One afternoon in the cold, cold fall (almost winter.) I was outside on my bike with a big snack bag for my mouth to munch on and devour. (Cheese, cookies, and my favorite a delicious ham sandwich.) As I swished around, my charm bracelet jingled around with a quiet, high pitched song. Then I stopped and looked at the sky. The patterns just swirled together with beauty. Snap! Went my camera as I took a picture to catch the moment. My favorite thing to do is ride my bike in a falling sky. Suddenly I saw a flash and then a russell was behind me. But I was not just going to sit and not be brave. I TOOK MY STAND! “Who is there?” I said with pride, as eyes shined in the heart of the forest, were the creatures of the deep, dark, forest was standing.
“SHOW yourself!” Then I heard a whine and the creature came out. A dog. A small dog. A puppy. The dog had pointy ears and white with brown splotches as a fur color. It didn’t have a collar on and it wasn’t a puppy on my road… at least I didn’t recognize it. I reached out to pet it. “Come here, come here!” I said softly. The puppy seemed confused then trotted over “you are so cute! I’m going to call you… Fame!” Suddenly I saw a movement in the woods. I saw another and another! Then a dog, just like this one I was holding, came out with a duck line of three more dogs came behind the leader. followed by two dogs, bigger than the puppy’s, (Mom and Dad probably) and they were the ones that had collars on. ‘Let’s go get you home!’ I thought as I stretched out my hand out to the parents to read the collars, and the parents were not satisfied. They barked and howled and yaped, like most dogs do to strangers, but lucky me I had a trick up my sleeve. “Sshh sshh doggy, good doggy, I won’t hurt you doggy.” I whispered in a high soft voice. Some dogs like the high pitch whisper. Especially when you say good doggy, good doggy. As soon as I said that the parents eyes softened and they came forward. As the parents nuzzled their heads into my hands, I checked their collars. They were addresses in canada, the two parents had puppies, and one of the puppies (Fame) has run away and came across the U. S. A. border, and the parents came looking for her! Everything was starting to make sense! (Yhea…Fame’s a girl.)
When me and the puppies were done playing, the parents came over to say goodbye to me and so did the puppies, all of them said their last goodbyes. “Good puppies, good puppies, yes you are! Yes you are!” I said as the puppies licked my face off. Then the parents barked and the puppies all came off me one by one and the last one licking me was Fame (obviously). And then the parents did a weird, but awesome thing! They shook my hand… and I shook their paw. (So awesome am I right,or am I right!) anywho and then they also they bowed to me! ‘I never knew they could do that! It was amazing! I was their admirerer! OMG!! Its sooo cool! I’m like their king now!’ I thought soo much was going on now in my head I mean. So at that moment I took a deep breath and said to myself, “ keep it together Madelyn” and then I got on my knees and I pet the bowing, respectful, dogs. “You be good dogs,” I said as the dogs went back to standing. “Now go back home and stay there where you are safe with your owners.” The parents looked at me with sad sad eyes saying ‘please don’t make us go.’ But they knew it was not their choice to stay or go. “ But before you go,I can give you this.” I ran back to my bike and grabbed my snack bag and opened it up to my snack laying there waiting to be eaten. I grabbed the sandwich and fed it to the puppies and the parents and then the cheese, I fed to the cheese to the dogs too. Then very slowly I took off my charm bracelet and put each charm on the parents collar “keep these safe,” I said as I pet the mother “you are going to have a great life.” I said to all of the puppies Fame (that one startled me in the first place.) After I said goodbye to each endevishuel puppie, I watched the mom and dad bark and call the puppies to go back home. As the puppies scattered to the parents. Fame stayed at my side. “Fame, honey, You need to go! Go with your parents. Go with your parents,” I said as I scratched behind her ear. But fame just stood there. “I’m going to miss you Fame, I really am.” And then I pet Fame for the last time. And then she was off, off to canada. Her home, where she is safe warm and with family of her own. “Bye bye! Alvetersane! Goodbye! Bon voyage!” I shouted as the the family of dogs. And then they were out of sight. Then I heard barks and yaps of good bye. As the barking faded, I went inside to my family were i’m safe and warm with a family of my own. “Good night, Fame,” I said sleepy as I snuggled in bed “good night.” then I was asleep. And all the way in canada, There was Fame, snuggled in her own little bed by the warm fireplace when the first winter snow fell from the sky, we were both safe and warm in the place we belong.
THE END!