Billy was hating his new school, as he was thihking that everyone in his new school was hating him. He was twelve, and he recently lost his parents and moved in with his grandfather. That was why he changed schools.
He was missing his parents, and New York, where his whole friends and school was in. He didn’t like Ohio, as he didn’t know anyone.
“Billy,” his teacher said, “You’re new, so you don’t know about our Spring School Festival. We have a barbecue, and we have all sorts of competitions for children and parents.”
“It’s a lot of fun, and it will be a good opportunity for you to get to know everyone better!”
“I don’t think so, M’am,” Billy said. “I don’t think I’ll be able to come…”
“You have to, Billy!” The teacher said. “I’m sending a note home to your parents!””I don’t have any parents,” Billy said. “Only my grandpa…”
The other students were talking with each other about Billy, and he was sure. He ducked his head, so the others wouldn’t see his tears.
“He’s crying!” A student shouted, “Cry-baby! Cry-baby!”
Billy returned home with the note from his teacher at school, “There,” he said. “For some lame festival we HAVE to go to!” He gave the note to his grandpa.
“The Spring School Festival!” Grandpa said. “I’d forgotten about that. It’s a lot of fun! A big bake-off and a barbecue and competitions…”
“Right!” Billy said. “I don’t have parents, so I’ll be even more of a freak.”
“I used to compete when your dad was your age,” Grandpa responded. “I even won a few times.”
“You WON?” Billy was excited suddenly. “If you could win again this year… I’d get major respect!”
“Billy,” his grandpa said, “I was a lot younger back then. I don’t know if I can still cut it!”
“You can, Grandpa!” Billy pleaded, “I KNOW you can!”
Then his grandpa decided to win the contest for his grandson, who was excited about something for the first time since he moved in. He then explained that there were some contests to participate to win the prize.
“Which ones, Grandpa?” Billy asked.
“Let’s see: pie bake-off, sock darning, fly-tying, egg race…”
“GRANDPA!” Billy’s voice raised, “Those are LAME!”
“…and archery,” his grandfather finished. “I should be able to win three of those.”
Then the Spring School Festival came. Billy was ashamed when his grandpa enrolled in the sock-darning, and pie bake-off contests. Other parents mocked him, “Are you sure, sir?”
“Quite sure, young lady!” Grandpa smiled. Then the time for the egg race, the fly-tying, and the archery came. People were looking at him and laughing as they were mocking.
After Grandpa’s cranberry, apple, and walnut pie with meringue topping left the oven, the laughters were silenced. Grandpa won the first contest easily.
Then the sock-darning came as another easy win. When people asked how, “I was in the Navy, a submariner,” grandpa said, as he was the one who was laughing this time. “We were months underwater. I learned to darn my socks and everyone else’s!”
He won the fly-tying, and egg race easily too. Now it was time for the archery contest, where the other parents were muscular and way younger than him.
One of father with big muscles said, “You sure you can do this, pops? Mind your arthritis!”
Then grandpa drew the bowstring to his chin in one move, which people were shocked again. As the arrow left his bow, it was another win for the grandpa. He won all the five contests.
“With FIVE VICTORIES, the winner of Parent of the Year goes to…Mr. Grover!” The school principal announced. “Most of you are too young to remember, but Mr. Grover is a FIVE-TIME champion!”
As the grandpa received his award with his grandson, Billy, his schoolmates started to approach him. “Hey, Billy,” one said. “Has your Grandpa taught you fly-tying? Maybe we could go fishing…”
“Yeah… He’s way cool. Do you think he’d teach us to shoot the bow?”
“Sure!” Billy said smiling. “Come on over tomorrow after school and I’ll ask him!”
“Come on by, boys, and I’ll even bake some apple pie for you all!” Grandpa said on the next day, as he took Billy from his school.
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