大象传媒

By Amelia W

Once there was a sock called Daniel, but everyone knows that socks are supposed to have a pair. That was the trouble with Daniel he didn't have a pair with the same pattern as him. Ever since he could remember he had been alone. All of his brothers, sisters and cousins had a pair but not him, everyone teased him for being the odd one out, even his parents!

Being an odd sock, he never got to be worn, it was something of an honour to be put on in the morning. So you can't blame him when he had had enough and decided to search for his missing twin across the world that was his house.

Daniel packed a bag with a map and some food and decided he would go to each piece of clothing and ask them if they had seen his twin. The pants were no use, nor were the dresses, so that left the T-shirts and the trousers. Daniel was a little more worried about going to find these two as it meant venturing out to the mountainous stairs and the pot plant forest, which were rumoured to be deadly because he could fall or snag himself and get a hole. Daniel started off determinedly but as the hours past he began to have second thoughts about his adventure and was thinking of turning back, but bravely plodded on late into the night.

After a good night’s sleep, Daniel set off again bright and early the next morning looking at his map for guidance. After a while he found himself at the mountainous stairs ready to meet the T-shirts. They all laughed when they saw the odd sock, but Daniel was used to it and asked, "Have you seen my twin?". The T-shirts all stopped laughing and one said, "I myself have not seen him, but I think the trousers have told me about another odd sock like you". "Thank you very much" said Daniel thankfully "I'll be on my way".

Next Daniel entered the pot plant forest where the trousers lived. One pair spotted him and came over to speak to Daniel. "I know where your twin is" he said, "he is under the Arctic fridge, the bottom of my trouser leg spotted him a couple of weeks ago".

"Thank you so much" said Daniel joyfully "you are the best piece of clothing in the world!!"

With joy in his heart Daniel skipped off to the Arctic fridge much faster than before. The journey still seemed to take forever though because he was so desperate to see his twin. When he arrived, he rushed to the bottom of the Arctic and pulled out his dusty other half. Daniel felt as though he was whole again. His name was Nathaniel and he shared all the same interests as Daniel, they rushed home excitedly ready to start their daily routine for the very first time. No one ever teased Daniel again.

The End