THE OBSESSION

A man called Zeus was born and grew up in a farm with his father. His father was obsessed with animals, mainly with rabbits. First, he had 20 rabbits, but after 4 years of obsession, he died. Before he died, he said to his son to take care of his rabbits because they could die without him. So, Zeus was in charge with rabbits, he fed them and he washed them; he spent almost all day with them.

One day, Zeus went to the city to buy rabbit food and he met with a beautiful woman called Florentina; they spoke all the evening and he invited her to his father’s farm.

After years of friendship, they married and they lived together in the farm. But something weird started to happen. Zeus was so involved with the promise that his father left him, that the time started to show to his wife that rabbits were more important than her. Every time that she wanted to go out, to ride a horse with him or simply cook with him, he never could.

So, one day the worried wife didn’t know what to do with the obsession that her husband had, or she was going to become crazy. She wanted the attention of her husband; she wanted to share with her husband; she wanted to go out with him, but he couldn’t make anything about it  through the fault of the rabbits and the obsession of her husband for them. She was desperate, and all the  days were a fighting for the same thing; she was getting bored with the same situation and she spent her days angry and sad.

At night the wife was eating in the garden alone and suddenly she heard a noise; her husband didn’t know that she was there, so she disappeared immediately to see what he was going to do. The men started laughing saying “It will be the last time” , so the wife tried to get closer to him but she couldn’t. When her husband went to sleep, she was still thinking in that moment asking for herself: Is he having an affair?.  Finally she fell asleep.

The next day the wife didn’t see her husband on the bed, and the only thing she found was a paper note saying: ‘’Don’t call me, sweety. I went to buy more rabbits, kisses” but she couldn't believe it, because he hated to spend unnecessary money. Finally,  she waited for him.

When Florentina woke up, she saw to her husband feeding to the rabbits; something weird happened in her mind, so she took a knife and she came near to him and she buried a knife in her husband’s heart, saying: ‘’ You and your stupid rabbits!’’. After 3 hours of crying, the police came and they took her to jail. Her sentence was life imprisonment.

The next day some people arrived to the farm and took the 300 rabbits to a new place, it was the RSPCA. They said: ‘’ We have never seen so many rabbits, and just 2 people care for them; this is extraordinary’’.

THE END