Sunday, April 14, 2013

The Grape Tree


Just that morning “Young ‘T’ ” had committed a mistake.
He had eaten the Grape Fruit after breakfast.

During the science class at school that same day, He Remembered his mom’s words:
 
Son !, Don’t ever swallow a fruit with the seed, you might end up with a tree growing from within your stomach

he remembered that when the teacher was writing; Water + Seed = Tree

 How stupid can he be, to forget not to swallow a fruit with a seed.
 That too was not just one. He had been crazily impatient to gulp a hand full of them.

 As usual his imaginations went wild.
  
What if the worse thing happened?
          It has been 3 hours now and what if it’s already happening!!   By now the seed would have touched the surface of the stomach. Even the idea of not drinking water for a whole day and trying to expel the seeds out with a Loo job wouldn’t work because, he had been such a fool to drink a full glass of water before he even touched the fruit.
                         Water   +    Seed    =    Tree

   whenever he saw those equation on the blackboard he became restless.
But, how fast can a tree grow! What if it is instantaneous?

 
Can he tell this to his Teacher/Friends?
 
 Are you joking? No, he definitely can’t.

His teacher would really be mad at him. And, that was the worst thing to confess his friends, who would bully him on this for the rest of the year.


His stomach was already growling. His throat seemed sore,
 He was thirsty !
  
   He imagined the branches of the trees growing through his nose, mouth and ears. He also almost laughed once when he thought of growing grape fruits from his mouth and start selling the fruits. He was going to become rich!  But, how can he chop it off without his friends noticing him? Will the small fold-able knife that came with his geometry box will be sharp enough to cut the branches from his mouth?Where will he drop the chopped leaves,he can carry the fruits in his lunch bag and may be he will stuff the leaves in Kumar's Bag!

  Young T was now sitting in the last bench so that no one notices him chop it. He was prepared for the moment. Yes it was happening! He shut his mouth tight with his hands, Closed his eyes tight and he almost stopped breathing. He was suffocating! Everything was blurred. He was sinking!
The noise of his class was fading. That’s when he barely heard his friend in the front row say :
“I don’t believe it! Our Teacher is wrong. Whatever, she has written on the board was also wrong. The actual equation was [Water + Seed + Mud = Tree] “

voila!  Yes that’s it!

   Those words were literally his EYE-OPENER and MOUTH-OPENER as well!  Young T started panting.

Thank - - god - !   -  -  -  -  my  -  -  friend  -  - is  - right  -   -   -  you -  saved - - my -  - Life !

12 comments:

  1. Wonderful da.... Kinda heard before did u tell this to me any time before?????? So nice

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  2. A wild Imagination of Science fiction, after a long gap. Good you haven't stopped. Keep it coming...:-)

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  3. seen ur writing after long pause! keep up!
    i just visualised in an animated manner :)
    -i wonder, still u find time to write? ;)

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    1. ha ha..dats really true sir.
      its always controversial with my other works on sundays.
      Jus the expectations of the people like u,keeps me going..

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