It's the weekend and I'm quite cheerful for it not even being 8 AM yet. Though I also think this could have something do to with me going to bed at 10 PM because of extreme exhaustion and a headache. But! I give you Patty O'Green's entry. Hers was fun to write. Enjoy!
Patty O’Green
Spring XXXX, #1
Thank goodness for a day off! Spreading color across Rainbow Land is fun, but I love when I can just relax. Bringing green to everything can be hard. There’s so much green that’s needed. Trees, plants, and grass, and reptiles too. Lucky and I are always busy when Spring comes. At least today wasn’t spring cleaning. I hate spring cleaning. Cleaning up my room is a chore. Everything I’ve stored in my closet falls out and I get buried in it. It’s always so frustrating! Rainbow always says I should organize my closet, but that’s just too much work. Besides, I can still find anything in my mess.
Anyway, Lucky and I were wandering around Rainbow Land, trying to find something to do. It’s not often that we get a day off for fun and play, so I wanted to make sure it was a fun day. Lucky didn’t have any ideas for me either. We sat down in the grass, underneath the shade of one of my favorite trees. It was one of the biggest and greenest trees in Green Grange. I crossed my legs in front of me and put my hands behind my bed. Sometimes it was so hard to think of something fun. I watched the clouds pass over in the sky. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Lala Orange skipping along the path. She was with OJ. I heard her say that they were going to Rainbow River to collect some stones.
Suddenly, I had a great idea. I whispered my plan to Lucky and he laughed too. This was going to be a great joke. We rushed back to the Color Castle and up to my room. I opened my closet, and everything fell onto my head. I wasn’t frustrated this time though. I searched through the pile until I found what I was looking for – a medium sized black rubber spider. I giggled and tossed it to Lucky, who jumped. I told him it wasn’t real, but he still kept looking at it, afraid it would start crawling on him. Next, I found my brown string. I had dyed it brown a few weeks ago because it would blend in better than when it was white. I left my stuff out. I’d put it away later.
I tied the spider to the string and showed Lucky my great joke. We headed for Rainbow River, sneaking along the way. We snuck past Rainbow sleeping with Twink and went further down. I found Lala by a large shady tree. I was hidden by a clump of bushes and whispered my trick once more to Lucky. He would climb the tree, since he would be quieter and quicker than me. Lucky scampered for the tree with the spider on the stick in his mouth. He quickly climbed up and I watched from behind, holding my hand over my mouth.
Lucky climbed the tree and began to unwind the spider slowly and lowered it. Lala Orange sat along the bank, her shoes sitting up on the grass. She had waded into the water and was bent over, hands searching the water for pretty stones. Lucky crawled out on the nearest branch and dangled the spider lower and lower, until it appeared to creep upon Lala’s shoulders. Within seconds Lala cried out in fear and swatted at the spider, losing her balance in the process. OJ tried to help her up. I giggled loudly, unable to hide my laughter. It gave me away and Lala quickly found me in the bushes.
She wasn’t very happy with me and was kinda upset. I didn’t mean to do that. I told her I was sorry, but she wasn’t very happy still. I showed her my spider on a stick that Lucky had brought back and she tried using it. She made it crawl on Lucky and that scared him. Then she tried it on OJ, who also didn’t like it very much. She giggled and I smiled at her. I offered to help her find stones in the river and she agreed. So I took off my boots and waded into the river beside Lala. Lucky followed me. We spent the afternoon finding the shiniest, prettiest stones. I didn’t really know what the difference was, but Lala said there was.
We walked back to the castle that afternoon, a bag of stones between us. Lala carried my spider on a stick and danced it along the path. She was having fun with it. She went to her room and I went to mine. I was greeted with the sight of my closet, and all the mess piled up in front of it. I put my hands on my hips, remembering that I didn’t put any of it away. I fumed. Ohhh… tricks are fun but cleaning my room is not!
Keep an eye out for Lala Orange's companion entry to this!

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