The Weird Word

This story would’ve been ‘My Normal Life- Part 4’ but it’s actually about my brother. So…… yeah… let’s get started.

It was a normal day at Mayoor school Shaurya, a nursery grade student -my brother- walked up to his teacher with a troubling thought.

"Maam!"

The teacher, Mrs. Sarika Chawla looked up from her work at the little child. “Yes, Shaurya?”

“I saw this word somewhere… can you tell the meaning of it?”

“Sure, kid.”

Shaurya stepped forward. “The word... it was… it was…”

Mrs. Chawla rolled her eyes. “Ask me when you remember. Now go back to your seat.”

Shaurya shook his head. “Maam! The word was ‘loohcs’.”

I know, right! Like... how does he even come up with these kind of things?

“Looks means ‘appearance.’ Now go back to your seat and let me check these notebooks.” Mrs. Sarika said, trying to send the boy away.

“Maam! The spelling was L- O- O- H- C- S.”

Mrs. Chawla frowned. “Eh? What word is that?” She thought.

“Maam, what does it mean?”

Mrs. Chawla was stumped. “I’ll check and tell you tomorrow.”

The Next Day

Shaurya eagerly waited for the teacher to come.

Mrs. Chawla came in, keeping her books on the table.

Shaurya went up to her. “Maam! Did you find the meaning of the word?”

Mrs. Chawla looked at him, perplexed. She had forgotten about the talk with Shaurya the previous day.

It suddenly hit her, and she said, “Oh... yeah! That word… ‘loohcs’…. Well….”

Shaurya’s shoulder slumped.

“I’ll surely tell you tomorrow.”

He went back to his seat, sighing.

The Next Day (Part- 2)

This time, Mrs. Chawla had looked up for the word.

This time, Shaurya was determined to find the word from his teacher.

When asked for the word, Mrs. Chawla took a deep breath and said, “I couldn’t find it.”

The student’s jaw almost dropped. Not even his teacher could find the meaning of the word he saw.

But Shaurya was stubborn.

He kept asking his teacher for the word every day. And Mrs. Sarika Chawla avoided him as much as possible. Not a good trait for a teacher, right? Yeah, I thought so too.

After a few days- probably of being frustrated by my brother- the teacher asked Shaurya, “Where did you see that word?”

Shaurya smiled. He had finally convinced his teacher to go the lengths of finding the word. “Follow me, Maam!”

 He took his teacher outside his empty art class. Standing in front of the mirror, he pointed at his shirt in the reflection, which read- “See! The shirt says loohcs!”

Shaurya’s shirt read ‘Mayoor School.’

His reflection mirrored the word ‘school’ on his shirt into ‘loohcs’ (I still laugh at that).

I’m sure the teacher almost exploded at him.

For Sarika Maam

Sorry for Shaurya's bugging