You are Ravi in Games at Twilight. You have just come out of the shed after hiding for hours and no one has noticed that you have been gone. Write your thoughts. “Where is everybody? Did I win the game?” I thought to myself. I had been hiding in this dark shed for hours but no one found me. I heard Raghu shouting, “I heard you! I’m coming! Got you.” Raghu found the others long before, and I thought I was the winner of this game, but no one remembered me. It is so dark in here, insects crawling all over me, I dare not to move, afraid Raghu will find me, but he never came, no one did.

At first I was glad that he did not find me, meaning I won the game. I want to be respected by them and no longer a nobody. When I hid at the shed, it is such a dark and depressing place. I really want to win; I want to be acknowledged by them. But it feels like there was a gap separating me with my siblings, one that would hardly be separated. When I tell them that I won the game, they did not remember me, it took them a minute to grasp what I am saying and even who was I. They say I was a fool of myself as though I did not have feelings and was a laughingstock. It felt like my heart was ripped apart. Sometimes I felt like I was a toy, when it’s still new and they like it, they play with it. But when time goes by, they get tired of it; they just throw it away like a piece of unwanted paper.

I want to defeat Raghu – that hirsute, hoarse-voiced football champion and to be a winner in a circle of older, bigger, luckier children. So when I play this game, I told myself no matter what, I had to win. I wanted victory and triumph. It was bliss of happiness when I thought I gained victory. I remembered very clearly what Raghu and Mira said when I said I won. “Don’t be a fool,” Raghu said roughly, pushing him aside, and even Mira said, “Stop howling Ravi. If you want to play, you can