A/N: This story was born from a prompt during my Writing Club. The prompt was a story that contained: an orphaned baby, misplaced mangos, a package delivered to the wrong address and a conversation between two strangers. My friends as well as my mom and grandma enjoyed the story and I hope you do as well! No read more as this is a pretty short story.
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Ding Dong
Ding Dong
“Hold your horses,” Cooper yelled as he headed toward the front door. He opened the door to see his regular mailman, Kenny.
“Sup,” Kenny grinned while handing over the clipboard for Cooper to sign that he had indeed gotten his package. He then traded the clipboard for the large package. It seemed bigger than need be for some mangos and it had holes on the top of it, but Cooper shrugged it off as being that maybe the mangos were really big this time and that the holes were to help them from going bad.
After saying bye to Kenny, Cooper headed into the kitchen to open the package. He grabbed a knife and sliced through the tape on top and then he pulled back the flaps…. Only to see a baby wrapped in pink with a few toys, diapers and formula next to it as well as an envelope.
Cooper stared wide eyed at the baby as it gurgled happily. He ripped open the envelope to find a letter, which he quickly read.
‘To whom it may concern,
I’m sorry for your misplaced mangos but I had to save my daughter Annie from life on this illegal mango farm.
Please take care of her.’
It listed then things about the baby girl but Cooper was too shocked to read it.
Meanwhile
Wesley was coming from the skate park and met the mailman delivering packages.
“Hey,” Wes greeted as he bounded up the steps to his front door.
“Hey man,” the mailman returned the greeting.
“Where’s Carl?” Wes asked as he took the clipboard being handed to him and signed his name quickly.
“Out sick, so I’m taking his streets for now. I’m Kenny by the way.”
Wes nodded, handing the clipboard back to Kenny, “I’m Wes.”
After saying his goodbyes, Wes headed inside to open the package. He dropped it on the coffee table, wondering what it was as he hadn’t ordered anything in months. Maybe it was something for one of his parents or one of his siblings. Either way, he opened the package to see a box full of mangos.
“What the…?” Wes picked one up and rolled it around in his hands. It seemed normal. Maybe his mom had ordered them? Though… wasn’t his little brother Keaton allergic to mangos?
Suddenly the mango split into two pieces and there in the middle of the mango was a piece of gold, the size of his fist. Wes dropped the mango in surprise. He grabbed another and pulled it apart. There rested a clear diamond, about the size of a wheel from Wes’ skateboard. He opened another just in case, shaking a bit. Inside the third mango wasn’t gold or another diamond but a bag of white powder.
“Wes!”
Wes jumped and saw his sister’s boyfriend. From the way Alec was looking at him, Wes had a feeling that this package was his.
Elsewhere
An elderly woman opened a package of mangos. They were tasty but…
“Where’s my bananas?”
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