Post by Ellie on Feb 19, 2006 8:00:07 GMT -5
And I’ll dream…
For it is the curse. Something that shall haunt us forever. The Leprechauns curse. Being bored one day while I was at my friend’s house, Michelle and I suddenly had a great idea. “Leprechauns are cool.” I told her. After a few moments of trying to work out what I was talking about, she finally spoke. “Hunting?” she asked. I grinned and nodded. “I’ll ask my brother and his friend to come,” she said and ran into the computer room screaming. “Anthony, Reece we’re going leprechaun hunting, wanna come?”
Michelle’s parents were at the pub, leaving their two eldest children and their friends alone. Well, we did some pretty crazy things that night. Er all quickly got ready, made a sign, but none of us knew how to spell leprechaun. Anthony L-E-P-R-E-C-O-R-N and soon found out the proper spelling. The brother and sister, Michelle and Anthony, did pretty much all the work while Reece and I talked and struggled to keep on our feet.
Once we had finished we walked up to the park making A LOT of noise. After an hour hunting through the grass and holding up the sign, ‘have you seen the leprechauns?’ at every car that went by, mind you there were only about half a dozen if that, that went past. By this time Reece had to go home and we went up to the corner, or intersection if you will. Mind you, there aren’t a lot of cars out at 10pm you know. We again, help up the sign at every passing car that wasn’t doing 100kmp, and looked through the grass. To entertain ourselves we started chanting a song that really gets on Michelle’s nerves.
This is the song that never ends,
It just goes on and on my friends.
Some people started singing it,
Not knowing what it was,
And know they keep on singing it,
Forever just because,
This is the song that never ends….
A million green bottles,
Sitting on the wall.
And if one green bottle
Should accidentally fall,
There’d be nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine green bottles,
Sitting on the wall.
At one stage Michelle, or I, I forget who, I think it may have been me, thought we saw what we were looking for and called for the others. Well, that sure caused a commotion. Everyone came running, tripping over everything. Michelle went running into the bush after it calling “Come back, we won’t hurt you.” and, “We just want your luck.” I sighed and walked after her and was almost on the ground laughing when I saw Michelle. She was lying on the ground with her legs tangled in a bush screaming “RAPE, MURDER,” and “ADULT, I NEED AN ADULT.” I think she may have gotten that off Family Guy. I don’t know. I was so funny. Well, this is how we normally act. We weren’t just like that because of the full moon. Bad things happen on full moons. Like the time my cat attacked me and I fell off the… wait, that’s another story. Sorry. Well, after that, we walked back to the road and again held up the sign. Just for a bit of entertainment, Anthony portended to have a fit, which was rather funny event though it may not sound it.
Well, as you may have guess, we didn’t catch a leprechaun, and the more I think of it, I think it may have been a rabbit or something along those lines that we saw. Fancy chasing a rabbit into the bush thinking its something that’s only found in Ireland. Well, we weren’t too happy. After almost getting hit by speeding cars, running 3km away from the road and Michelle’s house because a taxi went by and we thought it was a police car, we headed back to her house. Somewhere because the taxi thing Anthony left. I’m not sure when. We got to the park okay but then Anthony and Reece jumped out from behind a fence swinging a chain above their heads and screaming. Well, that totally freaked me out and I just ran 100m until I tripped and fell and lay on the ground laughing. The others ran over and thought I was crying. I was really only rolling around laughing. No one had a touch so they couldn’t tell what was going on. Anthony and Reece disappeared again and we walked off a different way.
We were almost back at Michelle’s when I got bored of walking on the path and started walking through some flowers. About 50m along I slid down a hill and my ankle went in a hole. There was a crack sound and I was lying on the ground. Like so often I have done in the past, I had hurt myself, but this time I’d broken my ankle. Michelle walked over to me laughing and helped me up but the moment I tried to walk I was back on the ground again. Michelle helped me up and I hopped back to the house and finally got to her room. Michelle ran off still laughing and got a bag of peas. She through them at me and said something that didn’t sound English but the you could tell she wanted me to put them on my ankle so that’s what I did.
For the next hour we watched TV and Michelle ate some of the frozen peas, which she found she didn’t like then we started throwing them at each other until we got bored and Michelle started eating them again. Michelle’s mum laughed when she heard what I did, but as you could guess, we didn’t exactly tell her what happened. More or less whatever can to mind at that moment. Her dad thought we were crazy, but he always thought that. My mum was rather shock, my Nanna asked why I keep hurting myself, and my sister didn’t say anything. She was the only one I told what really happened and she thought it was rather funny. Michelle has been saying that it’s the leprechauns curse and has never once let me for get it.
One of my many quotes as I’m sure you can guess is “And I’ll dream.” That sits up there along with my other favorites, “I am the big, tall, evil guy with the huge, bloody sword.” “We shall be forever free.” And “Fight for freedom.” My newest quote is “And an angel was born…” but that’s trivial. I think that’s what it is anyway. Well, this is just one page of the, oh so exiting book that I am slowly getting around to filling. Everything we seem to do someone ends up getting hurt, hmm… I guess that’s just life for you.
By Mandi Hamilton 19/2/06
