“Jay, you really expect me to believe that your dog ate your homework? You know the new headmistress is taking rounds of the school and you still didn’t do your homework! This kind of behaviour is totally unacceptable! Stand outside the class!” Ms Smita scolded.

“Sorry, miss,” Jay apologized.

“Shlok, you’re late! Did you bring your homework or was your homework eaten by dogs, too?”

“The dog did not eat my homework… he only tore it.”

“Enough of these lies, stand outside the class! I didn’t expect this from you, Shlok!”

Ms Smita was right to not expect this kind of behaviour from Shlok. After all, he was one of the best students in the class, hardworking and always ready to help his classmates. But she was wrong to think that Shlok was lying…

Earlier that morning, Shlok was walking to school with his homework sheets in hand that he had remembered to grab at the last moment, when he saw a dog that was chasing after a cat, run straight into a lady carrying many paper sheets in her hand just like him, making all the sheets fall to the ground. She began desperately trying to collect them but they were flying all over with the wind.

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Shamik, Jay, Shankar, Ravi, Dev and Sanchit were playing cricket in their colony. Dev was bowling and Shamik was batting. Shamik’s team needed a six to win. The match was at its deciding point. Dev threw the ball and Shamik hit it with great force! It was a six that meant Shamik’s team had won the match… except no one was celebrating.

The ball had gone flying through Sakaram Uncle’s window! Now Sakaram Uncle was a strict man. No one had ever seen him smile. So you can imagine why the boys were all so scared. “We could all just go home. He doesn’t seem to be at home right now. Many kids play here in the evening, he’ll never know it was us and besides it’s not like we did it purposely,” said Dev.

“But it would be wrong to not own up to our mistake,” said Shamik.

“Our mistake! You were the one batting. If someone is to apologize, it should be you.”

“I wasn’t the one batting when you broke Shanti aunty’s window or Ravi broke Devakar uncle’s car headlight but I still came with you and Ravi to apologize, didn’t I?”

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