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TOM
Created by : Syf.Amirah N.A and Grahyta Dhamayanti

Once upon a time there lived a family in the village. They had a son named Tom. One night his parents went to somewhere and leave a letter for him. In the letter his parents said that they went to somewhere and leave him a field. They hoped Tom could life without his parents and survive himself.
Since Tom’s parents was gone, Tom started to build his field that was given by his parents. In the field, Tom planted some vegetables, such as : spinach, tomatoes, carrots, corns, etc. With the passing time, the vegetable grew well and Tom thought to sell all of the vegetable.
One day, a woman came to buy vegetable on Tom’s house. He was attracted to the girl that came to his house with that woman. But Tom was so shy to asked her name. When the woman was choosing the vegetable, Tom was encouraging himself to ask the girl name. But when they were talking the woman heard what did they talking about, knowing that the woman asked Tom to stayed away from her daughter. The woman saw seriousness from Tom, so she gave a challenge for him.
“If you’re really love my daughter, I’ll give you an occasion. You must bring me a diamond from the cave near the windmill. If you can bring it for me, I’ll bless you”, the woman whisper to Tom.
After that the woman and her daughter leave Tom’s house.
The next day, Tom immediately find that diamond to proved that he really love the girl , but before he went to find it, he checked the situation of his farm first. Unfortunately two of his cows was sick, Tom began to panic he confused which one he must do first. Hence, he went to his neighbor, Jenny to asked for helped.
“ Hi jenny.. are you busy?” asked Tom
“ No. What’s the matter ?”
“ Can you helped me? I need medicines for my cows, they got sick”
“I’m so sorry Tom. I don’t have any medicines. But maybe Dr. Ana can give you solution.”
“Really ? Ok, thanks for your information.”
As soon as possible Tom went to Dr. Ana hospital. When he arrived at Dr. Ana hospital.
“ Excuse me Dr. Ana”, said Tom when entered the hospital
“What’s the matter?”
“My cows get sick. Do you have any medicines for them?”
“I’m so sorry the stock was empty. The medicine is mint leaf. Actually you can get it on the cave near the windmill.”
“Thank you Dr. Ana”
“ You’re welcome. But you must be careful because there is a giant who guarded the cave.”
“Ok. Wish me luck doctor.”
When he arrived in front of the cave, Tom heard the beat of a giant foot. Tom thought how to entered the cave unnoticed by the giant. When he was thinking, suddenly the giant is already in front of him with scary face. Tom was shocked knowing that.
“what are you doing here?what do you want?”
“I just want to take some diamond and mint leaf.”
“ha..ha..hah..it’s not easy to enter this cave. You must answer my question.”
“what is the question?”
“who can jump higher than a cave?”
“ wait a minute..we..we can jump higher than a cave because a cave can’t jump!”
“ Ok. Because your answer is true you gan take what did you want.”
“thanks giant, I’ll returned home after I take it.thank you.”
After he got the mint leaf and the diamond he returned home immediately. He gave the mint leaf to his two cows. After he gave the medicine , the cow looked better. Tom felt a little bit happy to see that. He almost forget to go to the girl house, and as soon as possible he went there. After he arrived in the girl house, he looked the woman was watering the plant and he gave the diamond to her. Finally the woman blessing him.
But Tom was very poor, it turns out the girl didn’t love him and she didn’t have any feeling with Tom. Because tom really like that girl, tom always tried to make the girl love him. He always give that girl a flower, a gift, etc . He wasn’t desperate to get love. He always tried, tried, and tried.
With the passing time that girl was falling in love with Tom too. So, they got married and life happily ever after.
-THE END-