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>> presents
>> It all happened unintentionally.
>> In Fuenlabrada we had no shop as the one of my friend Rachid. In Hav´itall, his grandfather Ahmed used to recycle old things that he turned into something cool and he sold them again afterwards.
>> Once, Tai's mother had given him two sweaters that she had shrunk while washing up, and and abracadabra! Mr. Ahmed turned them into a pair of house slippers.
>> Mom loves the Ahmed family shop, thinks its name is quite funny as well. 'Look what a pretty bag I bought in Hav´itall, Hav´itall!'
>> All was well in our lives and in Fuenlabrada up until the day that black legend of the Ahmed's family came to be.
>> It all happened at the school entrance.
>> Tai, Jonatan, Pepa and I waited at the entrance for Rachid.
>> Our friend arrived with his mother, Mrs. Ahmed, who was wearing a blue brooch that I had seen at home.
>> 'Hey, that brooch your mother is wearing is my mum's!', I said. 'That's not true', Rachid protested.
>> And of course it was not true! But I did not know...
>> That day during the school break, the spread like wildfire. Tai said: 'My father have lost his glasses. Maybe Rachid's mother took them for her shop.'
>> Jonatan said: 'I'm sure they'll just have the book my grandpa can't find'
>> And Pepa said: 'My mother does not know where her hat is, maybe they have it?'
>> Since that very day, Rachid changed. Rachid was sad, even in music class, which was his favourite.
>> He always arrived alone and arranged his music stand in silence, not talking to anyone.
>> And thus time passed by, up until one day, the black legend of the Ahmed family turned around.
>> There was meeting with the tutor. Rach's mother was wearing the blue brooch and I told my mum: 'Look Mom! She's stolen from you!'
>> Mum looked at Mrs. Ahmed and waved, smiling. I did not understand how come she was not angry with her.
>> 'Dani, how can you say that? Nobody has stolen anything. I took it to the store! Come on, we will clear this now.'
>> I felt sorry and ashamed and my shoes weighed, but mum pushed me to the class. 'You must tell the truth', she said.
>> I took a deep breath before shouting: 'That blue brooch is Rachid's mother´s, not mine's!'
>> And my friends and I told them everything about how we had created the black legend of the Ahmed family, unintentionally.
>> That evening Pepa had an idea. We would tell everybody in Fuenlabrada that Ahmed's grandpa was a wizard who could bring dead things back to life. And so we turned the story upside-down.
>> I brought him my broken umbrella and... abracadabra! He made me a music stand just like Rach's.
>> Mr. Ahmed got loads and loads of orders after that. Everybody in Fuenlabrada wanted one of his music stands.
>> But the best thing about this is that now that our music sheets do not fly away anymore, we do have our music lessons in the outside whenever it's sunny.