2017 Inklings Book Contest finalist: Aarna Patil
Today we are featuring Inklings Book Contest 2017 finalist, Aarna Patil! Aama finished 2nd grade this past school year. The story she submitted is called “George Climbs A Tree!” We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we did!
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George Climbs A Tree!
by Aarna Patil
Once there lived two friends, George and Tim. They were in second grade in the same school. They used to walk together from school to home everyday. Tim was full of mischief and liked to challenge his friends to do dangerous things. George always fell for the challenges Tim dared him to do.
On their way to home, there was a huge tree. One day they were walking as usual, when they reached the huge tree, Tim challenged George saying “Hey George, I dare you to climb to the top of this tree”.
“Nooooo, that is way too dangerous” shouted George. Tim started to tease George saying ”You are a scaredy cat”.
“Do it or else I will tell the entire school that you are so puny”.
George waited for a while thinking about climbing the tree, finally he said, ”okay fine, I will do it”.
George started to climb up the tree, when he was a few branches from the top, he felt like giving up the challenge but then he remembered Tim’s words. When he finally reached to the top, he looked down from the top and his legs started to shake profusely and he was too scared to get down.
“Tim, I can not get down. I am too scared that I might fall”, said George and started crying.
Tim told George not to panic and to take small steps down the tree but George was not ready to listen and continued crying.
Tim got very scared and thought if something happens to George, he might get in trouble so he started thinking of a way to get George down safely.
After a few minutes he came up with an idea, he asked George to wait for some time. Tim ran back to his house as quickly as he could, opened the door using the key under the door mat. Tim directly went to his room, he was out of breath but did not wait too long and quickly grabbed a comforter from his room and ran out of the door. When he reached the tree, George had stopped crying by then but was holding the tree trunk tightly.
Tim calmly told George about his idea of placing the comforter under the tree and George would jump down on it. George agreed on the same but he thought that if he jumped from this height he might get hurt so he started taking small steps down and when he got to the point where it was safe to jump, he jumped and landed with a big thud on the comforter.
”I am sorry I challenged you to climb that tree” apologized Tim. Then they both agreed that henceforth they would not challenge each other to do dangerous things.
