Asmita Ghosh

Today while myself reading through the covid space in the telegraph sipping a cup of disgusting bitter coffee suddenly my puppy rider came across a old radio and started biting the wires I took it out from the dust pushing rider away. I saw that there was a cd down in the tray and it was as old as the radio. Suddenly I heard rider barking so I left the CD and there was a delivery ..... It was from my friend due to the covid she would not be able to come to my house tomorrow to celebrate my 15th birthday .....yeah I know it is bad but I was happy for covid because I personally needed some space to find out and do my self claimed research on the CD that I found.

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It was the evening when I woke up and saw the CD lying in front of my desk cabinets. And the radio was crushed by rider so I had to throw away the radio.... Suddenly An idea clicked in my mind and I grabbed my jacket out of my hangers put on some boots and left with the CD and went to the nearby park with Rider. Rider was very happy to go out in that wonderful fall evening with the Orange sky..... I sitting in the nearby bench in the park with rider thought to myself thought why not see what's inside the CD so I Went to a shop where a old Man who was similar to the age of my grandpa was sitting with his bunch of mechanical supplies and rustling over a old SONY TV which almost looked like a TV from the ages of his time....it had a thick screen with a gaint black box type structure behind its back .

I asked him if he had any device so that I can play this old CD..... he thought to himself for a minute and then gave me a creepy look and lended me a old DVD player which had dust settled on top of it and a little touch of rust...I offered him some money but he did not accept it and instead asked me to return it by tomorrow evening.

I was very carefully walking by the side of the footpath with rider, my CD and the DVD player.

Soon I reached home and washed my hands and tied my hair up ... cleaned the DVD player and plugged in with the socket near to my couch and in just 2 minutes the CD started to make some wierd noises..... I realised the speaker was not working properly... so I tried to fix it but nothing changed it was soon late and rider fell asleep but I was trying my best to solve the problem but I could not so early next morning I rushed the DVD player to the old Man and I was amazed that he fixed it in less than a minute ..... there was no problem with the speaker .... It was dust which got collected on the CD space that whenever the CD moved it made wierd noises and that was the problem..... silly me 😔😔😔

I walked back home and started listening to the CD and it was awesome.....

The CD started off with my grandpa saying how was his Day and it seemed that it was his birthday on 20th of April... I was shocked to hear that he got to have so much fun .....

And the adventures being Said my grandpa with which he went swimming in the lake which has now fallen dry and has no water even in the rainy season ..... and he also stated about the wonderful taste of popsicles with fresh fruit juice made in the summer days and also about the parrot which he had could talk with him like human and they could climb on trees also his friend name agony who was wonderful about solving problems with different gadgets and their different types of childish inventions were truely heart touching to listen to ..... I wish I could have those wonderful adventures with him but earth keeps on rotating and days pass and adventures change so I quickly took out the CD because it was already evening and I was late to return the DVD player..

When I reached the shop of the old Man to return the CD he suddenly asked me if I watched the CD and me being over excited to tell everyone about the CD I started to tell the Man about those adventures of My grandpa and also told him about his friend and seeing my sillyness the old Man started laughing ... I was amazed to see the sparkling white teeth in the darkness of the City and he now told me that the Man named Agony was himself and he was the best friend my grandpa once had ....

I was so happy to find such a great experience and also a new face in this City... Thanks to my dog Rider for taking out the CD from the dust .

That evening was only me talking to that old creepy Man I once met and who now is One of my best friends also and that was the best birthday evening I spent walking down the streets of the City of joy- Kolkata.

This story features

One of the best people in my life

my wonderful grandpa

I still miss you

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