The mysterious sign

    My friends and I played hide-and-seek in the park. I hid behind a big oak tree. I saw a small sign on the trunk. It said 'KNOCK TWO TIMES'. So I did. 



The only thing I heard was a hollow sound, but then my eyes suddenly closed. I was unconscious! 



When I woke up, I felt really weird. I felt that my feet were stuck in the ground. And when I looked to see what was it, I couldn't believe my eyes. The next thing I knew, I was a tree!  I still couldn't believe it. However I could move. So I slapped my face with my branches to see if it was a dream and it wasn't. But it still was a dream for me. 



I looked at the sign to see another message in it. It said, 'YOU UNDERESTIMATED US, SO THIS IS YOUR PUNISHMENT'. I couldn't understand anything. I tried yelling to my friends to save me, but they didn't hear me. They kept searching for me but gave up when it was about 6.00 o'clock in the evening. They thought that I must have gone home so they went home too.




I was helpless. No one heard me or seem to care me from the tree form. No one wondered how a tree appeared here. My parents searched for me with rescue services but they didn't find me. After a few days of investigation  they decided that it's useless to search now.
Many days went. Even though I could move my branches I couldn't move any other parts. I felt really miserable because it was very hot, birds made nests on me, people took off my leaves and sometimes I  didn't get enough water. After about 80 years a tree cuter came to the park. He was talking to someone who was saying to build a golf course here. I realized that the tree cutter came to cut all the trees in the park. So then I remembered something. When I was about 5 years I saw the most ugliest, oldest tree and I thought it was useless. So I told my dad who was a tree cutter to cut it down. So he did.



I laughed in that moment and I later learned that it was about 100 years old, but I didn't care. Then I remembered the message too. I realized what it meant and apologized. 


But it was too late! He cut me down. Then I opened my eyes to see my friends still playing hide and seek. I became the young little girl again! I checked the note which was on the tree and it said 'YOU DESERVE ANOTHER CHANCE'. 



From that day onwards I never disrespected the nature. However the sign kept moving from one place to another to different people. I smiled and thought that the world hasn't got an ending but instead a new beginning.



Creative writing by
~ Imandee Ratnayake ~

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