In United Kingdom, Wales near the bridge in an Apartment a poor family lived. They were so poor that the children slept on cardboard boxes tide up with leather and strings. Their father Franklin Henry was a drunkard who begged to support his children. Usually there was not enough to eat for 15 days a year as most of the money gone to rent.
But the children didn’t care a little bit . They danced together, played and even sang with each other. Food for them was only 1 meal a day . They often got beaten up by their father. But they studied. They went to school for 2 hours and after that they begged or collected cans to sell as a job.
The rich kids always laughed their lungs out at them “ha poor-poor beggar! poor-poor beggar”!
“Hey! Don’t be mean to him ”
“……. without me!” mockingly with a with a wicked smile. “Ha! ha! what you thought that I will protect you, poor-poor beggar.”- said his friend to Aron’s little sister Britney.
She started to cry .Aron then comforted her and said “If you call me a beggar it’s okay but if you call my sister a beggar I am going to beat you up into a pulp, you idiot!”.
Both rich kids were shocked but then one rich kid said-“try it. If you dare do it, I am going to report you to the Wales police ,you illiterate man. What are you goanna do? huh! Idiot”.
Their argument worsened till rich kids started throwing hands and fist. The poor kid trying to defend himself also started fighting. Britney stopped the fight and somehow calmed the situation.
Suddenly a phone started to ring “hello mom!” Said one rich kid
“sweetie you are goanna get late. So please go to school immediately why did you stopped? You know that I can track your phone. right ! “-Said mom.
” Okay mom I am going…”- said one of the rich kids.
Then the rich kids left thrashing and cursing. Few minutes later Wales police actually came. They said that a report has been made that a beggar in this location attacked Mrs Dina’s kid and his friend. Luckily, they quickly understood that the rich kids exaggerated the situation .So they left Aron with a warning.
At morning approx, 10:30 am a delivery came from his mother who worked in USA (United States of America) but she can’t send money frequently or come to UK (United Kingdom) because of her job. The delivery was for Aron. It was a telescope. He jumped up with excitement on spot and got euphoric as his mother was able to fulfil his long wished dream. He couldn’t control his happiness and stayed up all night assembling it. In morning he was feeling sleepy but his happiness kept him awake.
When he went to school he told his teacher. His teacher gave him a 500x glass lenses to replace his 150x lenses. He thanked his teacher with all his heart. Then he followed his daily routine.
At night, he looked through the telescope. He observed an asteroid and was thrilled. Then he looked at Ursa major and said-“only if it didn’t had his tail it would have actually looked good.”
For 15 days or should I say 15 night this was his routine. Yes, that part also where he disliked the tail of Ursa Major.
One night a voice came-“Why are you always so mean to my tail…”
Aron jumped in fear, super scared he ran down the apartment stairs and went to sleep. Next day when he woke up he realised that he was up at 2’o clock so he rushed to the roof top and started observing the sky. He realized that his school books were right. By confirming, that Orion started to disappear and only his belt could be seen. After 3 hours every constellation disappeared because of the sun.
In morning, he went to school and told every buddy about what happened yesterday. But no one believed him so he became quiet.
At night he sprinted to rooftop and said -“who-who said about their tail to me last night.”
A voice came-“I am Ursa major who talked about my tail to you last night.”
The boy was shocked and amazed then said-” if you are really Ursa Major then twinkle.”
Aron looked up and was amazed to see Ursa Major twinkle so he said-” Ursa Major don’t you think that your tail looks bad and without it you will look so much better.”
“let me tell you something, I am known as big dipper and my tail points to north and I resemble an animal. can you think how bad an animal would look without a tail. Anyway, I along with other stars represents the great bear and I have a small baby bear called the little bear, small dipper or Ursa Minor.”- said Ursa Major to Aron, in a polite tone .
Aron said-“Oh!I definitely did not knew about that. I am sorry Ursa major.”
“Ha! no worries I am not mad. I just wanted to know that why are you always so mean about my tail.”- said Ursa major.
Aron said that-” Can I talk to other constellation. Or I could only talk to you.”
“Yes, you can. Try to talk to. Umm… the hunter also known as Orion. He is trying to kill me but right now he is busy fighting with Draco and Leo. But I am telling, you he is extremely mean.”- said Ursa major to Aron.
” Hey Orion!”-said Aron.
In a tired and scary way, a voice came back at Aron-” Yes. what happened?”
Then Ursa major said-“Oh that’s Orion’s voice.”
Aron jumped in terror and said that-” It is his voice…. it scared me so much! No! really !what was that? ”
“No, it isn’t even that scary. And why are you saying that I am mean. Huh. If you do that again I will kill you for my BBQ.”- said Orion to Ursa major in a tired voice
Then Aron said” hey !can I talk to the hydra the biggest constellation?”
In an extremely deep most scary voice ever Aron heard a reply came back- ” hello idiot! what happened? huh. It’s me the nine headed water serpents, my breath is poisonous and if I bleed than my blood is so poisonous that it makes my opponent get sacred. ”
“holy. Oh my! GOD-you are powerful.”-said Aron to hydra.
Then hydra looked at Ursa major and said -” wait! Ursa major did you tell him that every word we say, his sun gets 1000 years older.”
“no, I didn’t.”- said Ursa major.
Slowly the dark sky started to get redder and redder.
” Oh no! the apocalypse is here. Sun! With advancing age ,you are becoming red giant by gaining lots of mass and increase in size “- said Ursa major.
Then the reddest coloured sun ever seen started to rise. It was huge. Just imagine a basketball at an arm length pointing at the sky .How much of the sky it covers? Right! that big was the sun. Earth is in danger.
Next day Everyone started to panic. Aron’s mother came back and said-“I am sorry Aron. I was not with you during your hard times. Sorry!”.
“Don’t worry mom, I love you for what you did.”- said Aron to his mother. On the news it showed that the world was goanna end. Britney, Aron and their mother and father all braced for the last time to die.
(On the other hand (1 hour before))
“Hey hydra and sun I want to talk.”- said Ursa major.
In response, the sun said-“! yes?”
“Hey sun do you want to give some of your new mass to one of hydra stars.”- said Ursa major .
“ok, I can give you my new mass how much you want”
” about a million kilo ton.”-said Ursa major.
Sun then said in response to that-” ok sure!”
(Back to earth (1 hour later))
Everyone was panicking and worrying. Suddenly the massive sun started to shrink and a huge luminous tail came at night .it looked like that it was going for the constellation of hydra. NEWS spread out that apocalypse is over. All celebrated the rebirth of sun with dance, drink and fun .It was a miracle .Everyone at that night partied for hours .
But Aron suddenly stopped partying and ran upstairs. And said -” Thank you Ursa major, hydra and Orion”. They all didn’t said anything ,just twinkled as if saying no worries. And Aron lived happily after that.
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Swastik Raj
Don’t you worry
Don’t you worry, cry not dear Mum
If they drop those horrible bum
We will run to the remotest forest
Hide into the deepest cave
Scuba dive into the bottom of a sea
Where no body can find or see.
Mum hugged him tight and cried again.
‘Yes, my darling, I wish so my darling.’
Shail Agrawal.