By Christine Nderitu
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nce upon a time in the far away land of Olympia, there lived a young energetic girl whose name was Chep. From afar, Chep looked like an ordinary girl who attended an ordinary school and was even the last-born child in an ordinary family where she played with her siblings and neighbouring kids every day after school. However, Chep was in fact very extraordinary. You see, being the last born, her three older siblings would always pick on her, send her around and even played nasty tricks on her so that she usually found herself in very sticky situations – especially when their parents were
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away on business. She especially hated it when her older brother snatched her favourite doll and run off with it, causing her to chase him for miles, which would sometimes prove to be quite futile. Sometimes he would even lock her up in the basement where she would scream for help to no avail. She would end up reading the books that were stored down there by her parents. After so many such incidents she ended up reading all the books on the shelves, so to keep herself occupied she would explore the basement. One day she found an exit from the basement to their back yard. She tactfully climbed out of the hidden window and excitedly danced her way into freedom. Her bully of brother simply could not understand how she had set herself free from his torture chamber, and so he kept unleashing new pranks. She always found a way to outwit him. What a brilliant girl she was turning out to be! Having read all the books on the shelf during the time she spent locked up in the basement, she had tremendously improved her performance