The First Date and the Killer Ducks
"This is really pretty." she said. He suprised her with the picnic basket but he suprised her even more when he chose to eat by a lake near her old house. It was a richer part of town with it's own huge clubhouse where the biggest parties were planned, next to a clear lake with a running fountain in the center.
There was one specific thing about this lake, that was left tainted in her memory.
Guy was stuffing his face with chips, while she was eating like a bird. She hated eating in front of guy's she liked.
Hmm..guy's she liked?
He looked across the lake, with a far away look in his eyes.
"Penny for your thoughts?" she said.
"Oh sorry," he said "I was just thinking about the last time I went on a picnic." He immediately changed the subject by grabbing some bread rolls and running towards the water.
"Come, we'll feed the ducks!" he yelled back.
She got up, and went running after him. She stopped him before he went to the water.
"No! No, no no no. You can not feed those ducks!" she said catching her breath.
"Why not? What's going on?" he asked a little curious.
There was a whole pack of ducks on the other side of the lake. Waiting.
"Those duck's are evil, they see you with food and they attack." she said "It's like they have rabies or something."
"Don't exaggerate." he said "Ducks don't get rabies... do they? They don't even have teeth, they won't bite you or anything."
"But they can fly on you and scratch your eyeballs out! And they don't have to bite you, just pinch your skin really really hard..." she said. She was sounding a little pathetic, but it was the truth.
He ignored her plea, and began waving the bread around, and making quacking noises.
"Stop that, they're gonna come over here!" she said in a whiny voice, and grabbing a hold of his arm.
He stopped with his noises when he realized something was flying across the water. Fast. Very fast.
"What is that?" he said squinting.
She was backing away from the water.
"Oh shit..." he whispered.
"Run!" she screamed.
She was running for her life. When five, or six monster ducks flew across the lake and after them. They were snapping their beaks desperate for some food.
Guy didn't realize what was happening till a couple of seconds later.
She spotted a tree about seven feet high with few branches but lots of leaves, it was the fastest tree she ever climbed. Guy came shortly after dropping the bread at the trunk of the tree, and jumping on the branch next to her. They were both breathing hard, with sweat on their faces, and back their shirts.
"This is stupid, they're not going to do anything." Guy said catching his breath. "But I'm curious, how did you know that?" Guy asked.
"I've been here before, we used to call them the killer ducks." she said "And believe me they will hurt you. I was here with a bag of bread, still in the bag. They knew it was food, and were running after me, one of them bit my ankle. It's like they're mutated or something." she said.
The animals below them were biting each other for the piece of bread.
"I hate ducks." she said. And as if the ducks themselves heard her, they finished their meal, and sat at the base of the tree.
"They're not so bad." he said.
"They don't belong here, they should have left a long time ago." she said refferring to the
Mighty Ducks.
"This is very romantic," he said laughing.
She cracked a smile. "Yea great way to start a first date."
"So Charlie," Connie said sitting next to him "How is my bestest friend doing?" she said.
"Guy's not here Connie." he said not looking up from his book. He was back at the library, sitting on one of the couches hoping to see "Nicole" again.
"I know that, but I wanna know who was that girl he was with." she said getting right to the point.
"Oh you saw her," he said flipping the page "Is she pretty?" he asked.
"Extremely," she said plopping down next to him. She sighed.
"You don't understand how much I want to talk to him, but lately all he seems to care about is Kayla this, and Kayla that." she said "He's only seen the girl like twice."
"Love at first sight," he said closing his book.
"You dont believe in that crap do you Charlie?" Connie asked.
"Not really." he lied.
The sun was beginning to set, and the killer ducks had yet to move. Roxanne, and Guy were on the tree branches for three hours. They were talking about all sorts of things trying to make time pass
These "killer ducks" were actually doing her a lot of good, if they weren't on the trapped on the treebranches they wouldn't have found out so many things about each other, and about his team.
"So tell me about your hockey team," she said trying to get on task here, the bet was still on of course.
"It's a great group of kids, I'm sort of like the leader you know." he said lying through his teeth, c'mon he was trying to impress a girl.
"Really?"
He told her more, he told her about the two girls, he told her about the pranks, the problems with their new, and old coach. He told her mostly everything she needed to know.