The Rickshawala

My heart was panicking, just revising what I have already learned. It is 8:15 and I should reach school by 8:30. It was exam time and of course the king of equations Chemistry was mocking when at me. Last five minute revision ritual, one that is after wasting a whole year is over. I locked the home and started walking. Parents has already left for work. And clouds started to become dark, it was raining. Rain was waiting for making my whole uniform wet. Now only I remembered that father took my umbrella previous day. Going back to home to take spare umbrella is equal to being late for the exam. I was running now to avoid rain. People near the shop asked me to stay under roof of shop till the rain gets over. But due to lack of time I could not.

Lot of cars passed by. I recognized people inside the car as my school students when I saw same uniform. But None of them stopped except one car. The whole road was blocked and they were on other side so I asked them to leave. They left.

Soon the rickshawala came to help me. I said to him that I don 't have money. He said it was ok and dropped me to school. I said thank you heart fully and never saw him after that. I wrote chemistry exam with half wet hands. H2O has made me cold. I said the incident to parents and they were angry about this. First reason for them to be angry was I trusted a stranger easily. Yes you may not always meet good people, sometimes you may end up in danger. But I was lucky that day. the second reason was my father actually kept umbrella for me in my bag and I didn't checked it properly because of which I got wet. I was holding my black umbrella waiting for next rain.