Exacting Revenge

Mona's POV

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Molly's howling aroused the other capuchins to join in, clutching their stomachs as they laughed.

There. Was. Poop. On. Her. Head!

Poop!

The capuchins hollered, jumping up and down on each other, hysterically hooting at each other.

"Slop!"

With a sweep, Mona pushed the poop out of her silky fur, absolutely and horrendously mortified. The rounds and rounds of laughter quickly flushed Mona's face. Aggravated, she vigorously ruffled her head, trying to comb out all the poop left behind, but she ended up smearing the poop more and more into her scalp.

Feeling all their eyes plastered on her embarrassing actions, Mona's eyes burned, like she stared directly into the scalding sun, like her eyes got soaked in spice.

"Stop laughing!" Mona bawled, the rim of her eyes turned red.

"Ha, what does it feel like to get a taste of your own medicine?" Molly declared, crossing her arms.

"You!" Mona cried, blinking her eyes rapidly to prevent the tears running down her face.

Suddenly, she leaped away, escaping the unbearable presence of her cousins.

"Wait, Mona, where are you going?" Molly cried worryingly.

"None of your business!"

With that, Mona disappeared into the forest.

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The sun made its way down. It was time for the moon to rise, the time of sleep.

But Mona was the last thing from sleepy.

Skittering through the branches, Mona was looking left and right.

-Ugh, where can I find a place to clean myself!?-

-Thank goodness it's dim out.-

-I would simply die in embarrassment if any other animal saw me!-

-My cousins are worse enough, but if any other animal catches wind of it I…-

"I saw it, really!"

"Yeah yeah Marcela, as if."

"No, believe me you guys! Really close here, I saw that sloth poop out the longest poop I've ever seen in my life!"

Mona stopped in her tracks.

She twisted her neck.

Slowly, each step at a time, Mona inched up to hear the gossip.

And then, she saw them.

On a large tree she saw three birds perched on a branch. Their colorful feathers contrasted to the usually deep green leaves, looking like stunning, large flowers blooming boisterously.

To another side on a different branch, there was another large and colorful bird, flapping its wings as if it was trying to describe the scene.

"That sloth was almost as big as me!"

"But you would've never guessed what came out of it!"

"This big- No, this big!" The noisy bird demonstrated the size with its wings, stretching its wings to the max.

"This big of a poop came out of it. It's so long, I could leash around a pet for a walk on the forest floor from the top of the trees, I could probably swing it around like a whip and hit an animal kilometers (miles) away!"

"And it was stin-ky. Peyew!"

"That thing stank so bad, it could kill every animal in the rainforest!"

"That thing could fertilize the whole earth!"

"Not to mention how thick it is, it was probably thicker than most trees here!"

-A sloth near here? With that kind of poop? - Mona thought, tuning out her sorroundings.

"Okay, Marcela, you're just spouting nonsense," the first bird said, rolling its eyes in annoyance, "You're better off not talking."

"But, really! I-" Marcela squawked, the words from her mouth sputtered out.

"Marcela, you're just no good. You either talk about the most lousiest topic ever or speak gibberish. Being boring or being crazy, just pick one! No one cares about what you're saying!" the second bird exclaimed, cutting Marcela's words off.

Marcela immediately shrunk her head down, staying quiet.

"Finally", the third bird muttered, "This stupid macaw finally shut-up. I'm getting a headache from all the squawking she's doing, sounding like a mix between a drowning bird and a squealing hog."

"I know right, " the second bird snickered.

Marcela shrunk down even more, her brightly colored feathers seemed dull.

-That must be it!-

-That sloth humiliated me in front of all of my cousins. I'll make it pay!-

-It can't be that far anyway. Sloth are so slow, I'll find it and make work of it quick!-

With that, Mona leapt away, racing to search every knick knack of the rainforest.

Her eyes gleamed, driven by vengeance and resentfulness.

She was determined to find that sloth.

To exact revenge!

-Just you wait you stupid sloth, I'll find you, if it's the last thing it takes!-

The moon hung in the night sky, giving a faint glow.

It isn't the end of the day, no, it's simply the beginning of a day, the beginning of an adventure.