Tia! Did you take my school project?
Yes, Tofu
I took it to school with me
How can you, Tia?
I worked on that project for 6 weeks
I used all my pocket money to get the supplies for it
It wasn’t yours to take!
Tofu? Can you please calm down?
There is a reason that I took it.
What could be a good reason to steal my project!
Before I tell you that
I need to tell you something else.
Once upon a time a girl loved gardening
She had many beautiful flowering plants in her garden
One day, she went to the market and met a lady selling seeds
These are seeds of a beautiful flowering creeper plant
If you plant it near a wall
it will take support of the wall and grow.
Take these, your garden will become even more beautiful
The girl bought the seeds and merrily came home
She planted them by the backwall of her garden
It was a wall that she shared with her neighbour
Her neighbour couldn’t walk
but they would often talk to each other from behind this wall
I have planted seeds of a lovely new plant
Oh! That’s nice
I wish I could someday come and see your beautiful garden
But alas! I cannot move
My own garden has become a dry patch of land
as I cannot take care of it
Many months passed
and the girl tended to her new creeper plant every day
And with each day, the plant became bigger and bigger
But it didn’t flower!
Not a single flower grew on it.
Frustrated by the only plant that did not give her flowers
she decided to cut it down
She brought her axe
and was about to chop the creeper down
Just then her neighbour called out.
Is that you?
I have been meaning to talk to you for many weeks!
Thank you so much for the lovely flowers.
Flowers?
Yes, they are beautiful.
I feel so happy every time I see them
The girl rushed to the neighbour’s house
She saw that the creeper from her garden
had pushed through the cracks and holes in her wall
and was growing on her neighbour’s side of the wall
And it was full of the most beautiful flowers she had ever seen in her life!
You didn’t submit the project as your own, did you Tia?
You took it for a good cause?
Yes. I am glad that you have understood that
I took it because the house on your project kept falling apart
I took it to the carpentry lab and got it fixed
I will get it back tomorrow.
Oh, Tia! You are so nice!
And I was so horrible to you
I am sorry
Its okay, Tofu.
Just remember that things may not always be what they seem like.