Keenan Point of View

'Hey you, Cheshire cat,

Stop grinning from ear to ear;

I would stomp you like a floor mat,

Or better put your head under a car tyre.

Can a person be so foolish,

To beam like a creepy ghost;

Resembling pink pearly little Ghoulish,

Sending chills to my spine till frost.

Hey you, tongue twisted sister of laboratory rats,

What is wrong with your facial muscles;

Simply annoying and drat,

Looking more like rock stuck freshwater mussels.'

If I can ever recite a poem with my current situation in mind, then it would not be better than that. I mean seriously, what is wrong with her?

And what is wrong with people around me?

Are they just visiting the paradise for fools today or were they always so foolish?

What the heck is my life?

"Mr. Coopers, Mr. Senior Coopers and Mrs. Katherine Coopers are here to meet you." Libra said, smiling widely like is doing from two days.

I freaking hate it!

Why is everyone whom I cross paths with smiling at me?

And it is happening just from the past two days.

"Can you f**king stop smiling at me?" I growled at her, my eyes turning into slits just at the sight of that young untidy woman showing her yellowish teeth to me.

"Of course, sir." She replied with yet another wide smile. Did it not get into her head what I just said. I freaking asked her to stop grinning and replied positively with another grin.

What the heck is this?

"Fine, just go and bring some drinks and snacks and hold all the important calls for me till I am free." I ordered, massaging my head which seems no bounds in paining itself.

From past two days, everyone is behaving weirdly with me. They smile at everything. I scold them, they smile; I insult them, they smile; I look at them, they smile and I don't look at them, still they smile.

The smiles are going so overboard as far as giving me chills.

I want to scold them and hit them but fear that their smiles only grow larger.

Never had I been afraid of something like a smile.

Heck, I am not even this afraid of bugs that I am currently feeling for smiles.

I don't know what suddenly happened but the whole office building is beaming with bright grins that is literally blinding my eyes and binding my brains. And somehow, I think that tongue twister sister of laboratory rats is behind this sudden change.

What is her strategy? What is her exact plan? Is she trying to seduce me with her smile?

But her smile is not that great for me to fall head over heels for her. It was just okay. Not too good, not bad as well. It was just so-so

She must be planning something very devious to take over my whole inheritance and throw me into rags. But you girl, you are going against a devil. I am called a devil not because I have killer looks but also because I have insane power too.

"Ah, the same old brooding dear grandson, how are you little man?" Grandpa walked in along with mom, both holding yet creepy grins on their faces.

My frown deepened and the will to destroy the concept of smile on this earth intensified. If I see one more smile, I will go crazy forever.

And to make me go crazy for ever, a very happy, smiling Bell entered my office along with grandpa and mom.

That's it. I will kill her.

"Don't come before me if all of you keep flaunting your teeth. Show me your faces when the everyday-happy-day demon leaves your body." I grumbled and closed my eyes with increasing headache.

All the three walked inside and sat on the sofas without heeding my warning and continue beaming at me.

What if their bones and muscles get stuck and they are jammed like that forever?

Or, are they already stuck with the excess smiling? I think they have been smiling in sleep too.

"A smile a day, keeps negativity away." Bell girl beam widened at me and patted her own shoulder for the innovation of an old phrase she just made.

"My smile at your service, Indigo." She bowed down elegantly but... but the wicked glint was never lost on me.

"My smile at you service, son" Grandpa followed and patted my head affectionately making my eyes narrow at him.

"My smile at you service, Sweetie." Mom perked in grinning like a model for toothpaste ads. My mouth formed a thin line and my jaw muscles constricted at the three ghouls.

I'm sorry mom, grandpa but you really do look like ghouls.

I am not sorry for Bell girl because she always looks like a demented cremated mummy in the home of sand from centuries.

"The snacks and drinks along with my bright smile at your service, Mr. Coopers." Libra took the opportunity to come inside and place the tray full of snacks with smiley shaped cookies and drinks in smile printed glasses with smiley art work as garnish.

"Stop smiling for F**king sake" I yelled and pulled my hair until I felt a patch of my hair getting out of its roots into my hand.

For goodness sake!

"You shouldn't cuss like that in front of women, son. It's rude." Grandpa smile stayed intact and I wondered how he was not triggered by my outburst. He never tolerated disrespect from anyone but seeing him grinning at me when I cursed, I think he lost few of the screws in his brain.

"Tell me honestly, you people; what is it with everyone smiling? What the heck is this?" I asked all the three when Libra left my office room with a large smiley sticker stuck on her skirt on her butt.

This is ridiculous!

"We are trying to turn you human, son." Answered grandpa with the ever stuck grin. Not for even one second did the three stopped beaming at me.

The only time I saw such smiles was on a TV drama series where the female protagonist was found pregnant.

Damn, It can't be that reason too because technically I cannot grow my stomach unless I store fat and cholesterol inside it.

"What am I then if not human, an alien?" I mocked the three but surprisingly they did not get offended by my outburst, if possible their smile went from ear to the back of their heads.

Bell girl looked exactly like the joker man in batman movie. 'Why so serious' dialogue is only short to complete her.

"I have recently observed that though we have given you everything, we failed to give you positive expressions. I rarely see a smile on your face so I decided to give you a reason to grin like us." Grandpa said with a secretive smile.

Now I even came to know different styles of smiles.

F**king great!

"And that is?" I asked rubbing my finger on my forehead. He looked at mom smiled gleefully and then back at Bell girl and smiled scheming.

Bell girl smiled back but her eyes narrowed at him a little asking him what it is about through her eyes. Grandpa blinked his eyes as a form of assurance and turned back at me with yet another smile.

Can anyone kill the person who is responsible for providing smile on earth?

"You are going to settle down and take a wife and live happily ever after." He said and clapped his hands excitedly. What is he? A teenage girl?

Wait... wait a second...!

Settle down?

With a wife?

No! Never!

"Not in this life time! I prefer rainbow of women than one clolour." I immediately defied without thinking anything.

"Are you sure?" Grandpa did not frown or scowl but kept on smiling. I nodded my head vigorously and looked at mom with pleading eyes to stop grandpa.

Mom smiled at me, "Alright. If you want rainbow, then she is what you get. Marry Rainbow then." She smiled cunningly at me.

"WHAT?" Both I and Bell girl yelled in unison, noticing her smile flatter for the first time ever.

Marrying?

Marrying Rainbow, that too?

Impossible! It will never happen. Forget it.

I snarled at mom and grandpa while Bell girl watched them both in horror but nonetheless smiled as if she just realized her mouth is not stretched from one end of the earth to the other.

Looking at her horror stricken face but a smile added to it, feels like puking. But both mom and grandpa grinned at me nodding their heads cheerfully all the while wiggling their eyebrows at me challenging me to defy them.

I looked at Bell girl who started laughing awkwardly which turned into a full blown crazy laugh as if she just heard best joke of the century.

But I know they are serious. Their eyes tell me they are thousand percent serious about it.

Oh dear! What have I gotten myself into?

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Hello Sweeties,

Next chapter is here. Enjoy!

What do you think of the smiling therapy Peenan is receiving?

What if you were in his place? Will you feel happy or go crazy?

What is wrong with Peenan for Gods to punish him with a Rainbow?

Not to mention with six colorful brothers.

What? Grandpa want Peenan to marry Rainbow?

This is like a slow murder of Peenan. Don't you think so?

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