#145 in Short Story category on 2nd December 2016
This is a short story of a tree which lived in thick green forest and full of happy families. Everything was fine until a viral disease starts spreading in other forests which resulted in new familie...
They always use to ask their parents to tell a prince story every night and will imagine themselves that they are princesses too, which in my view they already are. But every next day morning they use to run around house every minute asking their dad or mom how they could help them, forgetting that princesses do not work.
"No my dear princesses your mom and I will work meanwhile you both play" said their father.
"Noo we will play in the evening but now we would like to help you" replied Ella for which Emma nodded head agreeing it.
Parents both looked at each other. Then their mom said:
"Ok then. Why don't you collect few flowers by the time i will collect few very small branches of our banyan tree?"
"Ok mommy"
"Yes mommy" they both replied at once and took a basket then ran towards the ladder to climb down.
I started watching them picking different flowers. One twin stopped exactly behind me looking at the 3 small rose plants behind me which looked very dried.
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She touched them soothingly and asked the plant
"Why don't you have flowers?"
There was no response. Of Course the plant couldn't answer. But the little girl looked longingly towards it expecting a flower in return or response from the plants. After 2 minutes she lowered her face and went towards another plant to collect flowers.
After that they both entered into tree house using the ladder. Then she asked
"Mommy why are those 3 plants not giving flowers?? Don't they like me?" She said pointing with her tiny forefinger.
"Oh my dear, they all love you."
"But but...."
"May be those plants are not receiving enough amount of sunlight required for their growth i think" her father replied.
The other twin Emma smiled and said
"Don't worry Ella everyday we both will go down and collect some sunlight from sun and store it in our basket and will give it to those plants"
Both parents shared a look and said
"It is not possible. Every tree or plant need to absorb sunlight by itself only"
She became dull and was about to cry then Emma asked
"Why are they not able to take sunlight daddy?"
"Because they are exactly behind our tree (tree on which they have constructed house) and looks like it's blocking it"
"Then why don't it cook food like mommy does?"
"They can't cook like mommy, princess"
"Then let's ask our tree to move so that those little plants gets sunlight and they can cook food"
"Trees can't move, princess"
"Sorry Ella it's me who actually asked your dad to plant all the plants around our house and i completely forgot about this issue" apologized her mom.
"Ohh"
"Don't worry we will figure out something. Ok?"
"Ok"
"Common kids now give me the flowers i will make a flower crown for you. "
"Yayyyy"
"Yay. Here is our basket mommy"
Their mom started bending the delicate branches and curled it so that it would look like a crown after that kids added the flowers to it.
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Though I felt helpless for those 3 plants I'm sure he would figure out something. I forgot everything when i saw twins started jumping up and down with happiness after getting their own flower crown.
Next day he plucked off those 3 plants and planted them in another corner. After few days they started to grow nicely and gave red, orange, yellow rose flowers which made twins to jump up and down with happiness again. I was happy too because the day when flowers blossomed to those 3 plants was my birthday too. It was like a birthday present for me.
*have you ever heard of a tree celebrating birthday?? * my brain snapped at me.
Oh common i need to do something with this brain. But what it said is correct only. Though those flowers doesn't relate to my tree still i felt happy and that's definitely more than a birthday present.
Everything was fine until that night. Being it a rainy season it rained more heavily than usual. The sounds of thunders and lightning scared the twins and they immediately hugged their mom tightly.
It continued to rain like that for hours. Then her mom started telling the story of a fairy which diverted their attention from scariness. After listening to story Ella said
"does fairy exists in our real life too, mommy?"
"of course Ella"
"but how can we see them?"asked Emma
"Everyone who will help others and do good things are considered as fairies too" her mom replied.
By that time i started remembering everyone who helped me..
*1
2
3
...*
*hey how much time do you take to remember?* my brain questioned me which looked like a genuine one.
I eyed suspiciously and answered it 'of course there a lot of people and I'm busy counting them. Now don't disturb me'
While i was having a serious conversation with brain suddenly there was a loud cracking sound which made both twins scared and then they hugged their mom and dad.
