The Super Cyclist

I just bought a GT Bicycle and was cycling around in my colony. When my phone alarmed me for lunchtime, I returned home, parked, and locked my cycle. As soon as I was about to ring the door-bell, I heard some noise coming from inside. My family was having a money problem. I thought "After having such a big prob., my family bought me this awesome bicycle." Suddenly an idea clicked my mind.

The next day after returning from school, I changed and ate as usual. After having my lunch I told my parents that I am going to play. Then I went to an arena and kept a box and two notices. One read: "HELP I AM IN NEED OF MONEY." And the other one stated the reason. Then I did the thing I do best CYCLE STUNTS. I did everything which you could imagine. From wheelie to dragging the wheels, the pavement, 12'o clock, and all other.

Soon many people surrounded me and started clapping and keeping (throwing) money in the box. Then a girl shouted from the crowd, "Wanna see more!!" And my concentration broke due to her sweet voice. 'Concentrate' I told myself, but it was too late. And then with a loud BAAM, I was on the ground! I wanted to strangle that girl but realized that it was my mistake that I fell.

I helped myself up, the crowd was gone and only one girl was standing there with a guilty expression which told me that this was the girl who yelled from the crowd. And, embarrassingly the girl was my crush (I hope you know how embarrassing it feels when you do something stupid in front of someone whom you like very much).

Well anyway; I took some rest, drank some water, ate snacks, drank water, talked to Neha (the name of the girl) while doing all the things mentioned above. Then her parents came, she gave me a goodbye hug (which paralyzed me for a couple of seconds). And she went with her parents and I resumed my stunts.

By the time I reached home, I was totally exhausted and wet with human precipitation and was carrying a box overflowing with money. When my parents saw me they were considerably shocked, which was obvious since I didn't tell them. I told them the complete story as quickly as possible and went to bed; although I was seriously exhausted I couldn't sleep without some soft music or a lullaby. I told mom to play some and went deep into dreams.

The next day I again went for stunts. I was going for doing stunts daily but my progress was slow. Every day I got an average of Rs. 1,300 but we needed up to Rs. 5 lakhs.

One day when I returned front my stunt vocation, I was nonplus to find Neha in my home. She gave me a loving smile and a pamphlet of a cycling tournament to be held in a week and spoke "Participate in it. You're awesome in stunts, you shall win."

"Shall?" I said.

"Will- will!" She assured.

"Mmm... thanks!" I said.

"Hey! And I saw your bedroom, it was quite messy, you must keep it arranged." She teased.

'Was!' I thought. "Hey!" I protested.

"Bye," she said, and left without giving me the opportunity to speak.

"Bye," I murmured.

When I went into my room, I was quite stunned. Everything was well cleaned and well done. A message came into my mind 'she likes you! Go ahead, propose to her!' But I deleted it.

Hmm... I think that I should describe the prizes:-

First prize: 4 lakh rupees with a trophy, and a gold medal🥇.

Second prize: 2 lakh rupees with a silver🥈 medal.

Third prize: 5 thousand rupees with a bronze🥉 medal.

From the next day, I increased my training {I didn't write started, because he was already in his stunt business.} and within some days I could race up to almost four to five kilometer. The day before the tournament I went to practice in the place where it was going to be held. The area was very well prepared in terms of competition. Sandy soil, clay soil, steeps, slopes, slippery and muddy. It was going to be very intricate but with my stunts, I had a feeling I am gonna win.

On the day of the tournament race, I was exceedingly anxious. The place was completely crowded, we (the cyclists) took our positions. "You have to make three rounds of the field," the announcer announced. "No cheating, no maiming no killing and no use of boosters, etc. Stunts may be used."

The first commands made me shudder but the last one made me feel to do a tap dance.

The race started. I raced off first and while I was racing, I noticed that some of the cyclists had mean looks on their faces. I mean the kind of looks you get when someone wishes to strangle you. On my third round, all of them started grouping together and covered me.

Cyclist number 9 advanced from behind and attacked me, I slid this one and went to the other side. One of them (aka number 10) started beating me with her helmet! Easy, I did a 360-degree role on the ground and the gravity pulled her. By now I understood one thing: 'These guys don't want to see me win and they could even slay me down to make me loose.

I launched myself towards the side, dodged an attack, and started cycling on the wall. The cheer got louder and the cyclist stunned. I was just 2 meters when I heard a 'dab' sound. When I looked back, a guy was laying on the ground and a girl was racing past him; she was... Neha!!

I crossed the finishing line first with Neha right behind me. The prizes were distributed. The cheers and claps got louder when I raised my trophy and joined with hauling and more cheers and claps when Neha kissed me on my cheek.

MY: Matter of money problem was solved.

         Life was settled.