Freckles

This could be forever

The next day went by in a blur. Fred loved the zoo. There were so many animals there that he'd never gotten a chance to see before. I bought him two disposable cameras so he could take pictures to show his dad. One of them he just used to take pictures of me. My mother was also taking pictures of us the entire time which was nice because I was going to get copies to bring with me to school and I'd have pictures with my brother and my love to put on my walls. On the way back home I was sitting in the middle seat in the car petting the little sloth that Fred bought me. He was looking outside but the stuffed flamingo I got him was sitting on his lap. He really liked them a lot at the zoo so I surprised him with it.

"Hey Freddie?"

"Yeah love?" he replied looking at me.

"What animal do you think you could fight?"

"What?"

"Like what's the largest animal you could fight?"

"Koala." He said after thinking for a second.

"Not a koala!" I exclaimed through laughter.

"He looks so stupid. You could just slap him 2 or 3 times and he'll get confused." I kept laughing and soon everyone in the car joined in. "What bigger than a koala?"

"Yes! Bigger than a koala!"

"Big, big koala. A panda."

"You could fight a panda bear?" Josh asked incredulously.

"Yeah for sure! They have no idea, they're slow."

"A panda bear is like quadruple your size!" My dad added laughing.

"Yeah? Yeah I can sock him one so problem!" he said making the car laugh again. "Give him two shots, he won't know what's happened. You know they have small brains?"

"No! Who said that?" I asked wheezing.

"I'm telling you, they're idiots!"

"What about like a bird?" my mum asked.

"Flamingo. For sure." He said making my laughter start up again. At this point I was leaning on Josh for support from laughing so hard my body hurt. "That idiot stands on one leg. You sweep his leg out from under him, boom. On the floor."

"But you loved the flamingos!"

"Uh yeah bug, I love the flamingos that doesn't mean they aren't bloody idiots." He said as if it was obvious.

"I can't breathe!" I screamed through my laughing making josh laugh more and Fred to lose the serious face he'd somehow been holding until now.

"Fine what animal do you think you could fight?"

"I dunno a giraffe?" I said making everyone laugh.

"(y/n) no you could not!" Josh exclaimed laughing.

"Sure I could!"

"You picked the taller animal and you're five feet tall! How would that work."

"Give me a ladder and tell me one punch wouldn't take that sucker down. His wonky body? Come on now."

"Darling I love you but you are not defeating a giraffe." My mum said.

"Perhaps a rabbit?" My dad added.

"Oh screw you! I couldn't beat a rabbit they're too cute! I'd feel bad!"

"And you wouldn't feel bad beating a giraffe?" he asked.

"No! Bloody thing, why does it need to be so tall? It's a walking tree. No I choose violence. You can't be an animal and a tree."

"Tell that to a stick bug." Josh said.