Only an occasional birthday

Only an occasional birthday
for Bella
fiction
edward w pritchard

Goldilocks was a very bad girl, always picking on the bears and disobeying her Mother and going into the woods, and then lying about her whereabouts.

One day Goldilocks did something very good however. Goldilocks had heard that her Grandfather was lonely one holiday and Goldilocks had went to a lot of trouble to make her Grandfather a special pie. Goldilocks didn't usually like to work or cook but she did her best this time at mixing the ingredients, that she had made a special trip to two stores to buy, and then she rolled out the dough, baked the pie, and put it in the window to cool before she took it to her grandfather.

While she was getting ready to take her Grandfather the pie the sneaky fox sneaked in Goldilocks's yard, sneaked up to the window and took and ate the pie, "Goldilocks knew the fox had done it because in place of the pie was one pickle, the fox's calling card.

Now Goldilocks had a terrible temper and she decided straight away to get even with the fox. She knew the fox had a birthday tomorrow and she knew the fox loved to celebrate his birthdays. The fox was a vain little animal and each year he liked to get new clothes for his birthday and he really looked forward to it.

Goldilocks called the fox and said she had arranged for him to have an extra special party this year and it was a surprise party for him and he should meet her tomorrow morning in her back yard to go to the party. When the fox got there there was a sign next to a small space ship that Goldilocks had built that said get in to go to the party and don't forget to put on the special party hat.
The hat was really an oxygen helmet and when the spaceship took off it took the fox very fast to the far away planet Saturn.

On the earth everyone has a birthday once a year as everyone knows. It's the same on Saturn but since it takes Saturn 32 earth years to orbit the sun a year on Saturn is actually 32 years long and the fox was now going to have a birthday every 32 years.

The fox sat on Saturn with his birthday helmet on and waited and waited for his birthday which was not going to come for 32 years. On the second day after the fox got to Saturn a very small second spaceship arrived and it had a small present for him from Goldilocks. He opened the present and it was of course one pickle.