Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls

Author:Sally Nicholls [Nicholls, Sally]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Retail, Ages 8 & Up
ISBN: 9781407132792
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Published: 2012-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

THE STORY OF THE CURE

This is a story that I made up.

It starts with me at home. I’m cross and miserable. Mum’s cross too. We’re fighting. Mum’s crying.

It seems as if nothing good is ever going to happen again.

And then the phone rings.

On the other end of the phone is Annie. She’s very excited. A team of scientists has found a new drug, which has cured leukaemia in lots of laboratory hamsters and mice. All the laboratory hamsters and mice were lying there, about to die, but after they were given this drug they got better and now they’re living happy lives as pets of the scientists’ children.

The scientists need some human beings to test this drug on. They ring our hospital and talk to Annie.

“We need lots of people with leukaemia,” they say. “Give us your sickest patients. The sicker the better. This drug is so good, they’ll just take one sniff and they’ll be disco dancing.”

“Right you are,” says Annie. And straight away she rings up all her patients and tells them about the scientists.

Some of the patients are doubtful.

“No way,” they say.

“He’s having us on.”

“No drug can be that good.”

But I say I’ll give it a go.

The next day the scientists come round to our house. They give me a packet of little red-and-white striped pills.

“Here you go,” they say. “This is it. Take two a day with a drink – whatever type you like best.”

The drug is very good. As soon I have taken one pill I start to feel better. After I have taken two pills, I stop feeling tired. And after three pills I get up and start jumping on my bed. I run all around the house. I get out my bike and ride it up the hill and back down. I play basketball with Ella on the old hoop on our house and I beat her thirty-eight hoops to six.

After I have taken all the pills in the packet I am completely cured. The scientists are delighted. I am on the World News. All the newspapers in the world have pictures of me coming down our hill on roller blades and visiting other children with leukaemia to tell them about the pills.

The scientists make billions of pounds selling their pills to hospitals.

They give some of the money to me and I go on a world cruise with my family and Felix and Granny.

And no one ever dies of leukaemia. Ever again.

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