Penelope and Natalie

PENELOPE AND NATALIE

“Blue is best! Red belongs in a bird’s nest!” hollered Penelope.

Penelope was a penguin who had a wonderful life. After solving the mystery of the Shady Penguin, Penelope decided to try new things. Now, she is trying out for the cheerleading team, which wasn’t something Penelope is into, but wanted to try. As Penelope and the other penguins were prancing about in a very lethargic way, a beautiful penguin leisurely walked in and unzipped her coat. She wore a beautiful cheerleading outfit and skipped over to the captain of the team.

“I am Natalie and I am trying out for the team!” she said proudly as if she won the noble fish prize.

“Sure thing Natalie, now go and do what those penguins are doing!” hollered the captain.

After an hour of this workout the captain began to rant as loud as she could. “OKAY YOU CLUMSY BUMS! PEOPLE WHO MADE THE TEAM WILL BE ANNOUCED TOMORROW, SO CHEERIO!”

All of a sudden Natalie came to the front and said “I know I’m going to be here tomorrow, because I am better than anyone here! So please, hand me the uniform.”

The captain grunted and told everyone to leave. “AND NATALIE, YOU STAY HERE.”

Penelope ran into the lockers, ducked into the shower and put on her favorite dress and went to her friend’s house, Emily. As she pulled into her driveway, Penelope thought of that Natalie. She a braggart and how she wore that outfit for the tryouts! Suddenly, her phone rang. It was her best friend Anna. Anna owned Soups ‘n’ Crackers. Penelope answered.

“Hi Anna, what’s up?” she said into her IFish.

“ Someoneistryingtobuymystorefromme!” she said in one whole breath.

“WHAT? Anna, all I heard is your brother is doing the Irish Jig! I am coming over right this minute to either watch your brother, or help you with anything!”

Anna opened the doors to Penelope as she walked in.

“So what is wrong?” asked Penelope.

“You know Natalie, my accountant?  She embezzled me!”

“Whoa, is this Natalie kind of pretty?” Said Penelope making a connection.

“Yeah, she is and she probably took it for some weird cheerleading outfit she has been telling me about, ever since penguinkind was created. “

Penelope asked for a clarification on how Anna found Natalie. Penelope had a very weird thought and just wanted to compare data.

Anna told this heartrending story of how she saw her in the streets cold, and decided to take her in.  Anna recalled she told Natalie where the cache of money was stashed, and when she checked on it this morning it was gone, so was Natalie.

“It was abounding with my money that I started saving up ever since I was 12!” sobbed Anna as she held her head in her flippers. 

Penelope sighed and decided to help her friend in any way. She thought of a random solution.

“What if we spy on her, and prove if she really did take it, because something tells me we shouldn’t believe it was her at first glance.”

Anna looked very turmoil and was giving her a weird face.

“What is so bad about it? It’s like a quest to see who took your money! Doesn’t that sound fun?” exclaimed Penelope. 

“No!” Anna loudly shouted. “ I will deal with this by myself, so you can leave now.” Anna said with hate in her eyes. Penelope stormed out and didn’t glance back. Anna was usually mellow to her ideas, even if she had a malady. No matter what, Penelope was going to find out who actually did steal the money, and how! As she was brushing her teeth that night, her nomadic mind started attacking her with questions. Did Anna yell at her because her shop had a higher status than Penelope’s small cupcake store? Penelope snuggled underneath some quits and went to bed.

“OKAY YOU BUM!! LET ME READ OUT THE NAMES OF WHO MADE IT INTO THE TEAM!” said the Blue team Captain. Natalie was secluded from the others because she didn’t want to inherit the “Bum Malady” as she put it, when she came in. As the coach read the names in a piecemeal manner, she would tell the penguin who got in how to improve. To Penelope’s surprise, the captain bellowed, “PENELOPE!” Penelope walked to the captain.

“I think we need to reinforce on how you do your flips, that’s all!” She said as she handed Penelope her uniform for the team.  The captain went back to yelling the names out loud.

As Penelope watched the others get her uniforms, she thought of a plan. Then it came to her. An idea, it was……

THE END!