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Copyrights reserved by the author. If you are in doubt, please click on 'Copyrights' and read the details. Adam and Eve continued Because you are so beautiful," replied Adam with a shaky voice. Eeeef smiled coyly. "Fancy me do you?" Embarrassed, Adam glanced down. "That obvious huh?" Eeeef frowned. "What's obvious?" Adam, blushing furiously, glanced down at himself. "You know!" Eeeef shook her head. "I'm sorry but I haven't a clue what you are on about. You'll have to fill me in." A wave of dizziness passed over Adam. "Well speak to me!" snapped Eeeef. Adam swallowed several times. He pointed down at himself. "This! You've done this to me. It's never happened before." Eeeef giggled. "Fibber. It's been like that ever since you got up this morning!" Adam closed his eyes to hide his embarrassment. "Look, Eeeef. I've er, seen what the monkeys and horses and other animals do. And I was wondering if --- " Eeeef frowned. "Wondered?" "Yes. I wondered if I might --- " "Might what?" "You know!" Eeeef shook her head. "Nope! You've lost me again." "I wondered if I might --- you know --- like the monkeys do." Eeeef shrugged. "You could try, but I don't think they'll let you.Have you seen how many bald monkeys there are out there? All that fur you ripped off them --- not a happy bunch are they?" Adam stamped his foot. "Eeeee F---" "What my precious? Hey! What's your name anyhow?" "Me? My name? Adam." Eeeef smiled seductively. "Tell you what, Adam. If you go out there into the garden right now and pick me a bunch of moonflowers. I'll let you lie down beside me. How does that grab you? Adam? Where'd he go?" Moonflowers were quite rare; even in the Garden of Eden, but finally, Adam found a patch and picked them eagerly. He also established the very first land-speed record in returning home! Panting, and out of breath, Adam fell to his knees beside Eeeef's reclining form. He held out the flowers. "Here my sweet, moonflowers!" Eeeef sat up and took the proffered flowers. She raised them to her nose and, closing her eyes she inhaled deeply. "Ah!" she sighed. "Such a heavenly scent." "Argh!" sighed Adam; for other reasons. "Well, Adam. I think it's time for you to lay beside me, and speak to me of sweet things." Adam came close to fainting, but bravely he fought on and sat on the edge of the stone ledge, just inches away from Eeeef. As he moved closer, Eeeef sniffed. She lowered her nose to Adam's arms and sniffed deeper. Adam froze. "What's wrong?" Eeeef sniffed the moonflowers then leaned forwards and sniffed Adam once more. "What's going on?" asked Adam, the puzzlement clear on his face. "What's going on?" snapped Eeeef. "That's exactly what I want to know. I can smell a strange scent on you and it's not moonflowers. Have you been picking other blooms? Have you got another woman? Is that it? Eh? Eh?" So, Adam was forced to spend that night sleeping on the spare rock in a side cave. Kept awake by Eeeef's snoring, even though she was quite a distance away, Adam cursed and moaned and wondered if perhaps the Good Lord had been right after all. He was already regretting asking for a partner, but then her naked image would fill his mind, and he recalled the monkeys and wished that he was a monkey too! Life would be so much easier. With a heavy sigh he rolled over and fell asleep. The second day was more a less a copy of the first. This time it was: 'Can't you make a hole in the cave wall just there? Then we could look out over the garden.' Having no tools to speak of, it took Adam a few days to bash through the hard rock, using another rock. Then, of course, the 'window' looked bare; something to drape it with would be 'nice' and so on, for seven days and, for seven nights, Adam was banished to the spare rock. The turning point came on the eighth day. Waking early, Adam left the cave whilst Eeeef was still fast asleep. He went to the banana tree and ate his breakfast. In no rush to return home, he wandered around the garden for a while. The sky was clear; as it always was, the sun just right; as it always was and everything in the garden was just peachy; as it always was. Then he came across a clearing that he had never seen before and in the centre of the clearing was one solitary fruit tree. Curious about a sign that stood before the tree, Adam casually wandered towards it to see what it said: WARNING: TREE OF KNOWLEDGE KEEP OFF. DO NOT TOUCH. EAT NOT OF THIS TREE. ESPECIALLY YOU ADAM! Adam, frowned. "So! This is the tree that I must eat not thereof --- thingy --- whatever." He stared at the golden fruit that hung from the branches. The fruit, slightly moist from the early morning dew, sparkled and glittered in the golden glow of the rising sun. "Mmm, I must say they do look very tempting, I wonder why I'm not supposed to eat from this tree?" For a few moments, Adam stared longingly at the fruit before he finally gave a shrug and turned away. As he was nearing the cave he could hear Eeeef moaning and complaining about something, so he deftly turned away and moved around to the back of the cave. Thinking it wise to wait until Eeef had calmed down, he sat on a rock and stared glumly at the ground.As the sun rose higher and the air grew warmer, Adam became aware of a loud buzzing. He turned his head to investigate. The noise came from a few feet away; from the hollowed rock that he used to discard all the waste fruit and empty honeycombs, for he knew the insects they attracted. For a moment he watched the mass of wasps and bees as they swarmed all over the mound of rotting fruit and honey. Getting up to leave, Adam took a step and halted. Something was different, but what? Then he noticed that the wasps were acting oddly. He watched one particular insect trying to clamber over a decaying bunch of grapes, but it kept falling off and rolling over and as he moved closer to look he saw there were many others in the same condition. Eventually, Adam grew bored with the spectacle and decided it was time to face his mate. Eeeef wanted another bath but Adam refused to fetch the water. Eeeef whined and yelled, shouted and screeched, but Adam was adamant. Eeeef changed tactics. She smiled broadly at Adam and winked suggestively. The water was brought! While Eeeef lay soaking in her bath, Adam gathered up the many banana peels and orange skins and took them around to the rear of the cave. Turning the corner, he stopped dead in his tracks. The sight before him caused him to drop the garbage and stare wild-eyed at the strange events unfolding before him. All around the pile of rotting fruit were animals of all shapes and sizes, and they were doing the horizontal dance again. Well most were; some were standing, some were hanging from the trees but the majority were piled together in a seething mass of animal passion. "What the ---" Adam's jaw fell open. "Oi! You lot! Clear out of here. Go on, shoo!" Several monkeys looked up and chattered inanely. Twenty or so rabbits took no notice whatsoever and continued doing what rabbits are very good at. A fine Arab stallion, without a mate, whinnied forlornly and staggered off with a highly unusual sideways gait. A great big grizzly bear, who looked absolutely done in, wandered off with his head clamped tightly between his powerful paws. "What's the matter with you all?" Cried Adam. A chipmunk darted to the pile of rotting fruit and sipped greedily at the dripping juice that was pooling below the rock. Sated, the animal suddenly leaped into the air, did a backward flip, landed on its hind legs and then promptly fell over backwards, out cold! "Huh?" Exclaimed Adam. Curious, he battled his way through the mass of animals and dipped his finger into the fermented juice. He tasted it. His eyes opened wide. "Mmm! This is good. I must gather some up and offer some to Eeeef!"
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