Lizzy looked up from her computer screen. Her character had lost the game of Castles of Doom. Her thirtieth failure in the game. She sighed and put her computer away.
'Will she always be bad at computer games?' she heard her friend Red whisper to Rose, and Rose replied, 'She could change.'
Lizzy looked up at them. They didn't know that she had heard them.
Suddenly, everything stopped. A plastic fork flew through the air.
It spun around in slow motion winding in between the girls and striking a dartboard behind them. The girls hadn't even known the dartboard was there.
All heads turned in the direction the fork had come from. Nothing.
'Um. Do you want this back?' Lizzy held the fork up and looked in the direction it had flew from.
'No need,' came the answer from behind her. Lizzy jumped and the others did too. Now standing before them was a figure dressed like a radio reporter.
'But I do need you to know... That I love you, Lizzy,' he said, and bent down on his knees. 'Please, will you marry me?'
Rose looked disgusted but Red started rummaging around in her backpack. She took out a map and a wishbone. She handed them to Lizzy.
'Say no,' she whispered in her ear. Of course, this was what Lizzy was about to say anyway.
'NO!' Lizzy said forcefully and grabbed the map and wishbone and turned away to run. Red and Rose fled with her.
'HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME, LIZZY?! I'VE BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS MOMENT FOR YEARS! HOW COULD YOU RUIN THIS FOR ME?! DO YOU ENJOY HURTING PEOPLE?!' the news reporter screamed after them.
Lizzy, Rose and Red trekked for days in the high grassland, and were quite getting used to their new way of living when a postman was visible in a postvan, driving in their direction. At first neither of them knew what to do. Then, Rose suggested that they should simply stay put and see what the postman had to say.
And so, because of lack of any other idea, they waited for the postvan to approach them. When he did, he held out a hand.
'I've been wandering for days in search of Lizzy, Rose and Red,' he said, and handed them over a parcel.
Lizzy was the one to open it, and what she saw disgusted her. Inside was a picture frame, and in that picture frame was a painting of Lizzy and the old news reporter in a love-heart, with a huge scribble drawn on it with a black marker.
'Oh, damn that man,' she whispered under her breath.
YOU ARE READING
The Dreaded Fork
Romance(Written in 20 minutes) Lizzy is living a normal life in an uninterrupted way, but it all gets weird when a fork comes flying out of the air towards her. Now she is on the run from her worst enemy who is also in love with her.
