Emerging Courageous Online Magazine - Stories
Maybe Tomorrow by Dori Bushee
The sun was shining now, and the cold from last night had
finally melted away, and just maybe his owners would come back for him today,
realizing they missed him as much as he missed them.
He was glad he had that little red blanket with him, and had cuddled
with it all night long, dreaming he was back in his nice warm home, near the
fireplace where he liked to fall asleep.
How he landed at the edge of a forest was a mystery to him, though he did
remember the little girl and boy who usually played with him were in tears at
the time, instead of laughing out loud like when playing in the yard back at
home.
Something was definately very wrong, and while he was trying to figure that out
he was also getting kind of hungry too, not really sure who was going to be
feeding him or giving him a treat for sitting up and looking cute!
When he finally got tired again he fell asleep, then began to dream about those
days when he first came to live with his new family, and how much they would
fuss over him and wanted to show him off.
How could so much have changed in such a very short amount of time, and how can
people just stop loving you without any reason and leave you, never looking back
or worrying what might happen to you?
As the sun slowly began to set once again the coolness of the evening sky was
not a very comforting feeling, and he hoped someone would come to get him before
it got much later, and feed him as well.
The morning only brought more disappointment and now it was even raining, so he
was glad he had found an old hollowed out tree stump where he could at least
stay a little bit dry, but his hunger was getting much worse by now.
He spent most of his second day simply wandering a little bit further from where
he was left, but never too far away so that if his family came back he could go
running to their car the minute he heard it.
By the time it got dark again he felt just that much weaker and that much
colder, but he wasn't going to think about any of that now because just maybe
tomorrow they would come back for him.
Now curled up asleep on that damp and now dirty blanket, a hunter finally came
by and found him near the tree stump, and gently picked him up and carried him
out to his truck.
Soon he was nice and warm again, and once back at the man's own cabin he was fed
and given some water, then even petted while he checked out what appeared to be
his new owner and his new home.
In a very short while a very strong bond grew, and this time he hoped that maybe
tomorrow would never come, because he hoped he could live in this new home
forever...and he wasn't so sure about "forever" anymore!
© Dori-The-Dreamer 2004
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