I do not own Pepe or Penelope LAST CHAPTER OF THIS STORY! This picks up with Le Pew Tails.
Chapter Nineteen
Bittersweet Parting
"She's not here anymore," said the landlady.
Pepe was dumbstruck by those four words. Penelope was gone? Where? When? He had to find her!
"Do you know where she went?" he asked trying to not sound desperate.
"Are you a friend of hers?" the landlady questioned.
"Oui," he said quickly.
"Funny, I don't remember her having friends. She only had suitors, annoying ones too."
"Madame where has gone off to? I need to know."
"I don't know Monsieur." It was a simple answer with a shrug at the shoulders and arms. "She never said where she was going. I presumed she was going on a vacation, but she took all of her personal belongings. She deed leave an envelope weeth a check for her rent. I don't know why she went away. She was very nice. Why are you asking-Monsieur?"
Pepe had miserable exited the building with a heavy heart. He went to a bar and stood outside. He had the nickname "Mama's Boy," because he refused to smoke by other smokers at that joint. Now he slumped to the ground and took a lone, almost empty packet of cigarettes and a match.
He spent half of the night throwing up. The cigarette had taken control of his body. He collapsed on his kitchen floor and blamed himself for Penelope's fleeing. It was his fault. At least that's what he thought. He had frightened her off and she was gone! The one woman he really loved was gone and he would never see her again. He had hoped to ask her on a date at least. One date, one kiss on her lips, and just once to hear her say his name with love. He wondered if he really did love her. Perhaps he was just stupid. It was stupid to think that he ever loved her. Sorrow and depression grew over him for the following days. It was December when she bid away without an au revoir!
It was now January. The long miserable days at his job where he separated scraps from coal that would be used for trains was not what he had planned for life. Now in this evening with a fog rolling in he sat in the alley thinking about her. It was by surprise that she suddenly came out of nowhere and fell over him. She rolled onto her side to see him. She was back! Pepe's eyes stared at her with a new realization. One look into her eyes that were looking into his and he knew that he was in love with her and there was hope that she would love him.