Three Wishes

One day a little girl was walking down the sidewalk on her way to school, and in the middle of the sidewalk she saw a worm. She raised her foot to squish it, but just then, she heard a wee little voice.

"Please don't squish me!"

The worm had spoken! The girl stepped back instead of stepping on it. "If you can give me one good reason why I shouldn't squish you, then maybe I won't."

"Ok, here's one really good reason," said the worm. "If you don't squish me I'll give you any three wishes you want."

"But how do I know you're telling the truth?" said the little girl.

"Why don't you try it?" said the worm.

"Ok," she said. "For my first wish, I want 1,000 more wishes!"

"Wow, you are smart!" said the worm.

"Yeah, I always get A's on all my tests," the little girl bragged.

"Ok, so what's your first wish going to be?" asked the worm.

"I want to be very pretty," says the girl. And she was pretty.

"I want to be rich and have pretty earings and a nice shirt," says the little girl. "That's all for now, but when I want another wish I will just say it and it will happen, right?"

"Of course" said the worm. "Well, I better be going now, I don't want to be late for school!" said the girl.

"Bye!" said the worm.

When the girl got to school, a very annoying boy named Robbie walked up to her. "Gonna get another hundred on the math test today?" he teased. "Oh my gosh!" the little girl says. "I forgot all about it! I didn't even study."

Robbie started laughing and went off to tell the whole school the news. "Oh no!" the little girl says. "I wish I were dead!"