The Cornerstone of Legos

The cornerstone of Legos is a Lego. Aiden knew this when he was playing with his Legos, but he didn’t know why. On the floor of his room he dumped out his tub of Legos, briefly grimacing at the loud, clunky, flow of blocks. An afternoon sun warmed half of Aiden’s room but the world outside his room was asleep. Aiden scooted around the pile of Legos and ran his palm-sized hand straight down the middle, like he always did. He then scooted on his knees back to where he started, now behind one pile of Legos, putting the other pile out of his reach.

Aiden ran his fingers through his pile of Legos to find the little Lego people he was sure to have. Aiden found and held three Lego people. A pirate, a police officer and a plain person. Aiden also found Lego hair and put it on the plain person. Aiden then looked at the pile of Legos across from his nearest pile. Aiden could see at least two Lego people. Also he could see the police officer’s hat. However, Aiden did not move from the Legos directly in front of him. He continued to take a general inventory of what Lego pieces lay before him and broke apart pieces of Legos that were stuck together from yesterday.

Aiden put down a red block and put a blue block next to it, not connecting them. Aiden lined out a square of blocks that could comfortably house his three people. He looked at the other pile. It had not moved. Pieces were separated and no foundation had been laid. Aiden used his little Lego people to move the next pieces and build up the square he had made. The Lego pirate, police officer and plain person worked together, though only one at a time could move. They built up a fort and had a fence circling the top tier. Above the ladder, the Lego people had installed a door on its side that would then swing downward to knock intruders off the top of the ladder.

Yet the other pile, the other one-half of Aiden’s Legos, did not move. They did not build a fort or a boat or even a wall. Aiden listened to his three Lego people talk about going over to the other pile to get the satellite dish that they could see. They decided to not go over and get it. Instead they moved around their own fort and built a window into one of the walls. The extra pieces were then used to make the lookout tower a little taller. The police officer stood on the lookout tower.

After concluding the fort was pretty good and that the other pile would remain a pile, Aiden stealthily made his way out of his bedroom and into the living room. He was pretty sure the world was still asleep so he made sure to not step on the fourth stair--as that stair always squeaked. In the living room downstairs, Aiden turned on the television and instantly hit the volume button down nearly a dozen times.