CHAOS...
EVERYWHERE...
Puppys are just flying through the house, Dante (as usual) is seen screaming on the staircase.
"ITS THE END OF THE WORLD!" He screamed out only for a pair of hands to reach out and massage his head which seemed to calm him down.
"Breath." A voice was heard and Dante fell over with a calm and happy smile.
Dorothy was chewing up the railing which for a small puppy seems impossible especially how much of the railing has been chewed, when the same pup came down on the railing and put his hand on her head, which calmed her down, and she dropped to the floor. Dawkins was at the bottom of the staircase putting together a puzzle, he was just about finished when he realized the last piece was missing.
"OH NO! THE LAST PIECE IS MISSING!!" He screams out in horror, only to have the same pup put the last piece in which Dawkin sees and calms down. This pup that's been calming everyone down is Deepak his face has a strange pattern that looks like a ying-yang symbol, his collar had the same pattern but instead it's red and blue. He was heading outside but stopped and noticed Charlie sitting there with a panic expression in his face and was breathing fast and heavily, Deepak thought this would be his greatest challenge and hurried over to Charlie, he was always able to calm the nerves of his fellow sibling could he do the same with Charlie? Deepak hoped up onto the couch with cat like reflexes and put both his paws on Charlie head.
"Breath Charlie breath." He said to him which seem to did the trick as Charlie began to slow his breathing and closed his eyes, before finally calming down.
"Thanks Deepak, I owe you." He said which Deepak bowed.
"Its the least I could but you seem more bent up then usual." Deepak emphasized which got Charlie's attention.
"What you mean?"
"Your aura." Deepak answered when I was meditating it kept changing rapidly and then goes back to normal, is something bothering you?" He asked.
"Oh no no no, its nothing go on ahead."
Charlie smiled which made Deepak be more concerned but he did what he was told and went on back outside.
"DIMITRI 1 2 AND 3 FOR THE LOVE OF DOG PLEASE STOP PLAYING WITH THE VACUUM!!!" Dylan yelled as he was being dragged around by the Dimitri trio. Charlie just shook his head and went to help him.
MEANWHILE OUTSIDE
Deepak was heading toward the fence where a wood pallet covered a hole to the next-door neighbor's house. This revealed cats having a yoga class. The cat that was leading is named Constantine he usually has his classes in his zen garden once every week. Deepak watched in awe as Constantine teached his fellow cats and smiled, he was always trying to find his inner cat and with the help of these lessons he was ever so close.
"Now it's time for us to do our... cat poses." Constantine announced as he clicked finger simbals he had together and went down with his rear up, his students did the same. Deepak walked backwards and did the same.
"Now for a more Challenging pose." Constantine stated as he hit his simbals again and this time put his head under his right hind leg with his tounge sticking our groom under his leg (no there not licking there crouchs get your mind out of the gutter people)
CRASH*
Went the back door as The Dimitri Trio pushed the vacuum outside with Dylan flying off and with Charlie being slightly crushed underneath it with the wind knocked out of him.
"Oh Look..." D1 pointed to Deepak who quickly put his head up quickly, "Seems Deepak trying to be a cat." He teased, as he and the others gathered around Deepak, and mocking him by meowing at him and laughing at him.
"Hey come on you guys don't diss cats." Dylan said
"Oh, so your a cat lover now?!" D1 asked.
"Cat lover Cat lover." D2 mocked, which D3 made a barfing noise.
"I-I do n-not." Dylan stuttered after being hit with this question, "I'm allergic to ah Ah Ah Choo..." Dylan sneezed and sniffed up the snot that was in his nose.
"Uh hemmm." A voice was heard as the The boys all looked over to see Constantine who was cover in snot. The trio tried their best to hold in their laughter at the poor cat who didn't seemed very pleased with Dylan and the others, "Do you mutts mind I'm having a session." He said as he walked away from the hole. That made the Dimitri Trio not very happy at his remark and of course not wanting to take what Constantine commented lightly quickly shot a look over to Dylan very angrily.
"Your gonna let a cat talk like that to us." D1 asked with a very angry look.
