Preface
I was dumbstruck. Bingo finished all five chicken legs in merely a minute.
"Wow, you have some appetite, boy." I smoothened the brown fur on his head and scanned my room for any scratch paper I could use to pick the bones up. There was none on my bed, on my desk, on my vanity desk, but there was an intermediate sheet coated with dried mud below my closet. I reached for it and saw that it was Jared's math homework I stealthily smuggled and kissed last school year.
"This will do." I placed it on my hand and reached for the first bone, but Bingo's raised paw stopped me. I tried doing it on the second bone, but he stopped me too.
"C'mon, boy! You don't want to live in a dirty room!" I reached for the third bone, but Bingo stopped me again, and took Jared's homework out of my hand and into his mouth. He walked to my desk, placed it there, took Derek's love letter instead and dropped it on my hand.
"I need scratch paper, Bingo. This isn't scratch." Bingo walked away and rummaged through my board game tray. He took one card in his mouth and walked to my desk to get Jared's homework too.
"What is it?" Bingo withdrew the card and the homework out of his mouth and placed it by my knees. I took the card that was placed beside Jared's name and read it. "Second chance".
"No, Bingo. No more second chances for him." Bingo fell on the floor and whimpered.