I can see them all dancing around that place, with their Blues and Reds flashing, flashing, flashing. I can see them snooping through my things. My toys. My beautiful broken toys. How their colors had splish and splashed across the white. How the drip, drip, dripping had made me smile. I wanted to play more, but He had said no. He'd told me I needed to leave. I needed to abandon my beautiful scattered dolls. I had hesitated.
"Don't do that!" He'd yelled at me.
"Can't I keep one?" I'd asked.
"Just one. But hurry, they are swimming here awfully fast." He'd said.
That had been before, you see. Before those Blues and Reds. I had smiled wide, then I picked up my tool, and I started walking toward one of my toys. It had funny clear liquid pouring from it's cloudy eyes. It backed away from me. What did it think it was doing? It couldn't get away. I used my tool on it. It stopped backing away. I picked my toy off of it. He promised I could come back for more later, if any were left. After the stupid Blues and Reds. I didn't think there would be. The squishy pieces were so funny, it made me giggle. The dark colors that dripped were so pretty. I reached out and let it flow down into the palm of my hand. It felt thick. I wanted to play in it.
"No!" He yelled at me.
I wanted to go hide in my closet. I didn't like when He yelled. It made me feel afraid. But, He told me I would be okay. He said He was sorry for frightening me, but we needed to go and go now. So I pulled my toy into my hands, and left. It took a second longer then I meant to too leave, the backdoor doorknob was hard to turn with wet fingers. I wiped my hands on my clothes, then yanked the door open. I could smell the fish from the neighborhood. Those small fishes were out and about. I needed to be quick and run. They would never catch me. He told me so.
I hid in the trees and could smell the stink of the fresh fish from above. They wouldn't find me here. They'd passed by me so many times. But I could see them through the cracks in the leaves. They were touching my toys! I WANTED MY TOYS!
He yelled at me again. "DON'T MOVE!"
I stayed still. The Blues and Reds couldn't see me. They were too dumb to see me. To stupid to look up into the trees. I smiled wider. Of course they were stupid. They were all just a bunch of no good toys, going unused and ignored. Not for long. I would play with them. I would play with them all. I smelled the air. There was a sweet sent coming from deeper in the trees. He told me to wait just a little longer. So I waited.
I could smell when they were gone. I could smell when the fish went away too. Smelly nasty fish.
"I want to play." I whimpered.
"Smell. Don't you smell them?" He said. "They are around you. Go! Go! Go! You know where it is, you know where your toys are."
I jumped from the tree. I almost dropped my old toy. It would be my favorite for forever. I liked the feel of it under my fingertips. I rubbed it against my face. I could smell the sweetness. With the breeze I could smell more. I looked around me. Which way did it come from? I turned around smelling the air.
"That way." He said.
I smiled and laughed and skipped around. He told me to shut up or the fish would hear. I immediately stopped. He was right. I didn't want to be surrounded by the nasty fish. I followed the smell. I took my toy and flattened it onto my face, like a mask. I didn't want to lose it. It would stick there for now. I'd need to fix it later. I smiled and skipped.
"No skipping. Stop being so happy. You'll scare your new toys!" He yelled at me.
I stopped. I didn't feel to hurt. He knew what to do, He had all the smarts. I was so excited. I started singing to Him. It soothed Him when I sang. He was happy. So was I.
It was time to go play with my new toys.