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Chapter 1: At Home
Spot, Bud, and Fluff had been hiding in Jasmine's, their owner, room. They sat in a dusty and dark place, under the bed. "my fur is going to be so dirty!" meowed Fluff as she began to lick her paw cream colored paw. Spot breathed out sharply, his nose had begun to fill with the dust bunnies that lurked in their hiding place." typical cat." the young dog muttered just loud enough for Fluff to hear. She stopped licking her paws, her blackish brown pointed face looked up at Spot "what did you just say?" she asked. Spot began to speak but Bud interupted him, " he didnt say anything Fluff." the golden retriver said to the himalain cat. Bud looked at Spot. Spot knew that they would have given away their position if he had said anything back to the cat. They were always getting into fights but Bud kept them from getting into trouble, most of the time.
Fluff returned to licking her paws, Spot went back to waiting to get those awful dust bunnies out of his nose, and Bud continued waiting for the time when they could get out from under the bed. All the animals sat in silence waiting to here a door open or a footstep walking by. Their ears remained pricked up to here anything. Bud's ears couldnt be lifted up that high so he listened with out ears twitching like Fluff, or normally straighten ears like Spot.
A few minutes passed with no noise except Fluff's constant licking and the occainal snort from Spot. Sitting there they all realized that they cold talk, Spot being the first." Bud, are you getting dust bunnies in your nose?" he asked quietly. Fluff interupted "i have them in my fur!" came her loud meow. "no, i havent gotten any in my nose." said Bud to answer the othe dog's question. "lucky. Want to trade spots?" offered the young mutt. "no we cant move that much, it'll give our spot away." Bud replied. Fluff rolled her eyes " you knew that side was dusty! You just want to get out from under the bed." she said. Spot snorted the dust bunnies out of his nose again, "i didnt know this side was so dusty!" he whispered back angeraily. "stop it you two! We all want to get out from under here but you know that we would be stuck with no escape out there." the golden retriver said. Thank goodness he sat between the other dog and cat!
The animals had been referring to Kyra and Aiden coming, Jasmine's younger cousins. Bud and Spot didnt mind the playful and rough kids, but boy did Fluff.
Fluff was a fancy cat who didnt like loud, crazy, or gross things. Not to say that their owner's cousins were gross, more to say that she hated mud and dirt. It was the sidewalk or stepping stones for her that was it, everywhere else was dirty. That was why she hated to be under the dusty bed, who knew how gray-brown her white coat would be when they finally came out from under there. The cousins were normally loud and crazy, but they meant well.
Kyra esceilly though, her dress-up shoes clomping down the long hallway and her gernal loudness. The animals could forgive her for most of that beause she was only 3 years old, Aiden however, was different. He was loud like Kyra, but he could be more gental than her. Since he was 6 he was allowed to pick up knick-knacks thatwere made of glass, hold the hermit crab that belonged to Jasmine, and carry glass plates.
Under supervision of coarse, he could pet the bearded dragon who was seldom taken out of the tank. He lived in his tank contently, as did the hermit crab. They sat across from each other in seperate tanks and sometimes the other animals sat down to watch their quiet friends. Sometimes the hermit crab would climb up his fake tree or take a bath in his little pool of water. He might just sleep all day, or run around which was much more interesting to the animals than him sleeping. Or the bearded dragon might climb up his rocks and rest in the heat lamp's soft glowing heat. He would also try to climb up the glass to get out of his tank some days, which would make him appear to be dancing. This amused Spot and Fluff the most, until he was taken out of his tank.
Bud listened closely, he heard nothing. "Spot, Fluff, how about we get out from under here and strech for a minute?" the older dog asked. "yes!" exclaimed Spot, "that would be nice." said Fuff still being relitivly quiet. "then that's settled!" said Bud happily. Spot shimmied out from under the bed and shook, he remained quiet. Bud slide out from under the bed after him he shook too. The two dogs spread a thin layer of dust around the room, Fluff was quite happy that she was on the other side of them. Fluff streched out her white fur was dusty in a few spots, but not everywhere like she expected, her face, tail tip, and paws obivously couldnt be darkened by the dust. They were a dark brown shade. She shook slightly to clear her coat of the majority of dust that had settled on her. She sat down to clean her paws again, as she licked her paws Spot spoke again. "another typical cat thing." said the boxer bull-terrier mix quietly. The cat ignored his comment about her cleaning, she continued.