"Well uh...uh." Dylan didn't know how to answer and looked at them and noticed Deepak with puppy eyes, which he groans upon seeing Deepak. Dolly was just about to head out her new skateboard which was Charlie's but he gave it to her as a gift when she saw Charlie on the ground.
"Oh my dog! Charlie, are you okay?" She ran over to him, picked the vacuum off of him and lifted his head a little but noticed he was as pale as snow, "Dylan!!" She called, Dylan turn to see a pale Charlie and rushed over.
"Is he alright?"
"I dont know he's as white as Dorothy's fur." She answered until Charlie finally groaned in pain.
"W-what what happened?" He asked, rubbing his head and look to see them both.
"Dude, you were down for the count are you okay?" Dolly asked which Charlie smiled.
"I'm fine, I'm fine just got the wind knocked out of me that's all... why are the Dimitris on top of that tower?" He asked as the trip looked over to see that the Dimitri Trio had stacked whatever they could find and were mocking the cats next door. Dylan groaned in annoyance.
"I'll be back." He said and ran over to try and stop them. As Charlie started to get up, Dolly looked over to see that he was breathing heavily.
"You sure your alright?" She asked him again.
"I'm fine go have fun." Charlie smiled at her which she smiled back and raced off on her skateboard.
Back With Deepak and Them
Deepak was clearly embarrassed by the Dimitri Trio who are just pestering Constantine his secret mentor.
"Ignore them as if the Great Cat Guru once said." He stated, "A dog that has no brains is still a dog..." this statement drove Dylan into a new state of hatred.
"Oh heh oh haha hey oh whew." He flabbergasted trying to say something. The three cats laugh at him.
"Completely owned." The one cat said.
"Yes however someone owning a dog that I'll never understand." Constantine shook his head.
"Oh that is it!" Dylan finally had enough, "You cats should be taught a huh huh AHHH CHOO." Dylan sneezed again only when he ducked to sneezed The Dimitris grabbed a bucket of water and threw it in the cats along with Constantine. Dylan looked back up only to snicker, "Bad Dylan bad." He told himself.
"DYLAN TAKE CHARGE!!!" Deepak demanded.
"Oh uh right right." He looks back at the Dimitris, "You three, haven't we taught you three to be nice to be nice to cats?" As he says this he points to Deepak.
"Sure be nice to cats." Dimitri one says and winks.
"HE WINKED!!" Deepak shockingly said.
"What No." Dylan denied.
"He clearly winked." Dolly skated by to check up on Charlie who was watching the whole thing. The amount of anger is impossible to describe how angry Charlie was getting.
"Maybe there was something in his eye right?"
"Sure something in my eye." Dimitri 1 said and winked again.
"He winked again." Dolly said skating back from the house, which made Dylan groan under his breath.
"Look seriously you guys, you need to be nice to cats." Dylan but his allergies were getting to him causing more snot to come out of his nose, "Even if they are... stuck up superior."
"DYLAN!" Deepak yelled which caused The Dimitris to giggle at his remark.
"Well it's TRUE your whole cat guru thing has blinded..."
"Cat Guru has told us that all animals should be treated equal..." Before he would finish he was splashed with water by the Dimitris.
"Oops paw slipped." They snickered.
"DYLAN TAKE ACTION!!!" Deepak demanded furiously and pointed to each one of the Dimitris, "For they are the weakest weeds in your wind." Dylan and shoock it off.
"Oh its just water Deepak." This finally broke Deepak all the anger he built up is gone and is nothing left but tears, he starts to cry and boy was he upset.
"You know what Dylan, good dog can be bad dogs if they do absolutely nothing, and as a bird from a nest." He starts to stuttered with how heavily he's crying. "T-t-this b-bird must FLY!!!" he picked his head and walked away fully soaked. Charlie had finally exploded this was the last straw, but was also in tears.
"Does that mean he's off?" Dimitri 2 asked.
"YES THAT MEANS IM OFF!!!" Deepak shouted, to which Dylan, The Dimitris, Charlie, Dolly and mostly anybody who watched were shocked.
