Literary Work E- Magazine 5E

UNWIND
A collection of short stories
on real life incidents
BY-SIDDHARTH PATHAK
EXAM
Once, there lived two boys. Neil and Ajay. Neil was sincere & did well in all of
his exams. Whereas, Ajay was a mischievous boy who loved fun, but didn’t
want to study at all. They both were best friends in the eyes of the class, but
Ajay was a fake friend who always tried to bring Neil down in academics by
cheating. They both studied in the “ Kolkata grammar school.” This is a tale
about both of them.
It was pre-exam time in Kolkata, & the teachers of the grammar school were
preparing the dating scheme of the exams for the kids. Neil was glad as he had
been sincere all year & his exams would go well. And as always, Ajay had
found a way to outscore Neil. Just the day before the teachers were going to distribute
the time table of the exam to the students, Ajay went to the staff room &
tweaked Neil’s time table, writing the science exam’s date in the place of the
English exam date & vise-versa. So now, when Neil got his time table, it was
changed. And as you would expect, Neil came prepared for the science exam in
the place of the English exam. When the exam was going to be conducted,
somebody told him that it was the English exam today, not the science. Neil
cried and yelled, but as he had to appear for the exam, he sat on his desk, with
his heart filled with gloom. But when the papers were being distributed, an enormous
earthquake broke out &, to everyone’s amazement, the English exam got
cancelled because of the earthquake & the science exam was scheduled for next
day. When the teacher gave these instructions!! Neil was delighted & at the
same time, Ajay turned very sad as he fell into his own pit. And as you would
expect, Neil did well in the science exam on the next day & Ajay ended up getting
a C grade in it because of his mischief. So, the moral of this story is that
good things happen to good people.
THE END
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