Short Stories - Run !!!

One day a Cheetah, fastest running animal in the world, was looking for prey for its lunch. It saw a rabbit. The Cheetah decided to catch the rabbit and started to chase it. On seeing the Cheetah coming closer, the Rabbit too started running. The Cheetah could not able to catch the rabbit and it increased its speed running. The rabbit too increased its speed. Still the Cheetah could not able to catch the rabbit. Hence the Cheetah increased its speed further more. The rabbit too increased its speed further more. Then the Rabbit went and got hidden inside a small hole in a rock, in which Cheetah could not enter. The Cheetah decided to give up and was about to return. But one question was itching in the Cheetah’s mind. The Cheetah decided to ask that question to the Rabbit itself. 

The Cheetah asked the Rabbit “O Rabbit, I am thinking that I am the fastest running animal in the world. But how could you manage to run faster than me?”. 

The Rabbit asked the Cheetah “Cheetah, for what were you running?”. 

The Cheetah replied “I was running for my lunch”.

Then the Rabbit replied “I was running for my life”.