Bacon Thief ~ Rufus x Reader ~

Chapter 4

"What are minu-" Manny and Amelia start to run towards the school (I know this because we always pass there when she takes me on walkies) while me and Rufus smile at each other like, Ohh, this is a race! I get it, I bet I can run the fastest! And that we did.

We zoomed straight past Amelia and Manny, leaving them with confused faces wondering how we are faster than them with our 1 hour of knowledge on walking upright. It was a close race, we were neck-to-neck the whole way, but I beat him at the last 5 seconds. We both turn around, remembering that we weren't the only one's racing here to see 2 little ants try to catch up with us, oops.

RING RING RING. RING RING RING. The school's loud bell makes me jump a little, while we both me and Rufus look up in confusion at what is happening and why the bell won't stop after 1 ring? The constant ringing must have caused Manny and Amelia to panic because they started running even faster than before, while I look proudly at my best friend for surpassing Manny in their race. But once Amelia wins they keep on running, once again me a Rufus stare at each other and start to bolt and beat them AGAIN. We wait on the step of the school when Manny and Amelia grab our shoulders and take us to a classroom with a bunch of kids sitting on chairs.

"You two are la-" the lady at the front says, who I think is the teacher. "Who are you two?" She points to me and Rufus and Manny starts to speak.

"Uhh, this is my cousin Rufus, anddd this is Amelia's cousin Sunny."

"Your cousins" She askes suspiciously.

"Yes their uh, visiting. From, somewhere. For uhh, we don't know how long." Manny explains while Rufus and I nod vigorously to back him up. Rufus starts to sniff her, and I start to smell it too. Cats.

"You have cats don't you, I smell cats, DO YOU SMELL CATS?!" He questions her as she gives him a strange look.

"Big cat? Small cat? What breed? Is it a boy, is it a girl? IS IT YOURS?!" I turn to Amelia and she grabs me and whispers something about 'calming down', but I'm not listening. Kids behind us start to laugh, but this isn't a laughing matter.

"Hmm, they seem weird... But, they don't pay me enough to care. Ok, you two, sit." She tells us. Rufus looks at Manny for approval but soon sits down on the ground. I look at him, back to the teacher and follow close behind. Kids start laughing again. Me and Rufus start to laugh with them.

"Hehehehe, b-but can we have a treat now?" I ask her as Rufus nods in agreement. Kids start to laugh again, what is with them?

"I meant, in a chair," She says in a rude tone. Me and Rufus quickly jump up and he looks back at her.

"Ohh, I'm not allowed to sit on the furniture at home..." He tells her, trying not to get in trouble. What? That's crazy!

"You aren't? I am. I sleep on the couch all the time." I tell him. He looks at me with jealousy and I just smile.

"Really?? Hmh, lucky. I wish I could..." Manny grabs him and I think he whispers 'let's go', but it's hard to tell over all the laughing. We go to our seats. Rufus struggles to hurdle through the tables, and I almost trip over a kid's shoe, but we soon make it there in one piece. Rufus sniffs the kid in front of him, and I go to do the same, but Amelia grabs me by the collar. Manny looks at him with disapproval, but we don't see what's wrong.

"So. We were talking about themes of transformation in Kafka's 'Metamorphosis'." She tells the class, try to get the lesson going again. Kafa-meta what?.

"You two are hilarious, dog!" a kid tells Rufus. Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap. It's our first day and we've already given ourselves away! 

"Thanks, but I'm not a dog. I'm a human boy!" Rufus tells the kid, saving our identities. People start to laugh and Rufus turns to me and gives me a thumbs-up, then proud of himself for doing them. I give him one back. WAIT, we can do that! I mouth him, WE CAN THUMBS UP, and he mouths back, YEAH, I KNOW, ISN'T IT COOL? We don't really pay attention to the lesson and spend most our time pulling dumb funny-faces at each other. 

The loud bell rings again and everyone gets up and starts talking to us and asking us questions that they would ask a pair of dogs, but we totally fool them.

"Did we do good?" Rufus askes Amelia and Manny, they nod, making us feel better than we did before.

"So can we go have fun now?" I ask and they shake their heads. WHAT?

"No, we've got more classes," they tell us and our faces sink down at the terrible news.

"M-more? Man..." A kid with a soccer ball passes us and "H-HE'S GOT A BALL! BALL. BALL. BALL." Rufus runs after him and Manny follows close behind. I look at Amelia, back at Rufus, and back at her again. She knows what I want to do, and her face is telling me no, but I still run after them anyway.

We have more fun throughout the day, we play soccer, frisbee (that was one of my favourites)and I beat some really slow kids in a race, then they all came and asked me how I was so fast, and I almost told them about me being a dog, but quickly stopped speaking and continued chasing frisbees with Rufus.

We were talking with some other people when we both notice a squirrel. We don't even need to look at each other to know how badly we want it, and start to bolt right after it.

"SQUIRREL!!!"