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Author of 14 Stories |
Accessible Idea For The Ages
By
Malky
He sat down and said to her, “I know how you feel. Somebody made you feel bad, didn’t they?”
Aelita replied, “Yeah, man. My ex-boyfriend d me two days ago and I just can’t forgive him. He’s hard to forgive.”
The rock star then said, “You gotta forgive yer enemies, miss, y’know? It said so in the Bible. Have you ever read it recently?”
Aelita replied, “Yes. I’m trying to find out if I should ignore him or if I should forgive him.”
The rock star stood up and said, “I say forgive him. He is hurt,” and left the building.
Aelita blurted out, “But what if-” and saw Jeremy walk towards her booth.
She gulped while he sat down.
He said to her, “I’m sorry for what happened two days ago. I am terribly, terribly sorry. Will you forgive me?”
Aelita stood up and yelled to him, “I CAN’T FORGIVE YOU, JEREMY! YOU DID THIS TO ME!”
Jeremy started to tear up and jumped into Aelita’s arms.
He said, “I’m sorry, Aelita! Please! I beg of you!”
Aelita started to cry and said, “Oh, Jeremy! I miss you!”
At another table, William and Odd were watching the scene happen.
Odd said to William, “Hey, Willie. Aelita finally forgave him. I told you she would forgive him on that conundrum. Now, in celebration, where shall we go?”
William replied, “I know! The World of-”
Odd covered William’s mouth and continued, “…The Icy Cold Soda! I don’t know why Hollywood wants people to forget about the good things of the South.”
William mumbled under Odd’s hand, “Dude, your hand smells like maple syrup and Divine!”
Odd removed his hand.
William continued, “That’s better. On your statement, it’s all a conspiracy. They think the South’s bad and that the North with their dinosaurs and ego-lution is better.”
Aelita walked over to them and said, “Now, where is it that we shall go?”
Odd stammered for a bit and said, “…Coca-Cola?”
Out of nowhere, the chairmen of Coca-Cola ran out and acted crazy. Aelita fainted big time.
Over there, there were many self-serve kiosks committed to giving you drinks from their respected countries. For example, there was a kiosk that served drinks from Africa and so on. The friends went to the European, Japanese, North America, and Coca-Cola kiosks while Yumi went to the beer kiosk. She got so hammered that when she saw somebody, she’d ask them if they could take her to a conduit in their golden sleigh.
Finally, she stumbled over to the actual band and said to them, “Hey, Subdigitals. Can you carry me in your golden sleigh to a conduit?”
Chris gave in and said, “Sure, Yumi” and clapped his hands.
Out of nowhere, a golden sleigh pulled by teenagers came next to the Subdigitals. They hopped on. Suddenly, the whole sleigh was pulled into the sky and thrown into the next room, playing “Conduit For Sale!” by Pavement. Yumi covered her ears in distress and ran out of the room, screaming like a gig in the sky.
Yumi said, “It’s a nightmare!” and instantly saw Aelita as a Krabe.
Yumi ran to Aelita and started to grind her leg as you would with a floor. Aelita’s face turned from calm to a sort-of “What the?” look.
Aelita said to Yumi, “What’s with you, Yumi? Why are you nuts?”
Yumi replied, “Shut up, Krabe! I know your master, XANA! He’s mad with power, I tell you! MAD!!!”
Aelita ran from Yumi and was instantly sprayed in the face with holy water.
She said, “Where did that come from?”
Graham said to her sister, “Hey, sis. Wanna go out?”
Aelita slipped on her shoes and said, “Okay, but where?”
Odd said, “Oh, we’re going out on a night on the town and we want you to go!”
Aelita pondered for a moment and said, “What if I don’t wanna go?”
Graham then said in a dark voice, “Dad’s going to ground you when we get home! He’ll take away your ‘Safe As Milk’ record!”
Aelita’s heard pounded, as she wanted to keep her Captain Beefheart record.
She said, “Okay, boys. Let’s go out.”
The boys let out a good yell of excitement. They closed the door to let Aelita change into a clean pair of jeans, a yellow-and-orange shirt, and a thin jacket over the shirt. She still kept the socks and shoes on. Finally, she walked out of the room and followed the boys to the garage.
Nicholas got in front of them and said, “Now, when you see Herve, don’t get all, ‘WTF?’ He has to take steroids for his heart.”
Aelita replied, “Okay, Nick. Why did you take us to the garage?”
Nicholas said in an angry voice, “Did I just get done telling you?”
Herve said to the gang, “Hey, y’all! I’m strong! Watch this!”
He put down Nick’s Talon and lifted his dad’s Ryder truck, filled up with useless junk, including fertilizer and iPod, while opening up and owning/pwning everybody at Half-Life 2 using his toes. Aelita stood back to the door and so did Graham.
Herve put down the truck and said, “Yeah, ever since I was MVP on the football team last year, I have been in many news articles as ‘sports’ biggest mistake.’ They even congratulated me on my losing on the title to Barry Bonds. You see, I know they would accept my case!”
Aelita replied, “Yeah, because if you were doing it for real, I would call the cops on you.”
Nick grabbed Aelita by the collar and said, “You dare not tattle on my friend! He’s been my best friend since the ‘90s and I can’t afford to lose him! Even the principal thinks I’m a geek!”
Aelita’s eyes widened and said, “Well, when I went to school here, I wasn’t called a geek. I was a ‘cool’ person,” using the finger quotes on “cool”.
Nick sighed and unlocked the Eagle Talon. Everybody got in and Herve lifted the garage door to let everybody out.
Finally, they were on the road. Aelita was looking out of the window and seeing many neon signs talking about Hotlanta and Atlanta.
