Patch's Adventures in Puppy School

chapter 6: Moment of Truth

Patch was okay but he was worried, but didn't show as they were getting closer to the security room. Squirt got the controls set to show Lucky and Patch what was detected by the local Puppy School.

'Please don't show the face, please don't show the face, please don't show the face.' Patch thought.

Squirt and Lucky were about to find out who caused the destruction, but a red alarm buzzed and blared, taking their attention.

"Red alert!" Lucky called. "Everybody up, up, up!"

'Whew, that was close.' Patch thought in relief.

Lucky sorted all the other dogs to get them up as the alarm blared.

"What's going on, Lucky?" Patch asked.

"Humans are coming to visit the shelter to adopt pets," Lucky told him with a wise smile. "You can either come up or stay down here, whichever's better for you."

'If I go up there I might be spotted, better stay down here.' Patch thought. "I'll stay down here, Lucky." he then said.

"Okay, stay safe... I gotta go." Lucky advised before he went up with the others.

"Whew, don't want to get adopted by someone," Patch said. "And that was a close one, if that alarm hadn't gone off, they might have found out."

Cherry was outside for a change as Atticus and Darla walked down the street with Maisy.

"Patch! Patch! Where are you?!" Atticus called out before seeing his friend. "Cherry, have you seen Patch?"

"Hm?" Cherry looked up from her book.

"Patch is missing, he was kicked out of Puppy School, have you seen him?" Maisy brought her up to speed.

"I don't think so..." Cherry shrugged. "I doubt he'd run away from home."

"But he didn't return home and we've been looking almost everywhere." Atticus said, worriedly.

"Hmm..." Cherry frowned. "That doesn't sound like Patch..."

"Do you think you could help us look for him?" Darla asked.

"Not sure... Let me check my schedule..." Cherry took out her iPhone and scrolled through it.

Darla and Atticus sulked, they knew that Cherry would have nothing to do and would just rather stay home all day, being alone.

Cherry looked that they were actually sad and worried, then closed her book and put her phone in her pocket. "Well... I might as well go."

"Thank you, Cherry!" Atticus and Darla cheered.

"He couldn't have gone far..." Cherry said as she walked off with them.

"Oh, I hope the little guy's okay where he is..." Darla sighed.

"Yeah, same here." Maisey said.

"Wherever he is, I hope he's safe." Atticus said.

Cherry joined them in their quest to find Patch and hopefully bring him back home. Darla picked up Maisy and held her tight, she didn't even want to think of what would happen if the cat had run away from home.

Patch was now beginning to worry as he saw that the video footage of the park showed what happened. Luckily for him, no one else was in the room with him so he decided to shut off the screen and then to go up to meet up with Lucky and hopefully there wouldn't be any humans around. What Patch didn't know was that someone had seen him turn off the screen that showed what happened and wanted to know what it was about. It was Strudel.