BACK IN THE HOUSE
"Wait Deepak Don't Go." Charlie begged Deepak who had all his stuffed packed up and was heading twoards the door, "Please Deepak we dont want you to go." He started to cry, grabbing on to the bag very weakly and pretended to be dragged by Deepak but it was clearly shown that Charlie was pushing himself (he loves to make things dramatic) Deepak looked at him and sighed.
"Charlie I'm very sorry I have to do this I can't stand this house anymore I need to leave." He said and ripped Charlie off the bag and out the door he went closing it behind him. Charlie stood back up and sighed as tears ran down his face while he sniffed up the snot that started forming in his nose when Dolly came sliding down the railing.
"Ugh I just went to get a drink and now I see this, what's going on?" Charlie didn't answer he looked away from her.
"Charlie spill, what's wrong."
"he's gone" he said quietly.
"Huh?"
"HE'S GONE!!!" He yelled causing Dolly to jump back a bit in fear but she can tell it was alot of anger and sadness mixed together, "And You Can Thank YOUR BROTHER FOR DRIVING HIM AWAY!!!" He added, Dolly knew right away who he was talking about Dylan she too had started to angry.
"What he do?"
"He stuck up with his pride and basically shoved Deepak to the side, and DON'T GET ME STARTED WITH THE DIMITRI TRIO!!!" He cried with anger, Charlie really believed that they were ok but here they were straight up bullys. He looked out the window to see Constantine and Deepak bowing he looked alot more happier over there, but Deepak saw him and on his face he clearly didn't want to go but he kept a smile and walked in the house, Constantine looked and Charlie and shook his head with sadness, before going into the house. Tears were flowing down and on cue and certain Dalmatian had came out of the basement to hear the commotion only to see Charlie sitting down and crying.
"Charlie are you alright?" Da-Vinci asked He doesn't answer all he does is curl up into a ball and went silent. She quickly rushed over to him and placed a paw on his arm, "Charlie please, speak to me please." Still no answer, "I'll go and find Dylan." She was about to run before he finally spoke.
"He's gone."
"Who's gone?"
"Deepak, Dylan drove him away." Charlie told Da-Vinci who was shocked to think that Dylan would drive away Deepak.
"Oh no that's definitely not good without Deepak..." not even getting to finished her sentence CHAOS erupted.
UPSTAIRS
"You need to bring Deepak back" Dolly told Dylan who was clearly wasn't having it, "You dont understand how he helps us."
"I'm the glamorous one." A voice was heard behind a door.
"No your not I am." Another voice was heard.
Dolly and Dylan looked into the doggy door.
"Uh oh." They both to said as they see Dallas and Destiny fighting over a chicken while Deja-vu was bouncing all over the walls.
"No your not!"
"Yes I am!"
"Aren't!"
"Am!" Destiny and Dallas argued when Deja-vu smacked the doggy door which cause Dylan and Dolly to back out.
"See what I mean." Dolly said only for Dylan to ignore her and walk down the hallway, "Do you know when the next Raimbow Course will be? Oh that's right NEVER." Dolly announced to him. Dylan still ignores as he goes down the stairs.
"Look without Deepak things are cha..." Dolly slid on the railing only to fall on the floor and noticed the front railing is chewed off and the top of it is being chewed by Dorothy.
"Dorothy Dont Chew That!" Dylan yelled but to no avail.
"She gets these chewing moments and only one pup gets her out of it." Dolly explained while lookeing at Dylan with a disgust face, "Can you guess which one?" She asked, to which Dylan just groans in response.
"Right Deepak, he does some strange things that helps us." Dolly looked at a curled up Charlie next to the door with Da-Vinci next to him, trying to lick his tears away, "And look at Charlie he's curled up into a ball, and this is worse than before." Dolly remarked.
"So, he's over reacting." Dylan retorted, "And may I remind you he's been through these stages before." He stated which Dolly really started to get angry at him avoiding the obvious problem.
"You don't understand Dylan." Da-Vinci spoke up loudly, "Without Deepak, Charlie is a crying mess I can't get him to stop crying, he won't talk to me and that makes me scared." Hearing Da-Vinci speak up to him is a shocker she was quiet ever since she was pup but now that she has gotten close to Charlie she's changed. But as shocking as it was Dylan still didn't think so, and walked to the backyard.
