Charlie

The night before last, James and I went out shopping. We went to the petstore looking for litter for the ferrets. We looked at the beta fish, because James wanted a beta. They were kinda ugly. We then went grocery shopping. After grocery shopping, I offered to take James to Petsmart. He said he didn't really want to go. I asked him what he wanted to name the fish. He decided on Charlie. So, I told him that we'd go to the store and look for Charlie. If Charlie was there, we'd take him home. If not, we'd leave it. Well there was a large number of beta fish. James said Charlie was blue, so we looked at all the blue fish. After looking at every beta in the store, we found a beautiful deep blue beta with red tipped fins, kinda like this one, though with less red and more blue. We bought it and the lady put it in a bag in its little cup of water.


When we got Charlie home and got ready to put him in his new home. We took him out of the bag and found that he was not really as blue as we thought. Here's a picture of Charlie in his bowl at James' apartment.

We think it was the difference in lighting, but we never imagined that the blue fish would really be red!