The Adventures of Lili and Crush
By Amy.
He had the perfect life.
Crush had a big, warm place to play, cool big things to watch go in and out, snow to play in, older humans to spoil him with new toys and a boy to be his. Crush was in heaven.
The golden puppy was happily chewing on a hard bone, not a care in the world when he heard the door of the big, warm place open. Excitedly, he ran over to the fence of his corner, paws up on the mesh to see who was coming in. He let out a happy bark when he saw His Alex coming towards him with something wrapped in a blanket, and it set his tail wagging. Toys! More toys, it had to be more toys! Or even better, FOOD!
Yapping happily, Crush spun around and around as His Alex stood over the side of the fence, smiling down at him and saying something. Crush didn’t care what he was saying, he wanted what was in the blanket!
His Alex kept talking and Crush was getting rather impatient until finally, FINALLY, His Alex put the blanket down in Crush’s area. The puppy ran over to sniff at it, when the thing moved! Crush jumped back, not sure what to make of that, then reached his nose out to sniff the thing again and got confused when it didn’t smell like any toy or food he’d been given before, and it MOVED!
Then, the puppy’s eyes went wide in shock. IT WAS ANOTHER PUPPY! Crush was hurt, deeply wounded even, and said so with his eyes as he looked up at His Alex. Was this a replacement, was Crush not enough cuteness and energy for his boy? And why was His Alex smiling!? This puppy was not happy.
He spun around when he felt someone chewing on his tail and barked at the intruder. “Who are you and what are you doing here?”
The little brown and white thing just looked up at him. “According to My Boy, I’m…” then little thing cocked its head, “I don’t know. Who are you?”
Well, Crush had to fix that! “He is NOT your boy. He is MY boy. You don’t even have a name.” With that, Crush noticed His Alex was leaving, obviously pleased with this development. BUT CRUSH WAS NOT PLEASED. NOT PLEASED AT ALL! To show his displeasure, Crush turned away back from this new annoyance in his life and went back to his perfectly good bone. He would have words with His Alex later.
He hadn’t been chewing on his bone for more then a few moments when he realized the little thing was staring at him. “You have a fathead.” Crush just looked at it. “Can I chew on it?”
Crush now glared at the thing. “No you may not.” And he went happily back to his bone, perfectly content with ignoring the little thing. Until it started CHEWING ON HIS HEAD. Huffing, Crush rolled over and pinned the thing to the ground. “What are you doing pip squeak?”
Instead of being offended, the thing barked happily. “Pip Squeak, is that my name, Fathead?” Crush rolled his eyes. Oh he and His Boy were SO having words about this!
Crush looked up from his bone when Lili walked into the room. He thought now that Her Lorna was home she would be happier, but it didn’t look like the case. “What’s wrong Pip Squeak?”
Lili didn’t look happy as she looked over her shoulder towards the main room, then back at him. “Your Boy and My Girl are yelling.”
Crush immediately stood up and went to sit in the door to the bedroom to watch what was going on in the main room. His Alex and Her Lorna never fought, but Lili wouldn’t lie. Except if it was for a chance to chew on his head, but Crush didn’t mind so much anymore.
Plus he couldn’t imagine what there was to fight about. They had moved from the cold snow place…to another cold snow place with lots of people…to the BEST PLACE EVER. Waves and sand were SO much cooler then snow! And the people were cooler, they let Crush ride on their floating boards and threw Frisbees with him. And it was warm, always warm! And since Lili was here, Crush didn’t mind when His Alex and Her Lorna had to leave for most of the day, of course he would never admit that.
But Lili had been right, His Alex and Her Lorna were fighting. Crush was in such shock that he barely noticed Lili come up to sit beside him in the door way, chewing on his ear as a comfort. “What happened?”
Lili tried to speak around the ear in her mouth but finally resolved to spitting it out for a moment. “I don’t know Fat Head. My Lorna came home and told Your Alex something and they both just started yelling. Do you think they’ll make up Fat Head?” Crush didn’t know what to say to that, could only stare at the sight.
Then Her Lorna burst past them and began shoving stuff into a carrying case, including some of Lili’s toys. The two puppies could only watch in shock. “Fat Head…why is My Lorna’s eyes leaking?”
Crush shook his head. “I don’t know Pip Squeak. I better check on My Alex.” And with that the small golden got up and padded into the main room, sniffed and followed the scent to where his boy was standing in the glass door that led out to the beach. He had his board under his arm and was clearly going to go out. Crush ran to catch up with him, but the door shut in his face. He could only watch as his clearly distraught boy walked away.
A tiny bark he recognized as Lili’s made him turn around and he saw Her Lorna heading out the door, Lili in her arms. “Fat Head!” Crush ran towards the main door, but again, the door was shut in his face. He barked loudly, protesting this. Where was Her Lorna going with Lili? And why was His Boy so upset?
Fainting from behind the door, he heard a faint. “I Love you Fat Head.”
“I love you too Pip Squeak” He barked as loudly as he could, hoping she heard.
Then he went into the bed room and curled up at the end of the bed, more alone then ever felt before, all bones and toys forgotten. Instead, he chewed on the end of tail…like Lili always did.
He missed Lili already.
