The Chiming Anklets..

    It was a terrible day for him at his office. He was fired on that day which he had least expected. Evening when he came home and pressed the calling bell with his eyebrows knit, ground teeth, jaws clenched, each second was very long. The call was not answered till he banged the door very hard. He shouted at his wife as soon as she opened the door. Looking at his face, she understood that he was under stress. It was the first time he behaved in this way. He went to the room, sat on his bed with zero expression. The fan did not rotate as there was no power, even the inverter had drained. 
    The kid went to the father and told, ”Appa,chocolates…Appa”. He thought everything is going haywire and this kid is asking for chocolates. He was about to hit the child but somehow he controlled and asked curtly “What you need?”.The child with its eyes sparkling said “Appa, whenever I’m sad you give me these chocolates and kiss me...” in a honeyed voice and offered the chocolates, the father picked them up. The kid with its tiny legs put maximum effort, got into the cot stood before him. The kid put its arms around his neck, kissed his forehead, pulled his cheek. Now, laughingly the kid started clapping its hand. The father was stress free. He smiled for the first time on that day. He pulled the kid closer but it escaped .It slid through the bed and ran. The chiming anklets made him feel better.
The mother who was observing this from the far smiled with tears in her eyes. She went back to the kitchen, closed her eyes and recollected what had happened a few minutes before.

A Few minutes before 

This two year old kid, who was playing with its building block in the hall, went to its mother and asked for chocolates. The mother felt that if she denied the little kid may shout. Standing on her toe fingers she took the box in which she had filled the chocolates that she had made and wrapped it with colorful wrappers. She showed the box to the kid with her finger on her lips. The kid picked up the chocolates wrapped in red, pink and yellow and moved out of the kitchen with its tiny finger on its baby pink lips. 
The father came out, caught his kid and kissed him. He pulled his wife out of the kitchen, prepared some hot frothy coffee poured it in two mugs. He filled the feeding bottle with warm milk and gave it to the kid. Sitting with his family in the balcony watching the sunset he realized everything can be solved, every height can be reached with the support of our beloved ones.