Run Your Own Race

Then at school, Coug looked for Bixie. When he saw Bixie, he walked over to her. Bixie looked around and quickly tried to find some friends to talk to. She looked worried and started walking over to some of her friends. She just didn’t want Coug to say anything mean to her, or tease her for being a turtle, or call her a cheater.

Coug came up to her anyway.

“Bixie, I’m sorry about all the things I said to you yesterday. I was a poor sport.”

He reached into his backpack and took out the special ribbon he had made for her.

“You were the winner of the marathon. You worked hard to win and deserved first place.”

Coug handed her the award. “You won the race fair and square.”

Bixie read what he had written – “Number 1, Most Determined Turtle.”

A huge smile came over her face. She couldn’t believe that Coug had made such a nice ribbon for her. She liked it more than the first-place ribbon she had won the day before. So Bixie reached out and shook his hand.

“Friends?” she asked him.

“Friends,” Coug agreed.

And that is how Coug and Bixie ran the race, learned some lessons, and became good friends.

THE END.