Cheri was in deep concentration. She had been working on this painting for awhile and she wanted it as close to perfect as she could get it! Time was slipping away and she wanted to finish it tonight. It had to be ready for tomorrow. She couldn’t wait to see his expression when he saw it.
Her older sister was always baking treats for her beau, for she said that food was a way to a man’s heart, but Cheri wasn’t very good at baking yet. The other week she had tried making some fudge brownies. They looked good when she took them out of the pan, but … they never came out of the pan! She turned the pan completely over and it was like they were glued to the bottom. Hard as rock! Her brother Christopher laughed and laughed, until she bopped him over the head with the pan.
Cheri dipped her paintbrush in the golden yellow paint. After that she used the azure blue. Stood back, taking a look and felt proud. Just needed a little more emphasis with some deeper colors and she would be finished. Oh, how she hoped he liked it!
As her hand moved in rhythmic motion with the brush she thought of the first time she had seen Peter. He was the new boy in class and Cheri was happy when the teacher told him to sit at the desk next to hers. His wavy blonde hair covered his one eye slightly. He brushed it out of the way as Cheri said “HI” and he gave her a hesitant smile. At recess he was sitting under the tree while the other boys played baseball. Cheri walked over to him, as her friends giggled at her.
Conversation was awkward at first, but then he started talking more, and sharing with Cheri about where he used to live. Suddenly a ball had come flying their direction and Peter caught it. The boys cheered and asked him to come play. He looked at Cheri and paused for a moment then had told them not today. The other boys gave him a confused look as to why he would prefer sitting under a tree with a girl, but they quickly went back to playing. Cheri’s heart warmed and from that moment on they were friends.
Today at school he had given her a really pretty violet bow for her hair. She was planning on wearing it tomorrow and she wanted to give him this painting. She had decided to paint a picture of Georgie for him, his pet gecko that he always talked about.
Cheri would have preferred a fluffy kitten, but boys were strange, and liked weird looking things.
She made the final stroke and smiled, finished at last. Cheri thought of how she prefer kittens, and she still thought the gecko looked a little strange, but she liked the cute smile that she had painted on him.
“Cheri! Time for supper!” her Mama called.
“Coming Mama!” She put down her brush and headed in. Cheri thought of the secret she had that no one knew. Under the tree yesterday, at recess, Cheri had told Peter that he was cute. He blushed, and didn’t say much, but then today he gave her the pretty violet bow. When Cheri told him thanks, he blushed again as he told her that he thought that she was the cutest girl in school!
Cheri couldn’t stop smiling, she guessed that there was more than one way to a guy’s heart, besides food! What did her big sister know!
Later in life, Sherry became an insurance salesperson for Geico. She married Pedro, her cute schoolmate boyfriend, then took out a large life insurance policy on him. She then learned how to make caramel flavored latte’s, and picked up a box of rat poison at the hardware store . . .
The rest is history. At least for Pedro.
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Oooh gosh! How could I have not thought of Geico! I should have went with the chameleon! And its not Pedro! 😛
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Poor Pedro.
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Plus anyone who makes caramel latte’s is sweet! She wouldn’t poison Pedro!
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I don’t know. She has a history, you know. There was this poor passenger on a train who had the misfortune of being seated next to her.
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…mmm..! Her name was not Cheri!
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Right. It was Sherry, wasn’t it?
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Smart aleck!
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Hm. Missed that story.
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Good. It isn’t worth reading.
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Haha! Yeah, the POOR POOR guy on the train!
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Good thing his unicorn helped him.
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😄 OK…
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Don’t forget the thalium…
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You women know all the poisons, don’t you?
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Yup! So men Beware!
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Maybe this is why men need children. So they can be their official tasters.
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You are baaad!
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Personal assistant, dude. The line comes to a screeching halt if you mess with the progeny.
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Well then, stepchildren.
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🤣
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😆
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I live with a retired cop. We watch way too many episodes of Forensic Files.
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Hmm. He’d better start marking the levels of his antifreeze jugs.
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Heh. He knows he’s safe from that. I abhor torture and suffering. Plus, I’m too lazy. If he makes me that mad…it’ll be quick…
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Ooh. He’d better be careful.
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LOL! May 2021, we will be together a decade. It’s all good. We haven’t strangled each other.
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Congrats! 🙂
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Thanks. LOL!
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Well after nearly 10 years, you’ve probably ironed out most of your differences. So maybe he can breathe easily.
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We holler at each other every once in a while but, for the most part…LOL!
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Everyone hollers…. or they be passive aggressive, thats more my style. LOL!
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Well, in his case he is a little hard of hearing. Too much time on board ship close to loud guns…
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Been there, done that. Makes my throat sore and my ears ring. Ain’t worth it.
