16.
Pop!
Tiffany
finished her practice hour, relieved to be done for the day. Repulsive, who’d made his way downstairs
after the awful noise stopped, rubbed his face against her calf as she put the
tuba in its case.
“Popcorn,”
she said to the cat, scratching his ears.
“Popcorn.”
When she
was little Tiffany had wanted to skate. The
first time her brother took her to the rink she fell walking to the ice on her
skates. She fell on the ice, and fell some more. Tiffany had told her brother she never wanted
to skate again. When they got home, Devin had asked her if she liked
popcorn. She loved popcorn. He’d handed her an unpopped bag. She had stared at him. ‘Bet you’d hate eating
this now. Bet you’d like it more if you
popped it. Bet you’ll like skating more
if you give it a chance to pop.”
Today
I will give new things a chance to pop.
Mikey,
Repulsive, and Repugnant (c) 2016 by Ken Montrose
Mikey,
Repulsive, and Repugnant is a work of fiction. Any
resemblance between the characters and anyone you might know is purely
coincidental.
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