Pinky and Greeny

“Pinky, hurry up! Or you will be late for your school”, mother shouted.
 Pinky rushed to the balcony to put on her shoes. “Oops! What is it?” Something soft, wet and green jumped upon her hand from her shoe. So cold! Pinky was so scared she couldn’t even cry. She only wanted to shake it off.

But with her great surprise it spoke in a human voice: “Pinky, please don’t throw me away. I am Froggy the Greeny. I come from the fairy land of Thumbelina. We storybook characters cannot survive anymore. Nobody reads us now. All they love are cartoons and computer games nowadays. So, all we have left are our homes and we are searching for a new place where we can live safely.”

Pinky asked with her eyes wide open: “ How do you know me? Why do you come here?” Greeny smiled.  “We know everything. We know that you still love to read stories. You still go to bed with fairy tales. So our fairy Godmother sent me to you as my best friend Hansel has gone to Tina, the eighth standard student of your school.”

“But my mamma will never allow me to do this. She will throw you out of the house. She won’t believe all these things,” Pinky said.

“You put me inside your school bag. Your mother can’t find me there. I promise you, I’ll take you to all the wonderful fairylands where you want to go. You’ll just touch me and wish with closed eyes. ’’

Throughout their way to school, Pinky’s mamma was very surprised to see her daughter so quiet. “What are you searching for in the school bag? Are you feeling sleepy? Better you revise your science drawings. You are getting worse in drawing day by day. If you don’t secure a position this year, it will only be for your bad drawing.”

In her school also, her teachers found her very sleepy all day long. Her math teacher even told her to take rest with her head down, and when the whole class was fighting with borrowing subtraction, she roamed around the underwater palace of Mermaid, the sugar candy house of Gretel , and of course the flowery forest of Alice.

Next period, she has to come back because it is exam time now. Pinky was afraid! Her drawing!  Ma’am told them to draw an amphibian!!!

Pinky’s best friend Anushka saw in great surprise that for the first time  Pinky is drawing such a wonderful green frog, and that is also with her eyes closed and with her left hand inside her bag.

Written by Aratrika G., age 7