My Chameleon – My Best Friend Yoshi
Hi I have a story.
Well I was going to get a chameleon and we wanted a baby
one and we tried to find one but we couldn’t.
So one day we went inside a pet shop and there was all
old chameleons so we were about to leave until I spotted a
tank with something small and green in it and when I
went over to it. It was a baby chameleon and it was only a
couple weeks old. I took it home and named it Yoshi.
After 2 months my father said it would be good if we got plants
and put them in his tank because it would make it more
humid and he needs to live in humid places so I agreed
and we went out to a plant store and asked the salesman
if there were pesticides on the plants and he told us no.
So we took them home and put them in his tank about 4 days
later we found one of the crickets in the tank dead and
was purple and rotten we figured the chameleon just did that.
So then I was about to go on vacation and my mom would
stay home with Yoshi.
Yoshi was acting funny before I left so I picked him up and
comforted him. And when I went on vacation my mom called
and didn’t sound okay. And I gave the phone to my father
and she had told him that Yoshi died.
My father hung up the phone and told me at first I did not
believe him but then I knew he was serious.
I was so sad I cried the whole time I was on vacation.
When I got home I went in my room and looked inside my tank
and I saw my best friend lying there helpless.
He wasn’t breathing but then he opened his eyes I was
so happy and I thought he would live.
So that night I went to sleep while he was alive but was
lying there unable to move. And that night I had a dream
that it was his first birthday with me and I was holding him
and we had a little cake for him with crickets on it.
Right after the dream I woke up and he was dead.
I don’t know if that was a sign that he was happy or what
but I miss him very much and can’t believe that we were
that stupid to keep the plants in there.
But we got him on May 18th and every May 18 and every time
I look at his tank I cry. So I took him to my house in the
country side and made a cemetery which I buried him
and my Hamster Peaches who died 4 days later
because of old age.
Well I doubt I’ll ever get over this but I know my two best
friends are up there in heaven watching me and I hope Yoshi
will forgive me for being so stupid and I still love him
and will always miss him and will keep him and Peaches
in my heart always and forever!
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