Cucumber

Jamie was a fresh cucumber fresh from the pick. He was bought and stayed in a large refrigerator at a very large home; it was a foster home to be exact, it had very many smells and sounds. When Jamie first got there two hours ago he met a very old tomato named Jerry, who took him under his wing and made him his servant. Jerry was about a month old but he never said how old he was.

“Hey Jamie, come and change my underwear and get me my water so I don’t dry  out and get me Harry so I can tell him he’s fat and get my son Koobie.” Jerry said in his wispy and annoying voice.

“Okay but you don’t wear any underwear, nor do you have a son. You’re a tomato; the only way you could have a son is if the farmer cut you open and planted the se-“

“No no no no. I am a special tomato and can have sons if I wanted to.” Interrupted Jerry “Now just get me Koobie, and Harry”

Jamie nodded and headed off for Koobie and Harry. Koobie was easy to find, he was hanging out with the carrots.”Yo Koobie Jamie said to him “Jerry wants you”

“Aww man” Koobie replied “I don’t wanna go. He always says that I’m too old to be a cucumber” Koobie was a Cucumber just like Jamie and was about a hour older.

“We also have to get Harry”

“Why?” asked Koobie

“Because Jerry wants to call him fat, maybe slap him a few times too”

“K” So they headed off to find Harry. He ended up being in the lower shelf having a party with the Orange gang. Harry was in that gang, almost all oranges were. Their main purpose was to beat the living juices out of over ripe fruit

“Hey Harry, Jerry wants you” Jamie said.

“Why should I care?” Harry asked

“Just come or Jerry will come down and beat the poop out of all of you” Koobie said.

“Because you know he could” Jamie said to Harry.

“Fine” And then they all headed up to where Jerry was.

When they got up there Jerry screamed “You are all late I should beat you silly until you all turn orange oh wait Harry is already orange so I should beat you until you are all red and then I’ll eat you then-“ At that time the door to the refrigerator opened, and at the same exact time Jerry passed out and rolled around. He then rolled out of the refrigerator.

“No, not Jerry!” screamed Jamie.

“Who cares” Harry said.

“I think we should go rescue him”

“I’m with Jamie” said Koobie

“Fine, I’m going back to the party” Harry said

“Okay, no one cares Harry” Koobie said

“I’m jumping off to go get him” said Jamie

“I guess I am too then” Koobie said

So then they both jumped, it was a long drop, but not a long enough to kill drop to kill them. It takes a very long drop to get a cucumber to go splat. They both blacked out.

Jamie got up and waddled around. He could hear kids running off in the distance. He then realized that he was on a counter the whole kitchen away from where the fridge is. Where is Koobie. Jamie thought. Then he heard the screams that sounded like Koobie.

Oh my God, Koobie is screaming his high-pitched scream. It sounds like it is coming from the pot over there on that black counter a slight way away from me. He ran towards the screams of pain. He then touched the black that he could now tell was glowing red a bit. He screamed also and jumped off. It was tremendously hot. There was a roll of paper towels above him.

He grabbed them and wet them with the sink and rolled them over the blistering black surface. He then walked over the paper towels. “Koobie, jump over to me”

“Where are you? I can’t see you.”

“Just pursue my voice” so Koobie jumped over the edge. Apparently his hearing was not the best-he jumped on the opposite side.  Koobie screamed from the heat.

“Where are you?” Koobie shouted.

“Over here on the other side”

“Aww man” Koobie then (very painfully) walked towards Jamie. When they were both back onto the counter Jamie realized that the bottom half of Koobie had turned brown.

“How did that happen?” Jamie said

“What?” Koobie asked

“That” Jamie pointed to the lower half of Koobie’s body.

“Oh my God! What happened to me?”

“Why would I ask you if I knew what happened?”

“I don’t know, maybe to make fun of me.”

“Would I really do that?”

“Yes” Koobie replied.

“Whatever. Let’s just go down to find Jerry” They finally decided to observe their surroundings. They were in a large kitchen with an assortment of knives scattered all around. There was a door to their right and the fridge was over in the left corner. Vases-some broken-were all over the place. There was a sliding door to cupboard on the other side of the room in, and there was an island front of them. “I think that we should go back in front of the fridge to where we landed. So they walked over to where the fridge was.

“Whoa look at this blood!” exclaimed Koobie

“That’s not blood, that’s just tomato juice.” Jamie replied “Probably Jerry’s”

“I think it tastes good” Koobie said after licking some of the juice.

