“I
remember that time when I took that trip to the zoo. That was one of the
craziest days of my life,” Jay, a young teenager said as he stared up at the
clouds from a grassy hill. Beside him, his friend Fen laid stretched out, also
watching the white cloud puffs stroll through the sky. Sitting up, she looked
down to her best friend, a questioning look on her face.
“The zoo? How is that exciting? I
would understand if you were a nine year old or something, but at 16? You must
be a bigger softie than I initially thought.” She smiled and stuck her tongue
out at him in a cheeky manner. Shooting up from his spot, Jay looked her dead
in the eyes.
“Oh
please, I am not!” he shouted. “As a matter of fact, I have pictures to prove
just how exciting it was. Believe me or not, but I have documented proof.” More
excited than she let herself out to be, Fen acted aloof to mask her deep curiosity.
She always was the proud type.
“Yeah
I’m sure,” Fen sighed with a wave of her hand. “If you want to show me pictures
of you in front of the penguins or petting a goat, then be my guest. I won’t
judge you.” The more Fen teased the boy, the more determined he was to show her
what he meant.
With a wide smirk, Jay whipped his
phone out of his side pocket and began scrolling through his photos. “Fine, I’ll
show you,” he remarked, “but you’ll be seeing more than just penguins and
goats.” Now completely enthusiastic, Jay quickly tapped the buttons on his
phone, his hand jittering with excitement. Oh what has Fen gotten herself into?
Filled to the brim with full blown curiosity, Fen leaned towards her friend as
he continued to tap away on his phone. “There! There they are!” Jay laughed as
he flipped the phone towards his friend. “Scroll through these,” The boy said
as he handed over his flip phone to the girl beside him.
Carefully taking the phone, Fen
looked at the first picture of Jay smiling in front of the entrance of the
local zoo. “What a dork,” she laughed quietly to herself. She flipped through
the photos, which seemed to be fairly normal so far. There were a few pictures
of Jay and some of the animals there. “Everything looks normal, minus you being
a dweeb,” Fen said as she continued to click through the camera.
A smile began to etch away at Jay’s
features as he watched her go through the contents on his phone. “Just keep
looking,” he laughed. “You’ll get to them.” Fen rolled her eyes and continued
to look through the phone.
Now, her patience and curiosity began
to thin. Then, something caught her eye. One photo in particular, a monkey was
unusually close to the camera. Despite being blurry from movement, the picture
had a fairly good quality; that was something you didn’t see with zoom in
camera phones. She clicked over to the next picture, this one even more
interesting. A raccoon was clutching onto the head of a man, and with closer
inspection, it looked like wild monkeys were running around in the background. “Jay?”
the girl asked in a worried tone. Jay didn’t respond, he only sat there
grinning.
Fen scrolled through the pictures
faster now, yet still taking in the details of each one. A rhino bashing
through a food stand, a man trying to escape with a panda, a group of people running
from a hoard of elephants, each picture got crazier than the last! “Jay!” Fen
barked, holding the mobile device in her hand up to the male. “Is this you
riding on the back of a giraffe?!”
Jay’s smirk sliced his way through
his handsome features, growing wider with every passing photo. “Dunno, it might
be. Just keep scrolling.” Following his command, Fen scrolled through the rest
of the pictures. Fire, destruction, ostriches, lions, gorillas, chaos. Fen
dropped the phone with a shudder.
“How could you take pictures at a
time like that? God, people were probably being killed or something.” Jay just
laughed and picked up his phone, wiping off the screen and putting it aside.
“Actually, to everyone’s surprise,
there were only a few minor injuries. Some monkey bites, a few raccoon attacks,
maybe a sprained ankle or two? I don’t know, I only caught most of it.” Fen
stood up and dusted off her long skirt.
“Care to explain how any of this
happened?” Fen cast a glare and an extended hand towards her seated friend. He
was notorious for coming with crazy plots, and actually having the guts to
execute them. Taking her hand, Jay allowed his friend to pull him to a standing
position.
“I may or may not have pissed off a
bunch of monkeys,” he said with a devilish grin. The pair began to walk off of
the grassy hill back towards their school.
“You’re lucky I don’t report you to
the authorities,” Fen laughed, teasing her friend as usual. Jay waved it off with
a laugh.
“You won’t,” was his only reply as
they continued to walk together.
No comments:
Post a Comment