Ailee and Jolee [<1k words]
#1 of 1k stories
This story is a short, less than 1k words attempt. The prompt was 'Outside the window'. I randomly rolled for 4 characters to be used, and for the story to be in present tense, and in third person.
Ailee rolled over, her short little nose sticking out from underneath her onto the couch. The Corgi was fairly bored today, staring out the window and looking as the clouds passed by. A chilly day, but not too bad for a weekend. Of course, being a plump little corgi had its advantages.
Joe, however, wasn't too impressed, "Head off the couch. People sit on that," He peered over the computer screen, headphones tilting as his ears perked up underneath them to correct his sister's behaviour. He could be easily called her twin, despite several years apart. He was younger, but looked a tiny bit older due to being somewhat unkempt.
Ailee tilted her head to the side, lifting a little to lift her ears so they wouldn't crumple uncomfortably. She could see the reflection of some cartoon in Joe's eyes. She couldn't make out what it was, but it was a distinct blue and orange colour. She poked her tongue out briefly, lacking the energy or desire to make a snark or funny comment.
Joe's eyes kept focussed on Ailee, no longer interested in what he saw on the screen. He tapped a key on the keyboard, and his ears swivelled underneath the earphones, "I think Jolee's here," he mentioned quietly. He tapped his keyboard once more to listen to his show.
Ailee jumped up energetically, stumbling and fumbling clumsily around the loungeroom trying to get to the door, "Is she! Is she! When did she get here? Joleeee! Joleeee!" Ailee skidded short of the door and opened it up to see her mother, surprised to see the door suddenly flung open.
The two corgis stared at each other, one in surprise at the sudden happening, the other surprised to have gotten her guess wrong.
Raileen was the first to recover, "Ailee... nice to meet you at the door, want to help me with the groceries?"
Ailee glanced down to the stubby little hands of her mother, pressed up against her polka dot shirt as balanced groceries in bags within her hands. She had keys in one of them, ready to reach to the door.
Raileen didn't wait any longer, "The car's unlocked, just head on out, this won't take long. Joel? Joel? Can you pause your games? I need help for five minutes," and waddled on past Ailee.
The still-disappointed corgi looked begrudgingly outside to the same greying, cloudy sky she got to see through the window. She wondered what excuse she could come up with as she trudged to the car.
Unloading wasn't too difficult, bags weren't too numerous, and Ailee's mother often wanted to put them all away. Ailee was bored. She simply couldn't wait for Jolee to come by with the car so she could go to the mall. It was already midday, and the day was a beautifully cool day.
Ailee grunted carrying the bags in and out, Joe tagged teamed with her, bringing them to the kitchen to be sorted out by the mother. Ailee handed the last of the bags and elected to stay outside, looking up at that same cloudy sky again, feeling the breeze through her fur. She slumped against the car, sitting to the side so her tail stuck out, also collecting the breeze around her clothes.
She slumped on her hands, staring out at the road, waiting for something to happen. The ground stretching out behind her as she tried to lazily will the seconds away. The gravel, bumpy under the black bitumen, whom she remembered a particular red dog pushing the hot, sticky mixture over as she mulled her mind over in boredom.
Cars passed, her ears perking up at each time a car passed, hoping it was Jolee's. Red, white black, blue, gr-
Ailee's ears perked up and she jumped close to an inch off the ground in excitement from the sudden jolt, "Jolee! Joleeee!" She scrabbled to get up waving and leaping in the air as the green sedan drove in, busted at the front left from a scrape in the shopping centre. The corgi waved, leaping and jumping around.
The car wobbled with uncertain suspension and the sun flashed off the prominent yellow beak from behind the windscreen. The wave in return wasn't as eager, but still conveyed its own excitement. The eyes squinting in an eye-smile.
"Joleee!" the corgi squees.
Jolee smiles, standing out of the car, and waving, "Ailee, you're so adorable when you're like this but calm down," the eagle smiled, trying not to laugh, "Sorry I'm late."
The corgi was too energetic to mind, "Aaah, don't mind it! You're here," Ailee grinned, "Can we go? Can we go?" she begged.
Jolee eye-smiled, "get that tail in my car, we're in for a drive."