Narrative Essay On Betta Fishes

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I was taking the train with Duke on my lap. Everybody who sat in front of me stared at me looking confused. I always bring Duke with me ever since my past six betta fishes have died. They were all red and named Duke. This name continues a legacy, but also the monarchy of all the pet fishes I’ve owned in the past. I’m always afraid that I will go home one day and find him floating on the surface of his bowl. So whenever I’m heading out for a whole day, I take him along with me. I just fear of losing the only company I have, so I have the need to bring his company wherever I go. I knocked on the door expecting Cooper to open the door, but Chloe greeted me first instead. She looked at me with her big blue eyes and turned around in search for someone. “Coop!” She called staring at Duke who spun around his bowl. Cooper …show more content…

I had missed my stop, but ended up at the subway stop I once used to get off when I was in high school and when both of my parents were still alive. When everything that seemed so terrible seemed far away. I quickly hopped off the train afraid the doors would shut on me. I walked up the stairs cautiously with Duke in my arms and recalled the homeless man sleeping on the floor in the same spot. I stopped and watched him sleep peacefully and remembered how Jimmy would tease him by poking his back whenever he was asleep. Jimmy would dare me to poke him and I usually did feeling pressured. The homeless man would then rock his fist in the air angered with and Jimmy and I and chase us. Jimmy and I would laugh hysterically as we ran through corridors and down stairs pushing people out of our ways. I was now looking at him feeling sorry for those entire five years of pure torture. I walked outside as the wind blew through and the tiny hairs on my arms. Duke was found to be in total chaos. He swam rapidly around his bowl in circles with

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