Twelve Months

JI Yeon and Dil sat in Ji Yeon's living room playing with blocks.

Both kids stopped playing when they heard barking coming from outside.

"How come Cleo is stuck outside?" Dil asked

"Something happened last night when she went outside and now she smells really bad. That's why she's outside." Ji Yeon explained.

"Maybe we can help her not smell bad." Dil suggested.

Ji Yeon shook her head no."My daddy left to go get some special shampoo to help her smell better."

As soon as Ji Yeon finished saying this Jin walked through the door with a bottle in his hand.

Dil looked disappointed as he watched Ji Yeon's parents walk outside. He turned to Ji Yeon and asked."Want to help your parents get Cleo all clean?"

Ji Yeon crawled to the back door with Dil following behind. She sat down and watched as her parents began giving Cleo a bath.

She turned to Dil and answered his earlier question."I think they got it sides I don't like wet dog smell."

"I thought you liked Cleo." Dil stated sitting against the window. He liked helping his daddy give Spifi a bath.

"I do, but I didn't to much at first." Ji Yeon told him.

"Didn't you pick her out?" Dil asked. Ji Yeon nodded."Why did you pick a dog if you didn't really like her?"

"It all started when Min Jun kept bugging our parents about getting one. I don't even know why he wanted one. I had only been around one a few times before getting Cleo. I mostly sawed dogs on tb and I didn't see what was so great about them."

"Tb dogs are different." Dil told her.

"I know now, but this was shortly after my firstest birthday." Ji Yeon said.

"One day Min Jun showed me that real tb dogs are different from the cartoon dogs I seed on tb. Soon after that my mommy cided to let him get a dog. I also learned that she was ascared of them so I was confused as to why she was letting Min Jun get what he wanted. He later aplained to me that she wanted to face her fears."

"The day after my mommy said we could get one my daddy tooked me and Min Jun and your brother to a place where lots of dogs were. I was glad I couldn't walk yet and that the dogs were in cages as some of them were really big and loud and jumpy."

"I watched as Min Jun walked up to a cage with a big dog in it. I had been around this kind of dog before. It was the same kind as Kai and Kya have and if my mommy wanted to face her fears I didn't think it was the right one. It was nice, but could be scary if you didn't get to be around dogs much as that's what I found out the firstest time my cousin babysitted me."

"When did you find Cleo?" Dil asked.

"We went into another room where there was only little dogs. Min Jun and your brother played with them, but I stayed with my daddy while a lady btought out a small brown puppy like on the show Min Jun showed me. I thought this one was perfect since it was little and it was on my mommy's favoritest show. Min Jun finally saw Cleo and we left and went to the pet store where we gotted a lot of stuff for Cleo."

"Not long after we gotted Cleo she got sick cuz Min Jun taked her to his school." Ji Yeon explained.

"Why did he do that?" Dil asked as he noticed Ji Yeon's parents were finishing up Cleo's bath.

"He wanted her to learn how to be a big dog cuz she did weird stuff like bark at food." Ji Yeon told him.

"That's funny." Dil giggled."Spifi doesn't do anything like that. He just eats food if it gets dropped on the floor."

"Cleo does too, now at least." Ji Yeon said.

"So did Cleo help your mommy get over her fear of dogs?' Dil asked.

"I think so cuz they spent a lot of time together cuz Cleo got sick." Ji Yeon answered.

"How did she get sick?" Dil asked.

Ji Yeon crawled over to the fridge and pointed to the paper with pictures of food on it.

"That has things on it that dogs can't have." Ji Yeon explained."I think she ate something on the list."

Dil backed away from the window as Ji Yeon's parents came in. Jin carried Cleo to the bathroom while Mi Sun got the kids some lunch.

"I think my parents gotted Cleo all clean. I didn't smell the stinky smell when my daddy carried her insdie." Ji Yeon said happily as she began to eat her lunch.

"Good. Now maybe we can play with her when your daddy comes back." Dil said.

As the kids finished their lunch Cleo came running into the room. Dil got down from his chair and chased Cleo into the living room. Ji Yeon soon joined him once she was let out of her high chair.

The End