I'm So Pretty!

``Hey Min, you remembered that time?'' Tae asked as she looked at him.

``Which time?'' Min replied with a look of puzzlement on his face.

``That time... when you were three, I was five, Ma taking me out and you were left at home...''

``Oh god, no!'' Min said, his face blushing as he remembered what had happened.

Min had hopped in front of the mirror in glee. Mother had gone out, as Tae had said, taking her along to see the doctor because Tae had been vomitting a whole lot suddenly. Since it was in a rush, there was no baby-sitter to be found, and Mother made the decision to leave Min at home, alone. The doctor's was only downstairs, so it wasn't that big of a risk, or at least, that was what Mother thought. She had her hands full carrying Tae, and couldn't look out for Min at the same time.

No matter. Min had the apartment to himself. And that included that big mirror in Mother's room. He pranced about in front of it, making monkey faces at himself. Then, he saw that Mother's dresser drawer was ajar. Curious, he climbed up the seat in front of the dresser and pulled on the drawer. It moved easily enough and soon it was open.

Min peered into the drawer. It was full of the stuff that he had seen Mother take out to put on her face just before they headed out. A maroon-coloured stick caught his eye, and he fished it out of the drawer.

It was a weird looking box, squarish on each end, corners and edges all rounded, a single line of gold all around at roughly one third the length of the box. Min grabbed both ends and pulled hard. The box came apart and a luscious red coloured waxy substance in stick form was found.

Min got excited. He had seen this before. Mother used this to draw on her face to look pretty before heading out! Climbing off the seat, Min scampered back to the mirror, and with the stick of lip-stick in hand, started to draw all over his face while looking at himself in the mirror.

``Why'd you bring it up?'' Min said.

``Because when Ma and I got back from the doctor, I could remember her laughing her socks off from the ridiculous pattern you had painted your face using that lip-stick. A pity we didn't have a camera for that though.''

(Based on an exercise generated by WriteThis - 29-Jan-2014 21:48:35)