Mrs. Behemoth lived in the typical quiet condo together with average people. She was very old-fashioned and principled business lady who did not like joyful children and any fun. Sharp pink umbrella always was hanging in her corridor. With its help she stabbed everyone who dared to ask donations for homeless animals’ asylum.
In every season of the year, in every type of weather she wore a tiny red old-fashioned cap and liked to visit bazaar in her yellow slippers. Polka dot was her favourite pattern. She used it for everything and everywhere, from her wardrobe to the walls.
When she talked with somebody words were scattering from her mouth as if peas and bounced from the foreheads of her interlocutors. And it was bringing her a lot of an extraordinary pleasure. People stared at her in fear and surprise, so everyone seemed to respect her.
One beautiful spring day-off Mrs. Behemoth woke up and started to watch love movies in her creamy-rosy room, wearing dotted night pajama. At home usually she wore red high heeled shoes. And if she didn’t like something, high heels were clanging with irritation just to tease the neighbours who lived downstairs. When Mrs. Behemoth was at home all her neighbors sit silently like mice and talked only in whispers.
Mr. Behemoth could not bear the sound of her heels so he went to the village and disappeared for a few months there. At first he planted potatoes, and then he planted cabbages and many other veggies except green peas that were reminding about his wife’s polka dots. So his vacations seemed much more pleasant than that pea dotted surrounding in the condo number 5 with Mrs. Behemoth wearing pajama with peas.
In such beautiful sunny day Jeck the Hippo-boy decided to play soccer. Nothing foreshadowed the trouble, but it was possible to expect something because he ate two servings of hippopotamus porridge and it gave him a lot of strength. When he kicked the ball, it suddenly disappeared from his vision.
The ball broke the window and fall on the TV set at the home of Mrs. Behemoth who watched especially interesting final of Mexican soap opera.
Everything shattered in her room. The same happened with the peaceful beautiful day for Jeck.
Who will save Jeck and pay the fine?
Drawing by Katia Marynowska...
Story told by Katia to Igor Marynowski