Bud sat down next to the mostly brown dog. He looked at Spot's short fur, it was brown on his back, tail, and most of his head. White covered the young mutt's stomach, then went up the chest and stopped at the base of the head, and the front of the muzzle and a thin streak down the middle of his head. Bud had fur that was very different, it was long and a golden. The golden color went all the way around him except for his black nose, lips, and his brown eyes. The gold fur went in a kind of wave, more of a layered way.
Spot walked over to a small pile of toys that sat in Jasmine's room, he was looking for Green Pully. Green Pully was his favorite toy, it had two squeakers, a stretchable cord to pull, was soft, and had a cute froggy face. He grabbed the toy gently in his front teeth, the black string loop sat in his jaws. He laid down and set his Green Pully on the ground between his front paws, he set his head down on top of it. The squeaker squeaked quietly, muffled by Spot's head. Fluff looked up at him as she heard the squeak, "Green Pully? Spot, i thought you ripped up your toys!" she said to annoy him. "not Green Pully Fuff. You know that." he responded queitly, he didnt want to make much noise. He was mad though, they always did this. Bud was monitoring them. They werent getting loud so he wouldnt have to stop this, also Spot had pretty much ended that conversation.
Bud stood up and stretched again, he heard something. Something like footsteps. "Spot, Fluff we need to get back under the bed!" he barked quietly as he started to walk to the bed. His nails clicked lightly when he slid under the bed slowly, trying to be quiet. Fluff walked silently and quickly to their hiding spot. She hesitated to go under remembering the dust on her coat, and the sickening taste it left in her mouth. Finally she went underneath. Spot was left to get back under there, he didnt mind the dust if he had Green Pully. His nails clicked a bit louder than Bud's as he shimmied under carefully, so not to get Green Pully dusty. He set his favorite toy on his nose to block the dust. He could easily breath through the soft material.
The dust made Fluff fidget now, her mind went back to the taste. "ughhhhh." she whispered to herself and shuddered. Bud sat quietly waiting to hear another noise, as did Spot. Both dogs listened intently to the noise coming from behind the door of Jasmine's room.
Footsteps quietly approached, all the animals could tell some one was trying to be sneaky. The steps stopped at the door. Fluff became fully awar of the noise now, all of them sat scared. The door was leaned against so it creaked slightly, a hand reached for the doorknob. It jingled the stopped for a second. Spot took Green Pully off his nose with a slight shake. He rested his head on the non-squeaky part in the middle. The doorknob slowly turned until the door creaked open slowly. A small hand was seen by Fluff, she was on the side of the bed closest to the door. It wasnt that small though, to big to be Kyra's hand. A pink sliver of nail polish shined on the ring finger of the hand as a girl walked quietly into the room. "hi guys!" the girl excitedly whispered after she heard Spot's tail whap on the carpet.
Bud exhaled, "thank goodness!" he thougt. Fluff was still tense, she wasnt coming out from under the bed yet. Bud crawled up a little, his head poked out the front of the bed. The bedskirt covered most of his head, his ears and body were covered up too. His tail wagged fast and Spot saw that, he scrambled out from under the bed with Green Pully hanging from his mouth. He dropped it next to Bud and barked. "Spot! Shhh!" said Jasmine.
Bud pulled himself out from under the dusty bed and trotted up to her. Jasmine kneeled on the ground and tussled his ears and head fur "hey Bud!" she whispered to the golden retriver. She wrapped her arms around his neck in a big hug "where have you been? You're all dusty!" she told him. He barked and looked at the bed.
Spot walked up now too. Jasmine gave him a hug, "were you guys under the bed?" she asked. Just then Fluff shot out, her coat covered in a thin layer of dust. She ran around trying to shake off the horrifying dust bunnies. " all of you guys must have been under my bed!" she exclaimed. The animals were looking worried. "what's wrong? Is it that my cousins are coming over? They wont hurt you." she said, but in her mind she added "i hope.".

