Pet Peeves
Uploaded by sls465 on Apr 19, 2007
Pet Peeves
I was drifting off to sleep while listening to the summer night’s breeze, rustling the leaves on the oak, outside my window. It was peaceful, dreamy, and most of all, safe. I was almost asleep when a loud buzzing sound filled my ear. A disturbing annoyance cancelled all my thoughts of sleep, and it disturbed all the peace. Buzzzzzzzz... buzzzzzzzz... buzzzzzzz. Only a mosquito can make that sound. “How did it get in here?” I thought. Buzzzzz... buzzzzzzz.
I swatted and slapped at that annoying creature. “I’ll get it, I know I will” I thought, “I’ll knock it down in midair and put it out of its misery.” That itsy-bitsy pest couldn’t survive my powerful swipes. Therefore, I swung to the left, to the right, above my head, over my stomach, everywhere. I didn’t miss an inch of the darkness. Nothing could have survived that extreme attack of mine! I probably looked like a crazed lunatic, but it was all for a cause. “There,” I thought, “I’m certain now, it has to be dead. It had to be dead, with my arms flying everywhere swatting and swiping. It was probably knocked dead, somewhere on the floor… “I’ll just clean it up in the morning.”
Slowly my panting was returning to normal. Tranquility was returning. Then I realized that my body was tensing. It was become so tense my muscles started to weaken. I was tense because I was listening. Listening so hard that my ears felt like they were twitching. Silence, blessed silence. No nasty creature was there to bother me anymore. The breeze rustled the leaves and I started to dream. I was on some beach, serene waters, and giant white clouds, like full-blooming magnolias, with warm sand. Suddenly, I snapped awake. buzzzzzzz... buzzzzzz... buzzzzzz. “No! No! No!” I sat rite up.
“Okay this time I will get it,” I thought. I swung my feet onto the floor, and turned on the light. I picked up a T-shirt, and listened. Nothing. I peered everywhere like an eagle. Eagle Eye they should call me—I don’t miss a thing! But, I looked carefully into the light, and… nothing. “Do lights attract mosquitoes?” I thought with a devilish smile, “Haha! Bait!” I scanned the walls, the ceiling. I gripped my T-shirt, ready for a possible assault. Silence. Nothing. I watched the light, and stood still, listening and ready....