"You'll have to miss out on that increase to your pocket-money then," said the Fairy.

Then I suddenly had a thought.

"Why don't you rob a bank?" I asked.

"Because I'm clumsier than you!" said the Fairy.

"Any other wishes I can try?"

"No," he said, "You've used them all up. In fact, I gave you a bit extra because I felt sorry for you. I think the best thing I can do now is go. Besides, you've got school tomorrow. You need your sleep!"

"I wish people would stop reminding me about that," I said, "How would they like it if they had to go to school every day for a quarter of their life?"

"Horrible!" said the Fairy, "Well, time to fly!"

He flew away, knocking some things off my dresser as he went. I left the things on the floor. They couldn't fall any further. It was a good place to leave everything, I thought. Nothing falls further than the floor.

I yawned and got back into bed, then I lay there for a while, wondering what to do. I was still broke. I was no better off, even after flashing around the world and doing lots of criminal things. Just for fun, I thought, I would write the whole adventure down. It would make a good story for the English project we were doing. The subject we were meant to be researching was Crime.

Next day, after tripping over someone's foot and knocking the teacher's flowers over, I handed my essay to her. She looked at it for a moment, then she started to smile.

"This is great!" she said.

"It is?" I said.

"Yes!" she said, "I would like to read it out to the class."

"Might as well," I said a bit gloomy. I expected that everyone would laugh at me, but hey, I was used to it. A few more laughs wouldn't make any difference.

The teacher read the whole story out, and do you know, everyone listened hard. Hardly anyone talked, or interrupted. It was like they all thought it was a great story.

And when the teacher was finished she said: "I didn't