"I'm sure everything will blow over."
"I definitely dont think so." Dolly pointed to a large group of the pups two are screaming.
"ITS THE END OF WORLD!!!" Dizzy and Deedee yelled which Dante came between them.
"Hey that's my line."
"Without Deepak, Dizzy and DeeDee are having nightmares." Dizzy and DeeDee are holding Dante too tightly making his eyes bug out.
"THE EARTH WILL OPEN UP..." Deepak started.
"AND SWALLOW US WHOLE!!!" Dizzy finished and right on cue the ground underneath Dylan and Dolly gave which lead to a huge hole.
"Awww why cant my predictions be this accurate." Dante complained.
"DIG DIG DIG DIG DIG DIG DIG." Diesel shouted loudly.
"Diesel!!!" Dylan shouted while following Dolly through the hole which Diesels digging.
"He's digging more than usual..." she looks back at Dylan, "I wonder why."
They both pop out of the new hole.
"This is not..." Dylan was saying before getting smacked with a pup which slid into the hole, "Alright I'll go get Deepak."
"No I'll get Deepak." Charlie angrily said as he was standing by the back door.
"W-what why I'll go get him."
"Just Shut Up!" Charlie yelled which causes Dylan to stop dead and look up scared, "I've had it with you, all you want is for this chaos to stop so that you can treat him like nothing."
"I didn't treat him..."
"Yes you completely did, he left because of you... You and YOUR STUCK UP PRIDE." Charlie got into Dylans face, "Deepak wanted you to stop The Dimitris but oh no you had to act tough had to push him down because those cat said they were better, well between me and them they are right, all you did was prove to them that your a stupid coward who hides behinds your siblings." This was making Dylan tear up, "I'm very...VERY disappointed in you Dylan." Charlie walked back to the front of the house, he noticed the Dimitris sitting there with shocked expression, "I definitely don't want to start with you three, I really thought you three were alright but all you three were bullys I really hope you're happy cause I clearly aint." This is the first time in a long while that Dylan was the one in trouble, the Dimitris and Dolly have been in trouble before but being yelled at a human especially the the one they like it really hurts to see that. even though they knew this was wrong they knew that Charlie was right Dylan didn't do anything to stop the Dimitris in fact he just encouraged them to keep going, and the Dimitris just bullied Deepak until he left, leaving Dylan to not only cry but he didn't move, he couldn't move. Dolly walked back into the house before looking at the Dimitris and shaking her head.
MEANWHILE
He was about to open the door when he noticed Da-Vinci and Dolly were sitting behind him, staring at him.
"Sorry that I yelled at him Doll." He said with a sigh.
"Nah, he deserved it your good, I would have yelled at him too." Dolly waved him off.
"What are you going to do? Your not gonna hurt anyone are you?" Da-Vinci asked.
"No one will be hurt DV and for what I'm gonna do well... I'm gonna wing it." Charlie walked out the door. As he walked over to Constantine's house he has the flash backs again this time playing right in front of him.
"Will we ever go home bro?" A young man asked.
"Idk little bro." Charlie said out loud and he reached the door to Constantines house. He looked at the doorbell button and hesitantly thought maybe he should just leave Deepak alone after all he was alot more happier, but he needed him more than ever, he hits the button which had a lovely chime and the door opened revealing Constantine.
"Ahhh the human I was wondering when you will ever show up."
"Good afternoon Constantine just want to know if Deepak is in session or not I wanted to talk to him if that's ok with you." He told the yoga feline.
"Well I suppose it doesn't hurt, just wipe your feet."
"Well actually I've brung another pair of shoes as of a traditional Japanese culture." Charlie held up a pair of loafers which Constantine was impressed.
"Ahh I see you've learned from culture that has some respect in my book, now please follow me." Charlie took off his combat boots and slipped on the fresh pair of loafers and headed in, as soon as the door closed the entire house was quiet he actually felt really peaceful.
"Wow this house is very quiet I can understand why you decided to have this place." Charlie quietly said but enough for Constantine to hear.
"Yes we must keep it quiet for my students, anyway he's out there." He said pointed out side to a zen garden where Deepak is meditating.
