Happy Birthday                     by: Paul G. Jutras

 

"This has to be a bad dream." Paul moaned.

His mother turned and gave him a dirty look from the front seat. "That’s quite enough, young man." She snapped. "Don’t mind him, Alice." Beth Sky said to her mother-in-law. "You know how kids can be."

"Thanks a lot, Paul." Scott complained as he straightened his tie. "We just love going to concerts for your birthday."

"Yeah, thanks." Brian added, as he played with his Rubic Cube." Let see, white here and blue there."

"Soon as the concert is over it’ll be cake and ice cream for everyone." Jack Sky added as they arrived at the concert hall and led the kids in a group inside. "If anyone has to go to the bathroom, now is the time to do it."

Paul took a seat between his parents and watched the orchestra warming up their instruments. He had only wished that Aunt Alice could of gotten the tickets for another night. Who’d think she could get enough for all his friends too."

"Is it true that one can’t be bored to death?" Diana whispered to Lauren, who giggled.

"I certainly hope you can’t." Lauren chuckled as she watched the curtain go up and the music began to play. "Shouldn’t it be starting soon?"

"I hope so." Brian said as he started to itch his tattoo on his arm. He looked down at his arm to examine what was wrong with him. Something slithered onto his lap and made jump. He saw a snake drop to the floor and disappear under the seat. "Yeow!"

"What’s wrong?" Mr. Sky asked.

"I thought I saw a snake this big." Brian indicated with his arms the length.

"Snakes that size couldn’t get in here without being seen and dealt with." Mr. Sky hushed. "Now sit back and get ready to enjoy the music."

As the music continued to play, everyone seemed okay at first. Then he felt it again. He held his breath and looked down to see he was covered in snakes. He let out enough screams that the group were asked to leave.

"I was never so embarrassed in my life." Alice said to her daughter in law. "I’m never brining kids to a concert again."

"Thanks." Paul whispered to Brian as they returned to the Sky home for the actual party. Brian was still shook up trying to figure where the snakes came from. Why the looked like the snake tattoo on his arm.

A short time later, Paul had a blindfold tied by Diana and spun around. With a tac between his fingers, he headed for the pin the tail on the donkey game poster. He wobbled toward the poster and got the donkey in the ankle.

The kids giggles where heard outside of the home as a large moving van pulled up into the driveway. Getting out of the front, Flip headed for the house while Kevin moved toward the back of the truck and opened the door. "We’ll put them in the back here with Seth, Maxie and Kira."

"Doesn’t sound like they listened to he music enough to be effected." Flip said as he spied in the front window and saw Liz begin to spin around with the blindfold with a donkey tail in her hand."

"No problem there," Kevin said as he held up a music CD." I put the transformation message in the background of a children CD and replaced it with their own. This should turn out to be interesting."

"Just to make sure everyone is effect." Flip thought as he slipped a bowl of crackers on the table. Just encase some of them are deaf. As Brian’s tattoo began to itch again, he notice the snake raised his head off of his arm.

Brain just held his arm straight out away from his body and stifled as cream. He couldn’t hold it any longer when he was heard. Paul screamed too as he saw his arm covered in a plastic sheen and all the hairs had vanished from his body. He watched as his nipples began to grow into full DD size breasts and his clothes turned into a yellow dress.

"What’s happening to me!" Paula screamed as her voice was suddenly gone.

"At least you don’t have animals growing out of your skin." Brain shouted as the snakes dropped off his arm onto the floor and caused the other kids to scream some more. AS the snake head rose up again it turn to plastic as did the rest of his arm. He would be a special mannequin indeed.

"Looks like we’re starting a new collection for the amusement park." Flip said as Paula body froze up completely, ready for shipment to some department store. "Let’s load our new merchandise aboard and get the truck out of here."

"Right - o." Kevin said as he grabbed Brian who had become a snake man mannequin, perfect to be place in the front of the haunted house."

"Nooo!" Mr. And Mrs. Sky screamed in a horrified wail escaped their throats while they shrunk and changed shaped to birds. They fluttered over to the stone wall and perched themselves before becoming stone love birds themselves. Flip pried the stone off the wall and took it to the park.

Once the truck was completely loaded, they headed out of town and caught up with the amusement on the outskirts of a new town. Kevin and Flip joined the orchestra members in stepping the park up with their statues, mechanical dolls and mannequins.

A man name Michael Porter helped Flip unload Trudy, Seth, Maxie and Kira with a smile on his face. "I want to thank you for the fortune you’d paid for my little playthings." Michael said, watching his former female robots slave put into place for an adult sex show called: THE SULTAN FAVORITE.

"No problem chum." Flip smiled as he injected a formula to the base of the skull of Mr. Porter. As Michael turned to solid rock, Flipped toppled him off the back of the truck and watched as the man smashed into pieces. "Too bad I don’t need the likes of a double crossing, gold digger like you in my little outfit."

Keith swept up the junk up while Flip saw about putting some electronic parts in some of the mannequins for their shows and made the others into park statues. Others were sold to the local department stores. Some of the former human’s feet melted into the top of the pedestals until they were ankle deep. The tips then became solid and made them perfect for the park displays. He then put electronic parts in Mr. And Mrs. Sky and those who attended Paul’s birthday party. "Guess we’re hope for business. Wonder if there any beauties in this town we can help add to our growing bank accounts?" Flip smiled as he was ready to begin his plans over again.

 

THE END

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