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Once upon a time, there was a little boy named Sebastian. He lived in a house with his mom and his dad. Sebastian's favorite thing in the whole wide world was to look into the telescope he'd just been given for his seventh birthday. With it, he could see very, very far away from right there in his bedroom- all the way up to the stars above!

One clear night, Sebastian was looking around the skies above and saw the most wonderful star he had ever seen. It shined very brightly in the moonless night- much brighter than any other he had seen before.

Then, he heard a whisper... "Sebastian."
Sebastian looked around, but no one was there. Again, he could hear his name called out, "Sebastian."

Sebastian stood up and walked to his bedroom door and opened it, but there was no one there. He returned to his telescope, and looked up once more.

"Sebastian, it's me!" came the voice. Suddenly, the star became a beautiful princess, and moved slowly towards Sebastian. Sebastian was bouncing with joy- a princess had decided to visit him!

All night long, Sebastian and the princess talked and laughed. For Sebastian, it felt like much, much longer than one night... and when he awoke the next morning, he couldn't wait to see the princess again!

So that night, he looked into his telescope again, and found his princess star. "Sebastian" she said, "I'm so glad to see you again." She smiled, and Sebastian felt like she'd given him a big hug.

"Can we talk and laugh some more tonight?" said Sebastian.

"I would love to," said the star, "but soon I will not be here any more."

"Why not?" asked Sebastian.

"Because all stars must move on, sweet Sebastian. And soon, I will have to move on, too."

Sebastian became unhappy. He said to the princess, "but I don't want you to go."

"Sebastian, leaving the other stars is not something I can do. But if you want me to join you, just make a wish, and wish me to be there."

"Can I really?" Said Sebastian, now smiling again.

"Well Sebastian," said the princess, "I don't really know if it will work, but you can try and wish me there."

Sebastian thought and thought, and called out, "why can't you come here, if I don't wish you here?"

"Because Sebastian," she said, "unless you wish me to be there with you, I can't leave the other stars behind. The sky is where I belong, even though you and I are great friends. But soon, I will be gone... so you must decide quickly. Will you try, and wish me to be there?"

Sebastian thought about this for a while. The princess is among the stars, and it would not be right to wish her away from them. If she really wanted to join him on Earth, she would have told him to wish her there.

Sebastian gathered his best courage and said to the princess, "I can't wish for you to be here on Earth with me. It would be selfish of me to wish you away from the other stars, just to be my friend here. If you really want to come be by friend, that choice is up to you."

"Then goodnight, Sebastian, and have sweet dreams." said the princess, smiling as he left his telescope.

A few days went by, and Sebastian had not looked into his telescope since the last time he had talked with the princess. But as the days went by, Sebastian missed her. He missed her smile, and he missed talking to her. He missed his friend, the princess.

Finally, the sun went down and the night came in, and Sebastian did not want to miss his friend any more, so he once again went to his telescope, and looked into it.

"I don't care if it is selfish," said Sebastian, "I don't want her to go."

But as Sebastian looked around at the night sky, he could not find his princess star. This made him very sad, so he looked more and more, but he still could not find her. Then, Sebastian remembered what she had told him- that soon, she would be gone.

Sebastian sat back from his telescope, and realized that he'd lost his friend forever. This made him very sad. It made him even more sad to know that the princess was somewhere else, not with him on Earth, having fun with the other stars.

Sebastian decided to make a wish. He said, "I wish I could be happy, because she is my friend and want her to be happy." Sebastian still felt very sad, though, because the princess had been a great friend to him, and made him happy when they talked. He wondered if the princess even knew how much he liked her friendship. He found that he could not be happy, even though she was happy, because he missed the princess too much.

Sebastian thought about how he lost the princess, and decided that from then on, he would never wait too long to make a wish, and lose another friend. Because although there may be lots and lots of stars up there, none of them shined as brightly as the princess.

The End.