Jothi Ruins Diwali

It was Diwali, everyone was wearing new clothes, beautiful lights illuminated throughout the little street, colorful crackers roared-this was the scene Jothi woke up to, when she peeked through the window at 4 am.
''No diwali for us this year'', Jothi muttered to herself before getting out of bed, the festival magic pulling her out of her sleep. Some distant relative of her's died that year, so her family wasn't celebrating diwali. Jothi was looking forward to this particular year because this was supposed to be the year she progresses to the explosive things, till 9 she was only trusted with fire fountains and fire circle and some fire craker sticks.

She went down to check on her mom to see if she was awake and she was, but her mother looked blue, was coughing hard and breathing heavily. Jothi was a little concerned never having seen her like that before.

''Mom what happened?''

Her mother replied that all the smoke was giving her allergies and it was nothing as she had been an asthmatic all her life. Her little brother who was one and a half, woke up and started crying because of all the sound and her mother was trying to console him. Her father had gone for a walk so her mother had to take care of her brother all alone in her asthmatic state.

She then ran to the terrace knowing she was not useful to her mother, walked to the edge of the terrace to get a glimpse of the celebrations. But all she saw was smoke filling the entire street, this was the first time she noticed the amount of pollution the explosives cause. Her thoughts travelled back to her poor mom and brother suffering in the ground floor. Her mind started to make a plan to help them, suddenly her eyes fell on a garden pipe. An idea struck Jothi, she took the pipe, opened the tap, stood near the edge, pointed the pipe towards the sky and sprayed water everywhere, the neighbours who were celebrating, assumed it was rain and ran inside their houses.

Jothi then excitedly told her mother the story of how she sprinkled water on them and how they all stopped bursting crackers. Her mother was a little angry at Jothi for spoiling their fun and gave her a stern look of disapproval. She warned Jothi to never repeat that again, and added the neighbors will come back as soon as they notice it wasn't raining. She then pulled her in to the bed and slept hugging her daughter. But little did she know, no one in the street
was going to burn any crackers that day, as Jothi had accidentally drenched all their crackers which was put together in one huge box.