Surprise

 

Francis lived on the wall behind the toilet, and he and the human had a polite co-existence. He appreciated that.

The morning of her birthday, the human noticed Francis wasn’t on the wall.

She’d just started showering, when she heard a tiny horn and felt something on her leg. She looked down at Francis, who had hidden himself under the bath mat. “Surprise!” he said, waving his little appendages.

Startled, the human directed the water onto her leg, washing Francis back under the mat, destroying his hat and dissolving the tiny cake.

“What the fuck?” Francis would never understand humans.