[Write the Story] A Story That Takes Place in One Room
Prompt: A Story That Takes Place in One Room
Words: petting zoo, handsome, unbound, annoy, weekend, invest, immortal, piglet, cocktail, camp
Story
“So, what do we do now, Pooh?”
“I am not your Piglet in this story, Ray.” Chloe plopped down on the hay bail. “Being locked in a petting zoo was not the weekend I anticipated when you asked me to come with you.”
Ray smiled in a way she found it hard to be annoyed with him. Darn his immortal, handsome…everything. “I didn’t quite plan it this way, either. I imagined a cocktail or two, maybe a camp fire, but not…” He waved his hands around the goat pen. “…this.”
Chloe laughed then, startling the chickens and making the ponies whinny and the cows stomp in their stalls. “So, you didn’t plan this?”
“If I was going to invest in a scenario to provide unbridled passion,” Ray gestured around them again. “A BARN would not be my first or one hundredth choice. Been there. Done that. The colloquial ‘roll in the hay’ is not all it’s cracked up to be. Straw is itchy, dirty, and frankly hurts if you get it in the wrong places.”
Chloe laughed again, a pure, joyous sound. Ray watched a moment, confusion playing across his chiseled features.
“What’s so funny?” he asked.
Chloe took a deep breath to stop laughing. “It’s just that after all the time you’ve lived, you can still make rookie mistakes. Come on, let’s find a window to shimmy out of, then we can get those drinks.”
Chloe led the bemused Ray out the back of the stable. Maybe he’d found a challenge after all this time.
Word Count: 256
Written: 1/24 & 25/19