Deena has a puppy! Brown puppy. Her puppy is barking, so sweet. Hee-hee. So cute.
Daddy: What are you doing, standing at the verandah. Come on, wear your shoes.
See, Deena is carrying…
Daddy: Hai, listen here. I’ve packed your snack dabba today. Open it only at recess time. Not before. It’s a surprise. Come on, come on, let us leave, your school bus will come. Here, carry your water bottle. See? Deena is already on her way to the stop. Oh… There’s still ten minutes. Say bye.
Don’t dawdle, child, hurry. Yes, yes, brown colour puppy, I saw. Huh, nice. Very nice.
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Recess time came. I took out my dabba.
Seema is playing langdi. Deena is also playing.
I like to play langdi, means I don’t like to hop, I like to run. Means they eat so fastly. I’ll also eat… Ooh! Daddy bought kaju katli. I love kaju katli so much. 1,2,3…6. I’ll take one for my this hand, one for my this hand.
Bhaiya and Didi also like kaju katli. I’ll keep one-one for them
Daddy and Amma also like kaju katli, one-one for them
Sonam is doing hopping, I can run from her. Not like that Shefali. Yes, I’ll eat and play, no? Sonam is coming after me only, she called me slowpoke. But she couldn’t catch me. Hahaha, she couldn’t catch me.
The bell rang. What ya! We were just having fun and the bell rang. I didn’t go to toilet also. I’ll go now quickly quickly
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So boring, ya. Nobody came to play. In school also no one played. Now also. It’s already dark. Daddy also came home. Still nobody came means now nobody will come. I’ll make Bhaiya to play with me. But my dolly wants me to comb her hair. Amma is not letting me.
This Amma no… Amma is saying I don’t know where the comb is. Then how she knows where the comb is when she has to comb my hair?
Bhaiyya and Didi are sitting on the big table, not on, in.
At.
Not big table. Dining table.
Bhaiyya and Didi are sitting at the dining table.
Didi has one test tomorrow so she is shouty shouty only for everything. She won’t play with me. I know. She’ll only say this wrong that wrong. Say like this like this
Bhaiyya is making faces at me.
Daddy: You liked your dabba?
What? What dabba? Daddy always comes out of the bathroom smelling of pink soap. I also want to smell like my Daddy. I’ll put more soap then I’ll also smell nice.
Daddy: I thought of you and bought it with a lot of care and you forgot? Today’s snack time dabba.
Oh, kaju katli? You gave six. I ate two. I kept four for you all. Bhaiyya, you’ll do ghoda gaadi for me?
Bhaiyya: I’m not doing ghoda gaadi ya, my knees pain. Then I won’t be able to play hockey tomorrow.
Daddy: You left kaju katli for us?
Haan!
Daddy sat down near my leg. Means I was sitting on the sofa and Daddy sat on the carpet. I was kicking my legs, no? So Daddy put one hand on my legs to make me stop to kicking. Means he is angry with my legs.
Daddy: You are my Buddha. You gave up what you love so much. For all of us. I have much to learn.
Daddy got up and went away. Amma hugged me.
Amma: She is my golden child. What a heart! So pure.
Bhaiyya: ai, idiot, you really kept for us or what? Where?
You idiot, not me idiot, look in my bag. There in that pink colour dabba. You have to give one for everyone.
Bhaiyya did like that like that to my hair. I feel all soft soft when he does like that. Daddy also does like that to my hair sometimes.
You know? Deena got a puppy. I also want…
Bhaiyya: Haha, but you’re Buddha. Buddha never asked for puppies. Hahaha, can you imagine what our history books would say if Buddha did wii-wii-wii-I want a puppy…
Didi is laughing so much. Bhaiyya also.
I want a puppy. My puppy will be golden colour and it will have blue eyes. No. Green eyes.
Why Didi and Bhaiyya are laughing?
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