Once upon a time Little Janz from grade 9 heard of the magical fruit of the Dragons.
She googled the picture and was instantly drawn to its peculiar appearance and strange neon pink colour.
She googled the picture and was instantly drawn to its peculiar appearance and strange neon pink colour.
One Saturday afternoon, she and her dad went to Chinatown and lo and behold,
on the longest table in the front of the store....
DRAGONFRUIT!
The store had the biggest and brightest football-sized dragonfruit she'd ever seen. Little Janz asked her Daddy Yong if they could buy it and being the kind daddy he is, he said yes.
The evil cashier rang up the dragonfruit and after barking a maniacal laugh,
he declared the total to be $10, a hefty price for a fruit the size of two of Little Janz's fists.
Looking at her daughter's expectant face expression, Daddy Yong reluctantly doled out the money and paid the cashier.
On the ride back from Chinatown, Daddy Yong drove in silence and thought about all of the family's expenses and how he didn't make much money in the last few months and regretted buying that fruit. His regrets and worries manifested in a very surprising way and he begun to yell at his poor daughter for making him buy it.
With a crying daughter in tow, he returned to the store. Little Janz sat in the car as Daddy Yong bargained with the evil cashier, in the hopes of getting his hard earned money back. The stony-faced cashier refused to return his money.
The two sat in the car silently as they returned home, the neon fruit glowing a little too cheerfully in the backseat.
Still upset about the pink fruit, Daddy Yong left Little Janz alone upstairs to prepare the dragonfruit herself. Little Janz cut the dragonfruit, revealing a surprisingly white flesh that was sprinkled with black seeds. She tasted its juicy flesh. Her very first bite of the exotic fruit. It was like a vanilla ice cream paradise! Chilled to perfection, it had the crunchy texture of kiwi seeds, its tartness replaced with sweetness.
She carried a plateful of the delicious fruit down to Daddy Yong who tasted it. A smile crept onto his face as he joyously ate and floated off into the vanilla ice cream paradise.
And so, the dragonfruit that caused strife between Little Janz and Daddy Yong returned the harmony between them.
THE END.
