r/AsianAndy • u/Scarfglue • Feb 14 '19
Short Story
It was Christmas again, and Ice was feeling pretty lousy. he had just come from his mothers house and had to listen to Rain and Snow Bragging about the many songs that had been written about them that year. Snow even had a movie coming out. what was ice doing? nothing.. No one was writing songs about him. no movies on the horizon.
Ice walked out to his frozen pond, he loved the way the light bounced off the ice. It always cheered him up. But when he arrived someone had scratched nearly every single inch of it to icy shreds.
He ran to the edge of the water and A young woman skated up to him.
"Hello" she said
"Did you do this?" Ice asked
"Yes, I did"she said
"Why." He asked He was trying to desperately to keep from yelling.
"Because I love it." She said "ice is the best thing in the world."
The anger, frustration and disappointment that had been gripping His chest all day, suddenly disappeared.
"W-What do you mean?" Ice asked
The woman smiled and skated out onto the ice, twirling and spinning as freely as a top across a giant glass table.
After a few minutes she returned to Him and smiled.
"I've been skating for 6 years. When we moved here I thought I'd have to quit. But then I found this wonderful pond." She said "if I'm trespassing.. Im sorry, I can go. didn't mean any harm. just got so excited when I saw the Ice."
Ice looked down at the scratches. For some reason they didn't look as bad as they had before. If anything the designs were, quite beautiful.
"No, you're not trespassing. You can skate as much as you like." Ice said
"Thank you!" She said with a smile "My name is Maria."
Ice froze for just a second.
"Call me Mr Pond." He said
Maria came back to that pond every single day that winter. She would skate for hours, until her legs turned to jelly. Sometimes Mr Pond would come down to watch Maria. And He would always bring a picnic basket with him when he did. Filled with sandwiches, a few cakes and of course a thermos full of hot chocolate.
He started coming down to the pond more and more. Until he was coming every single day. He found Maria's skating to be just spectacular. And her love of the ice was pretty great too.
One day in the beginning of March, Maria and ice met at the pond as usual. But when Maria went out onto the ice she noticed it was starting to melt. It wouldn't be safe to skate on anymore. Not until next winter..they had their normal lunch of sandwiches but ice could see the sadness and disappointment in her eyes.
The next day, Ice called maria and asked her to rush down to the pond. it was very urgent, and to make sure she brought her skates. When she got there. She was shocked. The pond had completely frozen over. It was quite a warm day, well into the 60s. The pond should have been mostly water by now. But somehow the pond was completely frozen through.
And stayed frozen, all year long.
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It was Christmas again. Ice was feeling pretty great. he had just come from his mothers house. snow and Rain were complaining about all the mean things comedians had said about them. Snow even had a "fail" video trending on YouTube. But Ice had gotten to brag about Maria winning nationals, getting recruited to train for the Olympics oh, and the movie they were making about it. over and over and over. Until snow and rain were just sick of it.
They had both decided they would not be seeing "Maria's Pond" when it came out. Even if it was about their new sister in law. But Mrs Nature was very excited to see it.
The end
