June 3rd, 2006

"Wake up Brian, I have food for you!" Jack called out.

I rose up from the sand and noticed a wet spot from where I had left my mouth open.

"Eh, what are we having?"

"You mean what YOU are having what?" he said. "And you're in luck! I don't make this for everyone you know. You're an exception seeing all the hard work you did yesterday!"

I yawned and stretched my back making it crack several times before standing up.

"So tell me Jack, do you have any brothers or sisters?"

"Hold on there mate I'm almost done with this." He put the lobster onto a piece of wood and brought it over to me.

"Eh thanks a lot Jack, I appreciate it."

"You're worth it kid, now back to your question I do have a younger brother, Axel. No sisters though, thank goodness. What about you?"

"Yes I have one older brother and sister…I'm the youngest." I admitted.

"Ah there's nothing wrong with that, you just have to put up more of a fight with them."

"Tell me about it, but I don't get into as much trouble as they do. Plus sometimes they get blamed for things they didn't even do!" I laughed.

"I know how that is…it's happened to me quite a lot of times, come to think of it, perhaps too much."

"Well my sister's birthday is in a couple of days and it looks like I won't get to see her or give her a present at the most."

"Really how old will she be?"

"Twenty three"

"In human years I'd be about the equivalent of forty eight. I know I'm climbing up the ladder a bit too fast…"

"Yea well compared to my friends I'm the head honcho. In about a week I'll be twenty one. Then I'll be able to drink."

"Drink what? Water?"

"Well more than that…beer."

"Ah how I love that stuff, it never gets old no matter how many times you have it."

"Eh I don't have much of a preference for it. Usually beer to me is disgusting."

"Well everyone has their own taste in beverages."

I nodded and sat up for bit thinking about what had to be done today. Soon I forgot that jack was still there and got up wandering around to see what I could find in the way of wood and vines.

"If you're looking for vines you'll find them in the forest!" he yelled.

I turned for the forest and went inside. The first thing I noticed was that the animals seemed to never clean up after themselves; also that I wasn't watching where I was going and stepped into some shit.

"Ah shit, I'll have to clean this off my sandal later." I knew I couldn't walk barefoot through here so I kept them on without worrying too much about the smell.

Soon an iguana camp up to me, "He-he sorry about the mess back there, I'll clean that up as soon as my diarrhea calms down a bit."

"Don't tell me there's more of it around."

"Sorry, you might want to be more careful where you're stepping."

I sighed and continued walking around. The vines seemed to be stuck to the tree. When I went to rip them off it was like trying to rip a tail off of a dog.

"Man I shouldn't have to be working like this!" I thought to myself.

I didn't feel like struggling with it all day so I gave it one last tug and managed to get half of it off. Though it wasn't a vine…it was the tail of a monkey.

"Oh my god what the hell is wrong with you kid!" he screamed. "Are you blind or something, how could you not tell that was my tail you had!"

"Ah shit I'm sorry, I'm not thinking clearly right now."

"How will you fix this?"

"Don't worry I'll think of something, just right now let me get my house up then I'll repay you back."

The monkey glared at me and jumped higher into the tree.

"Wow this is going better than I thought…" I said aloud.