Coo-Kie

“I am clearly saying that’s impossible to do and waste of time!” said Faith angrily, after a pause, Diya said, “Well, even the word impossible hides the word possible, see if we remove ‘im’ from possible, then its possible. I mean, everything is possible!” I controlled my laugh, but da*m it came out, I put my hand on my mouth to shut the fuck up, but seriously Diya did a shit right now. “Really, you are laughing Serrah?! I mean is this the time to show your teeth. Okay, if I stay here one more minute I am going to puke, so leave me alone and flop that idea!” Faith said, and she wore her coat and shoes and banged the door on our face! “okay, I am going to catch her!” and Diya went out to catch her.

Okay, without confusing you all let me say, what is the issue? How it started, and when! But first I will introduce you to my friends. Faith, always shot-tempered, she always goes according to plan but if her plans fucks up, she gets angry and spoil others mood too, first we used to get irritate because of this behavior but now we are well trained to handle her stupidity. She is tall, and slim, black thick long hair and too fair that one can compare her skin color to snow’s color…Diya, is an Indian girl, but she is here now in UK for more than 14 years. She has a sun kissed skin, freckles on her cheeks, dark brown straight hair, she is very friendly and an optimistic girl, ready to do everything which is challenging for her… I am Serrah well I don’t like to say good things about me by myself, but what to do? There is no one else here who can say you how I am, so; I am having, golden skin color, and talkative I think you have figured that by now, and I am dreamy too, and this all started because of me.

So, today in morning I went to Organic Garage and when I was coming out from that Garage, I saw a poster sticker on the wall and it says, about the competition where only team is required, and winner will get $300and when I read the amount of money, I felt like dancing in air, I was dreaming that we were holding the biggest cookie ever and we won, everyone came near us to see our cookie and a woman pushed me aside very rudely by crushing my dreams into pieces and she said in a rude way, “stop dreaming in day, you are not going to win it child! We are preparing for this, for days, and what about you?” I was shocked when she said days, because I just read this news right now! But I can’t let her think that my team is stupid, so I said very confidently, “huh, you are preparing only from days, we were preparing it from some weeks, so get aside!” and I went away, by letting that old lady burn in her own fire of jealousy.

So, I just challenged that old lady right now. And then I checked the date and it was 10 December, I was stunned when I read the date, but I cant loose hope so I called Diya as fast as I can, and when I said her about it, she said confidently, that we will win, and she told me to come at her house and she will call Faith. So that’s how it started. And when we were at Diya house, and Faith came to know about it she banged the door on our face.

I wore my coat and went out, as Faith was shouting on Diya outside, so I said, “okay Faith, if you don’t even want to try then go, but remember its better to try than to lose hope!”

Diya, “exactly, and remember one thing, just forget we will win or not, at least we won’t have guilt that we haven’t tried.”

Me, “what if we win? Think about that $300!”

Faith, “I hate you guys, let’s go to the super-market to collect the items!”

Me, “woo, I knew you would come!”

Diya, “lets go!”

We laughed and ran towards the car; the most interesting time of my life is this. When we were going everywhere was snow.

Faith, " hear my plan, without wasting any second we will enter the market, Diya you will take the flour and other necessary things which is require to bake cookie, as you know it. Serrah you will go take the toppings and, other necessary things which is required to decorate the cookie, and I will take the things in which we will keep the cookie, is that clear?”

Me and Diya said together, “Yes boss!”

Faith, “Perfect.”

When we reached the market, we saw a que, a fucking long que. And now bomb is going to explode I looked Diya, and she looked me 1 2 3. Faith shouted, “Why the hell is this que, isn’t it Thursday, huh? Where is the fucking manager? You all wasted our time!” bomb exploded! Whole que was looking at us like we are abnormal. And that was truly disgusting. “uh, I have an idea. You can stand in que and then take the plate, meanwhile me and Diya will go another shop, here in some distance there is the small shop which has everything!” I said

Faith, “get out from my sight as fast as you both can, here is the car key!” and she went angrily to wait in the que.

We sat inside the car and Diya started to drive. And I started to laugh, I said, “man, we just said Faith to stand there, and we let her to explode in front of other innocent peoples!”

Diya laughed and she said, “man we are bitch. We just let her to stand alone in that que!”

“after all we won’t have pressure on our head!”

“that’s true. Sometimes she is too much!”

“yeah”

The shop came, and we went inside. The shop was decorated beautifully with fairy-lights, and there was Christmas tree which was decorated beautifully. I started to searched for toppings, so I took packets of sprinkle’s, and cream and how can I forget Choco chips. After making payment I took things and kept it in car and I went out.

