Bumblevee's Writing Contest Entries

Round 1 Entry

Hello! :D
This is my entry for Round 1 of  bumblvee's writing contest. Hope you enjoy!
Edit: Oops missed the deadline with my West Coast time :P Umm this won't be judged but you can still read it ig, I haven't posted anything in a while
Prompt: Pumpkins are all sorts of shapes and sizes, everyone knows not a single pair is alike. But this one... this one is so different... and it's perfect.

Pumpkins are all sorts of shapes and sizes, everyone knows not a single pair is alike. But this one... this one is so different... and it's perfect.

This one was blue. A soft baby blue, a shade that looked like somebody had blended the atmosphere- clouds and all. Even though the stem was curled like a pig's tail and the shape resembled the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Eva knew it would be an excellent decoration. She was glad that she had decided to dig through the assortment of bright orange gourds at the top of the pile.

After hoisting the surprisingly heavy pumpkin into her shopping cart, Eva made her way over to the checkout, where she stood waiting behind a young girl and her mother. The line was rather long, so she took out her phone and started playing Tetris.

What?

At least it wasn't Candy Crush.

When the speed of the blocks became too much for Eva to handle, she rage-quit with a score of 113,004 and her mind began to wander. Of course, she began to think about blue pumpkins. What caused them to be blue? Blue is such a rare color in nature! How had nobody else snatched this unique pumpkin in particular before she did? Eva googled "naturally blue pumpkins" and found out there were multiple variants that qualified.

She was snapped out of her intensive investigation when a high-pitched scream cut through the air. Eva jumped reflexively and made a 360-degree scan of the area in case there were any murderers barreling down the aisles.

Instead, she saw the little girl in front of her in tears, pointing underneath the wall of the checkout aisle (A/N: I have no idea what those things are called) with a shaky finger. Eva bent over, squinting to see what was under there, only to be greeted by a pair of glowing yellow eyes. She shrieked like she was two instead of fifteen and stumbled back, almost losing her balance if not for her weighed-down shopping cart. She pretended not to see the people behind her staring as if she had shape-shifted into Megamind.

A few seconds later, a black cat crawled out from under the checkout aisle wall and swiftly leaped into Eva's shopping cart. She jumped again, startled, while the cat nonchalantly started grooming themself and gave Eva the Seriously? look. The little girl rubbed her now bloodshot eyes and tilted her head like a confused ostrich, while Eva quickly glanced behind to see if anyone else had noticed the cat.

Everyone was scrolling on their phones with jaded looks on their face.

Ooohhhkay, guess that's a no, she thought.

Then, things got really weird.

When Eva looked at the cat again, their eerie yellow eyes fixed her in place. They tapped their little black paw on the stem of the blue pumpkin and promptly vanished into the ether.

It would've been cute if it hadn't been so unsettling.

"Excuse me, child?" an annoyed voice asked.

Eva swiveled around to face a middle-aged woman with atrociously styled blond hair. She hadn't been behind her before and was clutching a shopping cart filled to the brim with bizarre objects.

"What?" Eva said, confused. She didn't think she was blocking the line or anything rude.

"That pumpkin," the lady said. "Give me that pumpkin."