Chapter Text
In an ordinary white house, there lived a ten-year-old girl named Kendra and her pet chimpanzee, Chimpie. Kendra was trying to live her normal life, while Chimpie was often causing trouble for her through her low intelligence and constant energy that never seemed to run out. The two never seemed to get along either inside or outside their house, their antics spread across their neighborhood and beyond, and Kendra even considered giving Chimpie up a few times, but in the end the two always seemed to be together again no matter the circumstances.
One morning, Kendra was sleeping in her bed, dreaming about her possible future live in a mansion at a beach, saving lives in her superhero persona, with Chimpie as her sidekick. They were helping others get their oceans clean, stopping villainous poachers and pollutors, gliding on the water and catching the waves, and controlling the tide as necessary to make the world and its oceans a better place for everyone! She was at a really good part of her dream when suddenly she heard a terrible noise.
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
She slowly opened her eyes, barely functioning.
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
"Uuuhhh..." she groaned as she started moving her hand. "I'll get it...you'd better...not...be up to anything...again, Chimpie."
But when she reached over toward her nightstand to turn off her alarm clock, it was gone. "Chimpie!" she yelled (or at least tried to yell) as she struggled to lift herself out of bed. "Chimpie! You get back here with my alarm clock! You know you shouldn't be doing stuff like that!"
But Chimpie didn't hear her, as she ran out of the room with that clock in her hands. She pressed a lot of different buttons on it, which did a lot of weird things with the numbers on the clock. It made them blue, gave them rainbows surrounding them, turned them backwards and upside-down, shot some out of the clock, and even expelled confetti and party streamers out of the holes. As Kendra got out of bed, she kept yelling after Chimpie to give her alarm clock back, but Chimpie kept having a blast playing with it, not ready to give it up. "CHIMPIE!!!!!! For the last time, get back here and GIVE ME BACK MY ALARM CLOCK!!!!!!!!!"
But Chimpie wouldn't listen, too engrossed in her own fantasies to give up her stolen contraption as if she were a child on Christmas who happily playing with her newly received toy too much to see any reason to stop. Kendra ran after her across the hallway and finally caught her in the bathroom, taking her alarm clock back to her room with her. She put it back on her nightstand, left it there as she left, and then went into the bathroom to wash her face and brush her teeth. She looked at herself in the mirror, turned on the water, put some on her face, and as she was washing, she made another terrible discovery: her nose was missing. She felt around for it on her face, but it was nowhere. Her stress overcoming her, she screamed really loud, yelling "CHIMPIE!!!!!! YOU'D BETTER NOT BE STEALING MY NOSE THIS TIME!!!!!!!!"
And, sure enough, the chimp was running across the room with her companion's nose, having a really fun time playing with it. Kendra chased her down the hall, trying to grab her nose, but Chimpie wouldn't give it up. But little did she know that it would be the first of many nose-stealing shenanigans that day...
Later; after she got dressed in a blue-and-white striped T-shirt, a pair of red shorts, and a pair of black-and-white tennis shoes; she went downstairs to have breakfast, preparing to toast a frozen waffle. As she was lowering her food into the toaster, Chimpie swung across the chandelier, ready for some more fun with her favorite nasal toy. She jumped down on the stove, ran across the counter, and swiped Kendra's nose from the latter's face. "Chimpie, you'd better get back here with my nose!" she yelled, pursuing her chimp across the kitchen.
But of course it didn't end there like I warned. Chimpie stole Kendra's nose again while she was eating her waffle and pouring syrup over it, shocking the latter so much the bottle flew out of her hand and hit the window, covering bushes in the backyard with glass and syrup. Kendra chased Chimpie through the house, trying to grab at her nose, but to no avail. The chimp kept having fun with the nose, not ready to give it up. The same thing happened as Kendra was reading her book about an hour later, with Chimpie taking her nose off her face and Kendra furiously pursuing her through the backyard, with both reaching the area behind the garden shed.
And it happened again and again and again throughout the day, for instance, when Kendra was cooking a ham leg in a pot, when she was playing a new video game on her TV, when she was folding her laundry, when she was typing something on her computer, when she was raking the leaves outside, when she was going out to get the mail, and when she was preparing to have dinner. Each time, Chimpie would steal her nose, Kendra would pursue her, and it would eventually end with Kendra getting it back. And later on, Kendra started taking a shower, singing her favorite songs, shampooing and conditioning her hair, scrubbing her face and body, and rinsing herself off at the end. She wiped the misty mirror so she could see herself, noticing her nose was missing-again. She screamed so loudly it broke the mirror and caused some picture frames to fall off the wall. "CHIMPIE! GET BACK HERE WITH MY NOSE!!!!!!" she yelled, running out of the bathroom with only a towel on. Then the chase was on!
Chimpie ran throughout the garden, through the shed, up and down the trees and gates, and even throughout the bushes. During their chase, they slipped on banana peels, flew through leaves, broke more windows, slid through mud, and even broke through fences. As they continued running, Chimpie tripped onto a huge rock, sliding headfirst into a huge pile of dirt. Kendra caught up to her and demanded her nose again, her voice shattering several windows. Chimpie hesitated at first, cradling Kendra's nose in her hands with tears in her eyes, thinking about all the fun they had together, and then...
She stretched out her hand, holding the nose. Kendra looked at the chimp, stretching out her hand. This better not be a trick, she thought. I've had enough of these nose-stealing shenanigans for one day.
But Chimpie kept moving her hand close to Kendra's, ready to bring her nose closer to her companion. Kendra moved her hand forward too, still suspicious Chimpie might pull it away from her. They kept moving their hands forward until they met in the center, and Chimpie released Kendra's nose, which fell into Kendra's hand. "Thank you, Chimpie," Kendra began. "No more nose-stealing for you, OK?"
Chimpie nodded her head in approval as if saying, "You're welcome. I promise."
"Good. Now let's finish our showers and go stargazing."
They went back into the shower, drying themselves off and putting on their pajamas and bathrobes, Kendra helping Chimpie with hers. Then they put on spa masks, brushed their teeth, and went outside to the top of a hill to look at the constellations. Kendra noticed the Big Dipper next to Orion and said, "Do you notice this, Chimpie? The Big Dipper is about to serve Orion his well-earned water after a successful journey for his people." Chimpie nodded in agreement. "He sure was brave catching that monstrous beast and finding that rare spice on his claws," she continued her story.
The two companions had fun looking at the stars and making up stories, laughing and smiling all the way. "Man, this night couldn't get any better," Kendra said happily.
But boy was she wrong! An unnatural green light appeared in front of them. They both looked to see what it was. It was an illuminated poster for the new movie Invasion of the Ear Stealers! Chimpie ran up to it to get a good look, stealing the ear of a passerby. "Aaaah! My ear!"
"Chimpie! Get back here right now!" Kendra said, chasing her chimp into the night, and the passerby chasing them. This was definitely going to be another unusual night, and so would the day that followed. Their shenanigans never seemed to end, like I warned you before, and they probably never will.
