The Odd Family

Date: 7/31/2019

My family and I randomly decide to go on a picnic, or maybe extend it to a mini vacation. I was so thrilled, at the last minute they talked me into going with them. I rushed to pack my things, and at the last last minute decided to bring my rabbit and rushed to pack all his things. They held the elevator while I did and I might have taken a bit too long. But finally we were off and then settled in a rentable guest house on the water but still in the city, a smaller city but still one. Maybe there was also a forest, it was like the best of all the vacation spots. A cabin on the warf in the city near a forest. Yep. And as we were renting I had to clean up the house, it was clean but needed to be bunny proofed so I could let my bunny out I went around tucking electric cords away so he couldn't gnaw on them. I enlisted my little brother for help. My entire family was a bit excentric. We rented a slightly excentric place. Some little sections, like in the kitchen, were under construction, just the barest minor of repair but it was a very lived in house. The rabbit was let loose early and suddenly turned into a rat, a rather large angry surly rat with teeth like an opposum and it growled constantly. I was much concerned about its health. I kept playing with it, caring for it, acting like it was a rabbit, but secretly it scared me and I was lying to myself pretending it was a rabbit when it really was a rabid large creature half a second away from attacking all the time. At least it didn't gnaw on the cords. I had a twin, one who was so close it was like she was a shadow. She did her own thing and was her own person but she was so close to me it was like I had a ghost of myself which walked and talked corporeal and was a bit more outgoing. She got caught up in this thing with a local marketplace/circus and wanted to buy this huge painting she was obsessed with. And when I mean huge I mean it. It's the size it would take 50 men around its edges to lift and move it, maybe more. I'm pretty sure my parents were just as excentric. I think my father was a cientist and my mother was dark and sexy and a bit Morticia Addams-esque. She was often in the kitchen and keeping the home but it was clear she wasn't just a house mother. I think she was just endowed with a wicked good humor and a set of skills several hundred miles long. She could do anything at any given time and her choice for vacation was to be the opposite of her usual self. Anyway despite my worry over the evil rat rabbit I had a good time. We all did. I feel like everything got done and we racked up quite the bill as we did so. Several days before we were to leave things took a turn. My twin had been working hard to raise money, by joining the ciruc while we were there, to buy some art to flip. However she was still obsessed with that massive. And expensive painting. At the last little while before our vacation ended she took our money stock, everything which would have paid our rent bill and vacation bill which as now extensive, and went and bought that painting. Meanwhile the owner came home and began making threatening noises. Not only did we have no money to pay up we had no money to get home or any excess spending along the way. It was a slightly uncomfortable two days as we waited for my twin. Finally she got it bought the art we agreed she'd buy so we could flip it, but it turned out she came home with the huge expensive piece. It was so large they delivered it to the next street with a construction vehicle, the kind with the bucket. It was huge and couldn't get to our street. They dumped the painting in the dirt and left. A bunch of people who had gathered for a crowd decided to help and we all got it inside the house, like I said before it took at least 50 people. My parents admired it, not mad at all she spent 37k on a painting. We figured it was worth much much more, and as my father, amature historian and definite intellectual geek peered at it and the frame and canvas he declaired it much more unique and valuable than we had thought. Later, for some reason, I was on the roof. It was quite windy up there and I don't recall why I went up there, but I was at the very tip top of a spiral and on a water vane to boot. It was iron and cold and the wind whistled through the flimsy hold I had to the earth. I noticed something odd in the water on the warf, a ship, it was massive and submarine-esque. A man, a huge muscled squid man, began to speak to me telepathically. He wanted the painting, or something inside it. He demanded I bring it to him or he'd sink every ship in the harbor. As he sank back down into the sea it was clear he could, two ships began to buckled in his wake nearly splitting in half. I quicjoy agreed and he stopped and used some hover antigravity power, white circles on the bottom of his ship, to stop the undertow. I think his ship was a spaceship. Anyway the story ends well. The rabbit changes back to a rabbit and all his food, hay and pellets, never got eaten cause he was a rat. My sister got her painting and the family a lot of money and I think the squid an went away happy. Even the renters were content with the extra we through in. My brother and I packed up as the renters watched and there was something about a cutting board in the kitchen with occult symbols in it which made me want one. The female renter watched like a curious hawk as my brother cleaned the cutting board for her. We left the house in much better shape then it was when we arrived. We might have been odd but we were good people.