The glass which was smashed
Ten years later Merry Poppis awoke to the balmy twitter of birds. The beams of the morning sun stroked his ugly face, dazzling him.
"Wake up, cousin!" a merry voice sounded, "Today is my birthday!!!"
"Oh yeah! Congrats Fatty Boy", Merry jovially answered Paddy Deutsch as he put on his friendship necklace with a pendant looking like the left half of a metal heart (Paddy already had on the right half).
"Hurry up and get dressed so that we can go downstairs and have breakfast together!"
Merry dressed himself quickly, and took Paddy under the arm; together they skipped downstairs, demonstrating none to subtly just what truly good friends they really were.
Despite the fact that they were the best of friends their appearances could hardly have been more dissimilar.
Paddy was fat, looking in shape not unlike the kind of big blow-up balls kids play with in the water at beaches summertime, and he loved everything that involved food. He also loved superheroes and aspired to be one himself one day (thus the nickname Fatty Boy). He had naturally platinum blonde colored hair, and that in combination with his D-cups had him looking slightly like a younger and fatter Pamela Anderson.
Merry on the other hand was skinny for several reasons; he was very picky since he was a spoiled brat, besides this he was also allergic to everything sweet.
Furthermore Merry had a scar forming a perfect question mark very visible on his forehead. Paddy did not have one of those.
In contrast to his cousin Merry did not have any ambitions whatsoever; neither did he look like a celebrity. Instead he looked like an ugly little boy with blue-black hair and lime green eyes hidden by a pair of round, big and above all geeky glasses.
Mr. Deutsch hugged both of them as they entered the kitchen (Mrs. Deutsch threw them a look so sour the milk in the pancakes clabbered).
"Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Paddy und guten morgen both of you, meine little sweethearts!"
"I'm not little anymore!" Paddy declared cheerfully, "I'm eleven now."
"Okay, but sit down and eat so that you grow some more and while the pancakes are still warm, then you can open your presents."
Mrs. Deutsch dropped the plate with the sour pancakes carelessly on the table before stalking away to another room, viciously muttering.
After they'd eaten Paddy opened the presents. Among his gifts where 4 pounds of sweets which Paddy graciously shared with Merry. They devoured all of it immediately, due to their lack of common sense. Afterwards they fell whimpering to the ground where they lay whining for quite some time. Merry got an allergic shock but he got through it alive, as usual.
Later the boys and Mr. Deutsch went to a zoo. Mrs. Deutsch didn't go because she was a sourpuss.
Once there they goggled at animals, which is what one usually does at a zoo. In the reptile house Merry sauntered away to go stare at the biggest, fattest, most badass-looking snake.
"Ha ha, what a fat snake", said Merry mockingly, looking at it condescendingly.
"You do not have sssuch a sssuperb physssique yourssselfff", the snake hissed.
Merry, who was unused to being insulted, least of all by a snake, started a heated discussion with the animal. Several minutes later the snake said something so completely insolent ("Pumpkinsss are disssgusssting!") that Merry furiously smashed the glass between him and the big snake, with his very fists and thereafter tried attacking it, attempting to choke the snake.
"Take it back! Damn reptile!"
"Fffuck you, I would give you the fffinger ifff only I had one", the snake hissed.
Paddy, alias Fatty Boy, came toddling. "What're you doing?"
"The snake insulted me!"
"What? How can a snake insult you?"
Merry froze contemplating this. When he did not come up with a rational explanation he gave up the fight with the snake, lulling away with Paddy to find Mr. Deutsch.
It was not until they were on their way out of the reptile house that Merry discovered that the glass he had just broken was once again whole. Unfortunately for the other visitors the rude snake was on the outside of the glass.
"Niccce of you to releassse me, but I ssstill hate both you and pumpkinsss", the snake hissed. Merry settled for shaking his fist at it before leaving.
Swedish dictionary:
Poppis = a common shorter version of "populär", in English; popular.