*Bolts POV*
Bolt stared out the window, observing the landscape beyond the porch. He sighed.
"What's wrong, sport?" Mittens asked, jumping onto the armrest of the couch.
"I don't know, sometimes I just wonder what's beyond the fence." Bolt said, gazing off. Mittens froze.
"Oh, no. No, Bolt. We aren't going. Don't even think about it." By then, Rhino had already butted into the conversation.
"We could be the three musketeers!" Rhino squealed, pushing in between Bolt and Mittens uncomfortably. Bolt's eyes lightened up.
"Yes! We could do it," Bolt started. Then he looked at Penny, chest rising up and down in a comforting rhythm, as she slept. Bolt's heart sunk. "I can't leave Penny though, not again." Bolt said, jumping down from the couch, then squeezing through the dog door to sit on the porch. The leaves were bare by now, winter slowly creeping up on Minnesota, where we had moved after the whole fire deal. Bolt heard Rhino struggling to get through the door behind him, then Mittens pushing him through. Bolt smiled to himself. Rhino rolled down the steps awkwardly in his hamster ball, then rolled on the drive way pavement. Mittens sat down next to him, hitting him in the shoulder.
"Hey Bolt, don't feel too down. At least we're here, together." Mittens said, resting her head on his shoulder blade. He didn't like Mittens, in that way anyways, but he knew that she liked him, which made him feel awkwardly. He was about to talk, but he decided to keep his mouth shut, for the better.
*Massilines POV*
When I noticed Bolt outside, I quickly ran though the flap the led to the backyard, and jumped over the fence, hitting the grass of Bolt's sideyard. "Bolt! Hey!" I squealed, running over to him. My tail wagged furiously, and I had butterflies in my stomach. What if he notices?
*Bolts POV*
"Massiline, hey!" I exclaimed, separating myself from the awkward silence with Mittens. Massiline was what they like to call an Australian Husky, a cross between a Australian Shepherd and a Husky. She was beautiful. Her hazel eyes blinked, and she smiled at me. I felt Mittens looking at us, and for a moment, I felt terrible for leaving her. But when I turned around to tell Mittens that I would 'catch her later', she was already disappearing through the dog door, tail and ears drooping sadly. I tried hard to ignore it. Rhino rolled in after her, looking back at me disapprovingly. I mouthed, tell her im sorry, to him, but I don't think he got the memo, because he just shook his head.