Muhd is a hardworking student in his school. His favorite subject is science. He likes to go to laboratory and always comes earlier than his friends. He is very interested in conducting experiment with all the apparatus and equipments in the laboratory. One day, muhd and his friends are conducting experiment about boiling process which involves the process of boiling water. Suddenly, muhd pushes the boiling tube unintentionally and the hot water falls into him. Muhd gets injured and his teacher brings him to hospital immediately.

After that traumatic event in the laboratory, muhd will feel anxious when he sees the laboratory. It causes him to feel scare before conducting any experiment. But he has to push himself to do any experiment required with all power that he has. One day, he cannot enjoy the experiment which makes him anxious, then run away from the lab. He runs to a playground and sits there to calm himself by looking many happy children playing. The playground is a place that he used to visit when childhood. That makes him remember about so many stories happened there.

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Like any other children, playground is a second home to Muhd. He would spend his evening in the playground everyday. His excitement to play at the playground was not only due to the slides and sew-saw, but also to an old man, a man who brought a bag full of chocolates to give to every children playing at the playground. The old man with the chocolates came every day to the extent that just at the sight of the old man made Muhd overjoyed. Surprisingly, Muhd realised that not only the ‘chocolate old man’ but any old man that he met, managed to make his heart jumped with joy.

After some days, the old man would shout “chocolate!” every time he got closer to the playground. The children around the playground had no idea about the one who shouted. When the old man appeared and shouted “chocolate!”, they became aware. Therefore, Muhammad and other children would be excited when they listened to that shout and came to the old man, running and laughing. Unfortunately, there was a day when they in the middle of playing, suddenly they heard someone shouted "chocolate!" many times. Muhd felt really happy and tried to get closer to the source of the shout, hoped that the old man came with his chocolates. But at last, there was no old man but a street vendor selling chocolate. That event slightly made him disappointed.

The next day, muhd's friends didn’t come to the playground because many of them were sick. Then, when walking solely, muhd saw two girls were playing. Then he asked them to join. One of the girls was very talkative while another girl was very shy. Muhd asked the shy girl to play along with him but she whispered the answer to her friend to respond him. The behaviour of talkative girl attract muhd more than the shy one. He more enjoyed playing with the extrovert girl.

There was something happened to the old man, his salary decreased! Then he decided to bring chocolate only three times a week which were tuesday, thursday, and saturday. But he didn't want to tell the children directly. Therefore, the old man planned to bring chocolate when he used brown t-shirt. If he didn't use it, so there was no any chocolate with him.

Gradually muhd became conscious of what's happening after got mad from not getting any chocolate for some days. To convince his assumption, he started observing on when the old man would bring him chocolate. After quite sometimes, finally he knew that the old man would only bring the chocolate if he used brown t-shirt.

However, there was an event that made Muhd really hated that old man. He did not get any chocolate from the old man for a week because the old man did not have enough chocolates for all children at the playground. Indeed, that thing affected him so badly as he did not go to play at the playground as he used to go before.

As muhd grows older, he didn't go to the playground anymore for a long time and so he didnt saw that chocolate old man as well. After a period of time, muhd bring his nephew to the playground he used to go and it makes him feel exaggerated, excited, smile and full of happiness. Suddenly he heard a sound thet he was familiar with. “chocolates!” one shouted. Muhd came closer to the sound with the feeling that he ever felt. Happily, he met the old man who he used to meet before with his chocolates.

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