Be Careful What You Wish
Bella Morelli is not really a dog person, but she loves Bob. The big orange dog's trusting soulful brown eyes never fail to remind her of the young Sicilian baker her stern parents forbade her to marry. They had already chosen Antonio Morelli, the distant cousin of one of their wealthy neighbors, to be her husband. "It will be a very good marriage." They told her. "Antonio has a respectable job, and he has just bought his own house in a good neighborhood. You will have a roof over your head. You will have food on your table. That is what really matters, Bella. Stop being foolish." So the 18-year-old Bella Inzaghi had no choice but to obey her parents' order, buried her love for the young man she truly loved deep within her heart, and became Mrs. Antonio Filippo Morelli 9 weeks later. Whenever Bella's face was bruised and hurting from her drunken husband's slapping, she always thought of her Giuseppe's gentle, smiling, loving eyes. And Bob's eyes are just like his...
Grandma Bella wipes her tears and loudly blows her nose, and startles Bob awake. The drooling dog blinks, yawns, looks around, sniffs the air, sniffs himself, gapes, and then jumps up from the couch and starts howling like crazy. And high above in the still bright late afternoon sky, another shooting star flies across the universe and no, she doesn't even bother to hide the smirk on her cold smooth silvery face.
Oh, how she loves granting all the wrong kinds of stupid wishes...and then twisted it...
~The End~
*Should We Continue, Babe?*