The Cookie

The Greek god Helios has just started his chariot for the day, with the warm cuddle of the sunlight leaves are slowly putting their faces out of the blanket of the thin ice. The first drop of melted ice touches the lips of the grass announcing the dawn has arrived hoping to get rid of all the darkness from yesterday’s earth.

“Good morning Jack, It’s time to wake up dear!”

“Come on Mom, let me sleep a little more “, Jack rotated sideways and tried to avoid waking up.

“Son, don’t be naughty you know right I have to go out. Get up quickly else you won’t get the leftover pizza from yesterday.

He smiled a bit and slowly opens his drowsy eyes in a pleasing mood; pizza is his all-time favourite.

He eats the leftover cold pizza which his mother shared with him, the piece was very small and also cold still it's pizza never the less and for him, it is the tastiest thing that can ever be found on earth.

“Bye mom I am going to the park to play with my friends”, He started to run from there.

His mom shouted from behind, “don’t get into fights or quarrel with your friends “.

He found his friends in the park and started to run and play. After some time when he gets a little tired came near the park benches.

Suddenly a mild breeze blows, and his eyes struck on an elderly woman sitting on the benches trying to adjust her hair.

That’s the moment his version of the earth stood still for him, he just keep on looking at her.

For any random other people, she is just an old crinkled skin lady with high power shady spectacles in her eyes sitting alone, maybe just trying to find her younger self among the shinning and blooming flowers in the parks or just counting seconds backward to embrace the most inevitable thing of anyone’s life.

 But Jack is not any random person from the news channel opinion polls, he is special. In his eyes she is the prettiest, he can see her inner self full of love and kindness.

He slowly came near her just looking at her eyes straight and thinking of diving into those two deep blue oceans of her to fetch the pearl of secrets. 

Their eyes met, she gave a warm smile and asked “do you want to have a cookie, dear”?

His heart stopped for a moment, “Is she talking to me?” 

He was just flying in a sky full of clouds; those clouds are really numbered nine. He found her in white attire with the throne of yellow stars around her head; spreading her wings and flying towards him to give him the most heavenly food of the universe picked straight from the Garden of Eden.

He came back to life when he hears her voice again, “let’s have this cookie, I have made this myself.” 

He took the cookie and started to eat, wow it must have been how those people feel while eating food by Uncle Gordon in that television show. She slowly caressed his hair, now it was too much happiness in one day for him to digest; he felt shy and ran away.

At night he is looking at the stars in the sky thinking about her, mom came and asked what happened baby “what are you thinking so much?”

“Mom you know I might be in love, deep love “, his mother laughs at him “oh really? That’s great dear who is that lucky girl? Have you asked her out yet “

“Not yet mom, but would ask soon”, she smiled back ok dear now go to sleep it’s very late.

He started to think whole night what would he say after meeting her tomorrow.

The next day he went to the park as soon as he could and sat there waiting for her dream woman to come. Friends came and ask him to play but he didn’t go with them just sat there and wait to gaze at the sky.

Guess today there are many airplanes in the sky so she is getting delayed in traffic, time passed by seconds look like hours, hours look like a timeless eternity, nature has also taken the mood back to the black and white era where the grief-stricken mood has captured all the happiness in his large fist.

She didn’t came that day ,same thing repeated for few more days . Now day by day he is losing hopes of seeing her again here in park.

If he was a musician surely he might have composed a melancholy piece for her which would have given him Grammy for the tune of granny. Who knows what nature has decided for him.

One day Jack was just playing around a tree when he felt something in his heart, a much known feeling, he looked across can’t find any one. The feeling is increasing more and more and his heart started to pound like a hammer, he saw a car on the street going past the park and he knew in his heart it was surely her. He started to run behind the car “hey wait, just wait for me a bit I have to talk to her “

He ran fast almost came near the car, he can feel the fragrance of her in the air . That special smell of cookies in her hands.

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Ambulance is going fast towards the hospital; patient is a 75 years old lady. Ambulance stopped near the hospital gate and just the door of the ambulance opened, a stray dog ran and came inside . The medical staff is trying to get it away “shu ! Go away you road side dog”.

He ignored them totally and came near the old woman trying to put his head under woman’s palm and slowly barking. The old lady slowly opened her feeble eyes and sees the dog from the park sitting beside her. What do you want dear another cookie? But I don’t have any cookies now dear, but surely would make for you.

Medical staffs came and taking her inside, that dog follows till the last end he could and just sat there.

Jack sat in front of the main gate of the hospital looking at the woman getting disappeared behind the door and barking like he has something to tell. The woman slowly closes her eyes and can hear Jack's voice clearly inside her head saying “Get well soon my love!!!”