Peppermint Snow, Chapter 2
Saterday
(9:58 pm): Did the chicks make it?
Birdie (10:16 pm): oh you're back
(10:21 pm): What do you mean 'oh you're back'? I never left. Also you need refer to me a the awesome supreme i will not answer to anything else
Birdie (10:23 pm): no
(10:23 pm): you never let me have any fun :(
Birdie (10:25 pm): sorry sorry, it's just I'm still kind of surprised that you still want to txt me now that we're not in the traffic jam
(10:28): Thought about it but then decided that my desire to make sure that the lil chickies are safe and sound outweighed my nonexistent desire to stop talking to you so spill are all of the preciouses good?
Birdie (10:29 pm): You will be happy to know that all of my hens plus the one rooster are all safe and accounted for
(10:30 pm): thank gott
(10:32 pm): the knowledge that those poor defenseless little birdies were exposed to the elements because of a broken chicken coop was enough to keep me up all night
Birdie (10:33 pm): I finished fixing the coop as soon as I got home. Alfred watched over them until I got back and made sure none of them disappeared on us
Birdie (10:33 pm): he was kind of pissed that it took me so long
Birdie (10:34 pm): but there wasn't really all that much I could have done considering santa threw up holiday cheer all over the road which made the typically one hour drive to Boston and back last almost four hours
(10:35 pm): santa threw up holiday cheer all over the road that description literally just made my day
(10:35 pm): wait do you not live in Boston?
Birdie (10:35 pm): no but I live very close
(10:36 pm): What town?
Birdie (10:37 pm): That i believe is too much information to give to a stranger
(10:38 pm): Alright party pooper don't tell me
Birdie (10:38 pm): yeah you go sulk in the corner ya big baby
(10:39 pm): Oi! I take offence to that! I don't sulk
Birdie (10:39 pm): Sure sure
(10:40 pm): I feel like you're being sarcastic
Birdie (10:40 pm): maybe
(10:41 pm): Aaaarrghh all I wanted was to check up on your birds that's all I wanted. I feel so attacked right now
Birdie (10:43 pm): If you're so concerned about my chickens I can send you pics of them the verify that they are in fact ok
(10:43 pm): ARE YOU KIDDING ME HELL YES SHOW ME THE PRECIOUS
Birdie (10:44 pm): not now tho, It's almost midnight I can't show them to you now it's too dark
(10:44 pm): do u have a flashlight
Birdie (10:47 pm): Gil no go to bed
Sunday
(5:23 am): birds now?
Birdie (9:10 am): geez how early did you wake up?
(9:12 am): I didn't
Birdie (9:13 am): ._. I worry about you
(9:12 am): me too
Birdie (11:57 am): Random question. If you had to pick a cheese what cheese would pick
(12:00 pm): Pule
Birdie (12:04 pm): … I just googled that and I literally cannot pay for a single half a centimeter thick slice of pule. I was thinking more along the lines of swiss, provolone, or american. Things I can actually afford
(12:10 pm): it depends on why you want the cheese. Is it to make a sandwich? Is it to make pizza? Is it to make a cheese fondue? Is it that you hate your science teacher so much but you don't want to do anything too direct so in an act of passive aggressive anger you decide to study mold on different kinds of cheese as a science project just so you can watch in vindication as you Science teacher scrunches up their nose in disgust at even being within a fifteen foot radius of the atrocious horror of green and blue bacteria growing on that tupperware container
Birdie (12:13 pm): That was a very good guess and weirdly enough that was something I considered doing in 7th grade, but no, I'm making grilled cheese.
(12:14 pm): Holy crap really? I was just pulling things out of my ass. I never would have guessed you would do something like that you little rebel. I like that ;)
Birdie (12:16 pm): I didn't actually go through with it though, I just took it under consideration
(12:16 pm): Still, it's the thought that counts
Birdie (12:17 pm): so what cheese would you recommend for a grilled cheese sandwich?
