Persephone The Muderous Little Creature

Sunday’s are usually the day to recover from all the bad decisions we make on Friday nights, Saturday nights, hell sometimes even Thursday nights. This is the day to walk around an apartment like stumbling penguins and stay cocooned in blankets of regret. A particular Sunday in early November was no different, except for one thing. This Sunday, the room was full of everyone's regret. That weekend was full of many events to say the least. They all woke up in a dizzy spell and the night's foul tastes still in their mouths. It wasn’t until the afternoon that the stumbling penguins left the warm embraces of contemplation in search of chicken wings, fries, and a fizzy soda. After a nice greasy meal they laid in food comas. One penguin was actually being productive. The other two cannot say the same thing. They had gone into a peaceful silence in a bed. Plotting had started.

The conniving penguins who wanted nothing more than to crawl into a hole and die were thinking of doing something out of the ordinary. They were in search of something to soothe the empty blackness in their souls”:
in search of a pet. The penguins realized something though. They were broke and could barely feed themselves but alas that did not stop them from finding a pet that they could cherish and coddle over. So they went to the only website that could give them a cheap option. Craigslist. For thirty dollars they found the strangest creature with angry beady green eyes. It was perfect. A murderous little creature. The smart one of the colony of penguins was thinking about the logistics of getting this tiny creature. The penguins lived in an apartment where pets were not allowed. Tweedle dee and Tweedle dum with a swell of pride in their chest from what they discussed said,

“We’ll just hide it” 

… as if that was the best plan in the world. The penguins set off onto their adventure to pick up their new roommate. It was a short 15 minute drive into the unknown parts of their city. They should’ve question the chance of being murdered considing they were on a road that pinned them between giant pine trees. At some point the road shifted from normal roads to just dirt paths, but these penguins are not the brightest. They ended up in front of an old creaky house and had been told to drive up to the back where they saw a flurry of various animals from peacocks to calves and bunnies that had an ill fate to go to the slaughterhouse. The penguins took about 5 minutes to gather their wits and leave the vehicle. Once they did they were greeted by a young blonde girl in boots that were covered in mystery, smelly something. She was bright and cheery.

This was foreign to the penguins as they looked like they had crawled their way out of hell. In retrospect they might’ve as they had empty bits in their memory from their unhinged weekend. The young girl walked around in search of the hell creature that would soon be the penguin's pet. She found her in a little bush and simply plucked it out like she was a ripened grape on a vine. The creature was smaller than a shoe and was placed in the arms of one of the penguins who did not know what to do with it as she had never held something so fragile. The penguin was afraid she would crush her. The penguins were completely infatuated with this creature as soon as they laid eyes on her. Now they were on their way to Petco bcause like the dumb penguins they are they had nothing for the creature. As they cruised their way they were thinking of what to name this tiny multi-colored ball. 

“Diane”

“No”

“Opal”

“No” 

“Selene” 

“Like Celine Dion?”

“No” 

“Okay then no” 

“Sage”

“What the fuck. No”

“Fine, what about Persephone?”

“No” 

They fell into an exhausted silence, not knowing what to name this creature was giving them both a pounding headache. 

“I kinda like Persephone”

“I like it too we can nickname it Percy” 

“I think it’s good”

Finally a decision had been made: Persephone Goddess of Spring was the name of their new devilish creature.