I'm in an envelope, a rather large one, waiting. What am I waiting for? Only the joy of a new home, a new adventure! Honestly, I'm quite nervous, for what if the person I have been shipped to doesn't like me? What if she calls me ugly and sends me back to be in a package forever?

I've moved, from what I understand, all the way across the country. From Texas to New York. I wonder what it'll be like there, I didn't get to see too much of Texas, but I heard bad things about Eriks in New York. Something about a musical? Suddenly there's a noise outside my envelope, my quiet safe package is being picked up.

Through the plastic and paper I can hear two voices, females, excitedly talking to one another "It's him!" one of them cheers excitedly "It has to be" I can feel whoever it is tearing at the envelope madly, trying to break me free.

Suddenly I shrink back as lights come into my dark envelope and blind me. I'm so afraid, for sure she won't like me. I've already caused so much trouble with my hard to open envelope. I'm out of that envelope now, and she's working on the plastic. And all at once, I'm free of the packaging, and being held in a strange white walled room.

The post office, I can tell from the sign outside the window that's where I am. The girl who has freed me looks down at me and she and another girl who looks very similar to her both let out an "Awwww". She looks at me as though I were her newborn child, hugging me close with a mix of joy and excitment.

There are two women standing near a desk, one on either side. They both looks at me with strange expressions, one of disgust and one of surprise and curiosity. "Well that's an interesting doll you have there" the curious one says to the girl holding me. I wait for her to say 'Isn't he hideous?' but she never does, she simply holds me tighter and says "Yea, he is interesting alright".

It isn't long before we're on our way, as we head out the door the lady behind the counter calls out "Hey, don't you want to ship him?" and the girl's expression finally changed from a smile to a look of shock "No! I'll never send him away! Never!" she replied before we go out to the awaiting car.

An old man sitting up front takes one glance at me then yells at the girl to cover my face. Inside I feel horrible, a new place and already 3 people don't like me! But the girl coos to me lovingly as she places my mask on gently over my face.

Suddenly we arrive at my new home. And it's beautiful, I as an Erik do not belong in such a luxurious mansion such as this. She gathers me up with some of her other belongings before racing me into the house and up the stairs. I hardly get a chance to look at my new surroundings before she begins placing me around.

First I get to be with all her model horses, some of which are very well crafted, looking almost lifelike to me. As she sets and holds me in each spot, she holds a black device and hits a button on it. After the model horses, she gets out a bigger, velvet horse and sets me on him. He's just my size, and she says his name is 'Patriot'.

After riding Patriot in the hallway outside of what I've come to know as her bedroom door, I'm set on her pillow with two other plush creatures. The first one is a wolf, with grey and brown fur mixed together, cute brown eyes, and a white snout and paws. But something isn't right about this wolf, his face!

His poor face, all the fur on the right side, shaved off, replaced instead with a white felt half mask. When the girl presses his white left paw, he begins to sing a familar song, from a certain Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. She sets me next to him and takes out picture, first with out masks on, then with our masks off.

Then she adds a white bunny, who looks worn far beyond his years. His fur is clumpy, his whiskers twisted, the surface of his eyes scratched, and the tag on him that once said 'TY' is faded and just looks like a white loop of cloth on his leg.

Finally she finishes with her black device, and leaves me sitting with the wolf and the bunny. Once they're gone they speak to me "Hello Erik" the white rabbit says. "How do you know my name?" I ask questioningly, did these animals think I was ugly too? Surely they mustn't, but maybe they despised that I was new while the bunny was obviously quite old.

Instead they were kind "Our girl has been talking of you coming for weeks now. She was so excited she was about ready to burst. We're glad you finally came in the mail today" the wolf answered to my question.

"Will I like it here?" I ask them, I just had to make sure. Would this girl do something bad to me? Would I become worn and ragged like the white bunny, would she shave my very little hair like she did to the wolf? The two animals kindly reply "You're going to love it here. Our girl loves all her stuffed animals. And, it seems she already especially loves you".

I really think I'll like it here now. As night falls the girl returns and sits on her laptop, typing away at the keys. I lean on her shoulder, to see if she'd brush me away. Instead she wraps her arm around me and holds me close to her as she types.

This is the beginning of my new life. And so far, I really love it here.