Jemma's World: Dream Comes True

By: Raza, Khalid M.

"Poetry, will you be my friend?", asked Jemma to herself stupidly because she thinks she is stupid as her school considers her a shocking dumb 10-year-old. They all get amused with her body language and prefer to be away from her. No one comes near to her because she couldn't able to interact to all the smart kids in her school. She studies a few subjects of her 5th standard very well and she is an average good student of her school. Jemma needs company and she wants to be one of those kids, who enjoy being together as good friends but she can't help herself. Jemma's world is all about trying to make friends if not at least one. Jemma never bothers about having her a friend of good character or not but she's desperate to find anyone come her way. She will be the happiest kid for her own good to have friend or friends. Every time when she's alone as she always be, she thinks about making friendship. She can't speak for about 10 seconds and so she's bothered. Her classmates do see her as the most foolish character and she also knows that. One fine day, which's not so fine for Jemma as she drops her school bag down while taking it off from her shoulders. School bag was a bit open and things from it also get scattered and fall on the floor. Every classmate not all of them watch that Jemma picking her items one by one. She picks two items and lets the other two fall down and this continues until everyone around her burst into laughter. This makes no sense as she ends up being helped by one of her classmate and things get gathered into her school bag. She then even can't say "thank you" to that child, who helped her and she keeps herself thinking nothing but in confusion. Thus, Jemma still can't do much about such incidents that happen to her every other day. This time kids around her laughed a lot and from her inside, she's happy. However, she can't express her happiness and she looks depressed but she is always a selfless character. In her room, she finds herself alone and her mom and dad call her to come for dinner. She comes out of her room leaving aside the toys and washes her hands to have dinner with her parents. Suddenly her uncle, whose name is Ben visits her home and joins all for dinner. He wants to talk to Jemma first but Jemma was lost in her own world. Ben often visits the Anderson family every month or so. Mrs and Mr Anderson are Jemma's parents and they're though very talkative but their daughter can't spell the word "talk" in front of anyone, though she knows the spelling of the word "talk". She thinks a lot while their parents and uncle are about to finish their food. "Delicious", says Ben looking at Jemma and wants some more chicken pieces. Mrs Anderson picks the pieces of chicken and puts in the plate of Ben, who's her brother. So, now you know Ben is the maternal uncle of Jemma. However, Jemma finishes off her dinner too and looks for something that she knows. Jemma looks down and looks at her hands and then towards the kitchen and to the three faces of Mr and Mrs Anderson and Mr Ben. She's confused again. Her mom tells her "Jemma Go and wash your hands darling". Alas She realizes now that she was looking to wash her hands and she couldn't able to do so, how silly? She was in standing position and goes towards her room but her mom follows her and scolds, "first wash your hands Jem". Again, she was unable to find where she needs to wash her hands in her own home. This is too much and kindly her uncle Ben says "Jemma let me wash your hands right here". The sink is not too far from the dining table and is all brown in colour like the sofa of their living room. Jemma feels relaxed and asks in low voice, "Uncle water". Ben brings water from the refrigerator to her and she drinks as if she's been thirsty since a week. Ben knows that Jemma has some problem and understands her better than her parents. Thus, the story of Jemma continues and she is aware that she knows nothing. She's also not aware of herself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1703394577
• ISBN13: 9781703394573
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"