When Life Gives You Lemons
It was a great day in Elwood City. People were always walking, talking, and just being about this time of year. So of course, summer was the perfect
time for a kid to get rich.
In front of the Read house, Arthur, DW, and Robert had the best idea they could come up with this time of year.
"Lemonade." Robert said slowly. "Think about it! At a quarter a cup, we'll be easy living in no time!"
"Oh yeah, it's not like every other kid'll be thinking the same thing." DW deadpanned, rolling her eyes.
"What if we do something no other kid is doing?" Arthur asked.
"Oh! Oh! We could give people bigger cups! And charge fifty cents per cup!" Robert said excitedly.
"Yeah, we can do that! With our starter fund, we can totally get some bigger cups! Come on guys, let's go to the store and grab our supplies." Arthur said.
At the store, they all split up. Arthur was in charge of grabbing a pitcher and sugar
DW was in charge of cups, and Robert was in charge of grabbing lemons, and the rest of the ingredients. Back at the Read house, the lemonade was assembled. After an hour, they were finally able to start their business.
Their first customer was Buster.
"Hey guys! Whatcha up to?" He greeted.
"Hey Buster! We're selling lemonade. Want some?" Arthur replied.
"How much is it?" Buster asked.
"Only fifty cents!" Buster gasped.
"Fifty cents!? Why?"
"Well they come in an all new cup size." Arthur showed Buster the cups they picked up at the store. Buster twisted his mouth in thought, then said, "Fine."
He paid them the fifty five cents, and took a cup. "Mm!" He said. "This is good! You could make more off of this." Buster came around the booth, and helped them out with pricing. So from fifty cents, the lemonade jumped up to a dollar. Not a lot of people stopped when they saw the dollar pricing, only about four or five. So they decided to advertise their new cup size. People started stopping by more. Then the satisfied customers told other people about how good the lemonade was.
At the end of the day, they had made fifty dollars and fifty cents. Robert flipped a coin continuously as he said, "Fifty bucks, four people. How's it going to be split?"
"I figure if we do this again tomorrow, we'll get more customers, so we can split it more evenly. With lots of supplies left, and money leftover from the starter fund, we can leave ten in the neutral piggy bank," Arthur put ten dollars into a grey and blue piggy bank. "And then we each get ten bucks." Arthur handed Buster, Robert, and DW each ten bucks, while stuffing the remaining ten in his pocket.
When Buster's mom came over, looking for her son, she coincidently had some extra lemons in her car from a trip to the grocery store. She herself was going to make lemonade, and she decided that she could spare an extra bag.
After thanking Bitzi for the lemons, and the sugar she also gave them, Buster said, "You know what they say Arthur: When life gives you lemons," He winked.
DW, Robert, and Arthur shouted, "Make lemonade!"
A/N: Theme 010 Lemonade. Shocking isn't it. Anyway, this is one of my lighter one-shots, have to balance the darks and the lights, though I prefer keeping my one-shots light, unless the theme calls for it. Anyway, as always, feel free to complete the themes yourself, they can be found on my profile, of DarkAngelSnapeLover's profile. If you do complete the themes, credit me and DASL. Also, we are currently accepting these on deviantART as well, our names there are SS-Chrys(DASL) and Korpen9999(me). Be sure to credit us there as well. Without Further Ado, REVIEW!