The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh by Helen Rutter

Author:Helen Rutter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

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When I visit Granny Bread at the Oaks after school, I try telling a funny story about Chloe on an imaginary pony. I gallop around the tiny room, but she dozes off halfway through, so it doesn’t really work. When she wakes up, I reenact my worst moment from my last soccer match. I stand in the middle of the room and, in slow motion with commentary, act out the ball hitting me on the head and then bouncing up on to the top post, coming back down, and hitting me again before bouncing off into the net and scoring the other team their eighteenth goal of the match. She laughs and calls me “a card.” I’m not sure if storytelling comedy is for me. I think she laughs more at my one-liners.

I stick Mr. Osho’s list up on my pin board when I get home, but I hide it behind the others. It’s a bit embarrassing to look at it, for some reason. Maybe because I just don’t believe that it’s true, but it feels good pinning it up there. Even though I can’t see it, I know it’s there. I’m still waiting to hear from the stammer school; I can’t quite believe that by Christmas my stammer will be gone. I’ll be able to do anything.

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