Preetha, Karthik, Amina and Prabhu were friends. They lived in the Pasur village in the Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu. One evening the four friends went for a stroll. They kept on walking and came very far. Suddenly, their eyes fell on a huge sunflower. It seemed to be smiling at them. Walking in the flower's direction, they reached an unusual garden they had never seen before. They were totally charmed by the wonder of the park they had landed in. The flowers were in colours they had never seen. Purple roses, green and magenta sunflowers, orange lilies and red tulips.
"Wow!" was their reaction when they entered the park.
"Hi friends. I am Toto", a very soft voice called them. They turned but could not see anyone.
Suddenly, Amina felt a gentle touch on her palm. "Oh, how pretty!" It was a multicoloured butterfly. "Hi friends", came the voice again.
"Hey, is it the butterfly talking?" wondered Prabhu.
"Yes, I am Toto. Welcome to the garden of your fantasy", the children noticed that it was indeed the butterfly.
"Garden of Fantasy?" thought Karthik aloud.
"Yes. Whatever you wish for, you will get in this garden", replied Toto.
"I like chocolates but mother says they are expensive. She also says they will make my teeth weak", cried chubby Preetha.
"Yes, I love chocolates too", said Prabhu .
"We too", Karthik and Amina were quick to add.
"Go straight and on your left you will see a dark brown tree", Toto was trying to explain something when Prabhu interrupted her.
"Haha, is a tree ever dark brown?" he questioned.
Toto smiled, " What if the tree is a chocolate tree?"
"Chocolate tree?", screamed all the kids. Before Toto could say anymore, the kids had already run away in the direction of the tree.
It was indeed a marvel. The tree was actually a giant chocolate in the shape of a tree. While the leaves were pure chocolate, its trunk was a mixture of chocolate and nuts.
"Stop", cried Amina. "If we eat this chocolate, how will a half-eaten tree look?" they all looked at Toto waiting for an answer.
"No, whatever you eat, comes back at the same minute. Try, go ahead and let me also tell you that this chocolate does not harm your teeth" said Toto.
The children went crazy eating the delicious chocolate.
After they looked full with chocolaty hands and mouths, Toto guided them to a nearby pond.
"Oh...the water is ice cold", the kids were enjoying.
"Would you like to go up into the air?", was Toto's next offer.
"Yes!" shouted all of them together.
Toto took them to a swing. It looked like a see-saw but was made of the softest and most colourful feathers.
"Wow", the children exclaimed.
"The person who is up just closes his eyes and can go up into the sky. You will land on Bouncy" Toto explained.
"Bouncy?"
"Yes, Bouncy, the cloud. When you sit on it, you can bounce and look at the world down."
The children exclaimed with joy.
One by one Toto gave them a chance to enjoy the ride up.
But now it was getting dark.
"Time to go home, children" Toto said as she waved them goodbye.
The children went home and decided to come back the next day. But they saw an ordinary park in place of the park they had visited the previous day. They could also not find their dear friend, Toto.
Disappointed they came back and told Geeta Amma the whole story.
"Maybe, she has gone to some other park to fulfill the wish of other kids", smiled Geeta.
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