"Bolt! Wake up!" Mittens loudly whispered at Bolt, trying to keep from waking the hamster. "Hmm...Wha..." Bolt stammered slowly opening his eyes to see his friend excitedly trying to wake him.
"Come on Bolt, I have a surprise for you!" Bolt was tempted to ask if the "surprise" couldn't wait until later. After all, the things she had shown him before were great, but he couldn't see the urgency. However, something about the way Mittens was jumping around with a gleam in her eye piqued his curiosity. Bolt rolled onto his feet and shook himself, getting stray dirt out of his fur. "OK lets go." Mittens beamed at him and turned to lead him to what she had been working on. Bolt followed Mittens a couple of blocks until they came into a grassy clearing. Bolt could see small squares in the distance as they walked on He also noticed that despite the fact that they were walking toward a dump, it didn't smell bad. He figured it was due to all the pines nearby.
"Okay Bolt, cover your eyes!" Mittens said enthusiastically. "Aww Mittens, come on!" Bolt complained. He did not like not being able to see. It always made him feel helpless. "Oh, come on Bolt just for a little bit, it is a surprise after all." Mittens insisted as they continued to walk. "Mmm, alright." Bolt conceded, rolling his eyes, but also closing them. "Okay, okay. No peeking Mittens said quickly as they approached the boxes.
She ran over to them and turned to face Bolt." all right, now open." Directed Mittens excitedly. "Bask in the glow baby." Mittens said gesturing to the boces, that Bolt could now tell were really make shift houses. "Just let me give you the grand tour."
Mittens ran around the boxes so that she was in between both of them. "Mittens I..." Bolt stammered out before being cut off. "This one, this one's mine..." Mittens gestured to her right "...and this one is all yours." Said Mittens in an accomplished tone, gesturing to her left. "Mittens I..." Bolt tried again, but was again interrupted. "I found this really soft pillow thing for you." Mittens stepped into Bolt's box. "And get this. I found some syrofoam, and I stuffed in inside, which I thought was both kind of creative and ironic. You know what I mean?" Mittens said quickly, smiling at Bolt, from inside the box. "Mittens I don't think that..." Bolt tried for a third time, almost getting a complete thought out before getting cut off again. "Ohh! Ohh!" Said Mittens excitedly kicking out the stick holding one half of the box so that she was now in a closed container. " Check it out. Total privacy, and completely sound proof." "Yeah well I don't think that I..." Bolt said quickly trying to get out his thought before being interrupted again, but failed. "Okay, I lied It's not sound proof. But you know..." This time Bolt cut Mittens off. " Mittens... I don't know if I can stay here!" Bolt said quickly and loudly, before Mittens had a chance to interrupt again.
"Wha... what do you mean Bolt?" She said slowly stepping out of the box and approaching Bolt with sad, hurt eyes. "I..." He was about to tell her that he had to go back to his person, Penney, but something occurred to him. Penney hadn't been there for him. Nothing they had done together had been real. Take away the Green eyed man, and what did you have? A bag of kibble, and an occasional pat on the head? Mittens, and Rhino on the other had had been with him through the good times and the bad. Mittens had shown him what it really meant to be a dog.
She had shown him how to get food. She had taken care of hi when he was at his most Na'ive. She always gave him whatever she had. She hadent even used the bed she had made for her own box. She had given it to him. Her box looked pretty empty.
And Rhino had always been there too. He had broken him out of the animal catcher's truck, and then gave him the confidence he needed to rescue Mittens. With out them both he wouldn't have had a chance of making it this far. They were his real family, they had proven that they cared about him. As much as he wished Penney could have been his family, the more he thought about it the more he realized that she wasn't. How could he turn his back on Mittens and Rhino now. "Nothing Mittens never mind. It's perfect." Bolt said looking at Mittens sincerely. "Aw Bolt I knew you'd love it!"Mittens said hugging Bolt roughly with a huge smile on her face, twisting him around so that she was standing where he was. "Come on, I want to show Rhino." She said as she turned around and sprinted towards the trash cans, with Bolt close behind.
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