Death by Margaritas
Chapter Six: The Necklace
Okay, this is a short little parody of a story that I read in English. It reminded me of Dragonball Z and so I am writing it now.
Once upon a time in a land called France, there was a woman. She was a beautiful woman but was born into the lower middle class. She would dream of fancy parties and having a beautiful house full of beautiful furniture and artwork. She believed that she was made for so much more than her lowly life. She was married to a man in education named Monsieur Son Goku. He was nice according to everyone else but this woman saw him as what was available for her lack of a dowry. This woman's name was Madame Chichi.
One day, a letter came inviting Monsieur and Madame Son to a party. Monsieur Son expected his wife to be very pleased at this, but she only wept.
"I shall not go," She cried. "I will look like a pauper amongst princesses!"
"What about your blue dress that you wore to my sister's wedding?" Goku asked. "You could wear that and I am sure that you will look splendid!"
"I cannot! It is not fancy enough," She dabbed at her eyes.
"Well, perhaps I can scrape together enough to get you something new," Goku aimed to cheer up his wife. That next morning, he bought her a beautiful new dress from the money he was saving up for a new hunting rifle. He brought the dress to his wife, smiling and she again began to weep.
"I have no jewels to wear with this. I shall not go." She cried.
"What about asking your friend, Madame Bulma?" He suggested. "She would probably lend you some for the night."
"I shall ask her then," She stood, wiping the tears from her eyes.
Madame Chichi arrived at the beautiful Brief residence. Madame Bulma greeted her with tea, "What can I help you with, Chichi?"
"I was wondering if I could borrow a piece of jewelry for a party tonight," She asked her friend. "May I?"
Bulma smiled, "Anything, come with me!"
She led Chichi to a room lined with beautiful jewelry. The brooches stared at her longingly from their cases and how she wanted to have so many. Bulma took out a couple of boxes with necklaces, earrings and brooches. After looking through them, she fell dissatisfied.
"Is there anything else, by chance?" Chichi asked.
"Of course!" Bulma took out a couple more boxes. Upon opening a blue, velvety box, Chichi fell silent.
"May I borrow this one?" She asked, taking out the string of diamonds.
"Yes," Bulma nodded. "Take care of it, my friend."
Chichi smiled and left with the perfect necklace for her party dress.
That evening, Chichi looked like a princess in her gown. At the party, she constantly danced with people while Monsieur Son slept in a chair in the other room. She danced until early in the morning, four to be exact. She got Son and walked outside to find a taxi. After some searching, they found one and arrived home. Chichi had just gotten into the house when she noticed that Madame Bulma's necklace was missing.
"Goku! The necklace! It's gone!" She cried. "Now what will I do?"
And so they searched until dawn in every taxi that they could find. No luck, the necklace was gone. They decided to buy a replacement and give it to Madame Bulma instead. After searching, Monsieur Son found a perfect replacement for over 400,000 francs. He decided to take out some loans because they did not have that sort of money. About three weeks after borrowing the necklace, Madame Chichi finally returned the replacement to Madame Bulma.
"I may have needed this," She said with annoyance in her voice. "You kept it for quite a long time."
Monsieur and Madame Son worked from dawn to dusk every day doing everything possible to pay back for the necklace. They fell from middle class to the utmost poverty. Finally ten years later, the necklace was repaid. The day afterward, Chichi ran into Madame Bulma in the marketplace.
"I have not seen you in a long time, my friend," Bulma greeted.
"I have a confession to make," Chichi told. "The necklace that I returned isn't your necklace."
"What?" Bulma asked with confusion in her eyes.
"I lost yours and I bought a replacement for it. I have spent these past ten years working to pay back the loan," Chichi feared her friend's reaction.
"Oh my," Bulma sighed. "Those weren't real diamonds in the necklace. It was a type of crystal. I only bought it for about 500 francs!"
Heh heh heh... the irony of it all. Yeah, that was a story I read in English, like I said. Please don't sue me, it was just for fun...
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