On an early Saturday afternoon, more than several hours after a freakish nightmare, 11-year-old Agnes Doowell frantically unwrapped the mysteriously delivered birthday present. Curious was she, but a hunk of birthday cake -- a vanilla-frosted bonnie butter cake, her favorite -- would have suited her just fine.
Agnes ignored the loud knock at the door, recalling her father's statement and hoping that Death would take a holiday on her birthday. Meanwhile, there in her family's front room, her special delivery beckoned. With each layer of colorful tissue paper that she grabbed as if her life depended on it, Agnes' pupils seemed to dilate to supernatural proportions. Finally, the unveiling ...
It was a new toy. "Ooh-whey-ooh!" Agnes exclaimed.
Her hands reached for the white and blue object, then caressed its ridges as she examined it. She was mesmerized and happy with her birthday gift. She shook it, but there was no sound.
Turning the toy to its bottom, Agnes noticed a lens. Lifting the lightweight toy and placing the lens to her eye, she saw an animated clip featuring three attached gray orbs dancing in silence. She blinked; they winked. Her lace-bodiced chest heaved. Before a scream could register, she heard a horse's hooves halt outside.
Within seconds the front door swung open, and her tall papa called out: "Happy birthday, Agnes!"
At the sound of her beloved's baritone voice, mama abandoned the bonnie butter cake's preparation. Obviously, her husband had come home early to surprise their daughter.
Desperately trying to pin up damp, springy coils of hair that had shaken loose in the kitchen's heat, she seemed to slow her pace while running down the hallway toward her excited husband.
Alas, the birthday girl had beaten her mother to the punch. Agnes flung herself 'round her father's waist whilst crying out, "Papa, Papa, it's really you!"
Papa peered down into her brown doe eyes with his dewy gray ones and asked, "Do you like your new toy, dearest Agnes?"
As mama stood puzzled and entranced in the hallway, father and daughter danced wildly about the coffee table, repeatedly chanting: "It is a new toy, ooh-whey-ooh!"
(c) 2024 Gabriela
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28 июн 2024
