365 DAYS 365 TALES

LUNCH BREAK!

Though all students love lunch break the most in their school periods, Anushka never felt it that way. She was an orphan. Though her granny took great care of her there was a terrifying quality of that old woman - she was a horrible cook.

But granny was strict enough. She never permitted Anushka to have outside junk foods. Anushka used to come to school on her pink tricycle with her bag latched on her shoulders laden with text books, water bottle and a large tiffin box .

The tiffin box used to be filled with course chapatis and little curry beside it. When the bell for tiffin rung and all the chirping students rushed out, Anushka used to sit still on her bench tearing the cold, hard chapatis with her teeth and gulping them in.

The Sun started to tilt down to the west. All the other girls' faces were bathed in the golden beam. Only her face held the beacon of darkness. The other girls have coins in their purse and they are free to taste the Velpuri  and other spicy items. Anushka felt really shackled when she smelt the roasted pepperoni from the pizza booth. Anushka had some great friends. They talked over Doraemon to Michelle Obama , Beetles to Coldplay, Beckham to Cr7 , from page3 to Shakespeare -- everything! But even they never cared enough to notice why their favourite cheeky-girl Anu becomes quite after lunch break.

Then one day the superstar Roxanne came to their school. 

"Who can dare to trespass into the privacy of Miss Rox?," Sweta asked rather amusingly, "the trespasser can have a pizza treat from me. Anyone?" 

All the girls bursted out in laughter. "Prestige is to be maintained more dearly than to have a pizza bite" Rahul said. "Principal is gonna chop our head if Rox complains about us".

"Maybe I can try," Anu spoke finally, "I'm not that much in love with my head though" and grabbing the catapult from Sam she went off.

The black caravan arrived in the school ground. The policemen and bodyguards became active escorting Roxanne in the special guest's room.
Roxanne entered the room exclusively kept for her and bolted the door from inside. She rested on the sofa with her eyes closed and the inclining figure relaxed!

"Rox," the voice suddenly startled her and seeing a completely stranger in uniform bewildered Roxanne.

"Who are you? And what are you doing in here?," Rox asked haphazardly.  

"Dare Miss. It's just a dare act for me with my friends to trespass in you. I really wanted to win" and Anu held her head down. 

Rox pitied her, "how did you enter here?"

"Catapult. See, your rear window pane is broken."

"Wow! Great. Can I have your catapult? I also want to flee away from all this." Roxanne's voice filled with merriment.

"Uhm..it's not mine. It belongs to Sam. But perhaps he won't mind if you take it. Above all you are Miss Roxanne. But can you do me a favor?"

"Pray tell."

"Your autograph please. "

And thus Anushka won the Dare. And Sweta kept her promise too. The Big Mushroom Pizza.

On her way back home Anushka was planning how to lie to granny that she had feasted on pizza today. What if granny find out?

But granny was too overwhelmed with Roxanne autograph to check on Anu. That night the horrible Chapattis and curry and buttermilk also tasted heavenly to Anu. Because all the while she was nibbling the pizza bites, in spite of all softness and spices Anu missed the familiarity and the maternal love.

At the end of the day Anushka realized no matter how bitter it seems to be, the feeling of  'coming home' is always the sweetest thing ever!
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A/N : 

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KrittikaStar (13/01)