Selmak's first St Patrick's Day
by Tels
St Patricks Day Challenge 2006 on the Carmen List. Drabble to larger drabble 100 words to 500 words - Selmak is experiencing St. Paddy's day for the first time.
Selmak looked at her reflection in the mirror in Sam's bathroom. <Green is so not me> she commented.
<You wanna spend all night getting pinched?>
<No why?>
<Tradition... along with cabbage, corn beef and lots of beer.>
Selmak pulled a face. <Bleugh... you want stomach ache?> she asked.
<No> Jacob replied. <Why?>
<Because my friend that is what you will get.>
Jacob shook his head. <You just don't get it.>
<No… I don't. This has to be one of your more stupid traditions. For one thing this is not Ireland and for another you are not Irish.>
<Exactly> Jacob replied.
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Selmak couldn't remember what happened. One minute she was inside Jake at a St Patrick's Day party with lots of cabbage and corn beef and butt pinching. Now she was floating in a load of green stuff that smelt like beer Maybe this was her punishment. Removed from Jacob and doomed to spend eternity in a huge tank of smelly green liquid. She hated beer. Right now she hated St Patrick too.
Then she woke up with a splitting head ache to the sound of Jacob being violently sick. It was all his own fault. She did warn him.
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<Jacob do you believe it is important to tell the truth?> Selmak asked.
<Of course… you should always be truthful> came the reply. <Why?>
<To everyone… even children?>
Jacob nodded. <Especially children.>
Selmak took a deep breath. <But you spent the first twelve years of Sam's life lying to her.>
Jacob did a double take. <I did not.>
<So you never lied to her?>
<No! What makes you think such a thing?>
<Several things> came the reply. <The tooth fairy, Santa Claus, The Easter Bunny, Fairies at the bottom of the garden, the Bogy man, Leprechauns… Need I go on?>
© Tels March 17th 2006
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