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my eyes open a little and my paws start digging around, trying to uncover myself from all the fluffy ground stuff, the humans call it bedding, I call it my bathroom and bed. of course I do both of those things separately!
"yawn!" my sister Amanda squeaks, she is the oldest by two minutes. I'm the youngest, there are three of us, Amanda is all one color, tan.
"keep quiet! I'm still sleeping" Jesse, who is the middle child with grey and white spots said.
and I am Delilah! "morning!" I am the rugrat! the old stingy multicolor hamster with no uniqueness whatsoever! I'm all colors, white, black brown, grey, tan, and I also have a few soft fluffy parts, but the other fur is all soft but short, Im one of a kind all right, but not unique...
we did have another sister, she was also the middle hamster of us all, Karen, she was all white, pretty black eyes and the cutest fur, all short but man was it soft.
she got picked by a little girl, that was yesterday.
today a kid came to look at everyone, hamsters, mice, rats, and she landed on our cage! she wasn't a little girl, but she wasn't a teen either, she was looking to be about... 10?
she looks calm, and she puts her finger to the glass,
I got scared and so I crawled to the water bottle in the corner.
soon when I looked again my sister Amanda was being held and taken up by our caretaker of the cage! she was being pet by the girl but she bit her hand,
Amanda comes back down and tries to climb the glass cage.
"don't you dare touch me with your filthy hands, girl!"
"aww, I'm sorry little little hamster, I just wanted to pet you," the kid says before looking to the man, she says something to the man and picks up my other sister jesse,
Jesse is put back down and I was taken up right after,
the man couldn't catch me at first, but he eventually did.
I tried to keep moving so I wouldn't pee myself because I was so scared!
soon I feel a light touch on my back, gentle, and smooth strokes, not to close to my face, or too far down my back, just right in my back, she lights scratched a little and it felt so comforting. she nods to what I later found out was her mom. Her mom pointed to my sisters, "don't you want a single colored hamster? the tan ones pretty. or how about the black white one? you could call her Oreo?—"
"I like this one, besides, she's the pretty one. very unique, and colorful."
this banter went on for a while until the mom finally gave up and I was put back in the cage while they signed papers.
"hey Delilah, they must really like you!" Amanda called out.
"too bad she can't be named Oreo! that would be a cool name for me, just one question... what's an Oreo?" Jesse curled into a ball and started cleaning her face with her paws.
"I like her. I'll miss you guys" I hugged them both and it was time to go, I was picked up and put into a cardboard box with some pellets and bedding.
it was open and I could see my new owner, she had long brown hair, light brown eyes, and big round eyes.
she kissed her finger and put it on my back, I stayed like that until we went outside...
COLD!!!!!!

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