Chapter 5
A/N: Oh good, you're back. That means you forgive me. Thank you.

After Bolt left the bedroom and went down the stairs, Maybelle opened her eyes. She looked around just to make sure that Bolt was gone and Penny is asleep.
Maybelle knew what she wanted to do. She wanted to follow Bolt all the way back to Maryland, to find her parents. Maybelle knew that she wouldn't like to be back there, but as long as she has Bolt by her side, she felt a lot stronger.
Maybelle stood up and quietly made her way to the bedroom door way. She stopped before she went through it and listened to the voices down stairs.
Maybelle could here Bolt talking to Mittens and Rhino about leaving.
Once she heard Bolt say, "Bye.", she quietly snuck down stairs, and out the back door. Maybelle carefully watched for Bolt to come into sight, not seeing her. When she did see him, she crouched low to the ground, by the bushes that surrounded the house's perimeter. Maybelle waited until Bolt was out of sight and yet, waited a few seconds to be sure that he wouldn't be able to notice her behind him. All she had to do was just sniff out his scent and follow it, right?
Maybelle cautiously stood up and walked in the path that Bolt took not too long ago. She immediately caught his scent and followed it through the grove of trees that are behind the house.

(Back in the house...)

"What do you mean she's gone?!" Mittens shouted.
"Oh. Well, what I meant was... MAYBELLE IS NOT IN THE HOUSE!" Rhino tried to explain.
"Did you check in every single room and closet?" Mittens asked.
"Well, yeah!" Rhino answered.
"God damn it! Now what do we do?" Mittens asked out loud to herself.
"...We have to find her, and make sure she doesn't follow Bolt to Maryland." Rhino said, knocking some sense into Mittens.
"Your right... But she could be anywhere by now! Who knows when she left!" Mittens said.
"That shouldn't matter... as long as you can pick up one their scents." Rhino explained.
"I am a cat, Rhino! ...Not a frickin' Bloodhound!" Mittens shouted.
"You don't need to be! I watched the Discovery Channel on the TV about a week ago and I learned that the cat's smelling senses are almost as good as a dog's." Rhino explained.
Mittens was surprised to hear this. She didn't even know that herself.
"Really? I didn't know that." Mittens admitted.
"...And you said TV rots your brain!" Rhino joked.
"Yeah? So?" Mittens asked.
"So... We need to get our asses out there and find that dog!" Rhino said.
With that, Rhino and Mittens ran outside in the dark. Mittens was walking around the yard sniffing, concentrating on getting either of the dog's scents.
Finally, she picked up someone's scent. She took a big wiff of it. It was Maybelle's.
Mittens shot a look over at Rhino.
"Well, which way did they go?" Rhino asked eagerly.
Mittens walked around a little more.
"...This way!" Mittens called to Rhino.
"Let's go!" Rhino replied.
Then Rhino followed Mittens in his ball, into the grove of trees.

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