It was Sunday evening and I was very tired because I had practised for hockey matches the whole day with my friends. I was in bed reading a book. Suddenly I heard a noise. It came from the room next to mine. I thought it was the wind, and so I continued to read my book. But it started again. I decided to go there and open the door.
When I opened the door I was really surprised! I saw a huge box. It was moving and on the box there was a tag ‘Do open it’. Also, it said, ‘special state’.
The whole box was covered with foreign stamps and there were some funny faces on it. I thought that it was a trick that was played by one of my friends. I was really terrified! The box was still moving. So finally I decided to open it. I was just like a ‘scary cat’.
I was wondering what it could be when I opened the box. I found a little hamster jumping about inside the box. It was so beautiful. The next day I told my brother about the hamster. We decided to take care of it and to call it ‘Rover’. This was our first secret.
Susudu Iduwari Katugampala,
Grade 10,
Ananda Balika Vidyalaya,
Colombo.