The New Friend

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The New Friend

It was Sunday. Neha and Ashu told their mother that they were going to play. The park in the colony was more of a ground than a park. It had green trees and some bushes all around it, but in the middle it was a grass field. There were a few benches for the people to sit on. It was the favourite for the colony children to play and elderly people to sit there. As it was Sunday, it was bound to pervade with the pleasing shouts and screams of the children.
Neha and Ashu were the first to reach the ground. As they waited for other children to come, they strolled along the trees. Neha stopped on hearing faint cries in the bushes. She went near and looked. Yes, there was a kitten : very small and weak. He could collapse anytime. Neha picked him up and showed to Ashu, "Look here, Ashu. What a nice kitten he is."
"Leave him alone, his mother will be looking for him!" said Ashu.
"I think he has strayed away from his mother," said Neha. "I think we can take him home and make a nice pet out of him."
"No way," said Ashu. "Mummy and Papa may not say anything, but Grandpa, you know, he will frown."

 The two children discussed for sometime and then headed home with the kitten in their hands. At home, they bathed the kitten in warm water and fed him milk and cream. Now the kitten looked better.

 "How should we call him?" asked Ashu.

 "I think Snowy is good enough," said Neha.

 "Snowy is a female name," said Ashu. "How about Aina?"

 Soon the two children concurred and talked to Aina as if he understood everything.

 "You know we have Mummy and Papa, they are very nice," said Ashu.

 "And we have Grandpa, he too is very nice, only he is disturbed these days," said Neha.

 "You see, he keeps writing all day long, he is a writer and he hasn't time to talk to us," said Ashu. "Sometimes he tells us stories."

 "And he is disturbed these days because he loaned a large amount of money to one of his friends who never turned up," said Neha.

 Aina only purred. "You are a nice kitten, Aina," said Neha. "You understand everything so well."

 "So you are a full-fledged member of the house now," said Ashu.

 "Only don't go near Grandpa and his books and his chair," said Neha.

 Aina purred once again and rubbed his body against Neha. The two children laughed.

 Aina went here and there, and jumped here and there, and mewed pleasantly, and the two children ran along and laughed and smiled, and they enjoyed themselves.

 And then the worst came. Running here and there Aina entered Grandpa's room. He stood up from his easy chair as if he had seen a snake. "How is he here?" he shouted.

 Neha and Ashu entered the room and picked up the kitten. "How is he here?" shouted Grandpa again.

 "Actually we have brought him," said Neha meekly.

 "You can't do that," said Grandpa. "A cat is not a clean animal and certainly not a vegetarian that we are."

 "We'll teach him good habits and keep him vegetarian," said Grandpa.

 Grandpa sat down in his chair and said, "Well, you can keep him, but he must not come near me."

 Neha and Ashu smiled mildly and nodded.

 But the worst was to come the next morning. When Neha and Ashu got up in the morning, they looked for Aina in all rooms. And to their surprise, Aina had comfortably settled himself in Grandpa's chair.

 "I told you not to be here," said Neha as she tapped Aina. "Grandpa will be angry on you if he sees you here."

 And in the afternoon, when both children returned from school, they heard Grandpa shouting, "How dare of this cat to sit on my chair!"

 Grandpa was all the angrier when he saw Neha and Ashu enter his room. "I told you to keep him away. He must not come into my room."

 Neha and Ashu stood there with their heads hung down. Grandpa sat back in the chair. He looked stern. Just then his mobile rang. "I know," said he, "this mobile and this cat will not let me be peaceful."

 Grandpa took out the mobile from his kurta pocket and answered it. He was furious in the beginning and then he was laughing. And Aina, he was rubbing himself against the legs of Grandpa. After he finished talking, he bent down and picked up Aina. He kissed him on the head and said, "You're so lucky. You see my friend is coming to return my money. I'm so happy. You can come in my room and you can sit in my chair when I am not there, right!"

 The two children jumped and shouted, while Aina mewed sweetly.

  

Note : We use he, she for the pet animals as they are considered our family members.