A Kind but Absent-minded Melody

Melody is a ten-year old rabbit. She is kind-hearted and helpful.  So, she is rather popular among her classmates. However, in her teachers’ eyes, she is an absent-minded student.

One day, Melody’s teacher arranged a picnic with her and a few classmates. Melody was responsible for taking all the snacks and food from the school, which was prepared by the teacher.

Outside the school, she met one of her classmates B-Duck. Suddenly, B-Duck tripped over a stone and fell down on her knees. Melody saw her and immediately held her up and brought her to the sickroom of the school.

Melody looked at her watch and found that she was late so she hurried to the gathering place which was a nearby bus station. Unfortunately, she was late for 30 minutes.

“Where is the food?” the teacher asked.

“It’s here,” Melody replied. Melody looked around but then she noticed she had forgotten to take the bags of food and snacks.

“Oh, sorry! I left it in the sickroom just now because I accompanied a student to there. I’m so sorry. Let me get it back at once,” Melody gasped.

The teacher grabbed her hand to stop her.

“Melody, it’s too late now because this bus leaves after 5 minutes and the next bus leaves after one hour.  If we miss this bus, I don’t think we can be on schedule,” the teacher said.

Melody apologized again and again.

“Melody, it’s okay,” the twins, Little Twin Stars said understandably.

 “We can play for the whole afternoon and we’ve already taken a big breakfast at McDonald’s,” Rilakuma said softly and comforted her.

“It’s okay to skip just one meal,” Hello Kitty agreed.

The whole afternoon, the teachers and the classmates had nothing to eat and they were very hungry.  They didn’t blame her but Melody felt very guilty. She realized that it was her carelessness which made everyone suffer hunger.

The next day, Melody went to school as usual but she was still depressed because of what happened the day before. Outside the school gate, she saw B-Duck’s parents standing there. Once they saw Melody, they rushed to her and greeted her with a big and friendly smile,

“Thank you so much for helping my daughter,” said B-Duck’s parents sincerely, holding melody’s hand tightly and thankfully.

Hearing what Mr and Mrs B, Melody felt happy again!