I do not own this cartoon show, like I could own something this big!
Pairing: Pepe/Penelope.
Penelope yawned as she exited the school building, not caring whether there were people who were coming out or not. The end of the day had finally come and she was ready to take the afternoon off like she did on the occasional Friday afternoon. Her friends had already went off on a school field trip to Florida, catching up on their sun tans and probably picking up guys right about now. She envied them, hoping that one day, she might be able to leave her rotten home for a better chance at life.
Feeling excited about finishing school soon, she dashed home with high spirits, knowing she wouldn't get anything in return. Penelope didn't really want to go back home, but she had no choice out of the deal. Her parents were strict people when it came to studying and being smart. They had been graduates of Universities as the top of their classes and were expecting her to do the same. She licked her paws clean of the dirt that had stuck to her while she had walked earlier.
She had managed to make it home on time, on her mother's schedule, but failed to meet the requirements of her father's. She passed on being home on time but failed to keep her tail clean. Penelope let out a long sigh and began to trudge up the stairs. She heard her father clear his throat.
Penelope stopped to listen to what the man had to say without turning around, showing him she really didn't care. Penelope's ears perked up as she listened intently for her father's voice.
"Pepe's parents called. They say they're unable to find Pepe a bride. His scent is worse then a female skunk and they were hoping to see if you would like to accept Pepe's proposal. You were childhood friends at once upon a time, it shouldn't be too difficult to accept." Penelope began to make choking noises.
The only reason she hung out with Pepe, was so that he wouldn't be so lonely. Had Pepe not noticed the clip at the end of her nose? Had he not taken the time to look as she was no where to be seen when he began to smell like a rotten egg? Or that he hardly made any friends when they younger other then herself? She had been traumatized at an early age.
"Me? With that smelly idiot? Are you insane?" Penelope couldn't even bear the thought of having a smelly skunk for a husband and ran up to her room and slammed the bedroom door, causing the photos on the wall next to her bedroom to fall and shattering the glass.
"You were too straight forward, dear. You should have let me tell her." The father spoke as he sat next his wife.
"She'll find a way to cope with it. After all, she did poorly on her last test. I can't accept such an unruly teenager in this house hold. She'd be better off with Pepe." The mother gave an eerie smile to her husband. They kissed each other on the lips and began to watch their new television set, not having a care in the world what their daughter could be thinking of right about now.
Night had come around and Penelope knew that this meant trouble for her. For breaking glass photos and slamming her door, she knew her parents would try to poison her just to get their point across to her. Penelope stuffed her bag with clothes, her tooth brush and tooth paste, her hair brush as well as a few books and magazines to read while traveling. Feeling the strange sense of being watched, she looked behind her and could only gape in fear.
Her parents had seen what she was trying to do and made an effort to stop her. Penelope's father held her down with both her arms held behind her back while her mother carried the bowl of what ever food was placed in it and tried to force a spoon of the food inside her mouth.
Kicking and refusing to eat the poisonous, green slime, Penelope kicked the bowl out of her mother's hands, causing the green slime of food to pour over her mother's new blouse and while the father was busy with helping her mother, Penelope saw her chance and took her bag from the floor, leaping out the window and down the side of their house, across the lawn of the back yard and down the street. Her father looked around the room while in a frenzy to get the wet and hot blouse off his wife, realizing Penelope wasn't at all in the same room as them, he hissed with an angry snarl at the air and punched a hole through the wall using the mother's dirtied blouse. The mother gave out a low screech sound and pulled the blouse from her husband's hands.
"Sorry, dear. We'll buy you a new one. Let's just rethink our strategy. The cops will inspect a bit too much like the food on your clothes so we're out of luck in calling them." The mother nodded her approval and stood with him at Penelope's open window, watching as their daughter ran out of sight of the house and neighborhood altogether.
A/n: Well that's it for this chapter. Feel bad for Penelope, what will happen next? Will meeting this stranger be a good or bad thing? Tune in next time to see who Penelope will run into while on the run!