(12:20 pm): Oh definitely the cheddar. Don't even look at the American cheese, it's basically made of inedible plastic
Birdie (12:20 pm): thx
(3:33 pm): I'M GONNA PET A CANADIAN GOOSE
Birdie (3:33 pm) : DON'T THEY'RE EVIL
(3:35 pm): FUCK IT ALMOST BIT MY HAND OFF
Birdie (3:35 pm): YA SEE WHAT I MEAN
(3:49 pm): btw why are there still canadian geese here. Shouldn't they be like migrating to california for the winter or something
Birdie (3:52 pm): global warming
(3:55 pm) goddamn global warming
Monday
Birdie (6:48 pm): Image Sent
Birdie: (6:49 pm): I'm home. I don't have work today. I've finished a good chunk of my homework. I am ready for a detailed discussion.
(6:58 pm): BIRDIES
(6:58 pm): Not you Birdie, but feathery birdies
(6:58 pm): BIIIIRDIIIIIIIIIIES
(6:58 pm): geez how many chickens do you have they're all so cute!
(6:59 pm): aaaawwww there are no lil babies :(
Birdie (7:02 pm): I thought you might like them :D There are ten hens and then there's the rooster that's perched on top of the chicken coop, and I raised every single one of them from the eggs. There are also no chicks running around because it is the middle of winter and the chicks don't come until spring
(7:05 pm): I knew that
Birdie (7:06 pm): Sure you did
Bridie (7:06 pm): Wanna know their names?
(7:07 pm): yes! A million times yes!
Birdie (7:10 pm) : ok in order from right to left is Manitoba, Alberta, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward, Ontario, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland (although we just call him Labrador), Quebec, and Saskatchewan
Birdie (7:11 pm): I know what you're thinking and yes I am aware that these are all Canadian provinces
(7:12 pm): I'm dieing
Birdie (7:12 pm): shut up
(7:13 pm): I just can't XD you must be like the ultimate patriotic canadian
(7:13 pm): UR CAPTAIN CANADA
Birdie (7:12 pm): I wish
(7:13 pm): lemme guess the rooster's name is The Canadian Empire
Birdie (7:13 pm): …
(7:13 pm): Wait it is?!
Birdie (7:14 pm): No, sadly it is not. Alfred said that he wanted to name one so the rooster's name is Ted
(7:14 pm): Ted? As in the Zodiac Killer?
Birdie (7:15 pm): I will have you know that we named him Ted a good year before the 2016 election started and we had no clue Ted Cruz was going to run much less become a meme
(7:16 pm): yeah sorry it's just now that every time I meet someone name Ted my brain automatically jumps to the Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer
(7:16 pm): XD it is awesome
Birdie (7:18 pm): yeah it kind of is. Especially considering Alfred also gave Ted the last name Cruise (in honor of Tom Cruise) and Cruise kind of sounds like Cruz
(7:18 pm): I AM DEAD
(7:19 pm): your brother's naming skills are on point
Birdie (7:20 pm): actually not really. Ted Cruise the rooster is the only halfway decent name Alfred's ever come up with and half of it ended up becoming an unrelated meme
Birdie (7:23 pm): He has a rock collection, and he has literally named every single rock in it after every state and territory in america
(7:27 pm): Holy shit
(7:27 pm): what is with you guys and naming things after states/provinces. Next thing you're going to be telling me is that you guys named all of the silverware after countries
Birdie (7:30 pm): hehehe no
Birdie (7:31 pm): It's just the rocks and chickens that have weird names
Birdie (7:31 pm): oh would you like to hear a story about Alfred's rocks?
(7:32 pm): I live for stories and yours are the best
Birdie (7:35 pm): Idk about the best, yours are more creative than anything I can come up with
(7:36 pm): they're creative because they're fantasies, yours apparently are real
(7:39 pm): at least that is what you've lead me to believe O.o who knows if you real exist
Birdie (7:41 pm): I'm pretty sure none of us know if we truly exist or are just stuck in a simulation
(7:41 pm): haha skeptical scenarios of those in Philosophy class and btw did I mention that I hate that class?
Birdie (7:42 pm): no, I am only just now hearing about Philosophy class
(7:44 pm): Ya well it sucks because there are too many questions that make my brain hurt and the professor is this old Greek woman who always talks super quietly and her son is also in my class and it's basically just them arguing with each other over the meaning of life
Birdie (7:43 pm): huh, I've never taken a class like that before
(7:45 pm): unless you're like super into Philosophy and stuff I wouldn't recommend being in that particular class. I'm sure other classes are good but it's just… my class.. Ya know?
