Hi this is the last chapter to my little story, I hope that you have all enjoyed it, please feel free to leave me any reviews.
The competition was well under way, just give me a moment and I'll explain to you how it worked. Specific books with the same amount of words had been chosen, (I'd had nothing else to do.) there was a little written test set for each book after it had been read to make sure of course that it had indeed been read, (again nothing else to do.) and of course judges to make sure that everyone had the same amount of time and to the best of their ability to make sure there was no cheating. (of course I still had nothing better to do much to Alex's disapproval.)
It was soon time for lunch and Alex was surprisingly doing rather well, which was worrying the rest of her classmates. You see they all thought that Alex couldn't read where as in fact it's just that she is too lazy to read and so chooses not to. However when she does decide she wants to read a book she whips through it quickly and yet still manages to retain the detail which surprises even me. Another thing they should know about Alex is of course once she wants something badly enough she will do whatever it takes to get it. This usually means using someone or something else to make life easier for her but on the odd occasion when these fail she will make the effort herself. The desperately wanting this vacation and not having the means of the other stuff is one of these occasions.
So anyway back to the competition, I could see that Alex was having a hard time keeping her mind on the reading, and that she was starting to loose her concentration. I decided that a little help and a quick spell to keep her mind on the task at hand was in order. I sneakily grabbed my wand recited the concentration spell and hey presto Alex was back in the competition. It wasn't really cheating, as I wasn't making Alex read faster, just to concentrate more and not start daydreaming after all this was the longest Alex had ever worked.
The competition was over and the whole class was in total shock, none of them understanding what had just happened. Some of them so shocked that they started casting accusations of cheating and wanting a recount as they couldn't except or believe the outcome. All of them speechless, all of them except Alex of course who couldn't help but brag and gloat that she herself, with no help from anyone (that she knew about) had won. She couldn't wait to tell Harper that she had done it, and that soon they would be going on the vacation of a lifetime.
Even now a couple of days after the event, I'm smiling, even after all the bragging and I'm just as good as you jibes from Alex. Why, well I'll tell you. Today is the day that Alex and Harper go on that vacation of a lifetime. Although I have to tell you Alex wasn't too happy when she found out that Harper and me had pranked her. In fact at one point she told Harper she wasn't going to take her on the vacation with her, until I explained to her why we did it. I guess in her own strange way she understood why we did it and kind of appreciated the fact that we had so much faith in her and knew she could do anything she put her mind to without any help. So as you can imagine it came as a complete shock to us when she apologized for her behaviour over the last few weeks and thanked both of us for believing in her. She decided to let Harper off just this once, knowing herself of course that she wouldn't have wanted to go with anyone else really. This hasn't stopped Alex from being her normal lazy, selfish annoying self but hey what did you expect. Plus Alex wouldn't be Alex the girl we all love to hate if she didn't use and boss people about.
So anyway as I stand in the airport with my family and wave goodbye to them I slowly begin to realise that I haven't taken the concentration spell off of her and then also begin to realise that I haven't unlocked her wand either which I'm sure she would of packed. I couldn't help the big smile that suddenly appeared across my face. So as I said at the beginning of this, my story, I had finally won, I could finally relax, be happy and enjoy my moment, at least that is for the next 2 weeks.