The Lollipop

Some mornings, she catches a quick eye of Chiku at breakfast before she walks to school. But today, it’s all quiet. She suspects he put the lollipop on her window-sill before the football tournament. She has to retrieve it before his little brother finds it. It’s not that she likes lollipops. She likes that it’s from him and it’s one of the few things he can give her without raising the suspicions of either his parents or her mother. The trouble it’d bring if either of them knew