Later in the afternoon, after playing and giving her a walk, he heard knocking. Twinkie went to the door and barked wanting to know who's there.
Putzie wonders who it could be?
He went to the door and opened up noticing it was Sonny, Doody, Kenickie, and Danny.
"Hey guys!"
Twinkie barks excitedly remembering the rest of the guys from Valentine's day.
"Hey Twinkie!" Doody holds out his hand and she sniffs it before giving kisses.
"How's the pup!" Kenickie asked.
Sonny went to Twinkie and she looks away.
"Even girl dogs turn away from me!" Sonny says sadly.
All the guys laugh and went to the living room to play with her. Danny went to leave for a pizza delivery shift before coming back with free pizza.
Doody played with a chew toy and Twinkie kept attacking it like a ferocious dog making the guys laugh. Sonny comments, "Y' know, this is more fun than drinking beer!"
"This is more fun than making out with Rizzo!" Kenickie laughs as Twinkie went up to him and licks his chin. He asked, "Won't that be abusive if I gave her hickeys?"
They all looked at each other and then Putzie answers, "Well… It's Jan's dog… I think she would flip out Kenicks…"
Kenickie shrugged and Twinkie went to sniff around.
"You know! You're so lucky you don't have to sit through the english teacher's stupid lectures all day…"
"Hey Putz? What is that yellow spot over there?" Doody points at the spot still sitting on the carpet. Putzie forgot to clean that up.
He lied, "I accidentally spilled lemonade."
"Ohhhhh…"
Then the dark came and Danny gave Putzie some pizza after his shift and the guys went home.
It was soon bedtime for the two and Jan phone called him saying that the family toured around San Fransisco for the day and will bring back a souvenir for him. After they hung up, Putzie was about to put Twinkie to bed but then noticed a wet a muddy puppy walking through the doggie door.
"Twinkie! What happened?" He picked her up and she barked as a reply and then went upstairs to the bathroom to get a nice warm bath ready for the pup. He put her in the bubble bath and then scrubs her while she chews on a rubber duckie she found. He couldn't help but laugh at the squeaky sounds it made.
Putzie asks, "As long the carpet isn't a mess again. Everything is ok." Then Twinkie sneezed
"Oh. Bless you!" Putzie washes and rinses the soap out of her until she's sparkly and nice and clean. He took her out of the bath and dried her up with a towel and then went back downstairs to prepare for bed.
Twinkie lays on a doggie bed while Putzie puts on some tv he can fall asleep to. He soon slumped on the couch all sprawled out, but Twinkie is lying awake in her doggie bed wondering when Jan will ever come back. She starts to really miss her owner. She got up and went to the front door with hopes that Jan would come this minute.
About two hours later, Putzie hears howling when he awoke. He followed the sound coming from the front door where Twinkie raises her head howling like a wolf and whimpers as if she's crying.
"Twinkie?" Putzie asked, "Li'l Twinks. What's wrong?"
Twinkie turns her head to him with sad puppy dog eyes and her ears low.
Putzie sat down next to her and then pets her realizing what's wrong and why she's sitting at the door. "Hmmmmm.. You miss your owner Jan huh?"
She whimpers as a reply.
"I know.." He holds his arms out and Twinkie went into his arms and he hugs. "I know… I miss Jan a lot too. I'm the heart and she's my soul. I know you miss her a lot too. But no matter what, I'll take care of you, and she'll be back, I promise."
Twinkie then looks up at him and sniffs.
"You're the best dog i have ever met and you know that me and Doody surprised Jan on Valentine's day with you!"
Twinkie licks him and leans into him snuggling. She soon stopped howling feeling really content in Putties' chest and he kissed her on the head.
"How about this? You can sleep with me tonight. I can read you a nice bedtime story… And yes. You can pick out any of Jan's stuffed animals."
Twinkie then barks as if she understands him. She went upstairs with him following into Jan's room and then Twinkie went to pick out a light caramel brown teddy bear out of the same pile she was on. And Putzie looks in Jan's bookshelf to find some classic childhood bedtime stories. He looked until he pulled out "Goodnight Moon".
"Hey.. I used to love this book! What do you think Li'l Twinks?" He looked at her dragging the teddy bear by the ear and laughs, "That's too cute! I knew there was something about the teddy bear written in the list."
Then Twinkie barked and then Putzie looked back at the bookshelf confused. "Yeah. I wonder why she still keeps those types of stories. Eh… I still love her anyways!" He shrugged and picked up Twinkie and brought her downstairs tot he living room and have her laying on him with the teddy bear as a pillow and then Putzie reads the book until he heard her snoring.
He closed the book and then kissed her before falling asleep. "Sweet dreams Li'l Twinks!"
What do you think? And "Goodnight Moon" is the only book I know that lived through the 50's, that's the reason why.