"Deepak?" He heard his name and open his eyes to see Charlie smiling at him, the emotional side kicked in as he cried with joy and ran to Charlie.
"Charlie!!!" He jumped into his arms and cried with joy holding ever so close to him.
"Oh Deepak I've missed you so much." Charlie said at the brink of tears.
"I missed you Charlie." Deepak replied back to him but Charlie began to have another flashback this time a familiar face popped up replacing Deepaks, which made him scream and jump back only to fall into the ceremonial lake, "Charlie!!" Deepak yelled out and jumped in to save Charlie which he pulled him out, "Charlie speak to me!" He cried out. Charlie didn't say anything, he was completely pale again, had no emotion in his face, and was shaken uncontrollably.
"What's wrong my apprentice?" Constantine came rushing checking up on them.
"It's Charlie, he fell into the pond and he won't response." Deepak said very worried. Constantine look at the human and thought to himself before running into the house coming back with a stick which he broke into two and put them close to his nose. Charlie sniffed up the content it smells like the beach but it had a strange reaction causing him to fling himself up and breathing fast and heavy.
"Breath Charlie Breath your safe." Constantine said which started to help Charlie to calm, "Hmmm something is terribly wrong, do you have these flashbacks often?" He asked.
"T-they started to get worse when I got here." Charlie answered.
"Ahh I see, well, I think what you need is some time with us, you came to the right place we need to get whatevers in there out." Constantine said pointing to Charlie's head which confused him.
"What do you mean?" Deepak looked puzzled as well.
"Join me if you please." Constantine sat on a rug in the house along with Charlie (who was barefooted) and Deepak sitting on there own rugged.
"Now Charlie these issues you've been having... we need to see what your issue so please lets empty your mind and let's focus on the bad thoughts shall we..?" Charlie, Deepak, and Constantine all got into meditation positions and started.
Charlie went to close his eyes and for a while nothing just blackness.
[Charlie's thoughts]
'Argh this isn't working Constan...'
He opens his eyes to see the world covered in darkness with red outlines of his terrible past mostly from when he was in the military.
"Dude?" A hand came out and touch his shoulder but everything thing came to view for him to see a young man sitting next to him, he looked 18 and had blue eyes, a small buzz cut but you can tell he was a blond, he has a tattoo of the United States flag in his neck.
Irag 2018
"Bro you awake?" The young man asked.
"Yeah yeah I'm awake." Charlie said.
"Great didn't want my big brother to be sleeping through the whole war Haha." Charlies brother chuckled.
"Very funny Kyle, how much farther?" Charlie asked the driver.
"About two clicks north almost ther..." A bullet came through the window hitting the driver right through the head and the jeep spun out of control, toppling over into multiple barrel rolls but before it continued, everything froze.
"This was day I can't get out of my head... the day I watched my brother die." The jeep toppled over and over and over until it landed upside down. Charlie was thrown out of the jeep and was knocked out for a while but woke back up to see his brother underneath the jeep screaming in pain.
"Brother help me!!!!" Charlie ran to him, and tried to pick up the car only to no avail.
"Kyle I'm not strong enough." A sniper round was heard and it went through Charlie's shoulder making him fall next to jeep which engulfed into flames, all Charlie could hear was the screams coming from his brother knowing he let him die, but then he heard a new sound a helicopter and he recognized it, it was theres,"Thank god the calvary arrived." He groaned in pain and watch the helicopter hover over him. The helicopter saw the burning jeep and noticed the enemy shooting at them so as any good and fun thing that a helicopter would do, it begian lighting up the targets. The sounds of mini guns were heard along with the sounds of missiles until finally another chopper landed with medical team onboard rushing over to the scene. They noticed Charlie moving and quickly but carefully picked him up on to a stretcher where it's revealed that he was losing a lot of blood. As they put the iv in him and start to clean clean his wounds one cam right up to his face.
"You let him die, Charlie." A voice echoed, but his name got louder and louder until he could hear it clear as day and everything went black.
