Memories that Haunt Me
Not long ago, and not something recent too. This happened 22 years ago in 1998.
I was just a 10 year old boy.
In our locality a dog had just given birth to puppies, lots of them(at least that’s what it felt when I was a kid). One particular pup, I don’t remember its color or how it looked, but for a kid like me, its was a very cute one.
For the first couple of weeks the puppies hadn’t opened their eyes. When the puppies opened their eyes one by one. One among them, lets call him Tiger(didn’t name him at that time) was the one that caught our attention. Tiger used to be very cute as my memory serves. He used to follow us where ever we went. To the playground, to the fields, to where ever we went.
One fine day we were playing in the fields. I don’t even remember what we thought we started walking somewhere, Tiger was following us. There was a small drain, which was about 6 feet deep, but was not much wide as we at that age could jump across that. But Tiger who was following us, couldn’t, he fell into that, I was too young I couldn’t help him. I didn’t have any ideas to pull him up. I couldn’t do anything, maybe I was too dumb. I could hear Tiger crying in his squeaky voice.
By the time I could find someone and get help and reached the place of the incident, Tiger was no more.
