帮助：What is the nicest you have done that no one knows about?（附文稿）

Q:What is the nicest you have done that no one knows about?

A:Atage 10, I stood in front of my new class, my new classmates looking at me withmild interest as my teacher introduced me. I had joined in the middle of theschool year. There were 41 students in my new class. I was the 42nd.

Allmy classmates sat in pairs except for this one girl, K. I went and sat downnext to her and gave her a small, uncertain smile. She smiled in return. Theclass started and we didn't talk until lunch time. At lunchtime, I pulled outmy lunch box, packed by my mother. It had aloo parantha with home made pickle and a small box of fruits.Clearly my mom had spent time packing this yummy lunch. So while I stuffed my face, this girl took out asmall box with bread butter inside. InIndia, it's pretty rare for kids tojust get bread butter for lunch. The only time I had bread butter for lunch wasif my mom was unwell. So I thought that's what the problem here was. I offeredher a small portion of my lunch and forgot all about it. The next day, sheagain had bread butter. Well, I thought, her mother probably has flu. So she'staking time to recover. I again offered her a part of my lunch. This went onfor a week. Then one day, I asked the one question that I shouldn't have.

“Isyour mom not well?”

10year old Ananya wasn't prepared for the answ er. Her mother had died of cancera few weeks ago. I didn't know what to do. So I did the most obvious thing. Iwent home and told my mom that my lunch wasn't enough and I still felt hungryafter eating it. My mom started packing a bigger lunch. And in school, I'd tellK that my mom had packed me a lunch too big so could she please help me finishit? Then I asked her what her favourite dish was. I went home and told my momthat I was craving that dish, so could she please pack that for the next day?This went on for a few days but my mother's instincts were too strong. Herdaughter's diet had suddenly doubled in one day and all of a sudden she wantedto eat things she didn't even like earlier. My mom asked me what was up. By thenI was running out of lies so I just told her the truth. I remember her beingreally sad. For that whole year, she packed me a huge lunch, sometimes makingthings that K liked and then asking eagerly when I returned if K liked thefood.

Ofcourse I never told anyone about it. But I really hope that we brought her somejoy in that tough time.

1.aloo parantha土豆薄馅饼

2.  pickle                           

vt.腌渍（泡菜等）;

n.腌菜，泡菜; 腌制食品; 遇到麻烦，处于困境;

3.stuff the face （美俚）尽情吃