T he s ecret
Pepín doesn´t come to school very often. Lately, he is absent minded, he doesn´t make his homework, he doesn´t play during the break and sometimes he even fights with his classmates. His main teacher, Carmen, tries to talk to him several times, but he refuses to answer her questions; nobody knows why he behaves like this.
One day Carmen goes for a walk by his neighbourhood. She meets Pepín ´s mother, who tells her a surprising event. Cries start to come from Lady Catherina. She is now away to the horizons with wet eyes. "I have never told anybody about the secret and sorry, dear Carmen, I can not tell you", says Lady Catherina. "But, we are talking about your son, your dearest thing of you. If you don´t speak today, tomorrow may be too late", replied Carmen. "Will you really keep my secret, dear Carmen, for all your life? I am really excited!" "I promise for my life..."
Lady Catherina starts her secret story with a wet handkerchief in her hand …
“Some weeks ago I heard Pepín talking to someone in his bedroom. I opened the door but I saw only him. ‘Who are you talking to?’ I asked” After some minutes he said: “Can you see that creature sitting on the sofa?” “No, I can’t”, I denied. “He’s an alien. His name’s Chak. He can help me to find my father. Now I’m 12 and I want to know something more than a name, Marcus.” “What? I can’t understand” “If I follow Chak’s orders he will give me some magic powers, so I’ll be able to discover where my dad is. Chak gave me the power to teleport anywhere in the world. I’ve been all over the world but can’t find him anywhere. That’s why I’ve been so unhappy at school” Lady Catherina finished telling Carmen her story. Suddenly Pepín ran past Lady Catherina and Carmen. He was running like he was being chased. He looked very frightened. All of a sudden a car came out of nowhere and hit Pepín… “Pepín, Pepín”, lady Catherina cried loud. Pepín laid on the grass and didn´t respond to his mother´s voice at all. Lady Catherina touched Pepin´s neck and could feel his heart beating and Pepín opened his eyes for a second and said: “Daddy!” Lady Catherina thought that she didn´t hear him right and asked him to say the word again, but Pepiín didn´t answer.
At that very moment, lady Catherina saw something in Pepin´s hand. It was a little piece of paper that Pepín kept firmly in his fist. Lady Catherina could only see the first two words of the letter: “Dear son...”
Lady Catherina reached for the letter in his hand and read it. It said: “I have been in space for 5 years because I had a disease that does nothing in space but would kill me on earth. That is the reason I couldn´t meet you. You can´t teleport here but I will send a spaceship to your home to pick you up; it will arrive at exactly 2 pm. It will look like a blue car and the number is KA207. Dad” Lady Catherina looked at the car that hit Pepín and it was the car the letter described.
Suddenly a man came out of the car. Lady Catherina recognized him immediately. It was Pepín’s father. Pepin’s father saw Pepín on the ground and said: “That’s my son!” Pepin cried out: “Dad, is it really you? But, you can’t be here you’ll die of your disease if you stay at Earth!” Pepín’s father explained that a doctor had created a medicine that helped him, so it wasn’t a problem any more. He also said that he would stay at Earth with Pepín forever. Pepín stood up and gave his father the best hug ever. Finally Pepin had found his father and he was happy ever after.
Storyline made by the students of the seven schools participating in the Comenius Project “Sharing Stories to Change your mind” Illustrations made by the students of year 5 and 6 from La Carriona-Miranda Public School.
Mehmet Tuncer High School from Turkey Scuola Media Garibaldi-Matteucci from Italy Scoil Mhuire Coolcotts Wexford from Ireland Tervakosken Koulo from Finland Austurbaejarsko’li from Iceland Hoyenhall Skole from Norway La Carriona-Miranda School from Spain