Making a Bridge to My Heart of Fantasy

Momboo Burke

        Sherbert sat at dinner eating while daydreaming.  Once they finished they set their plate in the sink and ran upstairs to draw.  They flipped through some pages of the sketchbook each containing what they imagined as everyone in a fantasy land.  They opened to the new page and grabbed out cheap colored pencils and a pencil with a eraser.
         Athena finished their food second and smiled beginning to wash them.  He listened to Caspian and Rae talk about some money problems.  "Why can't we just get more money?"  Athena grumbled once they finished the dishes to see what Sherbert was drawing.
           Sherbert was sat on their bed drawing a funky little alchemist dude.  This is what they would want to be if Rae was the scientist.  Their wasn't any role they had specifically given Athena because they didn't know maybe flower specialist would work.  It'd be funny to specialize in only flowers.  They looks at the drawing once it was done and smiled at the goggles they had added.
          Rae looks at the time and got up beginning to clean the house.  They had one cat and one dog but they mostly caused hair which was a pain to clean.  He normally got tired by midday because of so much cleaning. "Sherbert you need to go feed the animals outside!" He shouted upstairs.
          Caspian looked at Rae as they shouted and got up from the couch. He walked up to them and hugged them. "You should rest Rae you really do work too much and I'll make sure Sherbert feeds the animals." He smiled some and pulled away from the hug.
            Sherbert ran downstairs slipping their shoes on while hopping.  They proceeded to run outside to feed the animals and do one extra run if needed.
            Athena came down a second after Sherbert ran outside.  He had just taken Sherberts sketchbook to look through with interest.  He never knew how they learned to draw so well but it amazed them.  The drawings were so detailed and really good looking even if Sherb always ran.
              Rae had once seen the sketchbook themselves.  He knew Sherbert could draw but it was always fantasies.  "I don't know why you're so obsessed with these fantasies Sherb" Rae sighed.  Fantasies never helped anyone in this house.  He wanted everyone to be happy and drawing wouldn't go that far in life it was a hobby not a job.
              Sherbert was outside now feeding the chickens and trying to get Charles to stop pecking them.  They hated this chicken with all their heart they always said.  Charles was that one chicken Sherbert was always mad at but they were just way for some reason.  They always imagined Charles as a witch or someone in disguise.  Which they couldn't be mad at but they couldn't focus with a chicken pecking their leg.  "Charles leave me alone!" Sherbert yelled. 
                Athena sat down at the kitchen table with Sherbert's sketch book.  He flipped it open looking at the first page which was more like a title page.  The page was filled with characters that looked like them all and something called "Fable"?  So was Sherbert trying to tell a story through drawing Athena really didn't know.  He flipped to the next page which said Athena and had a drawing of himself but cooler.
                Caspian got up and looked over Athena's shoulder.  He was actually amazed by the drawing skills Sherbert had.  The drawings were so well colored and detailed even with a little story on the side to explain the characters.  "I didn't know Sherb was...this good at drawing" Caspian mumbled.  He studied the drawing of him with Athena it was how would he put it? Extraordinary? No...he didn't know the word to explain it.
               Momboo was outside on her front poarch looking at the sunset before hearing someone yell.  They looked across the cow pasture to see someone trying to get a chicken away from them.  She laughed some as she watched this scene unfold supposing the chicken was a bully of course. 
              Rae looked up from the dishes and saw Sherbert getting attacked by Charles the chicken.  He laugh a tiny bit still not knowing what relationship Charles and Sherb had.  It obviously wasn't a very happy one of the chicken was trying to peck Sherb to death.  He look at Caspian who was also looking.  "That chicken really has something against Sherb doesn't it?" Rae laughed.
              Momboo hopped over the fence to the cow pen.  She quietly walked across it to Sherbert.  Leaning on the Fence by Sherbert she grinned.  "Menace problems? Or just normal chicken problems?" Momboo laughed.
              Sherbert jumped some and looked at Momboo.  They looked at them and shrugged a tiny bit.  "Charles is a menace that all I'll say" Sherbert mumbled.  They were surprised to see the pretty lady out this late.
             "I'm Momboo by the way its nice to meet you...and Charles the menace" Momboo smiled.
               Sherbert stared at Momboo for a moment before snapping out of it. "Oh- Uh I'm Sherbert nice to meet you too" Sherbert said barely auditable.