Chapter 1: A bedtime story

Flora was a young and pitiful child who was born weak and had an unknown disease. She was barely a few months old, when her dad died in an accident. That poor child didn't even get the chance to spend time with her dad properly. Now, she only had her mom to take care of her.

Even though her mom took her to a lot of doctors, they were still not able to find the name or the cause of the disease. Nobody knew if the disease was deadly or not. Because of this Flora's mom had been worried sick for years.

Flora who was still a child had known about her conditions for a while because she once heard her mom and the doctor talking about the disease by mistake. Despite that she still tried to put a facade of a happy and cheerful child in front of her mother, so that her mother's smile could never fade away in front of her.

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Flora was heading to her room in a rush, since her 10th birthday was just the next day and she had to wake up early in the morning to meet her friends. She went to her bed, pulled the blanket over her and closed her eyes. She wasn't able to wait for her birthday, since she was so excited about it.

It was really dark outside and then suddenly, it started pouring hard with strong gales which were making loud scary sounds. It started thundering too, due to which Flora wasn't able to sleep. Her heart started beating so fast and she started trembling in fear. As she was trying to overcome her fear, she heard some footsteps coming towards her room which scared her even more. She went inside her blanket to hide, closed her eyes even more tightly and covered her ears.

* The door opens with a creak sound *

"Aahh ...!" Flora shouted in fear. She was trembling even more. She felt like her soul left her body.

"Flora, my baby! Are you alright?" asked Flora's mom in a worried tone as she walked inside the room.

When she heard Flora shouting, she rushed towards the bed and saw her daughter shivering under her blanket.

"Flora, it's me your mom!" said Flora's mom as she moved her hands towards the blanket to remove it.

"M... Mommy? I... Is that r... really you?" asked Flora as she popped a lil portion of her head outta the blanket. She blinked her eyes again and again to check whether that person was her mom or a ghost.

Seeing Flora in that state Flora's mom started tearing up. She grabbed Flora and hugged her tightly. Seeing that it was really her mom, Flora also wrapped her arms around her mom and said "It's so sc... scary Mommy!" as she started bursted in tears.

Flora's mom put Flora's head on her lap and started patting her head gently. After Flora calmed down a bit her mom said, "Honey, I told you to wait for me and yet you came in a hurry knowing the fact that you are scared of the dark!"

Flora, who was a bit sad that she didn't listen to her mom was relieved at the same time because she no longer felt any fear now that her mom was there with her. "Mm... I'm sorry Mommy." Flora apologised to her mom in a soft voice.

"Honey, it's totally fine! I was just worried about you." said Flora's mom as she looked at her daughter with a heart warming smile.

Flora was feeling loved. She started rubbing her head in her mom's belly softly like a puppy. "Um... Mommy I can't seem to sleep anyways, so can you tell me a bedtime story?" asked Flora as she looked at her mom with her puppy eyes to make her accept her request.

While looking at Flora's cute pleading face her mom asked her, "Flora, you do know that it's already too late and tomorrow is your birthday right? You have to wake up early in the morning to meet your friends. Will you be able to wake up?"

Flora got lost in thoughts after listening to her mom's words. After thinking for a few mins she said, "Mommy, you know that I never break my promise and I've promised Lessie and Josh that I'll meet them tomorrow, so can you please just tell me one story?" Flora used her puppy eyes attack again.

Knowing that her daughter's birthday is just the next day, her mom didn't want to upset her in any ways.

"Only one story then, okay?" said Flora's mom as she maintained her serious face, so that Flora wouldn't ask for another story.

Flora was overjoyed when her mom agreed to tell her a story. "Yay! Sure Mommy!" said Flora with her eyes shining with excitement.

Flora's mom got out of the bed and tucked Flora inside the blanket properly. Then she laid beside Flora as she began to tell the story.

"A long time ago, there used to be a God who was hated by the other Gods because their thinking never matched. The God who was hated, wanted to create a 'perfect' world with no hatred or anything evil. while the other Gods kept telling him that nothing could be perfect in this world, but he didn't listen.

One day, he thought about creating another world which would be perfect and only he would rule there away from the other Gods. Although he knew that the other Gods would go against him, he made a plan to escape. He went to a Devil to ask for help. The Devil agreed to help him escape, but he wanted something in return. The Devil wanted to go with the God as he was fed up with the other Devils too. After agreeing to the Devil's request, finally the time came when the God escaped with the Devil

As planned, the God created his own 'perfect' world. The Devil and the God decided that if people chosed to worship one of them, then the other one would never interfere. This was done to avoid the fight between the God and the Devil.

The world created by the God was totally different than ours. That world also had humans but the precious thing it had which we never had was 'peace'. They lived together in harmony and everyone was being treated equal. There was not even a sign of discrimination. The environment was beautiful without any pollution or global warming. That world was simply a paradise which we humans dream of but never do anything for it. But there's a saying...

'Happiness never lasts long'

The God who was watching upon the people of that world was proud of himself for creating such a perfect world and perfect people. His love for those people started growing more and more, as he continued to watch over them. Finally, one day the God decided to show his love to those lovely people. He showed himself in front of them. People almost went blind from the light emitting from the God. After controlling his aura, God told people that he was very impressed by their behavior and the way they were living their life without doing any evil thing. He wanted them to wish for something and it would be granted. After saying this, he disappeared not knowing the price he would have to pay in the future.

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