A Peck of Gold

And The Source of Their Squirreliness Was

an abundance of caffiene. After washing down the pizza and cookies with countless soft drinks, the girls zoomed off with artificially flavored energy into the other room.

"I dare you!!" said one girl to the other, in barely contained giggles.

"Oh that's so gross!," responded her counterpart. "I mean, come on, he's so old!"

"Well, if you don't, I'm going to tell Stephen Clarkson what you said about him in English class!" The threat sent the girl into shrieks of outrage, and finally, she conceded to the dare.

"Fine. Well, you have to go with me, and I swear, if you ever tell anybody, I'll kill you!"

The girls quietly crept into the den, where the unsuspecting victim was loudly snoring in a teale recliner. As the clock on the mantel loudly ticked the minutes away, the girl steeled her courage.

In a sudden instant, she darted through the room, and hurdled an ottoman and a sleeping dog to land just an inch from the face of a sleeping, slightly older teenage boy. Now, startled awake, the dog began some good natured barking, and the sound was followed by peals of girlish laughter from across the room. As chaos erupted, the boy snapped up in the chair, and inadventently clicked on the remote control for the television, which blared into life at full volume. The voice of narrator of a nature show boomed into the room to join the fray. The baffled boy was further stupefied when the girl leaned over and kissed his cheek quickly, and bounded backwards into the endtable. Her motions upset the already wobbly table, sending books and magazines into the air. In a feat of gymnastic ability only available to the young, she managed to avoid stepping on the furry dog who was now viciously ripping up a fallen magazine, but wasn't so lucky with the forgotten ottoman. She fell with the gangly grace of long limbs and coltish humor, and finally secured her escape from the tangled mess.

The two girls raced from the room, laughing and stumbling, until they collapsed onto the bed.

"That was so embaressing!" said the perpetrator of the crime, blushing but smiling. My first kiss, she thought silently to herself. Not too bad.

"Now it's your turn. You're gonna pay for that one!"

The sound of laughter echoed down the hall, as the boy settled back into his chair, gazing at the television. "Girls," he said, as he watched the nature program, where little gray squirrels scrambled here and there in constant motion. "Wonder what makes them so... squirrely?"

"Maybe they're just nutty," he said, chuckling in satisfaction at his joke.

The end.

And the moral of the story... Be corny without apology sometimes. It's fun.

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