April fool's real fool

A boy and girl were chatting on msn when the girl suddenly said: "hey just wanna tell u, i will be going to the hospital". And before he knew anything, the girl's already offline after telling him she broke her toe and will text him when she reach the hospital later on.

Worried and in a state of panic, his first instincts was to get to the hospital as soon as possible. So he rush to the bathroom for a quick shower, got changed and rushed downstairs to hitch a cab. It was Sunday and every cab that passes him were either booked or "on call". Desperate, he started running around his neighbourhood roads in a vain attempt to hitch a cab. Fate seem to be fooling with him as well. Sometimes when he turned his back and cross a road, an empty cab would drove past him.

He looked at his watch and realized it was already like 15minutes and he got even worried. With each second the passes, all that's on his mind was how's the girl. He knew she was someone who can't take physical pain well and the thought of a broken toe made him even more desperate to get to the hospital to be around her as fast as he could. Even if he couldn't erase the pain, he still wished to be around her in her hour of need.

And so when he realize he wasn't gonna get a cab there, he started running towards the shopping mall near his place in the hope he'd get a cab at the taxi stand there. However just as fate would have it, the taxi stand was full on a Sunday afternoon. The sight of the taxi stand full of waiting passengers almost sank his heart. Unwillling to give up, he decided to plead with the 1st passenger in the queue to allow him to board the cab. "Excuse me, can u let me go 1st, I've got an emergency I need to get to the hospital, please!!" Looking stunnned, the other passengers told him to board it quickly and for once heaven seem to be on his side.

About 10 Minutes into the journey though, the girl, knowing that he's on the way to the hospital told him to turn back and go home instead. She gave the reason that her parents were around and it wouldn't be convenient for him to be there. The sms sadden his heart. He thought to himself: "so what if her parents were there, I just want to be there for her". But on second thoughts, he knew it wouldn't do him any good if he went against her wishes. So, respecting her wishes, he sadly told the cabby to turn back and head home instead.

The moment he got home, he got another sms from the girl asking if he was really home yet. He felt she was like so unwilling to see her and it made him even sad. Then, the girl told him: "Anyway, there's something I wanna tell u but u will be really mad i suppose".

"What is it?" The guy replied
"It's april fool, remember? I'm so sorry I never expect u to do so much for me" She replied.

Still panting and catching his breath, the guy could hardly take in the words. He did know it was april fool's day as his friend had threw a prank on him last night, but why didn't april fool even cross his mind when the girl told him about going to the hospital in the first place? At that moment, he felt so relieved and yet so silly of himself. By all rights he should be feeling extremely angry and mad about having been made to run around the neighbourhood under the hot sun trying to hitch a cab. But no, he was in fact smiling at how silly he was and how relieved that the girl's fine. That was all that matters to him, he would rather run 10km and only to realize its a prank than for the girl to suffer any misfortunes.

Suddenly he felt good, he felt he might actually have passed one of those tests that god set to show how sincere a person is But later on in the day when he found out that he wasn't the only one who made an attempt to get to the hospital and that 2 others who fell for the same prank did the same, he felt so demoralised all over again. And so he thought he was the only one, what a fool.

Happy April Fool's Day =)