Ava

Part. 3

Protagonist POV

I wake up to Timmy's baby sister Ellie poking my nose, huffing I sit up and lick her face, their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sullen, come out and greet me, they call for Timmy and lock their front door, standing at the edge of the road with the Sullen's we watch as the cars pass by then we cross the scary road.

The Sullen's knock on the door to my house, 'once' 'twice' three times, they ring the doorbell and yet still no answer, I start to bark 'somethings wrong!' I try to tell them, 'somethings wrong, I can feel it'.
Slowly they step back and sit on the doorstep, Timmy and Ellie walk over to me and try to get me to play, I'm distracted though, where is my Gracie?

Mr. and Mrs. Sullen pull their phones out and make a few calls. Eventually they put their phones down and give each other a look, Mr. Sullen then picks his phone up again this time a bit slower, and makes one last phone call.

Mrs. Sullen walks over to us and says that everything will be okay, they were just ringing '000'. I don't know what '000' is but Timmy squeezes me in a hug and says everything will be okay and soon Ellie joins us in our hug.

Some time later a loud vehicle comes, making a very high and loud noise that hurts my ears, these new people climb out of the vechile and talk to the Sullen's pointing towards me every so often.

Soon they will crack the door open and rush inside, Mr. and Mrs. Sullen will try to hold me back but I will slip past them and run inside to my Gracie, I'll find her lying on the ground just inside the lounge room, her arm stretched out, eyes open and staring but unseeing, with a smile gracing her lips one last time as she stares at the hole in the fence.

I lay down next to Gracie, curled up into her side I start to whimper crying for the loss of my family...