Early Bird Entery

Early Birds

"Clairesse, get over here! It is time...."

I groaned, looking up at Victoria, my over-eager sister. "Time for what?"

Victoria blinked sharply, as if surprised by my question. "The early bird sale at Hawthorne's, of course!"

"Vicky, it is four in the morning--"

"That's when they open! Duh!"

I rolled over, stretched, and sat up. I didn't particularly want to go to Hawthorne's at this hour, but if I knew my sister, I wasn't getting out of it. I fingercombed my hair, threw on some jeans under my night shift, and stood, ready to leave.

"You're wearing that?" she asked, raising a skeptical eyebrow.

"Well, yeah, it's four in the morning nobody cares."

"Fine, whatever."

With a supremely practiced roll of her eyes, my sister pranced out of the house, a bunny-slippered me in tow.

A few hours later, just as the sun was coming o'er the horizon, Victoria and I were checking out of the shop, multi-colored birds following us all the way.

"So we didn't have to wake up early after all", I moaned, a parrot nesting in my hair.

"Yes, but we did get all those worms for free!"

(194 words)

Written by:
Jewell A Pentagram