There was once a boy called Mario who loved to have lots of friends. He always talked about how many friends he had at school. One day his grandfather said to him, “I have a very special chair. It’s invisible, but if you take it to school and manage to sit on it, you’ll be able to tell who your real friends are.” Mario went to school. At break time he asked everyone to form a circle, and then he put himself in the middle, with his chair. Mario told them about the magic chair and said he would try to sit on it. Then he began and fell straight onto his backside. Everyone had a pretty good laugh. Mario kept trying to sit on the magic chair, and kept falling to the ground ... until, suddenly, he tried again and didn’t fall. This time he sat, hovering (盘旋) in mid-air ... Looking around, Mario saw George, Lucas, and Diana, three of his best friends, holding him up, so he didn’t fall. At the same time, many others he had thought of as friends had done nothing but make fun of him. Leaving with his three friends, Mario explained to them how his grandfather had so cleverly thought of a way to show him that true friends are those who care for us, not just someone who happens to be passing by.