Two children sat on their porches one night looking up at the sky. There was an upside down crescent moon and the stars were bright. The upside down moon looked like the smile that belongs to Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland. Both of the kids saw many of the constellations' in the sky, such as the Big Dipper, the Little Dipper, Ursa Major, Draco, and Canes Venatici.
One of the two children was a little boy. His name was Tommy Oliver. He was tall, had shoulder length brown hair (he often had it pulled back in a pony tail), and wore a lot of green. This second grader had rough day at school. You see, he felt like he lost something that he thought was very important to him. It was a little girl with blonde hair. Her name was Katherine Hillard, she often went by Kat. Tommy had a crush on Kat since they were in kindergarten. But, Kat didn't have a crush on him. She just wanted to stay friends. However, she was offered the chance of a life time. Kat had been swimming since she was about 5 years old; she had been in diving competitions' for the past few years. A talent scout was at one of her diving competitions. He thought that she was an excellent diver and offered to coach her for the Pan Global Games. Kat quickly became famous because she would be the youngest person ever to compete in the Pan Global Games. She got a lot of attention at school from the teachers. And the kids paid more attention to her. Kat wrote Tommy a note at school saying she was part of the in crowd and couldn't be seen with him anymore. She was also go be moving to Florida shortly to start training.
The other child was a little girl. Her name was Kimberly Hart. She was short, had shoulder length brown hair, and wore a lot of pink. Like Tommy, Kimberly felt like she had lost something that was important to her. She had been doing gymnastics since she was about 4 years old. Recently, she had gotten hurt during a gymnastic competition. Kimberly had torn some ligaments in her left foot and had sprained her right ankle. She ended up having to have surgery to fix the torn ligaments in her left foot. After the surgery, she was hospitalized for a few days for observations. When she got out of the hospital, she learned that she wouldn't be able do due gymnastics anymore due to her torn ligaments being server. Kimberly's world changed when all of her friends wouldn't associate with her. All of her friends were on the gymnastics team with her. After they learned she couldn't do gymnastics, they started looking for someone who could take her place on the team. Kimberly could do a lot of the advanced gymnastics tricks, which got the team more points. Plus, it helped them get to higher competition. The Angel Grove Elementary Gymnastics team were about to qualify to go to state to compete with some of the best teams in the state of California. However they barely made it, because Kimberly got hurt towards the end of the competition.
Not only was Kimberly dealing with not being able to do gymnastics, she was also dealing with a difficult situation. Her parents were fighting all the time and were talking about getting a divorce. Her father was a very strict man and wanted perfect. The Harts were trilled when she started doing gymnastics. When she got to be so good, her father became the assistant coach. When he became the assistant coach, it went to his head. He wanted her to be the best and he made her train all the time. Mr. Hart bought a lot gymnastics equipment and put it down in the basement for Kimberly practice gymnastics. Plus, he only bought gymnastics clothes. It been a long time since she had wore a pair of pajamas, pair of jeans, a tee shirt, a pair of shorts, a dress, or a skirt. Most of Kimberly's clothes were gymnastics leotards and gymnastics biketards. However, Mr. Hart bought her athletic suits for her to wear over her gymnastic clothes, when she went to school.
When Kimberly came home from the hospital, her father announced that he was going to file for a divorce. The Harts fought a lot over Kimberly doing gymnastics all the time and Mrs. Hart having a boy friend. She had been dating a French painter. As soon as Kimberly's father said they were getting a divorce, her mother packed up everything that she had. She was going to move in with the French painter. There was one thing that they didn't think of... which was their seven year old daughter. Mrs. Hart didn't want Kimberly because the French painter didn't want to take on the responsibility of raising her. She was afraid of loosing the boy friend and didn't take Kimberly with her. Mr. Hart didn't have much to do with Kimberly and didn't want to raise her. If he took on the responsibility of raising her, he couldn't be a gymnastics coach. So, Kimberly was responsible for finding a new place to go. She quickly went up to her room and put on a pink athletic suit over her leotard.
Kimberly went outside and sat on her porch. She was only a child and didn't know what to do. While she was sitting on her porch, she noticed the little boy who lived across the street from her was also sitting on his porch. Both Tommy and Kimberly had known each other since preschool. But, they weren't friends. They thought they came from too different worlds. Tommy thought Kimberly had a perfect life. She was on the gymnastics team and had a lot friends who were in the in crowd. He also thought that she was lucky to still have both her parents. When Tommy was about a year old, both his parents were in an accident. Neither one of them survived. Jan and James Oliver were Tommy's Godparents since they were good friends with his birth parents. After he lost his parents, Jan and James adopted him. The Olivers were trilled to have him since they couldn't have kids off their own. He also thought she had the best clothes because she always wore fancy athletic suits to school and had friends.
Kimberly though that Tommy had a prefect life because he had two parents. She didn't know that he was adopted. He also hung out with Kat, who happened to be her biggest rival. Kimberly and Kat often tried to she who was better at sports or who was the best in class. She had no idea that Kat was only a friend to Tommy, when she could get something out of him. Tommy also took karate and was very good it.
Even though the two children thought that they came from two different worlds, they had one huge thing in common. Both of them had been looking for a friend for a really long time. They saw a shooting star in the sky. Both began to make a wish.
"Star light, star bright," said Tommy.
"The first star I see tonight," continued Kimberly.
"I wish I may, I wish I might," added Tommy.
"Have the wish I wish tonight," finished Kimberly.
"I wish that I had friend," wished Tommy and Kimberly.
Okay, readers what do you think about this so far? I always enjoy getting feed back from the readers. In the next chapter, Tommy and Kimberly's wish will come true. But, they will learn that they have more in common than they thought.