Bad boys on bicycles

/ Doug Jacquier

This piece is in response to a Unicorn Challenge photo prompt.

The boys leaned their bicycles against the fence and stared up at Chateau Ciel. Their tourist parents believed the boys were cycling to the beach, not the countryside. Jack was considered the source of all wisdom to his younger brother, Tom, who asked breathlessly ‘Is that Heaven?’ Jack nodded like a sage and said ‘You know how the Bible says ‘My house has many mansions’? Well this is one of them.’

‘So what’s it like inside?’

‘Everyone has their own room for starters.’ The boys mutual dislike of having to share a double bunk room was acknowledged by envious glances between them.

‘Do they have ice-cream?’

Jack rolled his eyes at Tom’s petty concerns and said ‘Of course. As much as you want, any time you want it.’

‘Does everybody still drive cars?’

That’s the best bit, Tom. Yes, even the kids do. There’s a big race track out the back and you can go as fast as you like.’

‘But what if there’s an accident, Jack?’

‘Nothing can happen to you, silly, because you’re already dead.’

‘So you have to be dead to go to Heaven?’

‘Oh, der, you can only go there after you’re dead and then only if you’ve been very good.’

‘But lying to Mum and Dad about where we were going is bad. So I suppose that means we can’t get in anyway. So how do you know all this, Jack?’

Jack mounted his bicycle and said ‘I heard it through the grapevine’ and laughed.

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