A morning bath
Lloyd Noishe one shot
For those who guessed… yeah it was Noishe, and this is the story/dribble that gave me the idea for the poem, it goes a little differently then the poem did but… oh well…
"Whiiine…"
"No!" Lloyd curled into a ball and tucked all the blankets around him in a shell to ward off his dog's secret "if puppy eyes fails" trick. "I don't wanna go to school Noishy."
There was a creek, the bed tilted under a massive weight being added to it, and a black shape blotted out most of the light that streaming through the fabric. Something pointed, cold, and wet, poked at the blanket and sniffed loudly.
"Blanket shield beats nose!" Lloyd chirped, secure in his safety. "You lose Noishy, let me go to bed now!"
"Bark!"
If a bark could mean "no" then the answering loud bark meant "No! Never!".
"Well you can't puppy eye and you can't nose me, so you lost Noishy. You can go back to your room and wait for Mr. Dirk to come and bring you some chicken for breakfast."
"Bleh!"
Lloyd pulled the covers away from his face to see Noishe loll his tongue out and look disgusted.
"You ate all the jerky last night." The eight year old Lloyd said with a grin. "You were a pig."
"Whiiine!"
"Were too."
"Whine bark!"
"Were too!"
"WHiiinE!"
"Were too were-too-were-toooooo!"
"Woof…" Noishe rolled his eyes, but his tail wagged. Knowing what that meant Lloyd quickly ducked into his shell while Noishe sniffed around the edges of the blanket sometimes thrusting with his head to get Lloyd to squeak and roll to the side to avoid the attack.
Grinning, Noishe firmly herded his charge out from under the blanket and announced his victory by lolling out his tongue and licking the boy's vulnerable back.
"Ewww… Ick, now I need a bath Noishy!"
Happy to comply –after all little human's didn't smell all that great anyways- the dog nipped the boy's pants by the waist and carried the squirming human outside.
It was perhaps halfway down the stairs that Lloyd realized exactly what was going to happen.
"Nooo I'll be good Noishy! I will, I promise! Don't make me take a bath!"
It was only a few moments later, despite all the thrashing and cries for help that Lloyd was let go of, right into the clear cold waters of a stream.
"Bad doggie!"
Noishe only lolled his tongue out and wagged his tail with glee.
