Skipping along the path of golden stones and oak trees, I never imagined I would make a living by cleaning rainbows. But yet here I am, using multicoloured sponges to clean this wonderful rainbow.
Being the small lad that I am. I always seem to have the most luck. When I was in school I got teased because of how short I am. But my shortness always made the teachers love me more. Once I got out of school, I had already made enough friends to help me through the years. I have this one friend that works at a clothing store, which gets me discounts on my favourite type of green overalls that I always wear. Though I have many different pairs of the same coloured overalls, of course. I have dark brown hair, that I get cut at the Barber shop down the street where my other friend works.
I have had very many jobs through the years such as working at a soup bistro, pizza palace, and I was always the short guy in many different plays. Working at these many jobs, I have managed to finally get enough pay to buy a cabin beside the lake. The cabin, is fairly out in the open, with few trees down the sides. Has a Neon Green roof, and is rainbow coloured. Flowers are planted in a garden at the front of the cabin, there are stairs coming from 2 different ways from the main deck into the house, and there is also another deck on the top floor from the master bedroom. I've had my eye on this cabin for quite some time, thinking there was something special about it. When I finally moved, I could spot right away what was so special. As you sit on the bright blue couch, against the white walls, and look through the window, you could spot a beautiful rainbow. The perfect time to spot this rainbow, is only 2 hours after sunrise.
I woke up early one morning to the melody of the house phone. I sleepily reached over to the bedside table, picked up the cordless phone, and groggily answered with a long "hheelloo?" Of course, on a Saturday morning it had to be my landlord. But to my surprise he wasn't talking about the rent, he was talking about a job.
"How would you Mr.Chaun like to start a new job, as my rainbow cleaner?" The cheery voice asked.
"A job to clean the house? Wouldn't I already be doing so by owning the place?" I grumbled confused. Since my house is rainbow coloured, I figured thats what he was talking about. My house Stands out very much, which is why I love it so much.
"No, no, no, not a job to clean the house! Okay lets start from the beginning. Do you know the rainbow outside your window in the morning?"
Of course I knew the rainbow outside my window, I look at it every single morning. "Yes" I stated
"Well good, that is the rainbow I would like you to clean. You can collect money by going to the end of the rainbow, and grabbing the pot of gold. Fills up every month, for your monthly pay."
What was I supposed to do? Say no to my landlord? After all I do need a job, and how hard is it to clean a rainbow? I soon found out later that morning after accepting the job.
I tried to get to sleep after that weird phone call, but I couldn't. So I got up, grabbed a cup of hot chocolate, sat on the couch, and waited for the rainbow to come. As the sun has not yet rised, there were shadows from the trees and crows that hid in the darkness. Sitting on the couch waiting for the rainbow felt like an eternity, so I went upstairs to my bedroom, and started writing on my whiteboard, planning how my schedule will look like. My whiteboard glows in the dark and stays on the bedroom wall for when I need to plan.
By the time I finished planning and went downstairs, the rainbow was there. I went outside, stood on the deck, and tried to find out where the beginning of the rainbow was. I saw a path, that I don't remember was ever there. The path went from the deck stairs towards the rainbow, so I figured I should follow it. Lines of flowers followed the path and each time I walked a short distance, the path would grow longer and longer, as if by magic! Then finally I reached the rainbow which was on a grassy, green hill. I saw a bucket of water and different coloured sponges. There was one sponge for every colour of the rainbow, Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Although I figured this would be easy, I couldn't figure out how I stand on the rainbow. It always looks see-through when I look at it from afar. But then I saw the instructions. It gave me a head-ache thinking where the instructions might have come from, but I ignored the throbbing pain and read them: 1st Grab the red sponge, dip it in water, and begin cleaning the red stripe of the rainbow. You will see it's a solid stripe when something touches the surface. Therefore you will be able to walk on the rainbow and clean the rest. Do the same with all stripes each a little bit at a time, till you finish the whole rainbow.
Once I was done reading the instructions I got to work. As I worked, I hummed the bars to "Wizard of Oz" to pass the time away. About an hour and a half later I was done, and followed the flower lined path to the cabin. When I got inside the cabin I checked my phone "No calls". Then went up to my red-walled bedroom to do some more planning. I stepped through the doorway only to see a bare wall. It was gone! My whiteboard was gone! It's not really something you lose, and besides it had my name on it: Lepri Chaun. What if someone stole it!!
I searched the house high and low. It was nowhere to be found. I rushed to the darkness outside, to hear only crows in the distance. Then I saw it. The glow radiating off someones windows. Not afraid of where I might end up, I walked a quick, steady pace to the glowing. Walked up someones porch steps and saw my glow in the dark whiteboard in their house. I rapped hard on the door, wondering if frightening people lived inside. When the door opened I saw shock, but an eager smile.
"I told you the leprechaun would come out, if we took one of his prized possessions." The older gentlemen gloated to his wife and kids.
"Uhm, excuse me? I'm not a leprechaun, I just bought that cabin a few days ago actually. After I was done cleaning the rainbow and went back to my cabin, I realised my whiteboard was gone. I didn't lock the doors because I figured I wouldn't be gone a long while. Anyway, may I have it back?" I was very confused as to why they might have thought I was a leprechaun.
As if reading my thoughts the man stated "You wear green overalls, you clean a rainbow for work, you are a mighty short little fella, you picked the rainbow cabin even though there were others, your name is Lepri Chaun. (Saw it on the back of the whiteboard), you get much luck by getting very good pay at a job that seems so easy, and you always seem to be humming some sort of tune. I'm sorry, but I'm pretty sure you are a leprechaun."
I didn't know what to say. It hit me like a ton of bricks. My parents are also short, they named me Lepri Chaun, and I've always have a fancy for rainbow things. I gasped then yelled "I'm a leprechaun!!"
The man stood in the doorway nodded his head up and down and asked very politely "Would you like to join us for a cup of tea, coffee, or hot chocolate? We will give you back your whiteboard, we are sorry we took it."
"I would love to join you, and I appreciate that you helped me realise the true me. I've always wondered why I was so different, and now I know. Hot Chocolate would be wonderful thank you. Us leprechauns love our chocolate." I smiled a huge smile as I walked through the doorway and sat on their plain old green couch.
The rest of the night we talked about my life, how I have gone through the years being short, the things the family I just met does for a living, and how long we think we'll be living in these cabins. Because as long as we both live in the cabins we have decided to be friends.
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