******* Pete's House *******

I woke up to my third day in this alternate universe. King was already up watching the news. I walked over to the couch, rubbing the sleep from my eyes. "You watch the news?"

"Yea, why?" he questioned.

"News is boring."

"I know, I'm just waiting for the weather report."

"Ok, you do that I'm just gonna go-" Yawn "Eat breakfast." I went to the kitchen and saw Pete eating an apple while reading the newspaper.

The previous night at dinner I found out I could jump up and climb my way onto the chairs and from there climb onto the table. So I repeated the process and climbed onto the table.

Crunch

The sound of him eating that apple nearly made me drool. I hadn't had real food besides pet food for 3 days now, and a juicy apple was so appealing. "Can I have an apple for breakfast?" I asked politely. Pete pushed my food bowl filled with pet food over to me. Guess that's means no. I Lazily ate my food.

King walked into the kitchen getting himself a glass of water. He quickly drank it all down, and then walked over to me.

"Come on Shadow, finish up and let's go" he said to me.

"Huh?"

"It's going to be sunny all day, everyone should be out today" King explained.

"Do you think Peanut and Grape will be out?" I asked.

"Shadow, they're almost always inside their house."

"Well then I'll go play with them."

"What? No, I hardly know them and you've shown me I can't leave you on your own."

"You're not gonna let up on this are you?" I asked.

"Nope" he said simply.

The gears in my mind started churning. "Fine, just let me finish eating." I slowly resumed eating my breakfast. Pete had remained silent throughout our conversation, except the constant sound of him biting into that delicious apple...

Aha! I thought of a plan, but I needed to get King out of the room. He was still standing next to me waiting for me to finish. "Can you get my scarf please?" I asked King.

"Alright" he said walking to the front of the house.

With him out of the room, I quickly climbed down and ran out the doggy door. All the while saying "Be back for lunch Pete!" I ran past my snowman army and kept going straight. I'll just run out into the forest and wait a bit then head to Peanut and Grape's house. I just entered the tree line when the ground gave way and I suddenly found myself in a hole. I tried to climb out, but yet again my height reared its head. I tried to claw my way out but the ground and snow would just crumble down. This certainly ruins my plans.

******* The Kitchen *******

King entered the kitchen carrying Shadow's scarf, only to see that he had disappeared.

"Where did he-" King started to say.

"The little guy is certainly fast" Pete said pointing to the doggy door, never taking his eyes off the newspaper.

King went out the doggy door, following Shadow's steps through the snow. When he entered the tree line he finds the little kitten stuck in a hole.

"Heh heh, hi King" Shadow says.

"You've definitely gotten yourself in a tight situation, huh?" King says peering down.

"Yea, about that..." Shadow says.

King starts heading back to the house.

"Hey, don't leave me out here!" Shadow yells after King.

King enters back into the house and turns to Pete. "Pete, do you know what a baby harness looks like? The Kind where you wear a harness and strap a baby into it?" King asks.

"Yes, why do you ask?"

"Well, can you do me a favor?"

This is so humiliating... King had gotten me into a stupid baby harness, it was that or sit in a hole all day and freeze. He wore it with me on his back and right now we were going down the sidewalk to Fox's house. King's constant tail movement was getting on my nerves; it kept brushing against my feet with every step he took. I was about to say something but he stopped walking.

"Hey Sasha, what are you doing sitting on the sidewalk?" King asked.

I tried to see who he was talking to but I could barely turn around.

"Daddy is out doing errands and I didn't want to go with him. Why are you wearing a backpack?" She asked.

"Oh well..." King said, turning to reveal me on his back. "Just babysitting the kitten my owner got."

"Aww, he's so cute" she said coming over to me. "Hi, I'm Sasha" she leaned down smiling at me.

"Uh, hi, I'm Shadow." Sasha seemed rather nice, though I hate it when everyone treats me like a little baby, err kitten.

"Can I hold him?" She asked.

"Uh, sure if you want to. Though keep him in the harness, he likes to run off a lot."

"Hey! Stop treating me like a little kid!" I said defensively. King took off the harness and gave it and me to Sasha. She put the harness on, with me on her front, facing away from her.

"Well anyways, I was heading over to Fox's for our rematch of Tug-of-War. Would you want to come?" King asked.

"Actually If you didn't mind I could watch Shadow for you, I could show him around."

"Are you sure? I wouldn't want to burden you."

"No, I think it'll be fun" Sasha said with a big smile on her face.

"Alright, just be careful, he sure is feisty" King said.

"I'm sure he'll be good, won't you little guy?" Sasha asked, looking down at me.

"Uh, sure" I said unsure.

"OK, just bring him to Fox's house at lunch time so I can take him home" King said walking off, waving to Sasha.

"OK!" Sasha said waving back.

How do I keeping getting stuck in weird situations like this?

Took a break from my paper to write this, hope you liked it :)