Jenny and David-(Roommates in a small town)

Jenny and David had never really got on that well. They had been living together for the best part of a year. It was a move of convenience, with neither one of them being able to afford a flat by themselves, they reluctantly got a place together. But the period of being civil with each other was long since passed as both parties were constantly at each other’s throats.

Jenny would fairly often take long baths. Which was a problem when David really needed the toilet and she refused to get out. David played videogames until late in the morning. Which kept waking Jenny up during the night. Jenny never cleaned up after cooking, leaving a mound of unwashed plates and saucepans on the side for David to clear up. David kept eating her leftovers that she was saving in the fridge. And so on and so forth both of them kept finding something that ticked them off about the other.

On this particular day David had left the toilet seat up in the bathroom and Jenny had almost fell in. She was fuming as she stormed into the living room.

“David, what did I tell you about leaving the toilet seat up. Don’t you have any sense? Or maybe it’s just because you’re a moron!” screamed Jenny, tired of putting up with his shit.

“Well maybe I did forget. But you forgot again about your dishes yourself. They’ve been in the sink 2 days now. I think they are soaked enough” Replied David angrily.

This argument would have probably gone on for much longer if they weren’t interrupted by the doorbell. Jenny went to answer it only to find no one there and a mysterious box on the outside. She decided to bring it in at least to see what it was.

“Did you order anything?” she asked David.

“Not that I can think of.” He replied, puzzled. “Why don’t you open it and check what it is?”

Opening the box Jenny found 2 large leather-bound tombs each with a different sex symbol on it. Taking them both out she read the note that was laying under them.

‘Dear Jenny and David. It seems that you are having trouble with one another’s company. To help with this I have given you each a tomb of curses. Each night you must pick a curse to happen to the other sex for the next day. Failure will result in punishment. The curses will end when someone gives up, the looser keeping a number of the curses. Have fun!

Sincerely

Anonymous’

Jenny and David didn’t know what to think. They each grabbed a tomb to explore what on earth it meant. In each book there was a list of various names of curses, each with a check box next to the name.

“Oh, this would be good for you! ‘Curse of the outgoing donkey’ because you already have the brains of one” she sneered at him.

“Well, I think the ‘Curse of the descriptive cow’ would be good for you because your already one” he sneered back at her.

Both of them put down the books and stormed off to their room. Not seeing that next to each of the curses the checkmark had been filled in.