103 14: THE LITTLE HERO.
June 3rd, (2017)
The next morning, the house phone rang and Clark answered it while his four dogs and Moose rested on the sofa.
"Hello?" Asked Clark as he answered the phone.
"Hello, dear." Came a female voice on the other end.
"Oh, hi, Mom. How are you?" Said Clark.
"I'm fine. I was just calling to check on you and Max and to see how you were both doing." Said Mom.
"Oh, we're doing just fine, Mom." Said Clark.
"You're not just saying that, are you?" Asked Mom.
"No, we're really doing okay." Said Clark, who was sitting at a table.
"And Max? How's he doing? Good. Max is good. He's actually been helping a little these past two days." Said Clark.
"Really?" Asked Mom.
"Yeah, really. He's actually been very helpful these past two days." Said Clark.
While Clark was talking to his mother on the phone, Moose and the other dogs laid on the sofa, watching the T.V. with board expressions on their faces. The dogs all yawned in boardem as the watched the T.V.
"(Yawning) Boring. What else is on?" Moose said. He got off the sofa and stood on his hind legs. The six week old puppy used his right paw to press buttons on the remote that rested on the coffee table in front of them and started flipping through channels on the T.V.
"He has?" Asked Mom.
"He has." Said Clark.
"And he's enjoying himself?" Asked Mom.
"Yeah, he is. He's having a good old time out here in U.K." Said Clark.
"Oh, really? Then why did he call me last night complaining about how you've been making him do chores and things for himself and making his life miserable for the past two days?" Asked Mom.
"He said what?" Asked Clark.
"That you were being mean to him by making him do chores and things for himself. Clark, he sounded pretty upset." Said Mom.
"Mom, i can't hear you." Said Clark.
"What?" Asked Mom.
"I can't hear you!" Said Clark over the loud T.V. and the five barking dogs. "Hold on a second." The 21 year old got off the phone and looked at the dogs. "Hey!"
Moose and the other dogs stopped barking and looked at Clark.
"Could you guys keep it down, please?" Clark asked. "Now you all sit down like good little doggies, okay?"
"(Sighs) Fine." Moose thought to himself before jumping back on the sofa where the other dogs were.
"And the T.V." Said Clark.
"What, is it too loud for ya?" Moose thought to himself.
Foster jumped down from the sofa, stood on his hind legs and turned the volume down on the T.V. with the remote.
"Good boy, Foster. Thank you." Said Clark. He then put the phone back to his ear. "Sorry, Mom. Anyway, like i was saying, why was Max so upset when he called you?"
"Because he said you were being mean to him and making him work and do chores, like feed the dogs, cook his own food, sweep the sidewalk, and other things." Said Mom.
"I most certainly have. He thinks i'm doing this to be mean?" Asked Clark.
"Yeah, he does. He sounded very upset when i talked to him, Clark. He thinks you're being too hard on him, like you're a slave driver or something." Said Mom.
"Is that what he thinks of me?" Asked Clark.
"Yes. Yes, it is." Said Mom.
~IN THE GUEST ROOM~
In the guest room, Max was lying in bed, listening to music on his iPod.
~BACK WITH CLARK~
"Look, Mom, i'm sorry if i upset him or came on too strong, but i've just been trying to teach him about life and how to take care of himself and..."
"No, no, no, don't apologize." Said Mom, cutting Clark off.
"Wait, what?" Asked Clark.
"I'm not mad. Actually, i'm glad to hear that you've been making Max work and do things for himself. In fact, it renews my faith in miracles. Your Dad and i could never get him to do anything around the house. The fact that you were able to do it really suprises me." Said Mom.
While Mom was talking, Moose got back down from the sofa turned the volume back up on the T.V. with the remote all the way and the five dogs began barking again.
"Well, thanks, i'm glad to hear that! Listen, i've gotta go! I can't hear you! I'll call you back later, okay?! Bye!" Said Clark before hanging up the phone. "Would you guys stop it, please?"
The five dogs then ceased barking.
"Somebody's gotta work this energy out of you all. I know just the guy to do it." Said Clark. "Max!" He said as he got up from the table and headed toward the guest room. "Max!"
Rex got down from the sofa and changed the chanel to AIR BUD: WORLD PUP, a dog film that came out in (2000).
"Dudes, this is totally my favorite movie." Said Moose.
~IN THE GUEST ROOM~
Clark opened the door to the guest room and saw Max lying in bed, listening to music on his iPod.
Seeing his brother standing at the door, Max took off the earplugs to his iPod. "What's up?"
"Well, goodmorning to you too, Max." Said Clark, standing at the doorway. "Could you please take the dogs for a walk?"
"Do i have to? I'm busy." Said Max.
"Doing what?" Asked Clark.
"Listening to my iPod." Said Max.
Rex, Lassie, Jake and Foster enter into the guest room, each carrying a different colored leash in their mouths.
"I think you have to." Said Clark.
"Fine. Just let me get dressed." Said Max.
"And be sure to take Moose with you." Said Clark.
"Oh, not Moose." Said Max.
"Did someone mention me?" Moose thought as he entered into the guest room.
"(Sighs)." Max sighed.
"Oh, and be sure to meet up with me at the dog groomers for the carnival, okay?" Said Clark.
"Got it." Said Max.
