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stagger forwards and finally cross the finishing line in rank last place!
    Alec now walked to the end of the course to consol his best friend.
    ‘Sorry, Mate’ smiled Alec ‘but that last hurdle just did you in’ he concluded.
    ‘Yeah, I would have won by a mile if they hadn’t changed that last damn obstacle, why did they change it anyway?’ moaned Tom.
    ‘Mr Fellows said they noticed it had broken when they went to do a final inspection this morning’ explained Alec.
    Tom meanwhile, just stood there as he leaned on his knees as he tried to catch his breath back, he looked quite depressed now.
    ‘You didn’t bother praying to win then?’ asked Alec curiously.
    ‘Actually I did ’ answered Tom now looking quite annoyed.
    ‘Blimey that worked well then!’ laughed Alec.
    ‘I asked for the wrong thing, Alec’ commented Tom seriously.
    Of course, what Tom hadn’t mentioned to Alec , was that he had heard a voice in his head at the end of the race that told him clearly ‘don’t ever pray for yourself!’
    Tom decided to keep the voice to himself though for fear that Alec might think he’d gone crazy.
    One thing Tom couldn’t ignore though was that every time he prayed it seemed his prayer was always answered.
    Only not always in the way he liked it would seem!

Chapter Three
     

     
    12 th February 2017
    Elmbridge Secondary,
    Little Compton,
    Surrey, England.
     
    B y February 2017 both Tom and Alec had settled into their secondary school, Elmbridge.
    Fortunately for them , the majority of their friends including Sarah Brown, the girl they both admired so much, had also moved to Elmbridge with them.
    They had been worried for a while that they might all have been split up and sent to separate schools, but that worry had proven unfounded fortunately for them all.
    Both Tom and Alec now fired up with teenage hormones were even more in love, or so they thought, with pretty Sarah Brown.
    ‘I sw ear she gets prettier every time I look at her or is that just me?’ pondered Alec.
    ‘Na, it’s just you’ laughed Tom.
    Meeting up after schoo l the two boys both chatted about her.
    ‘What I’d g ive to be her boyfriend’ Alec sighed as they just sat in his bedroom.
    ‘I could probably make that happen if I really wanted to’ pondered Tom.
    ‘ You, Tom, what do you mean you could make it happen? No you couldn’t , could you?’ asked Alec curiously. ‘What, have you a thousand pounds in your back pocket to ‘bribe her’ to go out with me or something?’ joked Alec.
    ‘No, if I pray for it to happen, then it’ll happen’ replied Tom confidently .
    ‘Oh blimey, Tom, don’t start going on about that praying business again, you know it freaks me out’ complained Alec.
    ‘But I could make that happen for you, Alec, if you really wanted me to’ smiled Tom.
    ‘What? You’re tell ing me everything you pray for will come true?’ asked Alec sceptically.
    ‘No, of course not ’ replied Tom firmly.
    Then he added after a short pause.
    ‘Not everything .’
    ‘Let me get this straig ht, Tom, you can pray for young ‘sexy Sarah’ to be all over me like a rash?’ smiled Alec.
    ‘Yes, if that’s what you really want ?’ answered Tom confidently.
    ‘Na, y ou’re just having a laugh!’ smiled Alec.
    ‘No, I’m not! I can’t tell you how or why but every prayer I pray for is always answered’ Tom insisted.
    ‘ Every one ?’ puzzled Alec, now just staring back at him.
    ‘Yeah, pretty much ’ nodded Tom.
    Al ec looked thoughtful for a moment.
    Then he smiled.
    ‘All right then, if you reckon you can do this, I want you to pray for me to have a million pounds!’ laughed Alec.
    ‘ It doesn’t work like that, Alec, there are firm rules about these things’ responded Tom.
    ‘ Rules , what rules?’ puzzled Alec.
    ‘I don’t pretend t o know how all this works, Alec. All I can tell you, is there are strict rules governing what you can pray for and what you can’t’ shrugged Tom.
    ‘Oh