Laughing Lemons by the Lake
He was running. He didn’t know what he was running from, but the sound of its laughter made him shiver all over. The branches and shrubs tore at his skin, but he didn’t notice. All he noticed was that the forest seemed to be closing in on him, trapping him with the "thing" forever. After what seemed like an eternity, he finally got out of the forest, the dark abyss where the laughter was. His lungs were screaming for air. The laughter got closer and closer, and suddenly bushes were moving. He took a few mouthfuls of air and then tried not to breath, afraid the "thing" might hear him. It didn’t seem to work because it just kept on getting closer and closer. He didn't try to run anymore, because the "thing" always could run faster than him. An airplane flew overhead, and he gave it a look, with desperation in his eyes. The plane just flew away, not caring because its heart was made of metal, ice cold. He knew these were going to be his last moments on earth. He fell on his knees and broke out into tears, sobbing loudly as the bushes started shaking violently. Suddenly, a lemon, no bigger than his fist, came walking up to him. It was holding a cup.
"Hey, I just wanted to borrow a cup of sugar! Ok ok, I’m sorry!" said the lemon.
The next day, this incident was all over the news, and the U.S. military has just realized that their "top secret species" has been exposed, and that millions of people will soon be pouring in to Chellington Lake just to see the talking lemons that just escaped the base and decided to live in the park. The military decided to recapture the lemons before anyone else had seen them.
They gathered their supplies, a car for the trip, a lot of sacks, some self-defense weapons and a pitcher, ice, glass cups, napkins and a juicer.
Before long, the military arrived at Chellington Lake, but they were too late. The park was already crowded with people, and the soldiers knew they had to act fast. They immediately got out their "Talking-lemon-tracking-device" (which lets you track talking lemons) and turned it on. There were at least 300 of them, but luckily, they were all sunning themselves on lemon talk shores, which by some reason, was the only place people haven’t thought of looking.
The soldiers immediately went towards Lemon Talk Shores, thinking about how they would get the lemons without attracting any attention. It wasn't going to be easy, but the president said that if they succeeded, they would get a big raise and promotion.
The soldiers immediately saw the lemons sunning on the sand and talking and singing and laughing and breaking up with their boyfriends, and quickly captured them. They started squirming, but none of the lemons could do anything about it.
Someone must have seen them, because while they were getting into the car, a bunch of people surrounded them.
"Hey!" shouted some guy "You can’t do that! They are very special lemons!" The lemons inside the sack agreed.
"Sorry, President’s orders" said a soldier.
"You can’t do that, we got you outnumbered, and you may have weapons, but we are fighting for the right side. If you hurt us, other people will know and they will turn on you guys, and before you know it, the whole nation will be against the whole government!" said a woman.
"We want to hear the lemons’ laughter every sunset, the only laughter that can remind us to be thankful of citrus fruit, to remind us that it is them who prevented scurvy, to remind us of the wonderful sour taste that is so everlasting and heavenly. We don’t want them taken away from us," said another woman.
The soldiers knew they were fighting a losing battle so they let the lemons go. The battle was over, they had lost. The people started to cheer, and they immediately started shaking hands and hugging the lemons (not very hard) and the lemons laughed and played and married their boyfriends (It is psychologically proven that a big catastrophe brings people closer together, or in this case, lemons).
A few days later, the President decided to let the lemons live their own will, that is, if they don’t do anything illegal. "Too annoying" stated the president. So it was pretty obvious why the president wouldn’t go get the lemons again.
So every evening while the sun is setting, the lemons would laugh and remind us about all that wonderful stuff about citrus fruits. In the end, everything has ended well for everyone (except for the soldiers, who got pay cuts and demotions because they failed).
Moral: Don't play God, unless you plan to have a glass of lemonade that talks.
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