The Malchance Brothers: A Short Story

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The Malchance Brothers
“Get up. It 's time for school!” yelled Mrs.Malchance.
One of the two 13-year-old short and frail brothers named Nathan prepared to get out of bed, until he realized that he was already out of bed on the floor face down. He had rolled over off their bed in his sleep. The other brother Lucas had slept weirdly and had a large amount of aching pain in his back due to it.
“Hey Nathan how did you sleep,” Lucas asked.
“Not very well, I fell off my bed during the night” Nathan responded. “and I feel like there is something in my hair, but I can’t feel it, can you check?”
“No,” Lucas answered, “I’m to tired.” They went over to their connecting bathroom and started their rusted up small shower. Looking in the mirror over the , Lucas saw his black hair going in all directions from his head. Nathan 's pale, freckled face had a small amount of green goo coming from his hair. Then he looked up at his hair and then realized that he had slept with putty in his bed and now it was stuck in his hair. They came up with a phenomenal plan to have Nathan stand still as Lucas tried to pull out the putty. “AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!” Nathan screamed in pain. His head now had a bald spot were blond hair used to be. Nathan started to feel a harsh sting on his brand new bald spot. Lucas was first to go in the shower. The shower was only dribbling out freezing water that neither of them wanted to go into. “Great. What do we do now?” asked Lucas. “We will just have to go to school without being able to take a shower and you will have to go with green hair today,” replied Nathan. The boys then went to brush their teeth using their brand new electric toothbrushes. “Batteries are dead, of course,” said Lucas. “Out of toothpaste,” added Nathan. “Boys, time for breakfast!” beckoned Mrs.Malchance. “Coming Mom!” answered the two boys. For breakfast they had warm pancakes with piping hot syrup drizzling down the sides, a slice of melting butter on top, and a glass of water. The mother handed the boys their pancakes. Lucas dropped his on the floor with the syrup splattering all over the floor, and then Nathan drank his water and almost threw up because it was actually white vinegar. They tried to ignore it and got in the car. Leaving from the small, blue wood house they backed into the car behind them. The neighbor stepped out of their house and saw the damage that they had done. “How do you think you are, backing into my car like that. You wouldn’t care to tell me how this happened would you?” asked to neighbor. “I’m sorry I had it in
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They didn’t fall off their bed while they slept, or trip on the way to the bathroom, or even have their breakfast fall off the plate and drink white vinegar instead of water. It felt as if the day was the exact opposite of what it normally is, horrible. Today for these two boys seemed like their day was going to turn out to be a excellent day. They got to school without getting into a car crash, getting a ticket, or even getting honked at. They remembered to bring their homework to school, and they aced their mid-term exams. They realized that today was a day that they would not have bad luck. The two brothers used this wisdom to their advantage by getting their mom, going to the gas station and buying lots of lottery tickets. They sat and watched to see who won. They had bought 50 lottery tickets, and they won three different lotteries. In all they won 3 million dollars. Their life was changed forever. The boys weren 't bullied anymore. They actually could do things that they wanted to do without being terrified that they were going to die, and they had the best grades in the class. The boys always had a smile on their face, and they would be up for everything. Their grades went up to all A’s, and they never forgot their homework at home. Life was great. Until… the

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