Buttercream-Layered Rock

Joey is from the city. He is on vacation in the Rocky Canyon. He is around with his friends Bryan and Bobby.

Joey drives a mini red car through the west to the Rocky Canyon. He has switched with one of his friends to drive the car as everyone pushes it to a high elevation. It takes forever to reach the destination, but they make it before sundown.

When everyone goes to a tent and sleeps, Joey decides to roam around the tent to scare his friends. His friends think it is a bear or a wild animal, so Bryan checks outside. It is Joey. Bryan goes inside and tells Bobby that. Both go out and play tag with Joey.

Tired, they sleep inside the tent except for Joey, who sleeps near the lake. He feels his face damp from the bucket of water Bobby used from the lake to wake him up. Joey is furious and plays tackle with Bobby.

Joey walks to the cave with curiosity. He did not see the rock fall on his head, then looked up and down and around. He finds a buttercream-layered rock with layers: brown, yellow, and green. It looks earthy and warm and has rough edges that can cut skin if pierced hard or careless. The inner layers of the rock are soft and organic inside the kind-hearted person.

He grabs it and shows it to his friends in the hot sun. His friends wonder what it can do like flying UFOs or playing catch. Joey says, “I found it. I got to keep it safe and sound. Nobody will hurt the little guy.”

“Does it have emotions?” Bryan confused.

“It is just a rock without emotion,” Bobby snickered.

“It is not funny!” Joey rushed to the car to put the rock in his pants pocket and drove without his friends, who ran after him. His friends kept with him, or they would get lost in the wild and be forgotten. Dangers are all around them.

The rock’s purpose is to protect the wearer from dangers and consequences. It also can be kind to people who were hurt or need something they have not received for a long time. If taken advantage of, the wearer is forced to transform into a rocky outside of his skin to attack the stronger people so the people stop messing with him.

Joey stopped the car and came out to see his friends dehydrated, so he got the water bottles from the car and gave them their drinks. Joey felt the rock’s electrical impulse through a pocket to touch his skin. Either way, Joey was kind to help his friends drink water and be active in the wild.

Both Bryan and Bobby looked at him. They sat in the car, and Joey drove off quietly. He would never abandon his friends in the wild or give up the rock to the animals. The rock sensed it was his choice to do that.

After the vacation in the Rocky Canyon, Joey helped his friends to come out of the car first and put away the supplies in the studio. They were done in thirty minutes, while Joey was the last in the studio.

The crew cheered Joey and his friends back in the studio. Joey needed time alone all of a sudden. He went to his office and locked himself up. He took out the rock from his pants pocket, and there was a hole in the top layer of the rock; he gasped, “What just happened, little guy?”

The voice boomed, “You are the wearer, the chosen one.”

“Little guy, you speak?” Joey squeaked with joy.

“I am not a little guy. I am a deity from the buttercream-layered rock.”

“The one I am holding.” Joey glanced at the rock.

“I am a deity, not the little guy.”

“Okay.”

“Call me a sir.”

“Yes, sir.”

“That is better.”

Knock, knock.

Joey put the rock away in his pants pocket. He saw Bobby open the door and say, “We are celebrating. You have to come and party.”

“I am on my way!”

Bobby went out first. Joey was about to exit his office, and the deity’s voice paused him in the doorway. He said clearly, “I do not want to party.”

Joey tapped the pocket. “I had to go and be with my friends. We are celebrating.”

“Not going,” he said.

“I am going.”

“If you go--” Joey put the rock on the table and exited the office. The voice grunted with anger.

Joey and the crew drank a lot of sodas and partied hard through the night. Until the morning, the rock slapped Joey’s face. Joey woke up suddenly. The rock was angry. He got up to go to the restroom to wash his face and stared into the mirror. The rock beside him says, “You have tasks to do, the wearer.”

“What tasks?”

“Go to your partying area and clean up the mess. I do not want to see a single grain on the floor. You hear me?”

Joey was shocked that he never was told to do that. He thought the crew would help him clean up after the night. He went out to see the mess still on everyone’s sleeping bodies. He woke each one and said, “Let’s clean up.”

“Why not tomorrow?” Bryan was half asleep.

“Do it now!”

“Okay, okay.” Bryan immediately cleaned up the area around him while Joey woke the others to clean. Bobby was the last to wake up and refused to do that simple task.

The voice scared Joey, except for the crew. Joey went to the restroom to hush the rock, which got angrier. Joey grabbed the rock and drove the car to the same spot in the Rocky Canyon. Joey threw a rock and drove back to the studio.

The rock transformed into a giant. It was angry and wanted revenge on Joey for throwing him out for no reason. However, it was night and cold in the Rocky Canyon, so the giant went back to a normal rock with layers and forgot to put revenge on a human being.