Written on: un-known date in december

Chapter 2: The Cousins Come
The animals and Jasmine laid down on the soft carpet. A book lay at their hands and paws, it was a large book. They all sat around it looking at the brightly colored pictures of animals.
A monkey swung from a large tree, a tiger stalked through the tall green grass, and a crocodile splashed in the water as it tried to catch a fleeing gazelle. The pictures were brightly colored and drawn well, the animals loved to look at them.
Jasmine kicked her legs back and forth above her back, lightly kicking the ground each time a foot went down. Spot sat the closest to her, her arm was curled around his back. Bud sat opposite her, his eyes stared at the book happily. These animals they had never seen in real life, only in books. Fluff sat on the side of Jasmine, not as close as Spot though, she sat on the small end of the book. Sideways in other words.
Jasmine's hand slipped under the cornor of the next page, slowly she flipped it over. Now the book showed images of flying birds, swimming fish, and walking bugs. On the page there was many typed columns about the animals that could fly, swim, walk, and other things. Jasmine read them aloud to the dogs and cat " the fish, with the exception of flying fish, lives its life in the water. It swims and sleeps here, all the things they do are done in the water. Birds fly and walk, they will fly long distances. They will sleep in nests made of sticks, grasses, and mud. They will also raise their young in their nests until they begin to fly. Bugs walk and fly also, some only do one or the other. Most fly and walk though, they may live a long period of time or so short they only live for a day! Wow guys how much would that stink? Only living one day!?" she finished. Her animal friends barked or meowed in agrement.
They started to look at the pictures again, they were very quiet. Bud's ear twitched. He heard a door open, a door downstairs.
A few loud footsteps were heard, "JAAAAAAAZZZZ!!!!!" screamed Aiden and Kyra. Jazz was Jasmine's nick-name, she liked to be called Jazz better than Jasmine. Pounding feet went down the main hall to the kitchen "where's Jazz?" they asked in unisene. Jasmine's grandpa was sitting on the couch watching the news. "where's Jazz?" he asked. "JAAAAAAAZZZZ!!!!!" they all said. "coming!" she hollared back. "come on guys." she said to her pets. She patted her thigh to make a little noise.
Fluff walked to the door first and stared at her owner, she couldnt wait to run and hide. Her plan was this "ill dart out the door, then down the stairs. The couch! Thats where ill go, no one can move that!" she thought.
Bud stood at the girl's side, his head reached a little above her waist. Spot stood at the door now too, he was ready for this. Jasmine patted Bud's head, she looked at the door as she did this. "are you ready for this?" she asked Fluff. "meeow" came her response, which meant "no, not at all. But, i do have a plan." "ok then" Jasmine said as she walked towaard the door. The dorknob turned and the four went down the steps slowly, Fluff reached the ground the fastest.
She looked around and ran under the small couch in the front room. The gray couch had more dust than under the bed, this would be bad for Fluff. "ewwww! Dust! Dust! Dust!" she thought screaming in her mind.
Spot trotted to the kitchen with Jasmine, they stopped at the counter. Jasmine pulled a stool out from under the counter's ledge to sit on. Spot put his front paws up on the highest stepping bar of the stool and whimpered. "hi Aiden! Hi Kyra! Sorry Spot, you can come up here." she told her cousins then her dog.
Bud poked his nose under the couch "are you ok under there?" he asked Fluff. "so much dust. Cough, sneeze, sniffle." she said back. Her cough and sneeze were loud and slightly irritaing to Bud's sensetive ears. "dust." the old dog barked back. " yes, dust." came the responce from under the grey couch.
Spot ignored the side conversation in the other room that he had heard.
Aiden walked over to Jasmine and Spot "hi jazz, hi spot."he said. He kneeled down, his face lined up with Spot's. Spot licked his face with his large pink tounge. Aiden wiped his hand against his cheek and nose where the dog's tounge had touched "Spot!" he exclaimed. "why'd you lick me?" he said. Spot barked back, stuck his tounge out and started panting. The dog way of saying "i dont know".
