Bob's Dillemma.

Bob’s Dilemma.

In the distance one could see the glow of the big City if one listened carefully one could hear the roar of the evening traffic. The night was mild and many stars lit up the night sky. It was on this night that the small boy Robert decided to run away from home. He had not done well at school and his parents were very cross with him.

 

Robert was if he wanted to be a very good scholar he learned quickly and well. His was a mind that could easily retain what he had seen or been taught. Robert or Bob as his friends called him was inclined to be a little lazy. His mother was often telling him to keep his room clean and to tidy things away after he had finished with them. His Father was a happy go lucky kind of man and let Bob do much as he wanted.

 

Bob packed a few clothes into his school rucksack and with something to eat from his Mother’s larder he climbed out of his bedroom window and nimbly slid down the trunk of the tree that stood in the garden of his house. He wandered off into the night and was soon lost to sight as walked into the woods.

 

The woods were full of glow-worms and with the torch that he kept by his bedside if he needed to get up in the night, He lit his way from tree to tree. Being tired he sat himself down under a tree and began to wonder why he had left his comfortable bedroom with all his books, his computer and all of the things that his parents had given him over the years. Most of all he wondered what would happen to his stamp collection. He had a collection of stamps from all over the world. His Dad had once jokingly remarked that one day he would be a famous Philatelist. With these thoughts in his head he dozed off to sleep.

 

It was a warm night and the woods were full of life. The night animals and birds were busy looking for their food. Some of the animals even came up to the quietly sleeping boy and sniffed him. As soon as they smelled that he was human most of them ran off into the woods. Then a Fairy saw him sleeping under the tree and told her friends of the human boy that was asleep in the woods so late at night.

 

Fairies are very mischievous but also good hearted and one of the Fairies tied the boy’s bootlaces together. Another placed a feather in his hair. The Fairies carried out these and a few other small tricks. An Owl that had been watching these silly pranks from the Fairies Flew off to tell the Fairy Queen what was happening in Fairyland this night.

 

The Fairy Queen Feeana appeared in her usual flash of light and puff of smoke a small wave of her magic wand and Bob was back to normal. His bootlaces were again normal. The feathers had disappeared from his hair in fact all of the Fairies tricks were made good. The Queen spent a few moments looking at Bob and then her wave moved again and she gave a small smile. She sent Bob a dream a bad dream a very bad dream for some one like Bob who had, had it good in this life.

 

Bob’s sleep became very uneasy he dreamt that he was at home but his Parents were somehow different. His Mother and Father were very strict with him. Why even his own bedroom was different. No soft bed with fluffy pillows this bed was hard there was a small table with just his schoolbooks no stamp collection even the pictures on the wall were gone. His computer was missing he just loved his computer.

 

His pocket money he had to earn. Dishes he had to wash and wipe after each meal. Punishment that he had not known before were, No television. His Mother or his Father stopped his pocket money for the slightest breach of the house rules. He had to keep his own room spotlessly clean and help his mother with the housework and above all in the evening he had to do his homework before he could even think of going out to play. It was a very frightening experience for a young boy that had always had a very good home with all of the comforts that his parents could afford to give him.

 

Bob slowly woke up and realised that it was all a bad dream. He did not see the Fairies that were all around him. Switching on his torch he made his way back to his home. Climbing the tree he went into his bed and did not see his Mother and Father looking in to see that he was all right.

 

In the morning Bob woke and looked around his room, His computer was in its usual place, his stamp collection was as he had left it and the pictures on his bedroom walls were as they always had been. It was all a bad dream thought Bob to him self as he went down to his breakfast. After the meal he collected the breakfast dishes and placed them in the sink. Rolling up his sleeves he washed and wiped the dishes. His Mother was amazed he had never before done any housework.

 

Bob through his dream now appreciated all that his Parents had done for him and when he came home from school he had his evening meal then got down to his school homework. His notes at school were the best he had ever had. His Parents increased his pocket money and Bob or perhaps I should say Robert was a very changed boy. He has never again run off into the woods and to this day he does not realise that the Fairy Queen Feeana had given him the bad dream to teach him a lesson.

 

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