Once Upon A Time. Cont'd...

Inside the Strange Sweet Shop.

The strange sweet shop was the messiest neatest little sweet shop one could ever find. It had rows of shelves that held strange-looking multicoloured glass jars with even stranger labels on them. Her eyes glazed over the words on each glass jar briefly, till they rested on the smallest glass jar. It read “2 cents. EVERYTHING”.

Blink reached into her skirt pocket and felt the tiny circular metal bits with her fingers. She pulled out 2 cents worth, and reached out with her other hand and picked up the EVERYTHING glass jar. The shopkeeper was nowhere to be found. So Blink quietly left her coins where the jar used to be, and because I love puns, she was gone in a blink of an eye.

EVERYTHING.

Blink was late for school so she decided to walk to the playground that day with EVERYTHING in her hands. Once she found a suitable swing that held her little bum comfortably, Blink opened the EVERYTHING jar of sweets and popped the first one in her mouth. She sat there swinging slowly, looking up at the sunny blue sky.

The flavour of the little sweet that rolled around in her mouth soon began to spread all over her tongue. A strange sensation started tingling her tongue. It travelled down her throat into her stomach as she swallowed her flavoured saliva. The feeling began to grow from within her and welled up inside her. Blink began to blink her eyes at a very fast rate in sheer bewilderment. What is going on? She thought. Her swinging became faster and she went higher, kicking the ground with a force that grew harder with every swing. The corners of her lips suddenly broke into two points of a curve and she found herself throwing her head back, mouth open, eyes alive, cheeks plumped. Laughing.

She laughed and laughed and laughed, to clouds and to sky above her. Her heart began to dance and twirl, and the blood in her veins rushed with an energy that one would have while skipping around. Never before had she ever felt this something from within her. And she liked it. She laughed till her air ran out of its laughing capacity, and then she calmed down in bundles of giggles that were hard to suppress all at once.

“That was fun,” thought Blink to herself. She hopped the seat of her swing, popping another little sweet into her mouth. This time…