A Crappy Short Story

It was a gloomy summers day. He stared out the window, dreaming of what he could have, he could have a lovely large garden, free to roam how he wanted, but no, he was stuck here, in the dingy run down streets.

He wondered why, why do I have to fall down when others don’t? Why did they choose me? Why was I left there? Did they not love me? Was it because I am not as good as the others? Is it because I snore? Is it because I am not perfect?

This day meant a lot, because, this was his birthday. Nobody else knew nobody cared about him anyway. He wished that he had someone to celebrate it with him. Of course, he had his sister, but she didn’t even know when his birthday was, and as always she was just her young, excitable self, anyway, how would she know, she was younger than him. She was never told his birthday. They weren’t even wanted at age 14.

“How could someone do this to you?”, the officer questioned, “people, oh people, what is wrong with them”, he sighed, “Don’t worry, I’ll get you somewhere safe”. The officer stared at the sky, questioning the universe as to how someone could just ditch them here. “is it because one of them was missing a leg? Can’t be, the other one looks fine”, the officer exclaimed. He took them to the centre, where they took them to their room, they agreed not to split them up, as they already seemed distraught enough, I mean, who wouldn’t be?

He wondered why people were just walking past, he was acting cute and begging with his giant puppy dog eyes. His sister wasn’t trying as hard, so he angrily growled at her. She tried harder and someone took a liking to her. They were allowed to meet, and they were almost about to take them when the officer stated “You have to take them together, they have had enough to go through already”, the woman whispered, “Well, I don’t want the disabled one, he will be too hard to look after”. They were taken back to their room, where they felt saddened, knowing that someone must not have liked something about them. They just cried there for a little while before falling asleep.

Another person came by, and enquired about them, and they came out, but didn’t get their hopes up, and rightfully so! This person’s dogs were there with them and they were barking at them furiously, making them so scared that all they could do was whimper there.

Meanwhile, a family walked in and just went to see the others, without even filling out a questionnaire. They saw the other’s but weren’t interested, and as they were just about to leave, they were offered a questionnaire, which they filled out, just as this happened they were being returned to their room. The questionnaire matched them to the pair, they were first warned that one was missing a leg, but they said that they didn’t care!

When they met, they knew it was for them, and they said that they would be back for them the following weekend. They came back and picked them up.

When they got to their new home, he knew this was the place he had dreamed of, he saw the vast garden and the large sofa and knew this was his home forever.