AIR-CLINIC WRITING CONTEST: MAN IN EVERY CHILD

It was one of the cool evenings of 1997, I was playing around with my yard people.

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As small as we were, you think we know nothing, you joke. I was tripping for one of the girls.
While playing our catcher, I would chase others and not her because I wanted her to like me. But guess she too was holding some feelings for the other alpha male in the playgroup. So you can call it survival of the fittest. It was a struggle for attention.
But here was it, we started daring each other, the girls gave us petty tasks but me and the other guy, gave ourselves quite a dare. I had dared him to do a back flip on one finger which resulted in a twisted pinkie. But his ego and manliness at that age, didn’t allow him show pain in the presence of the ladies. He then looked around with rage in his eyes and pointed to a big tiger battery, cracked it open and said, eat it!Now that I think of it, I got lucky.
Well, I couldn't back down, my crush was watching and what more, it was just some black stuff, can’t hurt much, I thought
I downed a little of the content of the battery, it had this kind of sharp but nice taste. So I took a few more to prove my bravery. That was the last I remembered. Didn't feel any pain or anything,
I shut down.
I went blank. Like a total black out. The only thing I remember was someone putting her hand in my mouth and shouting in pain because my little sharp milk teeth were clamped against her hand. They were shouting bring palm oil and the funny thing was that, there was a general Hospital just directly opposite where I live.
Well, I don’t know how I survived or what they did to bring me to life. But I know that I never saw my crush again, I never went out to play again and the boy became my enemy till I left that place.
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