Thursday
The rain. I hate it. Especially when it decides to taunt me on the windows of a moving car.
Campbell sits in the drivers seat and Anna sits next to him staring out the window.
Girl took my seat you know.
"I don't give that up to just anyone," I bark as I chase another rain drop down the side of the glass.
She doesn't hear me for she's talking to Campbell. I leave the window to stick my head between their seats to peer out the front.
"Ten years from now," Anna says. "I'd like to be Kate's sister."
You did good kid, I think to myself. Which she did in my opinion. I don't know many young girls her age who-Come to think of it Anna is the only young girl I know, but that's beside the point. She's the only young girl I know of to do something so bold. I lay my head on the armrest, and Anna pets my head.
She smiles down at me, and in that spilt second I decide to break the rules.
I smile back my ears folded flat against my skull.
Her facial expression turns into surprise, and she giggles.
"What?" Campbell asks checking left and right before continuing on.
"Campbell, your dog just smiled at me." Anna tells him.
And as quickly as it was there, my smile disappears.
"Please," Campbell snorts. "Judge doesn't smile he smirks." She thinks she's joking.
"I'm not kidding!" She laughs as I smile again. Can't help it.
Campbell snickers.
Anna looks at me and gives me a smile of her own before looking back out to the road. "I know you did."
She looks at me out of the corner of her eye, and for a split second, I imagine her grown up with a family of her own like her and Campbell were discussing with a small, but perfect house, and with that same smile.
But only for a split second.
The first second were hit, it doesn't even seem to register. I hear a scream, and glass cracking, and then a sharp pain shoots up my right leg. And then…it's quiet. Except for the sound of horns and sirens. My vision finally comes too, and everything is dark. Rain is making its way through broken windows, and I lay on the floor. I stand up shakily and ruffle my fur. My paw hurts, but I'm fine.
That's when I see Campbell. The air bag deployed and did its job, but he still has a few injuries. His arm is in a position I never thought possible and his head is bleeding. I paw at his shoulder with my good paw, and then I see Anna…
The sound of metal being torn apart comes from my right, and I crawl across Campbell just as a firefighter tears off the car door. I inch my way out, but not before barking a few times at Campbell.
I don't look at Anna. I don't care to remember her that way…
I hear the shouts of another firefighter, and I recognize her father's voice. I limp away from the wreckage, and lay down.
I jump up though when I lay in a pile of glass shards. I stare at them and notice broken glass is everywhere, scattered across the pavement. I don't see it as glass though…I see a life that is now broken, and a family that is now in pieces.
But it will be put back together. I'm sure of it.
They pull Anna and Campbell out from the car, and put them onto stretchers.
If I were human, I think I would have cried.