"Charlie? Charlie come on we're going home." A familiar voice was heard it sounded like a lot like Dylan. Charlie opened his eyes slowly and noticed Dylan was sitting there with his paws on his shoulders trying to wake Charlie up by shaking him. His eyes were bloodshot red and had snot coming out of his nose.
"D-Dylan what are you doing here?" Asked Charlie, who was confused.
"I came to get Deepak and you." He sniffed keeping the snot from hitting the floor.
"I'm ready to go Dylan." Deepak said sitting next to Charlie and smiling.
"Well alright but did any of you saw what I saw?" He asked Deepak who shook his head.
"Just as soon as we started Dylan ranged the door he wanted us back so we uh well... we made him go through the trial."
"The trial?"
"The trial of a thousand cats and it pains me to say it but Dylan passed." Constantine answered angrily, "But Charlie I saw most of it during his trial and I have to say what you have, you can't hide forever you must tell them." He said. Charlie looked at him sadness, he knows what's he talking about.
"But I'm scared Constantine I'm scared they would think differently." He stated, this got Deepak, and Dylan to look at each other.
"Charlie your still family to us we would never think otherwise." Dylan spoke as he sniffed up his runny nose, which Charlie smiled.
"Well we better get back home we gotta save the house before your mom and dad gets home." But before they went out the door Charlie turned to Constantine.
"Something you need?"
"Well before we go I want to say thank you for your help and I like to ask if its alright if me and Deepak come over more often?" This made Deepak eyes wide.
"Well of course anything for fellow students." This made Deepak jump up and down with joy.
"OH THANK YOU CHARLIE THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!" He hugs Charlie's leg which he laughed in response.
"No problem now come on let's hurry back." Charlie, Deepak, and Dylan rush back to the house. As they open the front door the house had gotten worse... alot worse. The fighting hadn't stop and the chaos has escalated to eleven.
"Deepak... do your thing." Charlie told Deepak which he nodded and jumped onto of the Vacuum and got into a meditation positions and pulled out finger simbals.
"Annnnnd... Breath." He said and clicked the finger simbals causing a small and very slow emp blast of calmness through the house, calming everyone down from the living room to the kitchen. To the bathroom to upstairs everyone was calming down and for the first time everything was calm.
"Welcome home Deepak." Everyone group hugged Deepak.
"Its good to be home." Deepak said with proud teary eyes and a happy smile it was good to be home.
"Alright now that everyone is calm and collective we need to clean this place before mom and dad get home." Charlie announced which the pups looked around and full of embarrassment the house is almost completely destroyed.
"You sure we can get it done fast enough?" Dolly asked.
"We will if we do it Together." Charlie announced which all the pups cheered, "CUE CLEAN UP MONTAGE... With song." Charlie pulled out his phone and went to the tv speaker a played a familiar song.
We Built This City
We built this city
We built this city on rock and roll
Built this city
We built this city on rock and roll
Say you don't know me or recognize my face
Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place
Knee deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight
Too many runaways eating up the night
Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember?
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Now the whole gang started to get into the music.
Someone's always playing corporation games
Who cares, they're always changing corporation names
We just want to dance here, someone stole the stage
They call us irresponsible, write us off the page
Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember?
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
It's just another Sunday in a tired old street
Police have got the choke hold, oh, then we just lost the beat
Who counts the money underneath the bar?
Who rides the wrecking ball into our guitars?
Don't tell us you need us 'cause we're the ship of fools
Looking for America, coming through your schools
Don't you remember? (Remember)
Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember?
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
We built, we built this city, yeah (Built this city)
We built, we built this city
We built, we built this city yeah (Built this city)
We built, we built this city
We built, we built this city yeah (Built this city)
We built, we built this city (Built this city)
As the song plays, the pups were working like machines getting the place cleaned up before there parents get home from them sliding on sponges, to putting stuff away. Anything that was broken they pushed into Diesel giant hole that he made and covered it so that no one could guess that anything happened.
After a couple of minutes with the help of the pups they cleaned the entire house, Dylan was impressed that the house was spotless.
"We're home." Delilah announced.
"GROUP HUG!!" Doug shouted and right on cue he was puppy piled with all the love and hugs and kisses, "Oh I missed all of you as well." Delilah giggled and took noticed of Dylan, Dolly, Charlie, and Deepak.
