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** Cuffed And Stuffed **
*** Fire
Thingies ***
by Bobby Mac
part 6 of 14 (fire
thingies)
The crook glared at Nan and she gave him the
look, so he sat down quietly on
a chair holding the towel to
his face. After a while he put his head up and
looked at his
partner, "I don't like this Rubin, she's got this look our
mum
gets when she catches us out on something, I don't like
it".
"Oh, shut up", said Rubin, "have I
ever let you down". Before Mooshat could
answer Nan said,
"there's always a first time, I feel sorry for your
mother,
I'm sure she didn't raise you to hold up supermarkets,
did she ?".
"Never you mind shouted Rubin, "about
our mum, is our food ready yet ?".
Everything was quiet
for the next quarter of an hour while the pair stuffed
their
faces. Rubin leaned back in his chair and pulled out a pack of
cigarettes.
"No smoking in here", said
granddad.
"That was before now" laughed
Rubin.
"Here", said Nan " have a light",
and before Rubin could reply, she was waving a
large burning
piece of paper in front of his face. "Hey!!, steady on",
shouted
Rubin grabbing the paper, " you could set the on
house fire".
"I doubt it", said Nan as she
walked away, "we have those fire thingies", pointing
to
the ceiling. "What ?", questioned Rubin, as looked up to
where she was pointing.
Just as he looked up water poured down
on him from the fire sprinkler.
"Those things", said
Nan.
"Grrr, grrr, grrr, grrr" growled Rubin, "I'm
soaked!!".
"I'll get you some dry clothes", said
Nan, getting up from her chair.
"You!!, stay put",
shouted Rubin, "Mooshat", he ordered, "go look
around and see
what you can find". Mooshat still holding
his sore nose, reluctantly left through
the swing doors that
Nan had gone through earlier, to find himself in a large
hallway.
There was an old fashioned wardrobe, the kind with a large mirror
on the
door and as Mooshat walked into the hall, the wardrobe
door opened, making him jump.
He carefully approached the
wardrobe and peered in, it was empty, so he quickly shut
the
door and turned the key.
*****
Copyright: Bobby
Mac, October 2003
Published: www.tardemstudios.co.nz - 28nd.
February 2004
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