craftgrrl | Heartbreak Summer (Squash) (Reply)

Kip met Debbie in the garden, and he instantly knew that she was the veggie for him. Fleshy, green, firm, with just a little bit of give, she was absolutely beautiful, and yet her simple taste was a perfect compliment to his mild nature. They fell madly in love.

The asparagus warned them that it couldn’t last, and the corn told them that it would never work, but they kept on as though there was nothing in the world besides the two of them. They were young and reckless, a couple of fools who thought that they knew better than anyone else, two kids who believed that they could live forever and never change. Kip knew that somehow they could make it work if only they loved hard enough and never gave up.

It happened in the produce bin. Debbie told Kip that they couldn’t see each other anymore, that they were from different worlds. Kip begged her not to leave, but leave she did. She got in a strange man’s cart with some of her friends, and he never saw her again. It took Debbie’s words to tell him what his eyes refused to see – he was a crookneck, and she a zucchini. Heartbreak summer (squash).