Lady and the Tramp

chapter 8

The next days of vacation was happy in the Brown house. Cherry had met Lady's friends Jock and Trusty. Lady would join them later, she had spent a lot of time in bed lately. Cherry laughed forcibly from Jock and Trusty's jokes.

"I don't get it." Cherry whispered to Tramp, who now had his own red collar.

"Dog joke." Tramp whispered to her.

"Ah, so, how does it feel to have a real home?"

"Pretty good actually, you humans aren't so bad after a while instead of a different home every week."

"Well, I'm glad you're happy." Cherry pet Tramp and ruffled up his fur.

"Hey, knock it off!" Tramp growled, and laughed. He then bounced back, wagging his tail, wanting to pounce her.

"Don't even think about it, Tramp!" Cherry growled.

"I'll do it, I swear I'll do it!" Tramp then pounced without warning and licked Cherry all over her face.

"Gross, doggy germs!" she squealed and laughed.

"Cherry? Cherry!" Elizabeth called frantically from inside the house.

Cherry wiped her face and came inside with Tramp. Elizabeth sounded urgent and deeply worried so she made it quick.

"What's wrong?" Cherry asked.

"The puppies are coming!" Elizabeth cried.

"Oh, my gosh!" Cherry cried and turned to Tramp. "What are we gonna do!?"

"It's alright, you can help Jim with the puppies." Elizabeth said.

Cherry nodded. She slipped on Elizabeth's dish washing gloves and went with Tramp to the other room. Lady was howling in pain and crying. She was indeed going into labor.

"It's going to be okay, Lady, just stay strong." Jim coached.

Lady continued to howl in pain as she felt the cramps of giving puppy birth. Tramp stayed by her side and licked her face to keep her calm. Cherry couldn't believe how fast this was all going. Jim and Cherry tried to keep Lady calm as they were going through the labor pains. Lady cried, but then she felt a lot better once it was over. Jim went to wash the puppies up and Cherry slipped off the gloves.

"That was rough," Lady said, hoarsely. "I almost thought I wasn't going to make it."

"It's alright, Pidge, you did fine." Tramp smiled at his mate.

"What did they look like?" Lady turned to Cherry.

"Three girls like you and a boy like Tramp." Cherry replied.

"Oh, three beautiful girls..." Lady whispered with a tear in her eye.

"They have their mother's eyes." Cherry added, wiping her tear.

"A boy of my own," Tramp sniffled. "I never thought I'd end up being a father, but I guess I don't have to say that anymore."

"And Junior's got little playmates." Cherry added. "What're you gonna call them?"

"Well, the boy should be named Scamp." Tramp suggested. "Scamp, son of the Tramp!"

Cherry laughed at that little rhyme. "Not bad."

"You know, my mother's name was Collette." Lady suggested.

"That's a lovely name for a cocker spaniel, my mother's name was either Danielle and Annette..." Tramp tried to remember.

"Scamp, Collette, Danielle, Annette..." Cherry said their names together, feeling they were perfect names for the puppies.

Lady and Tramp smiled.

"What wonderful names, I'm sure they'll be wonderful pups." Lady smiled.

A little while later, Lady continued to rest in the living room while her puppies got some milk. Tramp was deeply touched that he was now a father. He still couldn't believe it, but whenever he saw Scamp play around with Junior, he always said to himself: Yep, that's my boy. Cherry took out her camera and snapped a picture of all them together for her adventure scrapbook. She was sure they lived happily ever after and couldn't wait to go home to tell her friends and family about her dog sitting/babysitting adventure.