Skye POV

I woke up to the morning sounds of traffic, people and birds. I felt the sun warm against my body, and something soft beneath me. I slowly opened my eyes and found myself nose to nose with Grit. But I didn't move, it actually made me feel safe having him that close, feeling his body against mine, or just knowing he was right next to me. I closed my eyes trying to doze off again but my muscles urged me to get up. I slowly rose and stretched my stiff muscles after that I suddenly felt tired again. I let out a little yawn and laid back down, snuggling into Grit's warm body, dozing off again.

The next time, I woke up I felt cold. I began blindly feeling for Grit to snuggle into again with my snout. I began to move over, trying to find the heat that I miss so much, when I found myself on the edge of the bed, suddenly falling to the floor. I let out a yelp on impact.

"Skye!" I suddenly heard along with four paws starting to head in my direction. "Are You okay?" Grit asked running into the room. I nodded painfully.

"Yeah I'm okay. Just a little shocked. Waking up to the feeling of falling isn't exactly pleasant." He nodded in agreement.

"We need to talk." I looked up at him curiously.

"'Bout what?" He gave me a look of 'Are you for real?'

"You really don't know?" I shook my head 'What was this boy talking about?' He sigh and look at the floor as if trying to put his thoughts into words.

"You were probably too out of it to remember but last night, when I was putting you to bed, you asked me to stay with you and then when I did you, well, you told me you loved me." His eyes looked up at mine, searching, -no- begging for an answer While I burned a dark shade of red.

"I see." I replied quickly.

"Do you?" He asked.

"Do I what?"

"Love me?" I didn't reply, instead I became very interested in the floor, when I felt his paw under my chin. He looked me in the eyes and kissed me on the nose sadly. He let go of me and walked out his tail dragging on the floor. Once he was out of sight, I followed him, not wanting to let him out of my sight. Once I was out of the room I saw him lying on the floor of the hall, silently drenching himself in his own tears.

"Grit?" I asked laying my left paw on his back. I felt his body clench at my touch and then relax. His breathing began to calm. He looked up at me with a drenched face.

"Are you okay?" he asked me. I felt a pain in my chest. Here he was bawling on the floor like a baby because of me and he's asking if I'm okay!? Regret filled my mind and pain gripped my heart. As tears over filled my eyes, and emotion overtook my body.

"I'm so sorry!" I cried wrapping myself around his body, apologizing over and over again.

"Hey, it'll be okay." I shook my head

"It won't ever be okay!" He sighed and peeled me off of him.

"Look at me. You are a strong and beautiful girl and I love you more than anything. Okay? And I will be here to support you. Yes you did hurt me but you're still here, right? And I'm still here too. You're not getting rid of me that easily. I will follow you to the ends of the earth! Like a sheep led to the slaughter, I will follow you blindly. You are my life now! The one I want to protect, the one I dream of holding as we walk into the light, and the heart that I hope will one day love me. You-" I cut him off by slapping him in the face.

"Kiss me you brilliant fool!" I said grabbing his collar and pushing his muzzle against mine, with closed eyes. I'm sure his eyes went big, and he showed a look of pure shock but he asked for it. If he was at all surprised, he sure kissed back pretty quickly. I felt his body shake as he let out a sigh of relief, his hot breath blowing against the fur on my face. We sat like that for a minute, neither of us daring to move, when I suddenly felt him pull away. I opened my eyes to see him on the floor, gasping for air with joy-filled eyes. After catching his breath, he sat up and cleared his throat.

"Skye." he said playfully strict.

"Yes Grit?" I replied innocently. He walked up to me and picked me up by the scruff of his neck. I smiled and closed my eyes thinking he was bringing me to his room when I heard the patio door open. I opened my eyes not understanding what was happening.

"Grit, where are we going?" I was met with silence. Something didn't sit right with me and I needed to let him know that. "Grit! Put me down this instant!" I heard him sigh, round a corner into a dead end alley. There was no escape. He looked back for a brief moment to see if there was anyone behind him. He began walking toward the fence and set me down in a corner, I had nowhere to run.

"Where are you taking me?" Grit just shook his head and shushed me.

"You need to trust me okay?" The look in his eyes gave me a feeling of safety. I nodded and hunched my back so he could pick me up again. I felt myself being lifted and carried to a new place. I sighed and closed my eyes letting the sounds of early afternoon traffic take over my mind. After about 30 minutes of walking I felt my body touch the ground on the edge of a forest. I opened my eyes and looked at the face of a very serious pup.

"What I'm about to show you doesn't go further than the two of us, understand?" I nodded.

"I understand." He smiled happily.

"Follow me." He walked into the woods at a quick pace. I chased after him not wanting to get lost in the woods without him. He looked behind at me trotting after him, and took off into a full out run. I smiled and picked up my pace. When he all at once stopped. I began to slow and walked up next to him and sat down.

What laid before me was I could tell he loved this place. What I saw before me was a field. Just a basic field with an assorted amount of flowers, a couple rocks here and there. It really wasn't anything special to me, but to him it seemed to be everything! He turned and looked at me with the realest smile I'd ever seen.

"Your it!" He cried bumping me in the shoulder, taking off as fast as his legs would take him. It took me a minute to realize what was happening, before I charged at him full force going faster than I ever thought I could. He stopped and turned around to see if I was coming, Causing my to crash right into him. There was an assorted amount of 'oofs' and 'ows' as we flew head over heels across the plain. When we did stop Grit ended up on top of me. We shook the dizziness from our eyes and stared at each other for a brief moment before bursting into laughter. Grit tried to sit up but was laughing to hard and just ended up falling on top of me again, causing our laughter to excel. I reached up and shoved my tongue into his mouth.

His laughing stopped as he kissed back letting his tongue roll into my mouth. I flipped us over kissing him harder as I felt my breath beginning to run out. As I tried to pull out, I felt his paw on the back of my head not letting me go. He rolled us over so he was on top holding us together. As much As I needed air, in our current position, there was no way to let him know that. My vision began to blur as red tinted my view until, blackness.

Grits POV

I continued to make out with the pup above me when I heard her moan my name. I flipped us over taking control of the situation, half expecting her to take control again. I suddenly felt her go limp. My eyes shot open as her small body hit the grassy floor. I stared at her for a minute and realized she wasn't breathing.

"Skye!" I began blowing air into her mouth trying to get her to wake up.

"Com'on wake up, you're okay. Skye? SKYLER! No, please no. Come back." Nothing her lifeless body just laid there doing nothing. She was gone…