Patch's Adventures in Puppy School

chapter 8: Pound Puppies Plan

The next morning was rough for Atticus and Colette, both being very worried and a little sick due to Patch having gone missing and all. But their worries were going to be soon put to rest as Lucky, Patch, and the Pound Puppies were all going to put Lucky's plan into action. Lucky woke up before everybody else, he decided to go over the plans one more time before the others would wake up, the sun was just slowly coming up now. Patch then woke up and saw that Lucky wasn't with him when he woke up.

"Where's Lucky?" Patch asked, looking around for the older dog.

Niblet yawned and stretched. "I thought he was with you..."

"Yeah, same here." Squirt nodded in agreement.

"He must have gone to go over the plans." Patch said before going down to the tunnels.

"Probably, baby..." Cookie smiled to him, being in a much better mood with him.

Patch smiled to her, then continued to go down the pound tunnels to find the older dog.

"Ah, good morning, Patch." Lucky smiled to him.

"Morning, Lucky, so ready to go over the plan?" Patch asked before scratching behind his right ear.

"You bet..." Lucky gave a nod. "You sure you're ready to go through this?" he asked the puppy just to make sure.

"Yes, I am sure that pup needs to be punished and man she will be hated by everyone when they see this info on her." Patch said.

"Couldn't agree more." Lucky said.

Patch and Lucky then talked it over while the others were either still asleep or just waking up.

Colette could barely eat this morning, she just curled up into a ball and looked miserable.

"Oh,..." Elizabeth saw the miserable puppy. "Jim Dear, Colette doesn't look very well..."

James came and saw this as he put down his morning paper. "Oh... Maybe we should call the vet..." he suggested.

Danielle, Scamp, and Angel flinched at the mention of the vet, but Colette was so depressed, she didn't even react to that, she just slowly blinked.

"Strange, whenever one of us mentions the word vet, the puppies flinch, but this time Colette didn't even look like she was afraid of the vet, she must be really sad." Mo guessed.

"Oh... Poor Colette..." Elizabeth picked up the blue-collared puppy. "What's wrong, dear?"

Colette just whined and looked very miserable. Lady looked very worried, being the mother and all.

"Man, Colette must really be in love with Patch." Angel figured.

"You know what they say about that love mush..." Danielle rolled her eyes slightly, she was sad for her sister, but she wasn't really interested in love stories due to being a tomboy. "Don't worry, Collie... Love will find a way and Patch will be back..."

Colette quietly whimpered, still very miserable.

"Well, I have to get to school..." Mo put on her backpack over her uniform. "I'm sorry, but I really need to go... I'll be back though, I promise."

Colette whined as Mo left, but just looked very sick and unhappy without Patch, deeply worried about him. This was going to be a long day for Colette.

Atticus was the same way at breakfast as he began to just look like he wasn't very hungry. Darla was more able to eat her breakfast, but she was sad like Atticus.

"Don't worry, dear..." Emily soothed her son. "We'll find Patch... We mustn't give up... I wish I could let you take school off to look for him, but I'm afraid I can't do that..."