candy!

Our mail boxes are clumped along each block, and there's a seperate cabinet where they can store parcels & leave a key in your box. Today I drew Key #4, knowing there was a package potentially containing candy waiting for me. The problem was, Key #4 was bent. Seriously bent, like some big brown Russian bear from a circus had used it to clean his teeth between shows. I spent ten minutes leaning all my weight on the box, trying to shove the key into the lock while simultaneously bending the key back to something reasonably straight without breaking the grimy thing or cutting my hand open on its rusted ring. I was mad that the parcel ended up in evil box #4 with its cursed, curving key.

Finally the damn thing opened. I took my astonishingly heavy parcel back down the block.

OH MY GOD THE SUGAR

I cut the tape, wondering what that pink thing could be - it's strawberry Pocky! And oh look at all this candy! OMG MARSHMALLOW FLUFF FOR REAL! MAPLE SYRUP! CANDY CANDY CANDY CANDY OH MY GOD ITS FULL OF FERRERO ROCHER! PEPPERMINT BARK ALL MINE ALL MINE NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM,,,,

Would you believe I have never actually eaten a fig newton? But I am going to now! Maybe after I work through all the delicious candy. Because there is so much candy. SO MUCH CANDY. (AND YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS, LYCHEE CANDY!)

Thank you, eleventy million times kindness_says for my awesome Yuletide candy box. I will use the power of the sugar within to fuel some mad fic writing!