The Clean Socks

 Written by: Meena Nazari

Ajmal was Marwa’s brother and they were living in a house with their family. Ajmal’s grandmother loved Ajmal very much.

One winter day when Ajmal came home from playing, he was feeling cold. His grandmother asked him to sit with her and raps the blanket around himself. When Ajmal sat, her grandmother sensed a bad smell and she drove away Ajmal from herself. Ajmal asked the reason. His grandmother said that Marwa is not blamed for not let him sit in the living room. Ajmal became sad and left her alone.

This action repeated so many times but the bad smell was always sensed and Ajmal did not care about it. Once Ajmal’s friends invited him to a picnic. When Ajmal sat beside one of his friends, the boy kept himself away from Ajmal. When he sat beside another boy, that boy also sensed a bad smell. All guests were annoyed by the bad smell and they were asking each other about the bad odor of feet. Ajmal left the party and the boys became happy and said that now they would inhale fresh air.

Ajmal sat in the sun and took off his shoes. The bad smell of his socks took him to an unknown place. Ajmal shoes said to the socks that they are tired of Ajmal’s socks' bad odor. The socks said that they are also ashamed to have such a reckless owner. The socks said that Ajmal has not washed them for a long time. Ajmal’s shoes got angry at socks and a fight took place between them. Shoes were hitting the socks and the socks were running away. When Ajmal saw and hear about his dirty socks, he became very sad went back to his home.

The next day his friend, Nisar came and took him his home. There were many other boys too but this time each of them wanted Ajmal to sit beside him because Ajmal had put on his old socks but he had washed them.