Pinky

I couldnt believe a 5 year old girl could be so indifferent.Pinky joined the class almost in the middle of a semester with her sister Rinky. Dont be surprised, Pinky was not my classmate in college. We used to take classes for the workers and their kids to teach them language adn mathematics. Their classes were also scheduled according to our semester.

The first day she was a little reluctant to talk to anyone which we considered normal. We saw her bubbling with energy the very next class.A few days went on without much trouble. Her teacher(my classmate) who taught her couldnt come for one day. Another person tried to engage her, but in vain. She didn't utter a word for the whole one hour. We all tried our best to make her happy, the only achievement for us is that we made her smile at the end.

Days went off.She looks very serious some days when she would not speak, the other days she was a cheerful little girl.We came to know from her sister that there are some problems in her family. A 3 year old couldnt tell much about it.

After 2 days the most unexpected incident happened.Even after the class was ended she did not show any sign to leave.When I asked she said she is going to stay back. Her sister didn't show any reaction,she just gave a smile and walked away with the rest. We switched off the lights in the room to scare her so that she would go home.But that didn't work. We tried to take her forcily which made her cry louder. We offered her chocolates, cake and all what we could.Still no effect! Later we left her alone and went away.This scared her and she peeped out of the room. She walked slowly towards her house. We followed her without her knowing it. We made sure that she reached home safely and came back.

She was absent for the next class. We went to her house, but they had already shifted to another place.