Wednesday October 10, 2029

"Uh, Spencer!" I shouted. I walked into the home gym where he was. "Why are there two dogs in our backyard?"

Spencer placed the weights on the floor and grabbed a towel. "Oh, I adopted them today. Their names are Bree and Shasta, they're sisters."

"Don't you think we should have talked about this? Dogs are like children and now we have six children."

"Teddy, they would have been put down and they're just babies. I saved them."

"Spencer, still, we should have talked about this."

"I love dogs and having dogs will teach the kids about responsibility. They are great dogs." Spencer grabbed my hand and took me out to the backyard. The dogs immediately ran over and greeted Spencer. Spencer sat down on the grass and the dogs jumped on him and started to lick him. "This is Bree and this one is Shasta. They are really sweet."

I sat down on the grass next to Spencer. "I still think we should have talked about this, Spencer." One of the dogs came over and greeted me. I petted its head. "Which one is this?"

"This one is Bree."Spencer said. "I understand where you're getting at that I should have talked to you about this because I'd be upset too if you brought home dogs without consulting it with me. But they would have been put down and look what great dogs they are. I had to make a quick decision and I decided to adopt them."

"Mama." Caralynn said walking out back. "Doggies." The dogs ran over to her and pushed her down and started to lick her. She started to laugh. "Doggies, stop it."

"Look how great they are with her." Spencer said.

"You know, it's going to be harder to travel now."

"No it won't, we can leave them with friends or a doggy hotel or something."

"Really a dog hotel, there's a such thing?"

"Of course. Bree, Shasta, come here girls." Spencer said clapping his hands together.

"Mommy." Cara said running over to me. "Why are there doggies?"

I grabbed her and placed her on my lap. "Well, daddy decided to adopt them. Do you like them?"

She nodded. One of the dogs came over and licked her on the cheek which made her giggle.

"Forgive me, Teddy?" Spencer asked.

I breathed out and looked at the dogs. "It's hard to stay mad at you when you saved them from being put down. I just wish you would have told me about it so I didn't come home being surprised."

"I know, I'm sorry." Spencer leaned over and gave me a kiss on the cheek. "I love you."

Brendan's POV

"Hi Brendan."

I placed my books in my locker and turned around. "Oh, hey Liv."

"Hey, umm… when do you want to start that project for French class?"

"Uh, you can come over to my place today and we can or I can go over to your place."

"Oh yeah, yeah. Can we do it at your place? Both my parents work and they don't like me having people over when they aren't around, especially boys."

I laughed. "Its fine, do you need a ride since both your parents are working?"

"How far do you live?"

"About three miles. It takes about fifteen to twenty minutes to get there from here, driving wise so I doubt you want to walk."

She laughed a little. "A ride would be great then. I'll text my parent's to make sure it's okay."

"Meet me here after school." I grabbed my math book out of the locker and slammed it shut.

"Okay, bye."

I saw Sienna walked over to me once she was gone.

"What were you and Olivia talking about?" She asked.

"Just a project we have to do together for French. She's coming over after school."

"Oh."

"Are you jealous?"

Sienna forced a smile on her face and shook her head. "I'm cool with it."

"You are jealous."

"Who isn't? She's pretty and has the perfect body and is smart and of course your teacher partnered you guys together."

I laughed and pulled her in closer to me. "There's nothing to be jealous about. We're just doing a school project together, nothing else."

After school, I met Olivia near my locker and she followed me out.

"Do you have any ideas for the project?" I asked as we waited outside.

"Not really…"

"Then I guess we can use today deciding what we should do and then tomorrow or something, start it." I saw my mom. "There's my mom." We walked over and got into the back. "Hey mom."

"Hey B, who's this?"

"This is my friend Olivia. We were partnered up to do a project for French class."

"Hi Mrs. Walsh." Liv said.

I laughed and whispered, "It's actually Ms. Duncan. My parents aren't married."

"Oh, right…"

"What's the project you kids have to do?" Mom asked.

"Uh, we have to make a 3D replica of a monument in France and include information on it but we don't know what we'll do yet."

When we got home, I got out of the car and Liv followed me inside to the kitchen. "Do you want a snack or something?" I asked as I opened the fridge. I grabbed a bottle of water.

"No, I'm fine." Liv walked around and looked out the window to the back. "Hey, I didn't know you had dogs."

"That's because I don't."

"How come you have two in the back?"

I walked over to her and saw two dogs in the back sleeping near the pool. "Dad, when did we get dogs?" I shouted.

"Your father got them today. Their names are Bree and Shasta." Mom said walking in. "They were going to be put down and your father decided to save them without talking to me about it."

"And you're cool with having them?"

"As long as I don't have to clean up after them, I'll be fine."

"Come on, Liv." She followed me up to my room. We sat down on the couch I had in my room and did some research on my laptop. "So you want to do the Notre Dame Cathedral?"

"Yeah, that's fine. How should we build it?"

"I'm sure we could get a kit or something. If you want, we could do the information part now since you're here and then all we will have to do is build it."

"Yeah, that's fine."

"B!" Braeden shouted. "Come here, I need help."

"I'm busy, ask mom or dad." I shouted back.

"You help your younger siblings?" Liv asked.

"Occasionally, I should be a good big brother, right?"

"You know, a lot of people think you are a spoiled, full of himself guy who get's everything he wants."

"They may think that, but I'm not, not even close. They just think that because of who my dad is and how much he makes and who my outside of school friends are and the house I live in. Honestly, I don't care what they think because they don't know me. For example, my dad hates giving me money and complains when he does because he claims he's always giving me money and he does because he doesn't give me enough."

She laughed. "I guess you're not as spoiled as everyone thinks."

I laughed. "I honestly don't know why people take me off as that because I'm really not."

Okay, so tomorrow I probably won't be able to update because our power will be out because of construction on our street. A side of that, I hope you liked this chapter. Fun fact, Shane Harper's dogs are actually name Bree and Shasta and he and his family rescued them from the animal shelter. So I thought of doing a chapter of them getting pets. Anyways, remember to review, follow, and favorite!