Tikku and pillow part 4

Now, the bird was Tikku's responsibility. 

He felt it as the poor bird was actually really small and its very small eyes, full of very big tears, were looking at Tikku, with some expectation. 

"Ohhh! there there...lets see", Tikku tried to be as caring and 'know it all person' just like his own parents were, 

He got up from the floor and reached for his pillow,

Putting it next to the little bird, he coaxed it to climb up onto it.

The bird luckily was not hurt or anything. 

Maybe, as Tikku thought, it was just lazy, or may be it was tired. 

The bird climbed up onto the pillow and again closed its eyes. 

Very carefully, Tikku picked up the pillow with both hands, and quite gently, he put it on his bed.

He also climbed up on his bed, as he was feeling a bit tired too.

He thought, he heard tweet tweet of a few birds. And he was happy, Oh, so they were all coming back, but Tikku was feeling sleepy and just wanted to close his eyes. 

Right then, his door opened and his mum popped her heard in and asked him,

"Do you want a tomato cheese sandwich or noodle soup for lunch"?

These were both his favourite, but he quickly said

"Sandwich"!

He didn't want his mum to find out about the missing birds. 

Settling back into his bed was a bit clumsy, as he didn't want to crush the bird on the pillow, and also didn't want to squash poor Orio. 

But the little bird made room for him to put his head on the pillow, and Orio snuggled up to him, and thats how Tikku lied down. 

Well when mum came back with his lunch, Tikku had had a short nap already. 

Feeling heaps better, and quite hungry, he sat up quickly.

He looked at his pillow trying to cover it from his mum, and lo behold all the birds were back on the pillow. 

Surprised, Tikku looked at his pillow carefully, and was thinking, can these birds fly, did they or they didn't, did I see them flying? Or did I dream!!

Suddenly, one bird 😉 winked at him.  And Tikku smiled.