The Secret A three-nation collaborative story Part 1 by in Geocro in South Africa Part 2 by Alex in Canada Part 3 by Ramira Sa.,Santi and Joerge  in Argentina

Part 1: The secret

Come on tell me!" I pleaded with my best friend and I pulled the sad face she really did not like to see.  "Fine," she said.  It was my best friend's deepest secret and it would be a hard one to keep.

My best friends name is  Nico. She's the quiet type of girl but she's not afraid to speak her mind, or state her opinion. My name is Nickie and I'm a very outgoing, want-to-know everything kind of person. I think that's why my best friend Nico didn't want to tell me her biggest secret because she knows that I probably would tell all my "cooler" friends. But since I promised her that I wouldn't tell anybody , and I swore on my life, she found it in her heart to tell me her DEEPEST DARKEST SECRET ! 

Later that day I saw Nico by her locker crying.  I ran over to her and said " Nico , what's wrong?" she looked at me and said "you told! You told, didn't you ?“ " Told what"? I asked. " You told my secret to Sarah!"  I looked her straight in the eyes and said " What? “ She said," Sarah came over to me in class today and said, " I know your secret, I know your secret.“ I just said  " I don't know what you're talking about, and I  sat in my seat." " Well I promise you Nico, I DIDN'T TELL ANYBODY ! "

Nico looked up at me, as she wiped a tear away from her eye. She said. “Really?” I said “Yes, I promised you I wouldn't tell anyone and I kept that promise. "  Nico said, "Then what was Sarah talking about ?" " I have no idea," I said. 

Part 2: How did the secret get out?

It was two minutes till the bell rang for home time. When the bell rang Nico walked me home. I got inside my house and I kicked off my sneakers. I took my bag up to my room. I threw my backpack on my bed and turned on my stereo. I blasted some rock songs. Then I got to thinking about how Sarah found out about Nico's secret. How did she know? I lay down on my bed for a while and thought, and thought until  I couldn't think anymore. I went downstairs to get a snack. I grabbed an apple from the fridge and ran back up to my room. I grabbed my backpack and started taking out my homework books. That's when I noticed a hole in the bottom of my bag. I stuck my hand through it, and watched my fingers wiggle out the other end.  I thought, " Oh my gosh, I think I have solved the mystery! " 

I called Nico and said, " Here's what I think happened." The piece of paper that you handed to me today, that had your secret written on it, must have fallen through the hole in the bottom of my bag in French class.  When your class came in Sarah must have found it and read it. She then came over to you and said that she knew your secret. Nico was very upset, but she couldn't blame me because I didn't know that there was a hole in my backpack. Nico apologized to me about her behaviour earlier that morning and said that she should have trusted her best freind. I celebrated my birthday  a few weeks later with all my friends. When it was time to open presents Nico wanted me to open hers first. I tore off the blue wrapping paper and opened up a blue box to find a new pink backpack.  

I kissed her and hugged her. She was the best friend of all.  I was so happy that I decided to tell her my own, deepest secret to her.  I took her to a tiny place inside the house, where there wasn't any sound.  She promised me she would never, never tell anyone.  I told her.  Suddenly, I heard some quiet footsteps going backwards.  Nico and I started searching, but there wasn't anybody near.  When we got again where all the people were, they started asking me things like “Where have you been?" but I only said I had gone to the toilet.  

Part 3: the mean girl, Sarah!

The next day at school something dreadful happened. When I opened my locker, I found a note from Sarah saying: " If you don't tell me your secret that you told  Nico, I will tell all the students at school what Nico's secret said. "  My mouth hung open. I didn't know what to do......

I was desperate and puzzled. I needed a plan. That night I couldn’t sleep. The next day I showed Nico the note from Sarah.  We decided to search together for Sarah.  During break-time, we searched for her but none of us found her. She wasn’t at school. When I arrived at my house with Nico we started making a plan. The plan had to be perfect! When we finished the plan it was more or less three o’clock and we were very, very tired. That day at school we saw Sarah and we went to talk with her. She said that if in one hour’s time we hadn’t told her the secret she was going to tell everyone.

Forty minutes later we started telling all the students the plan we had. Everyone was going to do it. The plan was that all the students will tell their secrets and she would appear to be ridiculous. At lunch Sarah stand on a table and shouted the secret. Nobody laughed. She looked ridiculous because everyone started saying their secrets.  From that time on nobody respected Sarah. THE END