Story contest entry #1 : A Four Leaf Clover

Well where do I begin,

I was out enjoying the start of spring or at least it was a whole lot warmer and greener then it had been two months earlier!

I had wanted to get away from the hustle and bustle of the big city,traffic,load rude people, or maybe just get away from the wife always nagging me to clean up the house,garage, and well the yard as the snow was milted and the leaves were all just rotting under the tree where I had left it last fall. “Yes she had reminded me several times to bag them up before the first big snow”

Well I jumped on my bike that I had been waiting to take out “Just to blow out the carbon and feel the wind in my hair again!

Jill my wife had woke up this morning and said she was going to the Zoo with her two sisters, Kathy and RayLynn.

“Wow was Raylynn a looker!”

But any ways they would be gone for hours and the country roads were calling my name!

No sooner had Jill joined her sisters and I was out the door putting my leathers and warming up the the motor!

I head out of town on state route 140 looking forward to the curves through the mountian’s ahead,

about forty miles up the road the mountains open up to meadows and some of the clearest streams one could only dream about of see in pictures in all those field and stream magazines.

Just as i got out of the mountians I had to stop for a pit stop and drain that second cup of coffee I had just after breakfast.

as I was standing by what was the only tree for miles I dropped my sunglasses and reached down to pick them up when I seen it,

 ‘A Four leaf Clover!’ Cool.

I picked it up and thought about how this was going to be a very lucky day for me!

I got back on my bike and continued on.

I was cruizing along when I thought I seen some one standing along the road but as I got closer they were no longer there!

I past a sign that stated Crystal springs meadow three miles,

I had not been up that road since i was twelve when Dad and i would get away and go fishing and as he called it “Get away from Mom time”

as i slowed to make the turn there was this person again standing at the turn off hitching up the road towards Crystal Springs

“Strange’ it was a woman in a green outfit she was not very tall about 4’8” when i stopped I was thinking she or should I say the person had to be taller as I seen her from a far distance away before I stopped!

She told me she had a cabin up the valley and would pay me handsomely for a ride!

I asked more joking then seriously where are your parents and she looked to be no more then sixteen or so,

She told me she had not seen her parents in twenty years! OK this is getting weird there was no way she was in her thirty as I put 18 and her supposed twenty together since she may have left home.

She brought me back to her question of a ride and I agreed to take her to her cabin.

we were riding along for maybe fifteen miles when she said just up ahead is a road across the meadow I slowed to make the turn and she climbed off the bike and opened a gate that looked to be as old as the hills that were in the distance!

after I stopped and she closed the gate she climbed back on the back of the bike and told me just a little farther and she would pay me what ever i asked of her. Boy was my mind wondering with that statement but I told her it was no problem and i was happy to help!

We road up a glen following a stone covered road “Now who would ever build and road here out of stones that I can’t even imagine where they got them to build it! They almost were almost shimmering!

But what happened next was just to much to believe! just as we came around the last turn was a cottage  that was well right out of a painting by Thomas Kinkade! I parked the bike and she asked me to please come in and have a cool drink of water and then she would grant me what ever I asked!

I entered in to the cottage and the room it seemed to just spread out and she was gone, To where I did not know! She was just here right in front of me and the room was far to big for her to just turn a corner and be gone!

But then she was suddenly right behind me with a glass of the clearest coolest water I had ever seen or tasted!

she told me to follow her in to the other room and i less then a twinkle of and eye we were in a living room that had some of the prettiest hand carved wood furniture imaginable all made of Oak draperies made of what look like moss, and honestly if I did not know better the room was lit up with Fire Fly’s!

It smelled of Pine,Mint,Wild flowers, and had a cool moist feel Very Earthy!

I had not noticed until just now she was no longer wearing her Florescent Green outfit but a Dark Green evening gown that well, if there was ever a woman with a perfect figure she had it! she was neither slender nor heavy “I don’t know it was almost like she had the figure every man dreams of when they dream of that perfect woman! You know some men love a large woman with curves and some like them tall and slender! This woman had well that body I always dreamed of!

she had me sit down on a couch that was so comfortable I thought I had fallen a sleep the second I sat down!

That was when she asked me so what would you like for your unselfish serenader of time?

I kept saying to myself I would not ask for any thing but then just blurted out “I wish My Wife would stop nagging me about the chores and cleaning the house!” Wow did I just say that? I mean I don’t even know this lady and I am complaining about my wife! And she told me I could have any thing I wished for and I asked for my wife to get off my case! “Shaking head”

She said it is as you wish but since what you asked can be solved by you also there is a price you will pay for her no longer bringing up the things that she is asking of you!

And if you fail to do them she will have a power over you to do as she chooses!

When you get back home she will not be home yet!

You must do the three things you have promised her you would do!

Clean the yard,Clean the garage, and Start helping her with chores inside the house!

OK this is just to Weird how does she know what I have promised and or do all women think Men are lazy and do much the same thing’s?

But as you did not ask for monetary or some thing that would go against your love and commitment to your partner I will give you one more wish but it can only be something that will make you both happy!

OK Wow what do I wish for that would make us both happy!

by doing the things you promise her to do she will always look like and be the woman you always dreamed of and agree to letting you have the things you want that makes you happy!

But remember she will no longer complain to you but have you do things you will regret!

I don’t know how I got here but I was standing next to the Old Oak tree where I found the Four Leaf Clover and wanted to head home and clean up the yard!

When i got back I did start cleaning the yard but when i was done I went inside and turned on the TV I woke to Jill standing in front of me asking what happened to the garage!

The Garage what do you mean?

We walked out to the Garage and it was a bigger mess then I had seen it just a few hours ago!

Jill told me to clean it up and when I am done she will be wanting to set some new rules that will be followed or life would become my worst nightmare!

I finished the garage and went inside Jill told me she felt I was acting like a Lazy child and needed to be treated like one!

And as soon as I cleaned the bathroom “Like she had asked me two days in a row to do” I was going to make her a set of Paddles and other things that she will use when ever she asks me to do some thing and it does not get done!

I learned what the Leprechaun Lady meant when she warned me to do as I am asked or there would be a price to pay and what she meant when she told me what I would get if I did what I had promised to do!

Life is very painful when the chores are not done

But when I do as I am told my life has been filled with Happiness and time to enjoy our time together!