Perky Cheeky Me

SEVEN THINGS YOU WOULDN’T FIND IN THE MIRROR


1.) Sam’s stomach has irrational hatred towards anchovies, as if both of them were destined to be in eternal hostility since the beginning of the world. He once ate a slice of anchovy-topped pizza to answer the ‘Dare’ part of Truth or Dare he played with his brothers at Alec’s birthday bash (the ‘Truth’ was to tell who’s his crush at the moment and no, Sam wasn’t that stupid to let his bigmouthed brothers know such private secret). He ended up puking his gut out for the rest of the night.


2.) Dean has a thing about fish. He loves them – no, reveres them as one of the most beautiful creature roaming in the world. He got his first goldfish at his 5th birthday and named it ‘Goldie’ and loved it with all his might. He was traumatized, though, when one day he came home from school to find the soon-to-be one year old Sammy playing ‘Cooking Sammy’ with Goldie as his main menu. Dean never wanted a real pet since.

3.) Even after his 15th birthday, Alec’s still afraid of storm. He never get used to the deafening blare of thunder or the blinding light of lightning, it feels like it’s cracking the sky open and the thought of it makes him uncomfortable. He can’t sneak into Dean or Sam’s room anymore now that he’d already grown up (he might be scared the f*ck out but he’s not a freaking baby, thank you very much). So, in the stormy night, Alec would hide under the blanket with headset in both ears, listening to the playlist in his iPod until he falls asleep.

4.) Ben never planned on adopting Caesar from that Animal Shelter downtown. Yes, he wanted a dog because he was sick of being alone in a house that’s too big for him, but he wanted this cute golden retriever at petshop near his school, it looked just like Buddy from Air Bud! He collected some money from his part-time jobs (cutting the neighbors’ lawns, taking Mr. Flicks’ dog to a walk, reading French novels for Mrs. Poechee every Sunday) and after a month, he went to the petshop only to find his already-loved golden retriever sold. Broken hearted, he ran to the shelter instead and when the staff showed him that dirty black Rottweiler…. Well, he kind of wanted to leave it. But then little Caesar looked at him with those sad puppy eyes, and who was Ben to neglect such adorable puppy? Then, as you’ve known, they’re practically unseparateable after that.

5.) Unlike Ben who considered her as a lifetime rival, Rachel never hates Ben. In fact, she wanted to befriend with ‘the green-eyed boy who played violin’ ever since their first collective recital. However, she kept a good distance between them because Jess told her to ‘respect his dignity’. She had no idea what the heck did that mean (she didn’t realize her award winning hurt Ben so bad – still doesn’t), but that’s what Jess said and Jess’ always right. She’s the big sister after all.

6.) Beside his rather unhealthy obsession to collect as much weirdo things as possible like somehow they would save him from apocalyptic, The Day After Tomorrow-like disaster, John had another indulgence that was hard to repress: ruffling his boys’ hair. He likes the feel of Dean’s spiky light-brown hair pricking his palm, or the way Alec’s blond tickling his skin, and especially Sam’s extraordinary mop intertwined with his fingers. But since the boys had become teenagers and even young man, he stopped showing that favorite act of affection. Dean’s hair is now so full of gel it feels sticky and greased-like, Sam’s too tall to get ruffled, and they don’t want their Dad to treat them as a child anyway. Alec’s still happily accepting the gesture (at this point John agreed with his two elder sons that Alec’s way too spoiled it makes him childish at his age), but Alec’s soft blond hair had changed into rugged brown hair so yeah, John had given up that one particular hobby.

7.) There is one ridiculous truth about Mary that no-one except people from her past knows: she is an ex-number one hater of children. It’s one of her deepest secret other than she was a tomboy who knocked three of eight boyfriends she managed to be wit during college years, because the thought that she was gonna give it up to them (yeah, notice the Avril Lavigne reference?). She loathed children and their non-stop silly movements and stupid babbling and everytime she heard them cry, Mary had an irresistible urge to stitch their mouth shut with steal thread. She still didn’t like children so much when she was pregnant with Dean, which worried her to no end. What if she couldn’t be a good mother? What if she couldn’t love the baby? Until one day at January when John’s off to work and she was cooking an apple pie alone that her water broke. The next twelve hours were hectic then, filled with panicked husband, agonizing contraction, doctors and nurses who seemed like they didn’t give a crap to the fact that she Was about to push a watermelon out of orange-sized hole, and she screamed and cried and howled at the entire ordeal. Then suddenly there was another voice, a high-pitched baby wail which usually brought her into rage but that time it sounded like angel’s song – she bnever heard something so sweet before. And when the nurse put the hazel-eyed baby boy to the crook of her arms then that’s it, she just knew she will love the pretty boy who now known as Dean Winchester. The old saying about being a mother once yoy held your baby really worked on her.