Birdie (7:47 pm): why don't you drop out if you don't like it so much?
(7:51 pm): It's too late in the year to drop out (the semester is almost over anyway, just a couple more weeks, then midterms then hasta la vista school) plus I also kind of wanted to take Philosophy even though I ended up hating my classmates because I like writing and all of the best writers dump cool philosophy shit into their stories that make it a lot more interesting so I figured that it wouldn't hurt me.
(7:52 pm): I guess even the topics are kind of cool too if the prof didn't keep twisting our heads around to the point where more than half the class has had an identity crisis at least twice
(7:54 pm): damn it I am so sorry I dragged us waaaaay off topic that kind of happens to me sometimes. But forget that, you were going to tell a story about the many rocks of Alfred?
Birdie (7:56 pm): oh hehehe yeah I kind of forgot about that. It's funny how this conversations started about chickens and we ended up talking about philosophy… Right back to the story.
Birdie (7:59: So anyway my brother has that whole collection of rocks that are each named after a state in the US but at one point last fall he was missing an Alaska. Alfred's really picky about what rock gets to be in his collection. Like for example each rock has to come from the state after which it will be named after and it has to be pocket sized. Alfred's never been to Alaska and doesn't know anyone who has. He's been to practically every state because he always goes with dad when he goes to business conferences, but he has not once been anywhere north of Vancouver.
Birdie (8:06 pm): Then our neighbor Ivan went to Alaska for spring break last year and brought home a rock that was the perfect size for Alfred's collection. But things between Alfred and Ivan had been a little frosty last year because of a fight over a christmas sweater? I'm not really sure. It was a really weird time to live in the neighborhood. The point is that Ivan refused to give the rock to Alfred because and I quote "It's so much more fun to see you suffer"
Birdie (8:08 pm): Alfred was very pissed that the guy he didn't like was the one lording an Alaskan rock over his head
(8:10 pm): haha sounds like something my jerk ass roommate would do
Birdie (8:11 pm): it gets better
Birdie (8:13 pm): the day after school ended for summer break, Alfred finally snapped and broke into Ivan's house and stole the rock. There wasn't enough evidence to prove that Alfred did it but Ivan knows and he is pissed and he can't do anything about it
(8:15 pm): DUDE THAT'S AWESOME
Birdie (8:16 pm): o_o it's also illegal
(8:17 pm): Still doesn't detract from the awesomeness of the revenge plot
(8:19 pm): crap I had to go meet my friends at a fast food place like five minutes ago gtg
Birdie (8:20 pm): alright, see ya
Author's Note:
Chapter 2 is DONE! YAAAAAAY! So now Gilbert and Matthew are feeling a liiiittle more comfortable with each other and they're exchanging more information. And I even managed to sneak in a Ted Cruz in the Zodiac killer reference even thought that meme is super old now it still pops up in my life from time to time… God this election cycle has been the worst… 2016 has been the worst…
Did you guys see the 2016 youtube rewind this year? I have to say that I was mildly disappointed in it. I didn't get half of the references which kind of took the fun out of it. Last year and the year before I was super good with that but this year it's like I haven't been on youtube at all to get any of the references. But I didn't like the 2015 rewind video on the first watch either but the more I watched it the more I liked it so who knows maybe this one will grow on me too.
Back to the story, when I wrote the bulk of this chapter Gilbert's philosophy class mirrored my own. There's this one group of students who always answer the questions and have debates with the teacher while the rest of us just kind of sit quietly in our seats and listen in. It kind of frustrated a lot of people (not me though because I'm not really a talker in the first place) but it's gotten better, they're including more and more people in the convos.
Speaking of philosophy I really should be studying for the test right now :/
Thanks so much to everyone who reviewed, favorited, followed, or even read my story. It means so much to me to see that people are enjoying my first prucan story with prussia and canada actually showing up in the fanfic. I may not have responded to every review but I have read all of them and they've warmed my heart. Thank you! ^.^
Snowy-Maplette