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The New Video Game

           Raju’s mother came to the room. “Come Raju, your father
           is here,” she said. He looked at his mother’s face. She had
           been crying. “What happened, mother?” he asked, once
           again.

           “Come  out  first,  Raju.  Let’s  sit  in  the  living  room,”  she
           said.  Raju  was  worried  and  scared  by  now.  He  did  not
           know why his mother was behaving this way.

           Raju’s father looked calm, so Raju got a little confidence
           and asked him, “Why is mother crying, Papa?”

           Raju’s father took him in his arms. “It’s okay, Raju. Your
           mother is upset. You have failed in one subject in your
           term exams this time. Your teacher called in the afternoon
           to tell your mother,” he said.

           Raju did not know how to react. He saw his mother’s face,
           and burst out crying. His father hugged him. He cried so
           much that he was exhausted in sometime. He had never
           failed in any of his exams, ever.

           He did not know how he did not pass this time. All he
           knew was that he had only studied while he was playing
           his games in his room. He had never studied apart from
           when he was playing a new game.

           He could not talk to his parents anymore. He needed to go
           to sleep. He went off to his room, switched off the new





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