I saw a small girl wearing a sweater which was torn, she was shaking due to cold, I went towards her and I asked her, “hey, where is your parents?” she didn’t reply and tear felled from her eyes, and she pushed me and ran towards the lane. Well, that was weird. “Hey, sit in the car!” Diya shouted.

And I sat in the car. We went to super market to pick Faith. She was looking angry and she was holding a large tray. She sat inside and she rudely closed the door. No one uttered a word, and Diya broke the silence with her voice, “What happened guys? Serrah you are quite for such a long time and that’s so mysterious of you! And even you didn’t explode yet Faith, what’s up guy’s?”

I asked, “Nothing much dude. By the way, where does that lane go?”

Diya, “which one?”

“the one, where I was standing, remember?”

Diya, “yeah, I have never gone there so I don’t know!”

Faith, “why are you asking about that lane?”

“I saw a small girl, wearing torn sweater she was trembling in cold, when I asked her, where is her parents, she started to cry and then she pushed me aside and ran towards the lane. And that was very weird guys!”

Faith, “if she was wearing a torn sweater, and when you asked her about her parents and she cried, it clearly means she is not interested to talk to you, or she is homeless, might be?”

Diya, “oh man, don’t say that. She clearly doesn’t want to talk to her”

“ ‘she doesn’t want to talk to her’”

Diya, “hey do not mimicry me”

“I hate you!”

Diya “I hate you too!”

Faith, “I hate you both three!”

We laughed. And we went inside the house. it was too cold so we on the heater, and I removed the coat and wore sleepers.

We then went in kitchen to make the ‘biggest cookie ever’. “Okay, so first what flavor cookie are we going to make?" Diya said enthusiastically

Faith, “Choco chip cookie with resins, and resin syrup into it!"

Diya, “so this is the cookie, then how will we decorate it?”

“what about a smile, or a Christmas tree, a plain undecorated one?”

Diya and Faith said together, “Perfect!”

Faith, “without wasting any second now lets start the work!”

We started to make the dough, first it was not looking perfect. But After 1 hour we made a perfect cookie dough, a very large dough. Faith, “I can’t believe we made this big dough!” we smiled and sigh. Diya, “now, lets put it in oven to bake it up!” after an hour the whole house was filled with the aroma of cookie, the smell was really exciting. Diya and Faith both took the cookie out very carefully.

And then we started to decorate it with white cream, we made a plain Christmas tree and then when we were trying to put it on tray, it was not easy to put, we were afraid that it would break. I said “We should have put it on tray and then we should have decorated it!”

Diya, “seriously man, it was easy to make but hard to keep it on tray”

Faith sighs* “think how we will put it in car?”

“Fuck man, it’s too much tension!” I said

Diya, “exactly” at last we kept it slowly and steadily.

And we took the tray and we went towards the car very carefully, and our neighbor shouted, from his window, “Hey, girls, can I have a bite of such a big cookie. Because you three can’t it alone, it’s too big.”

Faith said slowly, “can’t he stop being bothersome”

Diya laughed, and I shouted, “Mr. William, sorry to say this, but we can’t!”

Mr. William, “as you wish, oh and Merry Christmas girls!”

We shouted, “Merry Christmas!” and we put the cookie inside of car. We shouted in joy, “WE DID IT, AAHHH!” and Diya started to drive the car, safely sp that cookie wont break.

The park was decorated beautifully, everywhere was a big table where every team has put their cookie on their table. And then the man came and he gave us the number which was 8, I said, “can you please give us the number 9?” Diya and Faith looked at me confusingly, and that man said, “sorry Ma’am we can’t give your number 9 that’s for the other team, or our order will get ruined. So, you have to adjust with it, next!”

And we went inside, Diya, “What’s the issue with 8?”

Me, “it’s my unlucky number!”

Faith, “seriously, you are talking like a small child. There is no lucky or unlucky number Serrah!”

Me, “uh.”

When we put our cookie on the table, I heard a laugh and a woman saying, “look at their cookie!”

When I turned to see who she was; I got angry really very angry, it was that psycho old lady! “at least our cookie looks much better than your old cookie, which you made days before!” Faith and Diya laughed. And that old lady looked angry and she was going to say something but host said, “Welcome everybody, I am your host Jack. Today only one can win. First round will be based on how your cookie taste, and only four will get selected, and the final round will be how big it is. Welcome our judges, Mr. Shaikh, the famous cookie chef of this area, Ms. Selin, the best cookie decorator, and Mr. Jack the baker who makes biggest cookie in this area!” everyone applauded, and Faith said slowly, “who is that old lady?”

