Blue's Adventure

I sit on the couch in the light of the TV and listen to the sniffles of my human. When she got home she crashed on the floor and burst into tears. With some work I managed to calm her down a bit. Then she informed me "He's gone." I'm not sure but I think she was talking about the male who usually hangs around that she cuddled and kissed. I had to hold my tongue. I mean I told her he was no good. He smelled all wrong, like a cat. You can't trust those sneaky, sly, lying, snobby, creatures. Still humans aren't the most intelligent things. So I'll give her a break, however if that cat smelling human comes back into this house I will launch a furious attack on his ankles. Anyway after that we curled up on the couch with the TV. Now she is trying to drown her sorrows by watching sadder stuff on TV. Now if humans can be fools the ones on the TV are especially so. Needless to say the TV doesn't help with anything. She gets up to go to the kitchen and I nod in approval. Food fixes everything. 

While she's away I move to my spot on the rug so I can keep watch on the back door. She comes back with ice cream and tissues then flops onto the couch. She digs into her rocky road with a spoon in one hand. In the other hand she holds the remote and flips the channels causing a stream of colored nonsense. I try my best to tune it out. I don't like the noise and colors channel flipping causes.

I focus on the door it's nice outside. I could go outside. Well I could go outside if I padded to the door and made enough noise to force my human to get up from the couch and open the door. Sigh, that's a lot of work. I have to bark then wait, then bark, then wait until she finally gets up. She's sad too so getting her to get up from the couch will be even harder. I tried to tell her to get a doggie door she didn't understand, typical human. Now I have to rely on her to open doors, provide food, turn off lights, and find something not mind numbing on TV. Oh well, I turn my head back to the TV. She's settled on some show with people yelling at each other. Wonderful, why do humans find amusement in controversy? I don't get it. It's not like dogs host dog fights. That's a human thing.

I turn my head back to the door. I can see birds hopping around the yard. I narrow my eyes, those stupid twittering fools. I get up and pad to the door. I paw at it to see if that's enough to get her attention. I don't want to scare those twittering pests, yet. She looks over and sighs however she does get up and open the door. I try my best to one of those human smiles to show I'm grateful but she doesn't understand. Oh well, I have a job to do. Unfortunately the birds fly away at the noise of the door. Wonderful, what to do now? 

I jog around the yard. I slip behind my bush where I've constructed a secret tunnel. I love my human. Sure she's a bit of an annoyance but she means well. A girl just needs a bit of me time. She needs some right now and I so do I. I worm under the fence and take a deep breath of unconfined air. Now to find something to terrorize, I pad to the woods my collar tags jingling in the dark. I slip into woods, or what I call the woods. I know from the TV that real forests extend for miles. My woods is just an overgrown patch of land by the housing development my human calls home. Once under the cover of foliage I burst out into a run. There are no walls to run into or humans to chase. This is my little slice of freedom running with nothing to stop me but the ache of my own tiny legs.

A huge round sliver thing comes into view. I stop this is new. Squinting at its bright blue lights I try to investigate. I jog around the perimeter looking for clues. There are none of those signs in human scrawl. I reminds my of a place I saw on TV, Vegas I think. My Human was going there with cat smelling male. I guess that isn't going to happen know. Maybe going there without him will make her feel better. After a few times around I manage to figure out there is a door a weird looking one but a door no less.

With that established I run back home, into the yard, and start barking. She comes out and tries to shush me. I duck under the fence and she curses. I stop suddenly, really? Cursing at me? I'm trying to help! She opens the fence door and reaches down to grab me. I bolt and run straight for the weird round thing. She yells out my name "Blue" as she chases me. She calls out "Get back here, come back" Really? She is so ungrateful I'm beginning to rethink this whole thing. It's too late we're almost there. 

We arrive at the thing and she looks at in utter surprise. I jump around and try to push her towards it. She looks at me and asks "What have you found?" I try to smile again. She cautiously nears it with my help. I pad up the door and gesture to it. She looks at me in disbelief "You want me to go in there?" She shakes her head and backs away "No I need to call the cops, the military, NASA, Homeland Security, or the president!" What? Why, I sigh humans are so confusing. The door opens and I look at her. She's acting weird and trying to get me to come to her. No, I took you here to cheer you up and I'm not leaving until it works. I stomp my foot and run into the door. She yells "Blue get back here." I stubbornly refuse and she gives in and reluctantly follows me. 

I run around the inside of the weird thing and she follows whispering angrily at me. I'm about to give up because clearly she doesn't understand then There's a sound like a door shutting. All of a sudden the air presses us to the floor. With a rush my ears pop. Then the pressure lets up and were weightless. My legs slowly start to float away from the floor. I'm starting to think maybe this was a bad idea.

The End or The Beginning?