"I see you four are comfortable did you all have a rough day?" She asked them, which they looked at each other and smiled.
"Nah." Dolly said
"Not really." Dylan agreed
"Everything was smooth." Deepak said however Charlie was fixated on something.
"Actually, I uh, have to tell you something." This made Dylan, Dolly, Deepak jump up with worry, Delilah with curious face, "To all of you... actually."
"Oh what is it?" She asked.
"It's best I tell you after uh... DINNER!!" Charlie yelled and the Tsunami of puppies came rushing to the dinning table running over Dylan and Dolly in the process, Delilah chuckled.
"Well he's definitely learning." She looked at Dylan and Dolly who smiled through the pain at Charlie he was clearly one of them.
A Little While
Everyone finished there dinner and headed towards the living room where they find Charlie sitting on the couch with his head in his hands, he was clearly upset about something.
"Charlie we're all here." He looked up to see eyes very curious eyes some a little worried. Charlie breathed in and out slowly, rethinking about what Constantine said, he's right, he needs to tell them.
"Gather around everyone, this is very improtant." He waves his arms in so the pups could come closer, Dizzy and Deedee were on the couch along with Deepak who were on his right and Da-Vinci who was the closest to Charlie on his left , on top of the couch was Dolly, and right in front of him was Dylan who was next to Delilah, "For the past week you probably noticed something wrong with me." He started which alot of them nodded.
"Like how you jump and hid when the heater kicked on?" Dolly asked.
"When you were pale as snow outside after being hit with the Vacuum?" Dylan added.
"Your constant shaking?" Deepak added which everyone nodded.
"Or when you screaming in your sleep and waking up in sweat?" Dolly added, "You woke me twice." Dolly remarked.
"What's wrong Charlie?"
"Yeah you have us like..."
"Completely worried." Triple D stated.
"Yes all of that everything you've seen the jumps, the shakes, the screaming at night that's all symptoms of a very deadly disease that is very dangerous." Charlie answered, to which scared everybody.
"Is it contagious?" Dylan asked who was mostly scared.
"No no no no it's not I like I could die in like five seconds." Charlie said which seems to relax a lot of the pups. Charlie looked down and sighed, "I have PTSD." The whole place was silent, but a lot of them were confused all except for Delilah who was more shocked than anyone else.
"Oh my Dog."
"What's wrong mom?" Dylan asked worriedly.
"I never thought you would have PTSD, but then again that would explain so much of your actions."
"What is this PTSD?" Dolly asked.
"Its a strange and very scary Disease well not like sickness disease it's more of brain trauma." Delilah explained which made everyone confused, "Basically like a phobia but way worse." Doug explains as the pups all nodded there heads.
"Yeah but this isn't a normal phobia, they don't keep you up at night, has flashbacks out of no where, has no control of my emotions, the works." Charlie stated as he petted Da-Vinci by her ear.
"Is there a cure?" Dylan asked, to which Charlie shook his head.
"I'm getting flashbacks, I'm having nightmares, I jump thinking bullets are flying, I sometimes think I should just kill myself and be done with it and I almost did to once or twice before." He stated almost full of tears, "But-but o-o-one image I... I c-cant get rid of is seeing my b-brother killed." He said with tears.
"Wait you had brother?" Dolky asked.
"Burnted alive under the jeep and I couldn't save him." Charlie answered by rolling up his sleeve and felt a huge scar on his arm, "This is what I got for trying to save him, a bullet grazzed my shoulder." He explained to which the pups looked in awe. "But I... I got this letter from my grandfather saying I should be here with you guys and you know what..." They all looked up to him which through the tears he looked up and smiled, "You're the greatest family I could ever have." This broke everyone, Dizzy and Deedee hugged him first, followed by Deepak, Dolly literally crying with joy hugged his neck, then followed by everyone else including Da-Vinci who licked his cheek, which he giggled.
"We love you Charlie." The pups said in unison.
"I love you all." He said through his tears of joy, "GROUP HUG!!" He yelled as he stretch his arms only to be tackled by everyone. Charlie for once in his life felt happy, he didn't felt pain, he didn't felt sadness, he felt happy that he was here with this family of dogs that took him in, he felt safe and sound.
