Hello. The prompt is "apple" and "traveling"


One of my prouder moments was when I started a curse.

You know how sometimes there are objects that everyone believes is cursed, so they pass it around to others, thinking it'll save them from the curse? Like a chain letter?

Yeah. And I started one.

I feel so badass.

You see, it was this plastic apple that I had found.

Well, I say found, but in reality it was more like some vendor on the streets of London threw it at me. I don't know why. I was rather confused at the time.

Anyway, I kept it for a while, thinking I could use it for something. Dunno what for, but whatever.

Then one day I heard Linda talking about a chain letter. The idea hit me then and there, making me grin like a nutter and consequentially bewilder Mello.

The curse was simple - if you had the apple, you'd lose your most prized possession. The only way to get it back was to pass the apple on to someone else.

I put a tracker inside of it and got Mello to help me take the prized possession of whoever had the apple. Cos, you know, we had to make the curse appear real.

I was even the one who suggested the name when Linda asked my opinion. "La malédiction fausse." It's even more amusing to me because apparently they don't know French.

"Why French?" Mello had asked me later in an incredulous tone.

"I'ono. I just felt like making it French," was my only explanation for him.

"Seriously?" he had persisted.

I sighed. "Mello, I don't question your language choices. Don't question mine."

"The hell? What language choices? I speak English, idiot," he had snapped.

"I'm pretty sure 'bloody fucking git' is not proper English," I deadpanned and he rolled his eyes at me.

The curse ended when some idiot gave Mello the apple, thinking it'd be funny to watch Mello go into a raging fit. What he didn't know was that I created the curse and had no intentions at all of taking Mello's chocolate to fulfill it. Mello nearly mauled the guy for having the nerve to try to give him the apple. That was fun to watch.