Outstanding Stories » The Girl’s Return Back

“The Girl’s Return Back” is one of the outstanding stories (sub-junior) of the second biannual International Short Story Contest 2018 written by Shruti Mall, Shree Vallabh Sanskar Dham, India.

The Girl’s Return Back

There was a sweet little girl named Roma. She was very intelligent. Her father and mother loved her very much. She always obeys her mother’s words. One day, she was going to visit a temple with her parents. She was very happy because her mother prepared sweets and laddoos for Prasad so Roma packed them in a tiffin box. She told her mother that she will carry the tiffin box with her. They all reached at the temple in the morning. There are a plenty of people in the temple. Then, all of sudden, some people came behind her and covered her eyes with black clothes and covered her mouth with cloth. They kidnapped her. Finally, Roma came to know that she is kidnapped but she did never felt scared as she was so intelligent. She started finding the way to came out from the situation. She was worried about her parents also as they would search her everywhere in the temple.

She got an idea. She opened her tiffin box and spread all the sweets on the floor. She knows that if she will spread the sweets on the floor, ants will definitely come and she will get the way to go out. She started following the ants slowly and after some time she heard noises so the thieves left her and ran away from the place. She opened the door of a hut and she reached the jungle. Then she started following the way of the ants and reached near the road out of the jungle. After walking for some time she heard the bell of a temple and reached there to meet her parents. Her parents were so happy. They thanked god as Roma came back safely.

After reaching home Roma told the whole story to her parents. They also gave blessings to Roma for victory. They were proud of her.

Moral: We should never be too much afraid of situations.