George and Granny

Ladies and Gentleman, honourable judges. Esteemed timekeepers, teachers

and fellow contestants. A fine day I bid to everyone, I am ______________ from
____ and today I will tell you a tale of George and Granny.
Once, there was a boy who lived with his mother, his hardworking but seldom
at home father and his ever-tiny sickly unkind Granny. As he was the only child,
his daily life revolves around himself, his mother and Granny for they lived in
the middle of nowhere. Thus, George was always bored to tears.
One day, George’s mother left him alone with Granny as she needed to
do some shopping in the village but before she left, she sternly said, “George
dear, you must make sure to give Granny her medicine at exactly eleven o’clock
or else…” but she never finish her sentence as the bus had arrived and off she
left leaving George baffled.
He went back into his house and saw her tiny granny frowning as she
commanded him to make her a cup of tea. So, off George went into the kitchen
and made her a tea. When she saw George coming with the tea, she yelled,
“You silly boy! You forgot the spoon!” and off he went to the kitchen to fetch the
spoon.
When George returned with the spoon, she took a sip of the tea and
complained, “ Stupid boy! The tea is bland, go get me some sugar!”
George was annoyed and replied, “ But granny, Mother said you should not take
too much sugar.” and she replied, “ Blahh.. what does she know? Now, be a
good servant and fetch me those sugar quickly!”. Soon, he returned with the
sugar and she took them from him and put, one, two, three, four, five , six and
seven full spoons of sugar into the teacup. The teacup looked like a mountain
of sugar with tea decorating them but George didn’t said a thing. In fact he
slowly walk back into his room, slowly locking it as he put on his headphones
while he listened to his favourite song. Soon, George was dozing off like a dead
log.
“Ding, Ding, Ding!” The clock strikes and George was awoken by his
Granny yelling, “ My Medicine, Go Get MY MEDICINE!! Hurry ya foolish grand
son of mine!” Startled, George ran out from his room and into the kitchen
shouting, “Where is it Granny?” “On the shelves, now quickly ya big baffoon!”
He looked up and down, left and right before finally he found two bottles of
medicine. The first one was black. As black as a rotten tomatoes while the other
was murky brown, as brown as the mud he often played outside. In his panic,
he took both medicines out and mixed a spoonfull of them together before he
ran back to Granny.
“Here, Granny. Swallow them fast.”, he said as he plunged them into
Granny’s crooked tooth. She didn’t even had time to respond before she
swallowed them in one big gulp. George looked at the clock. It showed, eleven
and one o’clock but nothing had happened. He thought to himself, “Mother must
have played a trick on me. Luckily, I’m no fool.”
“Boom, Boom , Bang!” As soon as he finished his thought, he heard a
sound coming from behind him. He looked back and saw Granny became as
puffed as a cotton ball and floating on the air. “You dimwit fool! What have you
done! Did you get me the correct medicine?” , she yelled but to his horror
Granny started twisting and turning around until suddenly she became small
again and suddenly grew taller and taller until she went through the roof of their
house.
“Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha. This might not be too bad after all. I’m the tallest person
ever. Take that everyone. Who is the midget now? Who do you call a tiny old
woman?” George stared dumbfounded at her and it all finally make sense. She
was unkind because she hated being small and all her life she was always the
smallest.
Granny began to move and the roof was falling apart. Whenever she
moved, bricks would fall and the earth would shake. Whenever she spoke, the
sheep would cry and the duck would ran in fear. George begged her to stop but
she was too high for her to hear him. Then suddenly, she grew small and smaller
until she became the size of a pumpkin and then the size of a pumpkin seed
and finally “Pop” she was finally too small for him to see.
“GrannnnyyyyyY!!!!!!!!” shouted George as he woke up from a dreadful
nightmare. He ran out of his room and looked at the clock. It was a minute before
eleven. He ran to the kitchen and saw the medicine, gold in colour as gold as
the golden ray of sun and as sweet as the mellow honey. He pour a spoonful of
it and fed it to Granny. He waited for a minute and the clock finally rang. Eleven
time it chimes but nothing happened to Granny. There were no poofing nor
growing. She was sleeping soundly and George kept on watching over her until
finally she woke up. To George’s surprise, she was smiling from ear to ear, not
the kind of creepy smile she always had but a genuine happy smile as she said,
“ Thank you for watching over me today.” Feeling happy, George thought to
himself, “ Guess she’s not truly unkind after all.”
The story teach us to not judge the book by its cover as we don’t know
the pain or story of someone until we walk in their shoes.