The Well-Known Great Big Slap Old Rivals’ Friendship Tested: book 2, #2

By Patrice M Foster

From children to adults, this novel prompts everyone to rethink some of the essential elements of life…

William and Christopher are two friends living entirely different lives, and somewhere along the way, this makes them adversaries. In the process of life and growth, they find themselves asking hard questions about life, such as:

Just how important is money in life?

How often should one laugh every day?

What's the true meaning of happiness?

Are we all so different, or what makes us different?

If you also find yourself asking these questions, then your kids will certainly draw valuable lessons that will help shape them in the right direction!

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Patrice M Foster
• Release date: Dec 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223387459

Patrice M Foster

About The Author Patrice M Foster is a Registered Nurse in Childhood and Adolescence Psychiatry, with more than 30 plus years of clinical experience. She blogs and writes about issues that affect kids' mental health

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The Well-Known Great Big Slap

Old Rivals’ Friendship Tested

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: A part-timer

Chapter 2: A budding artist

Chapter 3: A tiring day

Chapter 4: A fun day out

Chapter 5: No time for jokes

Chapter 6: Reconciliation

Chapter 1: A part-timer

Christopher sighed loudly as he looked out of the window. It was the weekend, and that meant he did not have to go to college. Still, that did not mean he could lay back and relax. He had to go to work.

When Christopher was little, he lived in a nice neighborhood where his mother worked as a waitress in a restaurant. She worked hard to provide Christopher with everything he needed. However, it was never enough. So, Christopher also had to do odd jobs around the neighborhood to earn money. He had hoped that things would become better as he grew up. But that was not the case. The bills, expenses for groceries, and transportation costs seemed to be getting higher and higher.

He couldn’t remember his dad, who’d died in a car crash when Christopher was only two. His mom hadn’t worked then but had stayed at home to look after him. It had come as a shock to her when she found out that their insurance had been canceled and left them with barely anything to manage, apart from a tiny pension from his dad’s work as a plumber.

His mom had found a job almost straight away, and because she’d married young, she hadn’t got many qualifications, concentrating instead on her new husband and the son that joined them one year after marriage. Christopher realized that this was why his mom placed such a high degree of importance on getting a good education and constantly drilled it into him that he wouldn’t get far without a sound education, and that probably involved college.

It wasn’t that Christopher wasn’t a bright child, but he much preferred clowning around in class to listening to the teacher or doing his homework on time. His mom was always being contacted by Christopher’s teacher to say that he’d not done his homework again or that he wouldn’t listen in class.  

After each contact from the school, his mom would always say that he should be punished. Every action has a consequence, William. The words still rang in his ears even now that he was at college. "As you grow older, you will realize how important self-discipline is. The punishment would normally be the same each time. He didn’t have many things of his own that he could be deprived of, so it meant that he had to go to bed early. He hated this, especially in the summer months, when he loved to be out with his friends, playing whatever daft game they had devised.

He was a popular boy because he always made everyone laugh and never seemed to take anything or himself seriously. Without Christopher being part of the gang, it seemed not as much fun, and he was always welcomed back enthusiastically the next day by everyone. Although, they lived in a very nice area, surrounded by huge houses. Theirs was the smallest in the street. It wasn’t until Christopher reached the age of seven that he noticed any difference. Then he saw that some of the kids had their own phones and fabulous bikes and the latest trends in their clothes. He began to feel like the poor kid in the family. Was it his imagination that he began to be excluded occasionally?

His mom worked hard and long hours. She tried her best to be there when he