In everyone’s life there happened many incidents which they want to change if they would had the time turner. I also witnessed few incidents and sharing one of them. In first half I will share the real incident and in second, the way I want it to happened.
HIS ARRIVAL
It’s about my dog...Bruno!! My father gifted the dog to my brother on 4 may, 2008 and he was very happy as it was his highest priority wish to own a dog. Everyone in my family was so glad having Bruno as a part of us except my grandfather n my mother. Both of them didn’t like dogs but as my brother convinced them a lot they had to show their acceptance.
Bruno was not just a dog for us; he was like a family member, the youngest in the family. Me n my brother got so much attached to him that our whole day start with him as well as end with him. At that time, my sister was not in the city as she was studying outside and we use to tell her about Bruno and all of his activities on phone being so excited.
HIS ACTIVITIES
His day started at 4 in the morning and it was also the time of my grandfathers leaving his bed so, everyday Bruno came to him and try to play with him but as expected there was no response coming from grandpa’s side even Bruno was so smart that he also understand the way grandpa behave to him.
Then he used to impress my mother when she was working in the kitchen during morning and everyone else was sleeping at that time. But the very same response he got every time from my mother’s side...the same “I don’t like you” expressions. Rest of his day got busy playing with me, my brother, my father n my grandma.
As the days passed, I realized that those weird expressions were changing into proper acceptance. Once, I woke up for school and I noticed the juxtaposition of Bruno over a medicinal leaf..!! actually my grandpa had some wound in his right foot so he used to apply that leaf and bandage on that wound and after few days it become a game for Bruno to fight with that leaf. My mother’s behavior has also been changed as she was enjoying Bruno’s Company so much.
He was so cute that everyone in the family was fond of him and he was the youngest and most lovable in the family. His favorite game was to hide in my mother’s saree and my brother has to find out him. I must say cake and idli was the most favorite dishes of him and every time we gave him the cake, he licked the dish so nicely that you can’t imagine that there was something in that dish few minutes ago. The same story was with idli but the most funniest part was as we know the idli has some sticky stuff so as the gross stuck with his mouth, without wasting a sec he was standing in front of my brother watching him with so much innocence.
THE DAY…
It was 30 may, 2008...27th day of him in our house. It was surely the worst day of his as well as our life. In the evening, he was playing with a ribbon; hold by my mother, like a child play with his mother. I remember the way he was trying to pull that ribbon and he was enjoying his presence in the air holding the ribbon in his mouth. Everyone was laughing watching him playing.
In the evening, the lights went off and we all were sitting in the verandah. After few hours, the power came and we also came inside but Bruno wasn’t there..!! We thought he was inside the bed as he afraid from dark and every time the lights went off he consider it as sleeping time. So, we just ignore this thing and got busy in watching television. After a while, one of our neighbors came with Bruno in his lap and as he saw my brother, he came to him. We all were shocked how he reached to their place and asked her about it, and then she narrated the whole story. Actually there was a girl in our neighborhood who liked Bruno so much and in the evening, when there was no light, Bruno unluckily n unknowingly went out of the gate without our knowledge and the girl saw him and took him with her. But that neighbor of us witnessed the whole scene and took Bruno from that girl. As it’s been too long, she thought we were tensed about Bruno and finally she came to us. Bruno was looking so worried like a child felt being away from his family. After few hours, again there was a power cut and this time we kept Bruno with us on the bed and suddenly he tried to get down and he fell off from the bed and got hurt his leg and again started crying. We put him back on the bed and relaxed him; suddenly there was an arrival of brightness in the lamps and we went inside for better sleep.
At 3 in the night, I woke up by hearing some worried noises of my family and I saw my father holding Bruno in his hands and he was screaming badly in pain..!! We didn’t understand what’s wrong with him and suddenly my father screamed, “scorpion...scorpion”, we didn’t get him till we saw a scorpion under the same table my mother was sitting over…finally we understood the reason of Bruno’s pain, it was coz of that scorpion, he bite him. But still the actual wound mark was the mystery coz anywhere we touched him, he was just screaming. Then my grandpa suggested the book in which there were some quick remedies to end the effect of poison of such insects as it was late in the night and no veteran would be available at that time. Grandma took the book and found the remedy to disaffect the poison of scorpion and she got it. It was a kind of mark which my father kept drawing on every part of Bruno’s body till morning. At 5, we took him to the doctor who gave some spray and liquid kind of medicines as a cure. Bruno fought whole day but unfortunately he loose the fight and in that juxtaposition, the winner was his wound, his pain. We just cried and cried all over the day, it was the day I first saw my grandfather crying!!
My brother was not ready to have food till 2 days and after watching all this, grandpa announced his disapproval for more Bruno’s in our home…we all were sad, a lady who use to work in our house those days was also attached to Bruno so much or we can say Bruno was more attached to her, she also tried to calm my brother but as we were child full of curiosities, me and my brother make a habit to visit Bruno’s grave every evening with hands full of flowers and mind full of questions that what will gonna to happen with his body…??
Our mother told us it’s not good to dig his grave as we should rest him in peace and after that day we just visit the grave with flowers and a never ending love for Bruno…
SO THOSE WERE THE THINGS HAPPENED WITH BRUNO...NOW IF I WOULD HAVE A TIME TURNER, I WANT THE ENDING TO BE LIKE THIS...
In the evening, at the time of second power cut we all were sitting outside busy in gossiping and suddenly I cried like a hell…everyone was shocked what happened to me and when they asked I point out a weird and creepy creature, I saw. My father saw it and revealed that it’s a dangerous scorpion which could even take anyone’s life if I would not have seen him at the right time as being poisonous is a quality of a scorpion. So, my father chased him up to outside the main doors of our house and from there he just blown away. When we wake up in the morning, everything was going as usual... First Bruno was playing with my grandpa then his favorite game hiding in my mother’s saree and when we got ready for school he dropped us up to the main doors…A HAPPY ENDING :)
"TIARA"