“Gross, you cannibal”

“It’s not considered cannibalism unless it’s cucumber juice”

“Whatever. I think we should follow it.”

“K”

Koobie said

“I thought I saw a flashlight lying under the fridge earlier.”

“Okay let’s go”

They ran outside and almost fell off the edge of the counter. “Whoa!” Koobie shouted. “You almost made us black out. AGAIN!”

“Sorry, let’s just climb down” So they did, and walked over to the fridge where they then laid down on their front side and looked under the fridge.

“Now how do you suppose we get under there?” Koobie asked, frustrated. Because it was obvious they couldn’t get under the fridge.

“Well now that that is out of the question we could try to find some matches” Jamie replied

“Now where in the world are we gonna find matches” Getting even more frustrated, that his face was turning red. “It’s not like there is a tree that grows matches and plops them right in front of vegetables when they need them! For God’s sake Jamie, we’re gonna die out here, gonna go rotten or the humans are gonna find us and make us a pickle-“He paused to take a breath “-which I heard is very painful. Drowning us in vinegar and making us tastier. I’ve already gone half brown, which wasn’t a fun experience. I don’t know why I came with you here. I don’t know why you came down to have us die just for Jerry.

“I hated him. And I hope he’s happy when we rescue him.  I don’t know if it is really rescuing though because he might already dead or when we do find him how are we supposed to get into the fridge. I don’t know what the point of living is either because then the humans will just eat us. What’s the point Jamie?” Tears started welling up in Koobie’s eyes” Why” his voice cracked “What is the point?.”

“We could break out” Jamie said “And actually have a life, but that is after we find Jerry. He was like family to us” Jamie sighed “Let’s just go find him, with those matches over there on the counter.”

“Oh” Koobie replied.

The matches ended up being a little hard to get to because they were on top of the island which was completely smooth on the sides “We’re gonna need something to help us up” Koobie declared

“No duh” They sat and though for awhile, Jamie was pacing to think, then he said “I heard a cat earlier. We could ride that up to the top”

“Now how do you suppose that we are to get a cat to ride?”

“We take a rope and tie it around its neck and then we can control it”

“That might work but how are we supposed to get a rope?”

“There is one right behind you Koobie”

“O, I knew that”

Ropes are quite heavy to two cucumbers. They were moaning and groaning before they had walked four feet. “Maybe we should try pushing it instead of carrying it” Jamie said. So that they did, it was a lot easier to push but was still hard. They got to the door and luckily it wasn’t too close to the ground so that they and the rope could fit under the door. They had a boatload of luck because the cat was waiting for them. They hopped onto its back. The cat, whose name was-according to the nametag-Rory, gave little fight so in no time at all were the friends in the kitchen about to hop onto the island. at that moment Koobie got scared “ Um, I don’t really feel like going up. You can go without me”

“Okay.”

“Okay, that’s it. You don’t care that I’m scared, nothing but okay!”

“I was just saying okay”

“Just go” And with that Rory jumped onto the counter and brought them both up onto the island. “I said I didn’t want to go!” Koobie screamed.

“Well, you never jumped off”

“Uhh, fine.”

 Afterwards they rode the cat down and to the cupboard with the matches. Koobie then lit one “Ahhhhhh!” Koobie screamed a horrifying scream that pierced Jamie’s ears. “The match burnt me… Oh” The whole place started on fire. Koobie managed to drop the match in the process.

“You piece of crap” Jamie said

“At least we can see heh heh” Koobie said with a weak grin.

“Hey I was trying to sleep!” said a familiar voice

“Jerry!” Jamie shouted excited.

“Big whoop now let’s go” Koobie said.

Soon later the three of them were out of the burning cupboard. But they got burnt on the way trying to find Jerry while dodging falling pieces of rubble. There was a loud fire alarm going on that was frightening the cat. So they all hopped onto Rory’s back and leapt out the cat door, and over the fence behind the foster home. Then Jerry said “Now who is going to change my underwear” and the two boys beat him to a pulp.

“That was why we rescued him” said Jamie. At that moment a farmer came up behind them and picked them up.

“Oh, lookie these, they’ll have lots of seeds to plant” So he took out his Army grade knife and chopped up the two vegetables then and there. He didn’t do it slowly either. He then took out the seeds and planted them.

But at least they will have kids!