She said to Graham, who was in the passenger’s seat, “Graham, I’m hungry. Where are we going to eat?”
Graham replied, “I don’t know, si-“ and saw a neon sign for the Varsity straight ahead.
Graham poked Nick’s shoulder and yelled, “The Varsity! The Varsity! We’re going to the Varsity!”
Nick got into the parking lot and into a space underneath a canopy. A waitress skated up to the driver’s window and knocked. Nick rolled down the window.
The waitress said, “Welcome to the Varsity. What’ll ya have?”
Nick replied, “I’ll have a burger, fries, and a Coke. No ice.”
The waitress wrote the order down.
She then said to Graham, “What would you have?”
Graham replied, “I would…um-uh, like to have a hot dog with a lot of chili, onion rings, and an orange shake.”
Aelita then said to the waitress, who hadn’t said anything to her, “I would like to have two burgers, fries, and a Dr Pepper with minimal ice.”
The waitress wrote the orders down.
She said to Odd, “What would you have?”
Odd replied, “A footlong hot dog with a lot of chili, onions, and cheese, fries, onion rings, and two orange shakes.”
The waitress wrote the order down and went to the kitchen.
Nick turned up the car radio and switched the radio station to a local NPR affiliate, currently playing “A Prairie Home Companion”.
During the sound of the comedy and music, Graham said to Aelita, “You wanna know what were doing next?”
Aelita replied, “I don’t know.”
Graham then said, “I had rented out a go-kart place for the night and I thought you would have some fun there! Hey! Where’s William and Ulrich?”
Aelita replied, “They’re practicing for some play about autism. Ulrich has many parts, including Raymond Babbitt.”
Graham sighed and saw the waitress coming back to the car with the food. Nick paid for the meal and the others received their meal. Odd, Graham, and Aelita paid Nick back for courtesy.
Nick said, “Aww…thanks, guys!” and chowed down on his hamburger.
Aelita sipped her Dr Pepper and ate some of her fries.
Aelita said to Graham, “You actually rented the place out?”
Graham replied, “Pretty much. It was Nick’s idea and plus, I had a lot of extra cash lying around in my closet…a lot of hundred dollar bills, too.”
Aelita smiled and hugged her brother with a tight squeeze. She ran over to the Virtua Cop cabinet and started to play the frustration that is the game itself. Odd ran to Daytona 500 with Nick and raced him on the game. Graham went to the Harley Davidson game and played by himself, but knowing that his friends are there, being happy.
They had played every game in the arcade and started to venture outside to the bumper boats. Now from there, Aelita knew that Graham only rented out the arcade. People were there. She ran, along with her friends, to the bumper boats and waited in line. They had to see everybody have fun at the boats…until it was their turn. Aelita quickly removed her jacket, her shoes, and her socks and hopped into the wet boat. The others stayed the same. They were having fun, squirting each other with water, until Odd squirted Aelita with a lot of cold water. She started shivering and her eyes were crossing. Odd didn’t want to see her in this state of mind, so he went to her. She pushed him into the water and so did he. Soon, there was a water fight and even the security guards joined in, taking the pool for themselves.
Finally, they went over to the go-kart tracks. They drove their go-karts and had fun until they saw a fellow person barred from the ride because he didn’t have the right enough footwear. Aelita was especially taken down to heart with this issue, so she let the person borrow her shoes for the ride. He was admitted and rode the go-karts, having a fun time.
Finally, he gave the shoes back to Aelita and said, “Thank you, miss, for your shoes. I will treasure that moment.”
Aelita blushed and replied, “Oh…um-uh, sure, mister.”
The man walked off, never to be seen again. The gang went out of the go-kart place and back to the car, where Nick checked the clock.
“It’s 10 pm,” Nick said to the gang, “We better be home before Franz checks on us and thinks that we were playing hooky.”
The gang shrugged and went inside the car, where Nick ignited it and drove off to the house.
On the way, Odd said to Aelita, “Hey, Aelita. There’s a big surprise for you at home, so you better get ready. Take note that it’s in your room.”
Aelita replied with a blush, “Sure, Odd,” and sat back, watching the scenery pass by.
She said to William, “William, what did you do? Is this for me?”
William replied, “Yeah, pretty much. Since you do so many good things for me and that I haven’t done one single good thing for you, I’ve decided to treat you with this: a full body massage, like the black dude in the GI Joe redub.”
Aelita ran to William and hugged him tightly. He removed her jacket and she lied down on the table-converted-into-a-mat, headfirst.
William said to his friend, “Well, Aelita, I’m going to need your shirt off. It might get too oily.”
Aelita applauded with a high squeak and clapped her hands. William removed her shirt by force and unfastened her bra. He squirted a bunch of canola oil all over her back and started to rub it in, making her skin feel smooth for some reason. Aelita sighed in relief as he was doing that and kicked off her shoes.
Next, William took off Aelita’s pants and rubbed the oil on her calves and thighs. (Sounds like a menu for KFC.)
He said to Aelita, “How do you like it?”
“It’s good, William. You’re making me feel good.”
“I’ll stop if you want me to,” William said back.
“You don’t! Go on.”
William wiped his hands off and removed Aelita’s socks in a fast manner. He gave her a foot rub, a footbath, and a pedicure, which left Aelita’s nails a sparkling red. William grinned as he removed a 2x4 from a tub of liquid nitrogen and hit it on Aelita’s back, causing for comfort to the nth degree. Finally, it was all over. Aelita was sparkling clean and relaxed. She got up and put on her clothes. William put on some music.
She said to William, “You know what?”
“What?”
“Let’s sleep the night away,” Aelita replied, and fell asleep, along with William, on the floor.