The Puppy
Chapter Five
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A/N: Well, I finally had a few ideas, so here's the next chapter…
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Geoffrey sighed for what seemed to be the twelfth time in five minutes.
He was sitting patiently in Duke Renning's bedroom closet as his sisters had instructed.
"Wait here and we'll have Bastian come look for you!" They had said to him. "It'll be just like a game of hide-n-seek!"
Geoffrey, who happened to love a good game of hide-n-seek, happily agreed.
The girls had sent Count Bastian outside and had told him they'd tell him when Geoffrey was hidden.
And here Geoffrey was, three hours later, still in that dreadfully stuffy closet.
Most peculiar was the fact that he hadn't even heard his sisters signal to the count that he was ready! In fact, all he had heard was his sisters and their troublesome dog, Renny, scurrying about, followed by the girls giggling and Renny barking uncontrollably. It didn't make sense at all!
Pretty soon, he heard someone, who was accompanied by a dog, outside the door to the closet.
Finally, Bastian's come to find me. He must be terrible at this game!
Geoffrey thought to himself.
However, when the door opened, he realized that it wasn't Bastian. Instead, it was Duke Renning himself!
"Well, Renny, I need to get a pair of shoes and then I can take you on your afternoon walk," stated the duke.
Renny's reply was two barks.
"Here you go, Duke Renning," said Geoffrey as he handed Renning a pair of shoes.
"Why, thank you, Geoffrey!"
Renning took the shoes out of the three-year-olds hands and shut the closet door back.
He began to walk away when he realized what had just happened. He opened the door again and stared at the boy who was settled uncomfortably in his closet.
"Geoffrey, what are you doing in my closet?"
"Lucy, Elincia, Bastian, and I are playing hide-n-seek."
"Oh? But Bastian left three hours ago…"
"What?! Why didn't my sisters come get me?!"
"I'm not sure, but we are definitely going to find out!"
The man helped Geoffrey out of his closet and the two of them left the room, followed by Renny, in search of the two girls.
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"Hi, Uncle Renning!" Elincia exclaimed.
"Hi, Brother!" chirped Lucia.
"Lucia, Elincia, by any chance did you forget something?"
"I don't think so, Uncle…"
"Yes, Uncle, what do you mean?"
"Lucy! Elincia! How could you?!"
"Oh no! Geoffrey, please forgive us! We forgot to tell you that Bastian gave up!"
"You sure did!"
"Please, Geoffrey…we're terribly sorry."
"Fine, I forgive you Elincia. I'm sure it was all my sisters idea anyway."
"Hey! Geoffrey, that's not fair to blame everything on me!"
"But, Lucia, you know you'd do something like this before Princess Elincia would! Now, if you promise it'll never happen again, I'll forgive you."
"Oh, it won't!"
"Yeah, we promise!"
"Very well. Girls, if you would like, we could all take Renny on a walk."
"Okay, Uncle Renning! We'll go get his leash!"
The two girls rushed off to go get Renny's leash.
After they had left the room Renning and Geoffrey were in, they began talking in hushed whispers.
"That was close!"
"I know! I was sure Uncle Renning was going to punish us!"
"Me too!"
"Say, Lincy…"
"Yes?"
"Did you actually forget about Geoffrey?"
"Hehe. No, I didn't!"
"Neither did I!"
Lucia grabbed the leash and the two went back to where their brother and uncle were waiting, laughing all the while.
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A/N: Well, there it is. I don't know when the next update will be, but if I think of anything, I'll be sure to update.
