#WritePhoto – Thaw

21 Dec 2017 42 Comments

by Ritu in #WritePhoto, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Sue’s #WritePhoto Prompt this week:

 

I thought I’d continue the adventures of Barbie and Ken.
She stood at the bar window, looking out over the snow dusted landscape, wishing it wasn’t melting so fast.
“Babe, it’s a shame you couldn’t sort the snow out… I really wanted a white Christmas this year!” Barbie turned to her long-suffering boyfriend Ken.
“Did you see on Instagram, how much snow the others had in Scotland? And this…sludge… is what we get.” She pouted like a 3-year-old.
Finally sensing a thaw in her icy treatment of him, after the episode last week, when he’d not been waiting for her at the sports bar, rather, he’d left her waiting whislt dreaming of other women, Ken grasped the chance to get back into her good books.
“I’ll just check the weather app on my phone, Babe… Let’s see what we can do.” Ken wandered over to the bar to get himself a pint, and a Prosecco for the lady, and to figure out what to do.
Seriously? She wanted snow now? In the middle of Essex? That idea of the undemanding Sindy as his girlfriend was seriously appealing…
As if the cosmos had been listening, the door to the bar opened and in walked Sindy and her friends. They piled in, bringing a gust of cold wind with them.
Sindy spotted Ken and came rushing over, kissing him on both cheeks. “Hiya Ken darling! How are you? Been let off your leash then, have you?” She winked at him.
He looked over at where Barbie was standing, no longer looking out of the window, but in his direction, the ice forming in her eyes once more, as she surveyed the scene; her man surrounded by ‘bimbos’ and one with her arms slung over his shoulders.
“Er, ha ha, yeah, funny Sind. Listen got to go, drinks are getting warm. See you round!” Ken grabbed his pint and the bubble filled flute and rushed back to his very own Ice Queen…
Sindy watched him retreat, and noticed the look on Barbie’s face… Hmm. Trouble in paradise?
To be continued…

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42 Comments (+add yours?)

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  2. Jennie
    Dec 25, 2017 @ 16:38:25

    Big trouble in paradise!

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  3. Vivian Zems
    Dec 25, 2017 @ 12:00:17

    I guess Ken can’t help being so handsome… but Barbie’s gotta get her own life asap and stop worrying about him… Seasons greetings!!

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  5. OIKOS™-Redaktion
    Dec 22, 2017 @ 12:52:12

    Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.

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  6. Michael
    Dec 22, 2017 @ 06:19:24

    Who needs snow when you have Barbie?

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  7. anuragbakhshi
    Dec 22, 2017 @ 05:55:40

    If Ken doesn’t make up his mind soon, it’ll be Death in Paradise, not just trouble 🙂

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  8. syl65
    Dec 22, 2017 @ 01:41:15

    I think Sindy has some plans for Ken…

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  10. Iain Kelly
    Dec 21, 2017 @ 21:40:35

    I really hoped there would be more of a thaw for poor Ken with this prompt!

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  11. Erika Kind
    Dec 21, 2017 @ 20:42:13

    Meanwhile, the Ken and Barbie story is turning into sequels. Very cool!

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  12. Judy E Martin
    Dec 21, 2017 @ 20:34:12

    HA! Maybe Barbie might treat Ken a little better if she thinks that Sindy might be after him! 🙂

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  13. dornahainds
    Dec 21, 2017 @ 18:48:48

    Ken should be lucky to not find himself drowning in the Ice Queen’s fatal bitterness. 😎

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  14. Annette Rochelle Aben
    Dec 21, 2017 @ 18:48:38

    Seems to me, that the self-absorbed Barbie, is the quintessential “holy terror” and it used to make me wonder why the “Kens” in my life preferred her type to types like me. I say, this is just what Ken deserves. I was rooting for him but now…

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  15. James
    Dec 21, 2017 @ 17:40:27

    Maybe Ken should think of giving Barbie the brush off.

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  16. Sue Vincent
    Dec 21, 2017 @ 17:10:46

    Defintely ‘oh dear’… So how does he make it snow in Essex? Sounds like his only hope… 😉

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