MY Mother always wants me to kill two birds with one stone and do many types of work at the same time but I am not always interested in that type of multitasking. My mother always calls me a “Lazy Bone”, especially during winter and summer vacation.

In summers, I usually relax in the beginning and then complete my summer assignments just a day before the deadline. I procrastinate a lot. But still I’m able to finish my task in time, that’s the good quality in me. Isn’t it !!! My summer vacation has passed and my winter vacation was going to arrive soon. I was excited as my birthday falls in this vacation. I was happy and energetic this time as I planned to finish my school assignments in the beginning only and get things ready for my birthday and other important events coming up ahead.

My mother said, “Oh! Now miss Lazy Bone is turning into Energetic Muscle.” She started joking as she’s jolly good at it. I was planning how to manage things and suddenly a problem struck.

My father out of the blue said, “Oh! I forgot that I have booked a ticket to France and we have to go to the airport tomorrow morning !!” Actually my father wanted to gift “A trip to France” as a surprise to us but due to his busy office routine, the trip became a surprise for him too.

We quickly packed the portmanteau which was a little bit overfilled and looked like it could burst open whenever it hit a hard surface. We left for the taxi at around 3 o’ clock and in an hour or two we were on the airport inquiring about the flight timings.

O our Dear France! We Are Coming!

After a while, we were in the plane excited about our journey. But since everything went so fast, we were too tired and slept. Not more than 15 minutes have passed; we woke up after listening to the deadly voice of the strangers in the plane. Are they HIJACKERS!!!!

Well if they are we are gonna be in a great trouble 😭😭.....God save us! At this time only hope can save us....And that hope should not be hopened...

They said, “Everyone who we knew has betrayed us and we were as poor as a church mouse, but now let’s see … who will become poor and who will be filthy rich!”

Though terrified by their scary voice, I whispered an idea to my mother and father, which they agreed but hesitated.

My mother said, “There are emergency exits in a plane where we can find some parachutes to escape.”

My father said, “Escaping alone and leaving all other passengers to die, is that you want? I am sure you will regret it.”

At last they agreed with my dramatic idea and planned the timings. In a minute or two, we began the drama.....It was gonna be too dramatic for the hijackers too

My mother and father started a fake argument which everyone could listen. My mother said, “I am sure that this hijacker was a thief of his own wallet and when everything he had got finished, he betrayed everybody in his family and became a hijacker.”

But my father acted as he disagreed and said, “No! He must have stolen his father’s money and everybody thought he had betrayed his whole family, and now he has become a good person, but no one trusted him. As once a thief is always a thief.”

This argument had much ado about nothing but just to make the hijacker apologize to his parents for his past deeds and since he was so poor, he would ask a passenger for a phone and we will be the first one to give the phone. When he will try to take the phone, we will keep it in our hand and ask for the contact no. of his parents and when he will be busy, we will first call the pilot from another phone (whose number was saved in our phone before the flight) and ask him to land the plane as soon as possible to the nearest place and tell us the name of that place.

We will then contact the police and tell them the place where they can come and arrest the hijackers. The plan went pretty well and we were thankfully saved. Now the last straw of this France Case was that it was not the France Case now it was the Caso España (Spain case) and we were in Spain now! Instead of Bienvenue de France (welcome to France) it was written Bienvenido a España (welcome to Spain). My mother was terrified, “I thought we were going to France not to Spain. Is there a place in France called Spain?” All of us were so quiet after this statement that we could hear a pin drop.

We reserved a hotel named Mercer Hotel Barcelona. It was a very comfortable one and the food was also delicious as it was a five star hotel. We had different varieties of food and a lot of happy and funny moments which we can never forget in our life. It was such a nice trip that we even forgot the incident that took place in the plane and we even forgot that our father has planned a vacation for FRANCE and not SPAIN.

We were enjoying ourselves in the AC rooms and cozy beds. Whenever it was time to eat breakfast or brunch, we walked lazily towards our table. Anyone who has watched us would have given us the title of versión familiar huesos perezosos (family version of lazy bones … ha ha ha). It was not our mistake as we were too tired of all the happenings we have come across till now.

BUT We didn’t know it was just The Trailer.

We all thought about my birthday and the special events coming up ahead. My father showed me the dates and venue for the various events that were scheduled. To our surprise, all events were in Spain. The family breathed a sigh of relief at first. But the dates and timings were horrifying; they all were same for the three different events. Those three events were - My friend’s birthday party, the yearly get together, and my cousin’s engagement. On that day it was my birthday too!!

Height of Coincidence!!!

I wish I could turn back the clock and bring the wheels of time to a stop.

I had this feeling whenever it was a memorable moment – good or bad. Whenever it was a nice moment I could turn back the time and have fun again and again. But when it was a bad and scary one I would again turn back the time and by knowing the situation before the timings, I would take actions and change the future, this was what I always thought.

But unfortunately, this happiness did not last long. The dates for the events were near and we were not at all ready. We did the arrangements with the speed of light though we didn’t know which functions we are going to attend.

We were three in our family and there were three different functions. We tried to solve the problem with Rock-Paper-Scissors (as which function to attend became a dilemma). But in that game too, no one was able to win or lose. We were caught between three stools. We after losing hope thought that we will go to that function which is at the nearest place from our hotel.

After sometime, I was just walking around the beach near our hotel. There, I found an awkward looking watch, which had a long needle in the middle and wires connected to the inside of the watch. I could not resist myself and picked that.

Eventually, my time passed exploring the unique watch. I pressed a button and rotated the needle, suddenly the sun rose again and the moon went away too quickly that I didn’t get the chance to sleep.

I kept on wondering, “Was it this watch which made the time rush?” Well, I was sure it was that awkward looking watch only, so I experimented again and this time I spoke some words-“Change the time and make yesterday come again.” It did listen to me and said with a robotic voice

O-K C-H-A-N-G-I-N-G T-H-E T-I-M-E.

I was excited yet surprised by this miracle. I had to tell this incident to my parents. Now we had the opportunity to attend all the functions with the help of this time, place, date and mind changer gadget. I went to my parents. They were sitting tensed thinking what to do about the events. I quickly ran towards them and told about the watch.

We all felt that we were in the seventh heaven. A gadget like that we could only think of in our dreams. My mother said, “I am happy that we got that watch. First show us that it can change time, date, place and mind or are you making a fool of us.” I did it again the third time and it did change the time. My parents were happy to see the miracle and we now planned how to change the timings and the mind of the people so we could maintain the relations and also have fun at the functions.

What a bliss!