“I met her in the market, she challenged us and she is a psycho!”

Diya, “yeah, we can clearly see that, some old women’s our psycho, and she is one of them!”

Faith, “by the way that judge is too handsome, Mr. Jack, he is a walking snack!”

Diya, “shut up, we don’t want to get disqualified.”

Faith, “look at his eyes, and his beard, and his face, uff, it feels like he has directly come out from the magazine!”

“do not drool him Faith, he is looking at you”

Faith turned around, and faced towards the table where we kept cookie, and Mr. Jack also took his eyes away from her.

Afterwards, everyone was called one by one. when the round was over Host said, “so this round winner is team 3, team 6, team 7 and team 8! Please come up on the stage guys” we were so fucking happy when he said team 8, Faith said, “fuck, I am so happy!” and that psycho old lady team also won. We went on the stage with our cookies. Judge looked at our cookie and Mr. Jack asked, “what’s its name?”

Faith said quickly, “Coo-Kie” me and Diya looked at her, in anger and Mr. Jack smiled and he said, “unique name for such a unique Coo-Kie!” and he went away, Faith was smiling and blushing like fool, Diya pinched her and she said very slowly, “what the fuck man?!” and then host said, “so the winner is…” why can’t he say quickly, “winner is team 7” Wait what? Did he just say team 7! “its okay guys, team 7 won, here is your reward” host said, I felt to cry. We came down from the stage. Faith said angrily and I can clearly sense disappointment in her voice, “uh, this was waste of time, I am going back in car”

Diya, “I will go home by myself guys.”

Faith, “okay. Are you coming Serrah?”

“You were right Faith, its waste of time.”

Faith, “its not like that man. Come here” and she hugged me “ at least we tried, right?”

“yeah” I said

Faith, “buh-bye, next weekend at my house, love you both” and she went.

Diya, “look how happy that psycho old lady is!”

“after all she was preparing it from days!”

“how do you know?”

“when she met, she was very rude, and she told me that she was preparing it for days and she will only win.”

“oh, now I see, why and how she won. At least we learn something very important today!”

“really?!”

“yeah.”

“what’s that?”

“we learnt that, everything is possible with a good team, okay?”

“hmm”

“so, I will see you at Faith house. Buh-bye, love ya!”

And she went, leaving me all alone. And I saw that the people who came were throwing their cookies in dustbin, they were wasting foods while some are starving for it. And I got glimpse of that little girl, fuck why didn’t it came in my mind earlier. I started to pick up the cookies, and those who were going to throw it away I took it from them, then Ms. Selin came towards me and she said, “why are you picking up the cookie?”

“ people are throwing it, where someone is starving for it., so I am just taking this cookies, to give them”

“you know what you are the actual winner.” She took the mike and she said, “everyone please wait. This girl is the actual winner, we were thinking and judging on whose cookies is bigger, not on whose heart is bigger. She is the one who is the actual winner, lets pick up the cookie, and come with her, you will understand what I was trying to say!” I felt so happy, I changed failure into success. Everyone started to pick up the cookie.

And we all went to that lane, and my doubt came true, I saw some old people, children’s, and parents who was homeless, and starving for food. Everyone was stunned by looking this scenario. I started to distribute the cookies, and those children were so happy by seeing those cookies. Others started to distribute too. When everyone was busy distributing the cookies, I saw the same little girl, she was smiling by looking at me, I came near her and gave her our cookie and she said, “its too big! I have seen this in my dreams, I never thought it would be real!”

“well, it is, taste it, and tell me how it is?”

She bites the cookie in joy, and she said, “its tastier than my dream cookies! What’s its name?”

“its name, uh-

And someone at my back said, “its, Coo-Kie!”

The little girl laughed and started to eat the cookie, and she said, “I am going to share this Coo-kie with others too!” and she ran towards her friend. I stood up to see who he was, and to my surprise it was Mr. Jack, “hey you are really the actual winner. By the way can I get your uh, friend number, the tall one!”

I smiled, “I am going to meet her next weekend, at her house, here its her address, come to her house next weekend!” he smiled and went away he was blushing too hard. I smiled too.

So the main thing is Christmas, is not just about cookies, chocolate, Santa Claus, gifts and all. Christmas is about bringing happiness on others face, its not the matter that how bigger you make cookies, ginger-bread, ginger-man, its about how much your heart is bigger, lets share happiness on others face this Christmas. Merry Christmas!