This is a true story. In April, a downpour was falling and Kolter, all day long, was sitting on his couch watching it. As always Kolter was spending hours doing nothing at all, that is one of his specialties. He was so concentrated looking outside, that he didn’t notice when his friend George came into the living room. Kolter was shunning George because he was trying to escape from the monthly conversation about the chores around the house. Kolter had succeeded for 3 months in a row. He was so proud of himself, because to trick George was something very hard to do, and Kolter was doing it very well. Using all kinds of excuses he was avoiding that conversation. But sat on the couch Kolter was an easy prey. And George didn’t need to create any special situation to make Kolter listen to him. Because when George gets mad he shows his full wrath in a creative way to leave a mark in someone.
It’s unusual for George to be angry with someone but living with Kolter it is a daily thing. George always forgives Kolter’s faults because Kolter always comes up with some weird explanation for his actions. I think it was just one time when Kolter couldn’t explain himself. It was the day that George discovered how Kolter was doing the dishes. George knew that when Kolter did the dishes, he always could leave them filthier than before. But unexpectedly the dishes started to be really clean for the first time. They were shiny and so was the kitchen. It was unbelievable how Kolter did it. “It was a miracle?” thought George. He asked Kolter how he did it, and Kolter said that he always did a good job, but only now George had paid attention to it. George really wanted to trust in Kolter but his nature wouldn’t let him. He only knew Kolter for a short period of time but it was enough to know that something didn’t smell right.
One day George was hiding in the kitchen to see how Kolter was doing that miracle. George waited all day and nothing happened, but then George got tired and fell a sleep. When he woke up he had the worst nightmare ever. The kitchen was full of cats. George counted at least fifteen of them. They were licking every single spot of the kitchen including inside of the cabinets. It was gross for George to see those cats licking all the dishes. The cats were using their powerful tongues that worked as sandpaper, to take away all the duty off the plates and saucepans. “Gross! Gross! Gross!” thought George. Then it quickly came up to George’s mind that since the dishes had became to be “really clean” Kolter had started to use paper plates and only plastic cutlery. And Kolter just had eaten food that came from closed bags or from the refrigerator. After those big and scary creatures left the house George went to have a word with mister-clean.
After George said everything that Kolter needed to hear, he asked the question that was killing him inside: how did Kolter get all those felines work for him? Kolter froze for one second but then he decided no longer to be untruthful. Kolter said that he promised to feed his helpers and again he begged for George’s forgiveness. George looked into Kolter’s eyes and saw that he was being sincere. George went to bed very disappointed, but it wasn’t with Kolter who seemed to be a big kid with a marvelous heart. For Kolter, it would be impossible to do anything intentionally to hurt anyone. George was very disappointed with his family. Three weeks ago he was to have his birthday party. George had invited all his 613 closest relatives. But for some reason, not a single soul showed up at the party. George had the worst party of his entire life, especially sense he wanted to introduce Kolter to his family as his brother. George tried to find out what happened to his family, but he didn’t succeed. It seems like they had evaporated from Earth. Kolter gave George his support, this way one more reason for George to forget that disgusting thing with those cats.
After Kolter was sure that George was deeply sleeping, he went out to the alley next to the central bus station. Kolter was carrying some flowers, plastic ones, not because they are cheaper than live flowers, but because he found them on his away to the alley. Kolter kneeled down and he left the plastic flowers on the ground and said, “I promise I’ll take care of George. I’ll protect him with my own life!” Kolter yelled, “I’m so sorry! I gave my word and I must to keep it”. The lies began again. Perhaps Kolter had thought that there is some one watching, but soon he realized that there isn’t any audience there. He quickly stopped with his sorry speech. Kolter went down to the alley and grabbed a giant cloth bag. Kolter put it in his trunk and drove to a park on the opposite side of the city. There were dozen of cats ready to a party on that park. They were so excited to see Kolter. When the cats saw that huge bag they started to drool. They couldn’t wait to put their claws on the cheese lovers inside the bag. What happened there was a slaughter. There were no survivors. Next morning the news came up with the headline about the barbarity that happened in that park, there were dozens of cats that were torn to shred by some dogs that had escaped from a kennel. The weird thing was that those dogs escaped from a kennel on the other side of the city, and it seemed that they had some kind of help getting to that particular park. Kolter opened his giant cloth bag and took out George’s present. He put George’s present in chronological order in the living room. He was finishing up getting everything ready for George’s unforgettable birthday party. When George woke up and saw all his family. All the 613 members were there, in his living room.
All of them were dead, but it didn’t matter to George because he was happy to see them again. Kolter came clean, he told everything, and once more asked for forgiveness. Kolter was so desperate to have George’s approval that he wasn’t thinking of the consequences of his actions. George truly forgave Kolter, especially when Kolter came up with an idea that would forever bring George’s family more closely together than ever. Kolter said to George that they could use taxidermy on all his family in this way. He would always have his precious family close at hand, literally! Living side by side with Kolter really had changed George a lot because he promptly agreed and said, “That sounds good to me!” The following days were full of work and entertainment for both Kolter and George. After George respectfully stuffed his parents and grandparents, they started to play with all his family. First they took all the 603 rodents apart. After that they put the pieces in different boxes and as in a big puzzle they started to create new members of George’s family. Then they dressed them and finally they named them. They had a lot of much fun with those rodents, and when they finally finished, George was so touched by Kolter’s action that he said from the bottom of his heart, “Kolter, you gave me the best present ever. You brought all my family to live with me. Thank you so much! I wonder if one day I could ever do the same for you.”
P.S. Some of the stuffed rodents were so well made that they sold them as toys on Ebay.
Eliane
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