We were sitting by the lake.
“I am cold,” cow said.
“Pig,” duck called, “go to your house and take a sweater for cow.”
“No,” I said.
“You are lazy,” duck said.
“Right. Pig, you are lazy,” twin piggies said.
“Yes, I am,” I said with a smile. “If you are not lazy, go take it.”
“Piggy, there is a crow perching on a branch of a tree in front of your house. Aren't you afraid of it?” Cow, duck and twin piggies asked me.
“No,” I said.
They narrowed their eyes, “Why not?”
“Because I can see that she is a crow and she doesn't hide herself as a crow,” I said with a smile.
When the sun set, while I was sleeping in my bed, there was a door knock.
“Grandma, is that you?” I asked.
“Yes dear. It's me, your grandma. Open the door,” the outsider said.
“I won't,” I said. “Because I don't have a grandma.”
I heard an angry voice of the wolf, then I heard it going back to the forest.
“I have good intentions, that's why I came to tell you that duck talked about you behind your back,” cow said, then left.
Later on…
“I have good intentions, that's why I came to tell you that twin piggies talked about you behind your back,” duck said, then left.
Later on…
“We have good intentions, that's why we came to tell you that cow talked about you behind your back,” twin piggies said, then they left.
“Hmmm…,” I took a long breath. ‘All of you make me feel I am a person with bad intentions.’ I spoke in my mind. ‘Because all of you told me who talks behind my back, but I never tell that each of you talk behind each other to me.’
Today, cow, duck and twin pigs came to my house. They wanted to check because they didn’t hear or see I, Robert and crow for many weeks. At ...
