GUAVA FRUIT

The guava fruit used to be a forbidden fruit. A long time

ago, in a fruit orchard somewhere in the countryside, there lived
a boy from the family of the Abas, the family who owned the
fruit orchard. The boy Abas was very friendly and kind, and soon
the people in the place started calling him “Bay” the term used
in the locality for super friendly and kind people. So as time
went by the boy was known as Bay Abas.

Bay Abas was especially kind to the needy that every

needy folk who came by to ask for fruit from their orchard he
gave to liberally. Various fruit-bearing trees were in their
orchard, and each one with ripe fruits he picked from and gave
to anyone who asked. As he did the orchard noticeably bore
more fruits than any orchard in the locality. And more new trees
also mysteriously appeared in their orchard.
 There was one tree in their orchard that bore inedible
fruits. It was a tree of hard wood with branches spreading wide
and open instead if straight up. Other fruit trees, grew straight
up first and bore fruits high up there where they’re fruits were
hard to pick. But this tree bore fruits even at low levels. But
nobody dared.

One day an old woman came by the orchard and asked

Bay Abas some fruits to eat. Unfortunately, not a tree had fruit
that time, save the forbidden tree. Nonchalantly, he whispered a
wish, or something like a prayer and, he thought of sampling
the fruit to find out once and for all. His wish, reached the ears
of the forest gods. The fruit quickly turned edible just before he
took his first bite. And so from that time on, the fruit became
edible and named “Bayabas.”