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After they brought the baby to the hospital a neonatologist came to give it a checkup. She was immediately fascinated when she saw that a baby had a long fully formed tail covered in fur, but that it was also moving. The boy was completely healthy and also had a relatively long black hair, which was extremely unusual. He weighed 8 pounds and 2 ounces and had beautiful dark black eyes.
The baby fell asleep almost immediately after it has been fed, the little guy actually needed three times the normal amount of formula until it was fully sated, the nurse felt as if she was feeding the infinite void of space and not a baby.
As the time went by the hospital staff noticed that the kid was developing extremely fast. At fifteen days he was already able to lift his head after being put on his tummy and kick his legs like a little kangaroo.
That's why nurses began to call him Jack and it stuck.
Jack was put up for an adoption soon after.
It was a warm summer afternoon and Frank Haley and his wife Sophia parked their car in front of the adoption center.
Mr Haley used to work in the military as a sapper officer and while he was supervising the engineers as they were clearing out a mind field, one of those idiots missed one charge and by sheer luck Frank was the one who stepped on it. After he was brought to the military hospital, they had to remove his right leg under the knee. After being discharged he came back to Missouri, where he started working as a construction worker.
Though he was officially healthy, he still attended therapy to avoid any further complications. His doctor turned out to be the most beautiful woman he ever met. He started inviting her to dates and soon after they ended up getting married.
Frank stopped the motor and sat still in his seat looking at the building. It took nearly a month to get everything in order. The birth certificates, the criminal records, everything even their house had to be formally checked many times, but now it felt as if it was just a minute since the first saw the little boy with a tail in his cradle.
"So… are we really doing this?" Sophia asked.
"Yeah, yeah, it's just a big step, you know."
"Says the guy who stepped on a mine." The woman said, which made Frank burst out in laughter before he leaned close to her and softly kissed her.
"This is why I love you so much." He replied and they both unfastened their seatbelts and got out of the car.
They entered the building. Franks prosthetic leg made loud clanking noises as he limped next to his wife on the tile flooring, until a dark-skinned woman with long hair stopped them.
"You must be Mr. and Mrs. Haley, my name's Fiona, nice to meet you." She said with a bright smile as she shook their hands.
It didn't take long to get all the papers signed and get all the formalities out of the way and before they knew it, Frank and Sophia left the building with a new addition to their family.
Time passed and Jack finally reached his first birthday.
It was a beautiful summer day. Jack's parents even invited one family that lived on the same street close to them and a few relatives to their little house and so the celebration had to take place at the garden.
The invited family had a kid named Alex in Jacks age and so the two could play together while others watched.
After all the gifts were given, they all started talking amongst each other, they had a lot to talk about since while Jacks family lived in Missouri, the most of their relatives were either from Texas (Franks side of the family) or Florida (Sophia side of the family) so they didn't meet up very often.
As they were talking, the children were watched over by their mothers and Jacks uncle Bryan who was manning the grill. After a few minutes talking Alex's mom excused herself and asked Jack's mom where to find the toilet and so as the two woman left, Bryan was supposed to make sure that they wouldn't get hurt. At that exact same moment Alex's father came to check on them while carrying an apple.
"A-aplleee!" exclaimed Alex.
"You want some too, champ?" Alex's father asked as he pulled out a pocket knife from his pocket and gave each boy a slice.
The two began happily eating. And at that moment a mathematical formula was born inside Jacks head.
Speaking = Getting food
So he decided to test this theory and said the last thing he had heard from his uncle.
"Houtduck! Houtduck!"
Bryan looked at his nephew, it was the first time he has heard anything from the kid and so he quickly took one hotdog from the grill cut it into two pieces and gave one to Jack and the other to Alex.
The two kids looked at each other and a friendship was born then and there.
Then Jack mom came back and scolded her brother for giving them 'adult food'.
"Hey. the kid asked for it!" Bryan defended himself.
Jacks mom immediately realized that she just missed her son's first word and began crying and it soon turned into chaos as Frank came running to her trying to understand what was wrong.
It was a very important day full of firsts. His first birthday, his first word, his first friend and most importantly…his first hotdog.