A loud, heart-piercing wail made Vaijayanti dash out from the kitchen to the children’s bedroom where she had asked her smarty pant Arpan to keep an eye on his baby sister Divya who was sleeping in her crib.
Shocked to see Arpan with a paper clip in his hand and a few more laying on the floor, bending over the crib with his feet dangling in the air, she snapped, “What are you up to Arpan?”, while Divya’s sobbing accentuated the disquieting scene.
“Aai, I am trying to put Divya’s tummy together with these paper clips, just as Baba does for keeping papers together”, replied Arpan innocently pointing to Divya’s swollen belly button which was nothing but umbilical hernia and marvelling why his mother was not rewarding him for his sagacity!
6 Comments
Shweta Suresh · August 13, 2021 at 11:39 am
Oh no. He’s in a lot of trouble! Poor Divya
Anindya · August 13, 2021 at 9:01 pm
Short and wicked tale of an innocent brat……hope he understands what he is doing 🙂
chinmayeecreations · August 14, 2021 at 9:31 pm
This is so well crafted. Hope Arpan did understand what he was up to !
yogitaamitjoshi · September 22, 2021 at 1:30 am
Very well written.. loved reading it
Paresh Godhwani · September 25, 2021 at 10:10 am
Great story to describe the problem. Children always gives us ray hope through their innocence.
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