Two Pandas
dark heroFor the following week, Segu visited every day and they kept playing as heroes, cops, and firefighters with Nezu.
Every time they reached a problem that no normal kid would ever reach, most of the time, it was Segu that reached the solution. For some reason, Nezu seemed slow and lacking in creativity. They were just too smart for their own good and found problems in their own play that even adults would not think of.
Of course, even if he wanted to focus on their “interesting” problems fully he couldn´t because ‘uncle’ would keep trying to approach him the same way Nezu did on the first day, resulting in him having to always be on the watch. If it was just this it would be fine, the problem was Steve would also from time to time, grab from a bag, balls of various shapes and sizes, from football, and basketballs to tennis balls and even marble balls, and throw them at Nezu in various angles to test his perception and reflexes.
He didn’t get disappointed Nezu pretty much dodged everything. One day when the 2 kids were playing detectives and thieves, and Nezu was looking with very attention to Segu looking for clues, he forgot to pay attention to Steve and got hit in his left eye by a baseball making him fly from where he was like he was a feather. “Hey, kid are you fine? I didn’t expect you not to dodge the ball you can even dodge marble balls how can you be hit by such a slow baseball”.
“Yes, I’m fine just a little dizzy”
“My bad, sorry kid I will leave you alone tomorrow”.
“Just tomorrow? Come one give me a break uncle”’ said Nezu in a disappointed voice.
The next day when Segu arrived her first reaction was to cover her mouth, but you could see her beautiful pink cheeks twitching and hear her snickering. Eventually, she could no longer hold her laughter and rolled on the floor laughing out loud.
“Haha, my tummy hurts… so funny, it´s been a while since I laughed so much”, said Segu while stuttering trying to talk and laughing at the same time.
“Are you done? Do you think this is funny”, pointing at his left eye, which had a big black mark around it.
Segu tried to stop her laugh., “Yes, very funny you look like a skinny panda with that eye”
Nezu walked to his box and grabbed a black marker “I will show you who the panda is… haha” said Nezu malevolently.
Segu hesitantly asked “You?!? What are you going to do with that?”, in reality, she already knew what he was going to do, but she still asked clinging to the last hope that she was wrong.
“Who? Me? Nothing” ironically said Nezu while throwing a blanket to Segu back.
“‘I’m just trying to give this skinny panda a sister for him to play”.
“Rawr!” Nezu roared and pounced on Segu like a cheetah on her pray.
Nezu made Segu fall onto the blanket while trying to draw a black eye around her right eye. Of course, he could only do it because Segu allowed him to, otherwise, given how physically weak both of them were, they would’ve ended up at a stalemate.
“Done, now there are 2 pandas in the room”.
Segu grabbed him by his hand dragging him to the mirror, where she saw a badly drawn circle around her right eye, Segu and Nezu side by side looking at the mirror started laughing together engraving this funny moment in their memory.
“Uncle, take a photo of us” pleaded Segu.
Even the usually calm and motionless Steve gave a short laugh watching this scene. While grabbing the smartphone and took the photo. “Say bamboo”
“Bamboo”, said the two children, Segu gave a heartful smile but Nezu although he tried the only thing he could do was make a strange expression with his mouth.
Photo of Nezu and Segu
People who didn’t know these two would believe that expression was made on purpose to make the photo funnier, but the fact is that he was not able to smile even if he wanted to.
Steve took the photo and shown to them, Segu once again started laughing, and Nezu felt awkward looking at the strange face he was making in the photo.
Steve didn’t send the photo to his BOSS since previously he asked not to be disturbed.
Somewhere far away in CITYZ a lady wearing a business suit that fitted her like a glove, wearing glasses, with a perfectly combed hair that finished in a wild ponytail, was on her lunch break.
Suddenly, she received Steve’s message. She opened it and, like her daughter, gave a joyous smile that no one noticed.
‘I’ve never even seen her so happy’, thought the lady, while switching her smartphone wallpaper to the photo received and taking a decision that would change the destiny of the 2 children forever.
No one could have predicted the impact this decision would have. She would only understand it many, many years later, in the future.
She wrote a short reply to Steve “Thank you, I loved it”.
Segu grabbed some markers randomly “Do you this is over?”.
“Why? What do you want to do?”
“It’s time for revenge”.
Nezu felt the Grim Reaper behind him and started trying to escape, only to notice a giant wall, named Steve, blocking his way.
“Haha kid, accept your fate”
“Never!”
Nezu grabbed the remaining markers and ran to Segu. Neither wanted to be scratched, so they started a sword fight… or should we call it a marker fight?
“Marker lines started appearing on both of them, on their cheeks, chins, and clothes. If you inspected their bodies, there would be more painted areas than clean ones. They looked like two canvas paintings that had been thrown into buckets of paint.”
Because they were both frail they eventually got tired and laid down on the floor with their arms and legs spread, while laughing nonstop, and yes, even Nezu was able to laugh.
“This was such a strange and happy day,” said with a grin.
Segu looked at Nezu’s rainbow face. “Yes, I had so much fun”.
“Tomorrow I’m gonna bring some grow-up games with me”.
“Grow up games?”
“Yes, games like chess and checkers, games that make you use your mind.”
“Nice! I never played those” said Nezu excitedly.
“Segu we have to go it’s getting late, bye kid, cya tomorrow”
“Ok, let me just say goodbye to Nezu”
Segu walked slowly toward Nezu, playing with her hair between her fingers.
She kissed Nezu on the cheek and said “Goodbye Nezu, see you tomorrow. Try not to dream of rainbow pandas”.
“Nezu replied jokingly, ‘Don’t worry, I’ll only dream of a red-headed demoness.’”
“Haha” laughed Segu in an ironic way.
“Bye”
“Bye”
Steve and Segu left leaving Nezu thinking of everything that happened that day.
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