<completed>Promise (Juliantina)

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Jul felt tiny footsteps on her body and she can hear the bell from the neck collar.

"Babe, Diego is on our bed again..."

"Woof, woof, wooofffff" - Diego is still running here and there over them.

"I think he is telling us to bring him out for a walk."

"But it's only 7am, I still want to sleep in...."

"Valentina Carjaval, you need to be responsible for Diego since you were the one who adopted him. If I find his poop on our bed, he is not allowed to sleep in our room from today onwards. Now bring him out for his walk and get him done with his business." Jul pulled the blanket over to her head after she said her piece.

Val kisses Jul's head and reluctantly dragged herself out of bed. Diego was barking happily, he jumped off the bed and eagerly waiting for Val to open the door for him to get out.

She did a quick wash up and then put the leash onto Diego's collar. She barely could open her eyes, she is literally being pulled by Diego's enthusiasm in running. "Sometimes my love and hate for you is alarming equivalent, Diego. Luckily your soft cuddles and puppy eyes manage to turn me into a softie which is why i'm out with you at this ungodly hour for your walk...."

Diego's profile: He's a beagle, his fur is brown and white with black patches in the middle. He was adopted by Val at the age of 6 months old, Val got captivated by his curious yet loving puppy eyes and the rest was history. Good thing, Diego's personality is similar to Val, they both like to cuddle so that's how Diego ended up sleeping in the bedroom with them.

"Diego, don't run so fast. It's all your fault that I have to wake up so early, no intake of breakfast means no energy to run..."

Her eyes were half-opened, suddenly the lease stops pulling her, she opened her eyes to Diego licking a redhead's hand. The girl doesn't seems to mind Diego's saliva all over her hand and Diego proceeds on to lick her face and his tail is wagging happily.
hmmm, new hot neighbour...

"Oh god, I'm so sorry. Diego, stop it!"

"It's alright, he's a charming guy."

Val quickly carried Diego up and held it to her chest. The redhead stood up too, she is about as tall as Val and she has quite a charismatic look especially that pair of emerald eyes.

Diego is still wagging his tail, seems like the redhead managed to charm him too. "Diego, you gotta stop flirting with strangers."

"I'm sorry that he has licked you, his breed tends to be friendly and quite curious around people hence the excessive licking.

The redhead stretches out her hand to introduce herself, "I'm Ashleigh and I didn't quite catch your name, Diego's owner."

Val stretches out her freed hand, "Oh I'm Valentina, nice to meet you."

Val whispered to her puppy, "Diego, you really knows how to flirt, mama is gonna kill me if she ever sees this." But her whispering somehow can be heard by Ashleigh, she laughed. "So how Diego's mama?" The redhead is trying to make small talk with Val but clearly Val isn't in the field for quite sometimes, she has no idea that the redhead is somehow bantering with her.

"Errr, Diego's mama is my girlfriend. We recently just moved in together, along this street. It's me or the puppy who gets kicked out so I better bring him out for his walk before he poops over all the room or else I have to sleep on the couch tonight which is a bad idea..."

"Yeah right, sounds like your girlfriend is kinda feisty."

"Nah, morning really makes people injustice. You know like how some people need caffeine before they can function or else they will be sprouting nonsense. Diego's timing was bad too, we had a late night out and she needed the sleep but puppy being puppy, they need to go for their walk... so here I am." 

"Diego, you are done with your business right? We have to hurry back and make breakfast before mama wakes up."

"I will see you around then?"

"Yeah sure, Diego's charmer."

Val put down Diego and off they ran back home. Something is telling Ashleigh that she needs to make a move on Diego first before anything could happen. She did a time check on her phone- 7.15am, she smiled and hoping that she will run into Val tomorrow at this hour.