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I agree! Thats why being passive aggressive is better, though I know thats not always good eitber. Thats why I usually just let things roll off me like water off a duck’s back. 🙂
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I’ll agree with you because I don’t want an argument. Quack!
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LOL! 😄
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Thankfully, it doesn’t happen often but, he does have some hearing loss so, there’s that.
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Perhaps for safety purposes, people should always wear earplugs when getting into a shouting match.
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LOL! Good suggestion.
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LOL! We like that show.
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I tell ya’…it’s really interesting and really scary. There are some mean people out there.
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Totally!! We are usually shaking our heads at how cruel and cold blooded people can be!
It does fascinate me with how the littlest thing at times can be a proof of guilt! Like the one time they found a piece of chewing gum that the murderer had spit out and used it as evidence!
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We leave DNA all over the place. Once the technology advanced, you can’t so much as sneeze somewhere without leaving trace evidence.
I remember an episode where a couple was charged with murder due to the woman’s dog having a cigarette habit. It was a Pug with a nicotine addiction and a cigarette butt, plus dog hair, was a deciding factor.
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Oh my gosh, that is crazy! A dog on nicotine??
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He would chew on the cigarettes. Yeah…
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What is the way to a man’s heart? It’s a trick question. There is no way.
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Haha! “No way??’ Maybe its always having black coffee available?
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I don’t know. You probably shouldn’t listen to me anyway. I do like black coffee, but I know how to make that.
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Its okay, sometimes we don’t know the answer until it happens! 🙂
So is there a specific way to make black coffee, that actually makes it good?
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First you leave out the cream, and then you leave out the sugar.
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Which basically leaves out the taste! LOL!
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Why don’t you just drink cream and sugar and caramel?
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Ummm….because then you don’t have the coffee taste!
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You can solve that problem with black coffee.
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Nooo….because then you taste too much coffee! Coffee needs to be helped out a bit! 😛
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You may be hopeless.
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“Haha!”
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I just took a bunch of sunflower pictures and am debating about whether or not to post them.
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Ooh yes! You need to post bright sunflowers! 🙂
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Another reason to post the sunflower pics is that I may want to use them in my story. Remember the story about What’s her name, who was dreaming about getting married in the Sunflower field? She was just waiting for them to grow. 🙂
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Ok, I will have to look at them again tomorrow. I usually take a couple of days to settle my mind.
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No problem! 🙂
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Oh, yeah…the crop circle (Tipster’s words). Angela, Amy, Amelia and the spitting of seeds…
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Why not?
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LOL!
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Across the field, occasionally looking at the schoolyard there grazed a cow. This cow had watched Cheri at school and at home painting her picture. Nobody paid any heed to the cow because cows never cause any trouble….
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Ooooh you really are going to end if like that….just letting an unanswered question hanging. LOL! Why was Betsy watching her??
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Betsy? Yeah, I suppose the cow could be Betsy if that’s the way you want to go with this story.
The cow up to some plot, we may need you to write a sequel to get to the bottom of this.
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You “suppose….” ? …mmm..!
A sequel? Oh gosh! Betsy is just so cunning isn’t she!
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She smells Cheri/Sherry’s sisters brownies.
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Wait a minute I just thought of something. Hos did the cow watch Cheri at school AND at her home, smartie? The school wasn’t right next to the house. 🙂
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Magical cow.
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Betsy does appear fo be magical for sure!
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Betsy can get around.
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She is quite the surprising cow!
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I am waiting for your cross-over story with Betsy the cow and Henrietta the Hippo.
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LOL! Oh gosh , the hippo has a name now?
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Isn’t the Ger-ald the Gi-RAFFE? You have a lot of trouble identifying animals.
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Well, few animals carry any ID around here.
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😂
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Don’t remind him about the Giraffe!
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LOL!
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I knew Betsy would show up at some point.
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The only times that you know she won’t show up is when she is given an open invitatipn to show up!
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She likes the element of surprise.
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Totally!
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Never, ever make fun of a girl’s brownies. *whack*
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😄
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😎
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so is Cheri weird looking?
“boys were strange, and liked weird looking things.”
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“No comment!”
Sooo nice to know that if one smart aleck, doesn’t catch something, that I know another one will. LOL!
I had actually thought of that after re-reading it and wondered if anyone would question it. 😛
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you’ve got a ready and willing group of editors… 🙂
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You are very right about the willing part! Even when they don’t get paid! Such nice “editors”!
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🙂
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This is wonderful. Definitely Apple Crumble with this man.
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Thanks! Do you go for Apple Dumplings too? 🙂
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Yes we do. Not as often but still very nice.
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