Missing Moyna
“Where is Moyna? I saw her playing with you,” Mother asks Rupu from the kitchen. Moyna is the closest friend of the siblings Rupu and Bubul. Every Sunday morning she visits this house to play with her friends. This Sunday they were playing hide-and-seek. But the game ended suddenly. Rupu is the eldest among the children. While arranging her storybooks in the bookshelf, she answers, “Moyna must have gone back home. I couldn’t find her when Bubul went to collect a parcel from the postman.” Mother finds that strange. She says, “No Rupu, Moyna can’t go back home without informing me. Being a sincere girl she maintains that ever since she comes to our house.” Rupu thinks it is best to ask Bubul who is trying to fly a kite on the terrace. She calls him. He comes down quickly to the ground floor, “Why are you calling me, Didi? I can’t go anywhere now. I have to fly my new purple kite.” Mother doesn’t like this attitude of her son. She remarks, “Bubul, we need to know where Moyna is. When did