"Hey, mind if i come?" Asked Clark.
"Um, you know, it's probably better if we went alone, because it's good for their concentration." Said Max.
"Max." Said Clark.
"You know, we gotta try here." Said Clark.
"I gotta get dressed." Said Max. The 12 year old boy got up from his bed and walked over to the door where his brother stood and closed it so that he could get ready.
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Later, Max was riding on a bike through the countryside of London, England with Rex, Lassie, Jake and Foster running beside him while Moose was sitting in a basket in the front part of the bike. He wore a short sleeve buttoned-up plaid shirt that had white buttons on it, with the top collar button unbuttoned. He also wore blue jean shorts that went down to the calf of his legs, white socks, blue sneakers with white laces and a white 'NIKE' check mark design on both of them, and he wore a baby blue wristband around his left wrist. His shirt also had a buttoned-up pocket on both sides of the chest part of the shirt, with a white button on both pockets. The shirt, shorts and shoes looked exactly like the outfit and shoes that the boy, Gray Mitchell, wore in the (2015) movie, JURASSIC WORLD.
"You know, Max, that was really nice of your brother. Why did you blow him off like that?" Said Moose.
"What?" Asked Max.
"Your brother is reaching out to you, and you keep pushing him away." Said Moose.
"I've been pushing everyone away." Said Max.
"Maybe it's time to stop." Said Moose.
Max then began to think about what Moose had just said. "You're right. I should talk to him about it. How did you get so smart, anyway?"
"Genetic engineering. You should try it." Said Moose.
Max laughed as he rode his bike through the countryside of London with Clark's four dogs running alongside him.
Max was now riding through town on his bike and Clark's dogs were following running beside him. They soon passed by a hotdog stand, follow by a man sweeping the sidewalk.
"Good morning, son. Are the dogs taking you for a walk?" Asked the man.
"Oh, mister, that joke gets funnier every time i hear it." Said Max. "Not."
"Come on, you guys, we've gotta high tail it to the doggroomers. We don't wanna miss our ride to the carnival." Said Moose to Rex, Lassie, Jake and Foster. "Especially me. I'll go to the carnival with Max and Clark and then, first chance i get, i'll run away. That way it'll look like they lost me. Lois will be so mad she'll never wanna see or talk to Clark ever again." He thought to himself.
"Just chill out, Moose, my legs are getting cramped here." Said Max.
"I'm getting a cramp too. A big, giant smile cramp." Said Moose.
"HELP!" Came a female british voice.
Max stopped his bike and he and the five dogs looked in front of them and saw a woman and a man restling over a purse.
"Hand it over, lady!" Said the man in a british accent. He then snatched the purse from the lady and took off.
"OH, MY PURSE! HELP! HELP! THIEF! THIEF!" Screamed the woman.
"Come on, we gotta catch him!" Said Moose before jumping out of the basket and chasing after the robber, with Rex, Lassie, Jake and Foster behind him.
"NO! REX, LASSIE, JAKE, FOSTER, MOOSE, COME BACK HERE! CLARK SAID FOR US TO MEET HIM AT THE DOGGROOMERS! UGH!" Max shouted, but it proved to be pointless, as the dogs had already taken off out of earshot. The 12 year old American boy rode up to the lady that the robber had just mugged. "Ma'am, are you okay?"
"Oh my gosh, did you see that guy? He robbed me. My whole life was in that purse." Said the woman.
Max then took off down the sidewalk after the dogs on his bike.
"Hey!" Said the woman before she started chasing after the boy. "Hey, wait!"
Meanwhile, the mugger ran down the sidewalk as the dogs chased after him from behind.
"What a rush." Said Moose as he and the other dogs chased after the man. "He's getting away!" The six week old puppy then ran on ahead of the other four dogs and persued the purse snatcher.
The man ran across the street with Moose following after him.
The light soon turned green and all the cars in the street resumed driving, causing Rex and the other three dogs to stop in their tracks. This, however, proved to be a blessing in disguise, as Max and the woman had caught up with the four dogs.
"There you guys are." Said Max. "Bring back that purse you big jerk!"
The robber ran down the other side of the sidewalk and soon ran around the cornner and into an ally, only to see that the exit was cut off by a brick wall. He looked back and saw that a six week old Dalmatian was standing behind him and growling at him. The man snatched the puppy up by the collar. "Awww, what's the matter? Does puppy want the purse back? Huh? Huh?! HUH?!"
The puppy then began to struggle and bark.
More barking was heard and the man looked and saw three other growling and snarlling dogs, a boy on a bycycle and the lady he had just robbed cutting off the only exit. Seeing that he was outnumbered, the mugger dropped the puppy and the purse and took off and climbed over the brickwall.
"And don't come back!" Said Moose. The Dalmatian picked up the purse in his mouth and walked up to the lady.
The lady bent down and got her purse out of the puppy's mouth. "Oh, thank you, little fella. That was very brave of you." She said as she patted the puppy on the head.
"This my brother's girlfriend's dog, Moose." Said Max.
"Oh, well he's a little hero." Said the woman. "Thank you." She said as she looked down at the Dalmatian before leaving the ally.
"Good job, Moose." Said Max.
"Yep. Somebody's gotta take a bite out of crime." Said Moose.
"Yeah...right." Said Max.
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