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6 years later..

Ajin was 8 years old, he was in class 1, with lot of friends. He was a bubbly child, likes to laugh and spread happiness to others.

He was a ball of sunshine, every teachers like him. He got his facial features like his mama. The bunny teeth, the skin tone, the cute doe eyes, button nose just like Win. He was jumping on his steps humming a song.

He stopped when he heard some laughs, he watched the kids they were looking elder than him. He hid behind the wall, peeked out to see them bullying a kid. The kid was sitting on the ground his arms had bruises, blood dripping down from his elbow.

He raged up, he ran to them pushed them on the floor. The kids gasped "Hey who are you kid?"

"Don't hurt him"

"What will you do huh?"

"I will complain it to teacher"

The kids laughed looking at the small one, "Aww look he's scaring us"

Ajin gritted his teeth, standing in front of the boy. "Don't hurt others, mama says if you hurt someone, hanuman will hurt you back" He shouted. The kids laughed more.

"Call your hanuman then.." The kids mocked him. Ajin closed his eyes Jai Hanuman gyan gun sagar
Jai Kapis tihun lok ujagar. Suddenly he heard a loud cry, he opened his eyes to see the kid who was laughing at him suddenly fell down after getting hit by a football on his face, his nose was bleeding.

Ajin's eyes widened, Hanumanji is real he thought and smiled. The other kids were scared they scurried away. Ajin walked towards the senior kid, putting his arms on his waist.

"Don't hurt others" The kid nodded. Ajin smiled then looked back to see the boy walking away. He ran behind him.

"Hey.. " Ajin called him. The boy stopped, they were of same height, he didn't turn around. Ajin said "Are you ok?"

He nodded. Ajin pouted "Turn around please" He mumbled, the boy turned around, Ajin smiled

"Friend?" He raised his palm towards him, the boy looked at the palm, looked back at him. He placed his shaky hand with his. Ajin giggled, he hopped around like a bunny in happiness that he got a new friend. The boy was staring at him, watching his every moves intently.

"Hey all, here's my new friend" Ajin introduced to all his other friends, holding that boy's hand.

"What's his name?" Someone asked, Ajin's smile dropped. He looked at the boy, who frowned, pushed Ajin and ran away. Ajin pouted sadly as his new friend pushed him.

His school ended, all the students ran to their parents, there a car stopped swiftly, the parents looked towards the car. The car's door opened from both the sides, revealing two handsome males. The female guardians were squealing looking at the handsome lads.

Bright went towards Win, encircled his left arm around his waist, they waited for their child. Ajin came outside the school with a small pout, looking down frowning deeply. Win noticed his gloomy face, he called him.

"Prince" Ajin looked up to see his mama and daddy standing waving at him. He smiled at them, he ran to them, hugged their legs, he looked up with a beautiful toothy smile.

"What happened principe? Why so dull today?" Bright asked, Ajin pouted looked down at his shoes. His parents looked at each other, then squatted down in front of him, Win lifted his chin, he had teary eyes.

"Tell us bun" Win said softly wiping away the tears with his thumb. Ajin sniffed, he wiped his nose with the back of his small palm, fiddling with his hem of the shirt.