Smiling at me, with wide, glossy eyes, the creature flips her tail. Pink with gills and swimming in the water, I press my face against the glass. “Hello little girl.” I say. The creature keeps smiling and twirls in the water, sending bubbles all around. I giggle, this is my first pet after my dog passed away, and I’m in love. Her skin is the perfect shade of pink and her gills are a rosy color.

My sister comes up and admires the creature with me. It bumps into the glass but keeps smiling, smiling, smiling, no matter what. Humans should be more like this creature, people should smile more. I plop a toy castle into the tank and the creature whirls around it, sending a tornado of bubbles. I sit down on the chair next to the tank and keep watching the creature. It blows bubbles and grins at me, like it has known me its whole life, and I guess, it has. From the moment we bought it we were best friends.

Father comes up to my and ruffles my long, brown hair, “hey honey, how do you like your new pet.” I beam with happiness. “I love my axolotl, thank you, Daddy.”