He looked up to the clock and realized it's 10:23.
"Oh man it's way all your past bedtime." The pups all whined but yawned and started to fall asleep but before they could, Delilah got up and streched.
"Alright children follow me it bedtime." she said and led them to the stairs, all except Dylan, Dolly, Deepak and the Dimitris.
"Dylan, look I want to apologize for earlier." Charlie said but Dylan shook his head.
"No I want to apologize for earlier. I let my pride get to me and I felt like a complete idiot and threw Deepak out, I'm very sorry." He looked down and was about to cry but Charlie kissed his forehead.
"I forgive you little bro, now go get some sleep." Dylan wagged his tail and headed upstairs before hugging Deepak.
"Deepak." D1 spoke up, "We wanted to say sorry for bullying you, Charlie made us realized what we did." It was a genuine apology no one could get the Dimitris to ever apologize untill now.
"Yeah it clearly wrong were very sorry." D2 added.
"Very sorry." D3 said. Deepak just smiled.
"Apology accepted." This made the Dimitris happy as they ran off for bed.
"So Dolly you tired?" Charlie asked her which she yawned and stretched herself.
"Totally I'll head to bed goodnight Deepak I'll see you later Charlie." She said as she walked up the stairs.
"Charlie can I talk to you?" Deepak asked.
"Sure what's up."
"Well uh... that was very brave of you to tell us your secret. I want to tell you something." Deepak said.
"Why me?"
"Because I trust you." Deepak words hit Charlie heart again so he nodded, "Please follow." Charlie followed Deepak to a grandfather clock and open the door to where the weight is which underneath was a box a small shoe box and inside of that shoe box was a collar it was red and pink and had a small bell on it which didn't ring but underneath it was a picture, Deepak picked up the picture and stared at for a minute before handing it to Charlie, "Here look." He said as Charlie took the picture. It was a cat, a very pretty one, slender, long tail, cute little ears, and had big green eyes, she had orange fur color with tan underbelly that reach up from her chin all the way down to her waist. She was also wearing the collar that was in the box she looked beautiful.
"Who is this?" Charlie asked.
"That's Cindy." Deepak answered, "My first love interest." This shocked Charlie.
"I didn't know you had a girlfriend."
"No one knows, me and her kept it a secret... we met during one of Constantine sessions we saw each other and instantly fell in love." Constantine explained with sadness, "We were the same age, well for a dog and cat, and when we coul, we would sneak out and have talks, eat together, or simply stare up into the stars."
"Did you two ever mated?" Charlie asked jokingly.
"W-what No No No, we wanted to take it slow and enjoy our love together." Charlie nodded his head, "But then she told me she had to run away..." He stated with tears forming in his eyes, "She handed me her collar and this photo to remember her and she ran off, I haven't seen her since." Deepak said was crying which Charlie got down and hugged him.
"There there Deepak, maybe will see her again after all it's only been a year right so she might be out there."
"Oh I hope so, I just hope to see her again, just wish she and I could live in harmony."
"Well I'll keep an eye out for her and if I see her I'll tell you ok?" Deepak hugged him.
"Thank you Charlie, you are really are the best."
"We really should get some sleep Deepak." Charlie said before turning to Deepak, "How about you sleep with me?" He asked, to which Deepak eyes lit up.
"Really with you?"
"There always room for one more Deepak." He said, gesturing up to the stairs. Deepak smiled widely and ran upstairs, Charlie chuckled and put the stuff back into the box but not before taking picture of the picture so that he can remember what she looks like. He put the box back in the grandfather clock and headed up the stairs. Inside his bedroom Dolly was already asleep Deepak jumped up and circled himself until he finally got into a comfortable position and yawned. Charlie came up and kissed Deepaks head,
"Goodnight Deepak." He said and Deepak only smiled before falling into a deep sleep. Charlie slid into bed and kissed Dolly on the nose, which she too smiled and drifted off to sleep. Charlie soon smiled and cuddled with Deepak before finally drifting peacefully off to deep sleep.