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Creative Writing: A Simple Dog

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"Princess, you're a mess, you know that?" I glanced down at the scruffy Chihuahua mix happily chewing on a discarded stick, her tail furiously wagging back and forth. When she heard her name, she quickly lifted her brown head and looked up at me before returning to her previous task. I smiled and snatched the stick from the ground, slowly backing away from her. Princess quickly stood up and let out a defiant bark, which earned a laugh for me. She playfully lunged at the stick multiple times until I gave up and tossed the stick over my back, watching her chase after it. Princess was such a unique dog, and I was grateful that my uncle got her for me after years of pleading my family for a dog. At first, I was little bummed out because she was a small dog and I wanted a bigger breed, but I immediately got over that within an hour or so of having her. She was nothing short of a spitfire, and she had such a great personality. It was impossible not to love her. If anything ever happened to her, I …show more content…

With every step I took, I would pause everytime I heard a sound that I didn't like, or saw a bush rustle in front of me and so on. Every few minutes, I would yell out Princess's name and hope that she would come running back towards me, but she never did. I don't know how long I was in there, but by the time I had found another entrance that lead to my backyard, my clothes were torn, my voice was raw from shouting Princess's name, and my hands were cut from trying to move thorns and branches out of my way. As I walked out of the woods and into my front yard, I finally broke down. I hadn't found Princess, and there was absolutely no trace of her. As I walked towards my porch, tears ran uncontrollably down my face and I had completely given up. While trudging up the steps, I froze in my

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