Saving Kirchi

Adopting Kirchi

Marianna tied her long thick straight hair up in a ponytail in front of the mirror, put on her pink channel tailleur and walked outside her impeccably clean apartment into the grey wet weather of New York. 

The humidity and smog from the traffic attached fastidiously to her skin, and she could already feel a pimple breaking out on her chin under her perfectly applied make up. 

Great, she thought as she waved her hand in the air to stop a taxi. 

Once inside she scrolled through the instagram page of this beautiful pomeranian fluffly white puppy page. She detested dogs, the only thing they were of use for was to get hair all over the apartment. Yet she was trying to buy her niece a present for her birthday, and that good for nothing of her sister in law wanted to get the girl a dog from the shelter. Marianna obviously thought that the idea was revolting. The kid would certainly think that it was ok to choose second hand stuff and get used to not choose the best for herself. That is why Marianna had planned to secretly buy a pure breed pomeranian before Christmas so that they would not buy her niece a second hand shelter dog.

Once she was finally inside the luxurious skyscraper where she worked she let out a sight when she saw in the mirror both her hair and make up still looked top notch. 

She was easily the most beautiful woman in the building and without a doubt the one with the most ambition.

Her high hills ticked on the green marble floor as she entered the elevator, where Kevin, her assistant was waiting for her. 

Sabrina, the new girl gestured them to keep the elevator open for her as she quickly approached but Marianna waved at her and smiled maliciously as she clicked the button to close the door. 

Then she turned around and started to admire herself in the mirror while addressing Kevin. 

"What are the juiciest scoops Kevin? What do people want to read in the newspapers today?"

she asked while admiring her reflection. 

"You are not gonna like it," said Kevin, giggling. 

"What is it?" she asked as horror started to raise in her throat. 

"There is this puppy mill that has been selling teacups dogs to the New York elite for exorbitant prices, but it was actually run in the basement of a crazy lady. It's trending on Twitter. There are still many dogs left in there and rumor has it, Vanessa, your competitor, is planning to go there and start an adoption petition and adopt one herself. If you are quick you can beat her in time. Your compassion will be celebrated all over social media and you'll instantly gain a ton of followers".

Marianna twitched her face for just one second when she heard the words dogs and adoption together, but nothing could beat the feeling of seeing Vanessa's face when she'll defeat her.

The elevator opened at the 5th floor and she saw the new girl out of breath, painting as she just made it up the stairs. 

She waved her goodbye as she clicked the button to close the doors again and pressed floor 0. 

She was on her way to this illegal puppy mill to adopt a puppy and show Vanessa that no one could ever be a step ahead of her.