Previously
"I need to buy a cow. You won't regret it. I swear!"
Jenny narrowed her eyes and squinted at Joey's increasingly widening, and infuriating, grin.
"I don't think so."
Part One - It All Began With a Knitting Needle - prompt: knitting needle
Jenny gathered up the laptop and her empty coffee mug and hugged them to her chest as she leapt up from the couch. Keeping her steady glare fixed to Joey's childish face, she backed into the kitchen. By God, she needed another coffee. Maybe with a splash of hard liquor. It was the only way to deal with this guy --the only way.
"No cows. Where would you put one, anyway? We don't live on a farm. Hell, we barely even have a backyard after that campfire incident a few years back."
Joey followed her into the kitchen, continously wiggling the knitting needle at her like a crazed magician.
"And please, can you just get that thing out of my face."
Joey thrust the knitting needle forward like a sword and Jenny squealed, almost dropping her laptop and mug, and then he ran back into the loungeroom giggling maniacally.
"No cow!" she yelled after him.
There was no answer, only the slamming of the front door and a flurry of hurried footsteps pounding on the pavement as the ginger-haired maniac ran off.
Jenny groaned. Carefully placing the laptop within eyesight on the table, lest Joey snuck around the back and leapt through the window to steal it, she refilled her coffee.
Joey did not leap through the kitchen window and there were no suspicious noises outside. That was probably bad. If she knew that maniac, and she did, all too well, there'd be a bovine in the house before week's end. Perhaps month's end if he waited for her to forget this little conversation.
She narrowed her eyes and took a deep mouthful of freshly brewed coffee. There would be no forgetting.
Hullo! It's Day 807 of @mariannewest's five-minute #freewrite challenge! The prompt for today is -- coffee mug -- and this is what I came up with before the eggtimer website beeped at me, give a few extra minutes for a quick tidy up.
You can find today's challenge at the following link:
@mariannewest/day-807-5-minute-freewrite-sunday-prompt-coffee-mug
Today's header image is CC0 and courtesy of Pixabay.