Day 11 —(Substituted in… because the challenge has no day 11…) There are three children sitting on a log near a stream. One of them looks up at the sky and says…
Kenny, Joseph, and Greg sat leisurely on a log with their bare feet dipped into the stream near Kenny’s house. They weren’t particularly good friends, but their parents had insisted they play together. The end of the school year that they had so eagerly waited for had arrived before they knew it and quite honestly, they were bored.
Summer was supposed to be fun. No more school. Play video games day in and day out. All three boys’ parents had banded together and decided that unless it was raining, the boys were to play outside.
But their parents didn’t understand. Playing outside was for seven or eight year olds. Joseph and Greg were both already ten and Kenny would be too in less than a month.
“This is so stupid,” Greg would say. Joseph would just nod in agreement. It went on like this for a while, with Greg ranting and Joseph nodding.
Finally, Greg turned to Kenny “Don’t you think so too?”
Kenny was quiet for a moment, his eyes focused up at the sky. Then he absently muttered “Uhm… Yeah. Sure.”
Greg followed Kenny’s gaze but saw nothing of interest. “What the hell are you looking at?”
Kenny answered in the same slow tone. “The… cloud I guess. Do you think the dead can come back and talk to you as a cloud? I saw it in The Lion King when Mufasa keeps telling Simba to remember something.”
Greg laughed loudly. “As if. Only stupid people would believe that!”
But then, Joseph spoke up, “I think so. I think I saw in The Simpsons too. You know that jazz guy that Lisa talked too.”
Greg glared at Joseph for taking Kenny’s side, but Joseph and Kenny end up in a conversation all on their own.
“Yeah. Like that!” Kenny suddenly sounded excited.
“Maybe, it’s not just the dead. Didn’t Voldemort talk to people with that giant cloud head thing? The snake thing came out of his mouth and it was so cool!” Joseph added.
Greg tried to interrupt with a groan and said how stupid they were and how stupid their ideas were.
“Or maybe there are people that live on the clouds instead!” Kenny spoke right through Greg.
Greg through his hands off and stormed off. He wasn’t going to play with stupid little babies who believed everything they saw.
Kenny and Joseph stayed put though. They continued to talk about all the possibilities of cloud people and how great it would be to live on the clouds too.
It was the start of a great friendship.
