This is a story about the odd one out. There was a farm full of pumpkins that came alive at night. Every night they would have parties and go to the theater for some movies and popcorn. No one in the town ever suspected or noticed anything. Except for a boy named Hank who secretly followed them to the theater to watch movies with them. Hank loved being with the pumpkins, he was never scared of the pumpkins. Instead, he was always happy to be around them. This is because he missed his old life.
You see, Hank used to be a pumpkin just like the other pumpkins. Until one night when a human child bit him and because he was no ordinary pumpkin, he turned into a human being. When he became a human, he also became the town’s celebrity. The bite from the child had transformed his face into that of the town’s long-lost superstar. This made everyone in the town believe that he was their star. Who had left the town a long time ago and had now come back. The town really loved their ‘longtime celebrity’ treating him like a king. However, deep down Hank wished to have his pumpkin friends with him.
Hank tried all he could to change himself back to being a pumpkin but he was not so lucky. No matter what he tried or who he saw nothing helped in reversing this act. One day, Hank thought to himself, “Hmmm! maybe I can convert all the pumpkins into humans instead”. He really disliked feeling like the odd one out. So, he mixed a serum using his saliva, blood, and some pumpkin leaves and planned to spray it on the pumpkins while they were at the movies.
Unaware of what Hank had planned, the pumpkins went out for their usual movie night. Once everyone was settled at the theatre, Hank unleashed his spray on the pumpkins. This made all the pumpkins become freaks with pumpkin heads and human bodies. Thinking they would be accepted by the town, they started exploring the town hoping to live among the humans However, the humans considered them freaks and chased them out of their town. Disappointed by what had happened to them, the pumpkins went to a nearby farm and lived their lives as farmers.
One time, there was a great disaster on the human side that they ran out of food on their farms. The only place that had something to eat was the pumpkin’s land. Whose farm was immune because they would use their slime to water their plants. The humans came to the pumpkin land to beg for some food. Because of how their plants had been grown, all the humans in the land became pumpkin heads when they ate their food.
Hank then became the only human in town who could not transform making him the odd one out.
Moral: Always appreciate differences.
