Aanshi woke up with regret in her heart as she wanted to sleep more and enjoy the dream. But, it was the sound of alarm clock that didn't allow her to sleep.
"How many times I'll change the alarm? "- She got irritated. But she was in love with her dream where she dreamt of a prince hailing from heaven and she was taking his autograph.
She closed her eyes again to sleep and get a glimpse of that beautiful dream.
But, is it possible ? No.
"Oh, God! What I am doing? "
"Why I am behaving like a child? "-Aanshi murmured to herself.
" Aanshi, why are you talking to yourself ?"
She heard a voice.
She raised her arms to rub the sleep from her eyes and discovered her friend Lisa next to her bed.
"It's 9 o'clock. Wake up. "
"I know, the bookworm might be busy with her books or in her aristocratic dreams." - Lisa said.

Having the fear of getting exposed by someone who was more than a news channel to her, Aanshi managed to hide the reality with a smile.

" Ha...ha...news channel ?"
Yes, you heard it right.
Lisa couldn't keep anything secret.

Then Aanshi woke up, had her daily routine. Lisa and she had coffees, snacks and a large discussion on art, culture, music, politics, cricket etc. in her study room.
After few hours, they had their lunch together and Lisa left for her home.

Aanshi was really tired of studying and she deliberately wanted to keep herself busy in some other activities. Then a thought came into her mind.
Guess.....what ?
As she had "autograph" in her mind since morning, she started to check all her old autograph books.
While reading those memories, she stopped a while on one page where "a...b...c...d" was written.
She went back to the memory lane and remembered that one fine day while she was on her way to home from college, she met a sweet kid with his parents and he was crying. His parents were trying to console him, but he was on his own condition that "I want to give autograph."
Aanshi stopped there for a while and asked the child, "What is your name? "
The child replied in a heroic style, "Chintu.
You can call me Mr Chintu. "
"Okay ! Mr Chintu, can I take your autograph please? "
Chintu smiled and gave his autograph on a paper.
Aanshi was in a hurry, so she couldn't open the paper and kept that in her bag.
At home, when she opened the paper, it was written- "a....b...c...d".
She pasted the paper in her autograph book, but she forgot to take a photograph of that kid.
The sweet remembrance brought a smile on her face and she forgot all her worries, tensions and exam pressures.
She had failed several times in competitive exams and there was a burden what you can name " exam pressure" .
But, this autograph had a miraculous effect on her mind. So, she drew a "smile emoji", cut it out, pasted it on that paper and wrote " any body can do it" under the cute autograph "a...b...c...d".
Perhaps, that was the best autograph she had ever taken.

"Sometimes, little things bring greatest joy in our life."

© Archana Maharana (Lucky)

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