily, taking the book into his hands.
　　　“Yes. It is this one. I can’t believe it. It’s wonderful. Fairy sister, how great you are.” He shouted in wild happiness and jumped.
　　　“Yea. That’s what you should be. A happy boy.” Said the princess and watched the happy boy, smilingly.

海怪

I CAN SAY NOTHING BUT "I  服了 YOU！" AGAIN AND AGAIN ！！！

败家子

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行   www.tv4all.com  这个网站上面各国的电视台都有
对考托福IBT和CBT有帮助的是http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/

秋石

Thank you!

秋石

我主要想上去连载我的英文小说！

deepimpact

您是什么专业的学生？外国语专业？
佩服死您了。
向您看齐！

秋石

太过奖了。

楠姐

i like it

蓝人

hello, you have done a fantastic job, guys!  

I will discuss your novel with you next time when I come here, come on! go ahead!

秋石

Thank you. i also like it. i hope it will be my be my breakthrough.

书香一隅

just wonderful

秋石

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Chapter Six
                　　　　　　　　　　　　      Cinderella
　　　“Let me have a look. I’d like to know what interests our little prince so much.” Said the princess and took the book. She read some lines and then withdrew her eyes.
　　　“Oh. It’s a story about my world.” She exclaimed excitedly and the little boy just smiled.
　　　“Well, you do like the stories in this book, don’t you?” asked the princess and the boy nodded.
　　　“Do you want to go into these stories? You’ll like it, I’m sure!”
　　　“Can I?” asked the boy and then he smiled, remembering what the princess had told her.
　　　“Sure you can. We call that walking in stories! Choose one. I’ll take you into it. 　　　It’s exciting!” the princess handed the fairy-tale book to the little boy, who chose the tale of Cinderella, to whom he showed a lot of sympathity.
　　　“Ok. Cinderella. So we will go into the story of Cinderella!” Said the princess and held the little boy’s hand. Soon later, they were in another world. The boy looked around only to find this world was much much more beautiful. The sky was blue, and the air was fresh and birds were singing happily and in front of them was a pretty house.
　　　“I love this world.” He shouted happily.
　　　“Shhh.” The princess put her fingers on his lips to suggest him to be quiet and then took him to a big stone and hid behind it.
　　　“Don’t let them hear you.” said the princess. The boy nodded, feeling really excited. Then they heard a woman’s voice from the pretty house, and until then did he remember they were in the tale of Cinderella and that house must be Cinderella’s house.
　　　“Cinderella. Wash all the clothes. Clean the floor and tidy the furniture. Don’t be lazy. Come on, my dears, or we’ll be late for the party.” The little boy knew it’s the stepmother’s voice and as soon as he heard her words, he just wanted to jump out. Oh, he really didn’t like the stepmother. But the princess pressed his shoulder.
　　　“Calm down. You don’t want Cinderella to be in trouble, do you? If you jump out and say something bad about the stepmother, Cinderella will be in trouble. What we are going to do is to help her find her eternal happiness.” Said the princess and the boy nodded. Then they saw a grand carriage stopped in front of the house and a well-dressed woman came out from the house with two well-dressed young girls.
　　　“They must be Cinderella’s step sisters.” Thought the little boy. But the shorter one seemed to be a little unhappy.
　　　“Mom. Why can’t I wear her dress? It fits me more and I look more beautiful in it. I’m sure Yogow will fall in love with me if he sees me wearing this dress.” Said the shorter one to the mother.
　　　“Why! I love it too. Yogow will fall in love with me.” The taller one said. She was more beautiful and she looked in a quite good mood. But they soon climbed into the carriage, which rolled away and got out of sight.
　　　“Shall we go in now?” asked the little boy.
　　　“To do what?” but the princess asked.
　　　“To help her with the housework. She has so much housework to do.” The little boy said but before the princess could say anything, they heard singing coming out of the house.
　　　“Cinderella is singing.” Said the little boy and the princess nodded.
Wash the clothes. Clean the floor. Tidy the furniture. They have beautiful dresses, while my clothes were covered with smudges of cinders. People call me Cinderella just because I look so dirty. They go to parties, while I have to stay. Oh. How I wish mom were alive. We would live happily together. How I wish I would have beautiful dresses one day. How I wish I would have a chance to meet my prince! But I’m just dreaming. How could the prince come to see me! He wouldn’t even look at me. How would the prince look at a girl in rats? Oh, how poor I am. But I will not lose heart. I’ll wait! I’ll wait. Oh. Dear Godmother, please help me! the singing ceased and then they heard sobs.