Best Friends at the Arcade

by Addison Miller, Kellen Keyes, Olive Carithers, and Rayven Philson

There was a monarch butterfly named Lisa Rose. She had orange and yellow wings with white dots. She looked like a rose. 

And there was a chenille plant. It was pink—dark pink—and it was soft, cuddly, and cozy, like a squishmellow. The chenille plant had a butterfly on its leaf. The butterfly felt warm. The chenille plant ate Chenille-Os and chenille ice cream, and watched a chenille show. It was funny. The chenille plant’s neighbor ate their bananas because they were banana plants. 

The monarch butterfly flies really high in the sky and collects pollen from the chenille plant’s flowers while it drinks nectar. And the monarch butterfly loves to go to the beach arcade, which is called Suave: The Chenille and Monarch Butterfly Arcade.

Do you smell that? 

No, not the water and the sun on Belle Isle Beach!

The chenille burgers and the BBQ!

There is a seagull cooking on the grill with a puffy white chef’s hat. 

The monarch butterfly and its friends fly to the beach to eat and to go to the arcade, and this is what happened . . .

The arcade is on the beach. There are flashing lights and video games everywhere, and there is a seagull burger restaurant called “The Unthankful Seagull Who Eats Half the Burger.”

Lisa Rose and the seagull who owns the restaurant—named Chicken Chef (who has gray and black feathers and looks like a penguin and sometimes eats half the burger before giving it to customers)—are playing arcade games at the beach arcade, which is open at night and during the day, never closing. 

In the back of the beach arcade there is a chenille plant waving its hands and hanging out with its friends. There are baby chenille plants playing together at the baby beach arcade with Lisa Rose.