Bud walked away from the hiding cat and toward Kyra and Jasmine's Papa. Kyra had the dress-up box out and dug through it to find her favorite clacky shoes.
The golden retriver sat down next to her and stuck his head in the box of clothes and shoes. A sparkley crown swung on his muzzle " silly Bud! Why do you have that?" she asked him as she pulled it off his nose and mouth. "you put it on like this!" she put the crown on her head. "see?" Bud barked quietly to show he understood.
"here!" Kyra said as she pulled the crown out of her hair. She placed it between Bud's ears, he looked up at it. "here, have this too." she sid as she placed a boa around his neck. "Jazz, Beepah, Grandma, Aidey, Uncle Kevin, Momma, Aunt Danielle, Bubba! Come here!" she called out to her cousin, grandpa, grandma, brother, uncle, mom, aunt and her dog. Her dad was at work right now.
Her family gathered around including Senena (or to her Bubba) and Spot. "look at Bud!" she said. "Kyra did you dress-up Bud as a princess?" asked Jasmine. "yes!" she said happily.
Bubba walked up to her and Bud "hi Bud. Do you mind her dressing you up?" asked Bubba.
"i dont mind as long as she's gentle." he told her. "ok." said Bubba then she sat down. "does she do this to you Bubba?" ased Bud. "yeah, she likes to." she said as her answer.
Spot came up to Bud, "you look like a princess!" he told Bud. "i know Spot." Bud said back to Spot. "Spot! Do you want to be a princess too?" Kyra asked not even looking at the dog. "Kyra, i dont know if Spot wants to be dressed-up." said her mom. "it's ok Auntie Kerr. Spot wont mind." said Jasmine. Spot looked at her as if he didnt want to be dress-up ever.
Kyra dug into the dress-up box to find some clothes to dress-up Spot in.
She grabbed a dress and a pair of glittered sunglasses that were just big enough to fit on the young mutt. Carefully she slipped the dress over his head and velcro-ed up the back. The dog sat very sit as she slid on the sunglasses. The glitter shined in the bright light of the familyroom.
Kyra dug in the box again, this time she pulled out a large blued beaded necklace that she might just wrap gently around Spot's neck.
His final outfit looked like a pink dress and a darker shade of pink sunglasses coated in glitter. And as a final touch the blue, large bead, white stringed necklace rested on his neck. He looked redicalus! "what a great outfit for Spot!" exclaimed Jasmine.
Fluff slowly crawled out from her hiding place and looked around. "thank goodness they arent screaming!" she thought excitedly. She walked to the kitchen where everyone, or most of everyone, was a lot of the time. "meow?" she questioned to no one with just a meow and no real question. She just wondered where everyone was. She wandered into the familyroom where everyone was even all the pets.
Max, however, was locked up in the rooms upstairs because him and Bubba would get into horrible fights.
"wow! Spot you look like a princess! And so do you Bud!" she laughed at the dogs. Bubba sat up from her spot on the floor " this happens a lot." she barked quietly so she wouldnt startle anyone with her normally loud bark. "i feel bad for you Bubba. If this happens to you all the time, you must get really sick of dress-up." spoke Fluff. "thanks but, im used to it." she told the cat.
Fluff stiffled a giggle as she circled around Spot "Spot you look so pretty!" she tried to stiffle another laugh but this time it came out. She laughed loud and it sounded like a half meow half purr. "thanks." he grumbled back.
Bud sat and watched their conversation, he couldnt help but add something "Fluff how about you get a pretty costume?" he said jokingly.
"no way Bud" Fluff said. "aww, come on Fluff! You would look so pretty! You would look prettier than all of us!" said Spot. " like i would ever let Kyra dress me up in that stuff!" Fluff exclaimed disquestedly. The shiny clothes were not Fluff's favorite at all.
Bud shook his head and the jewled crown fell off his head and the boa slid off his shoulders when he shook a little more. The feeling it left on his head made it feel like the crown was still there. " oh thank goodness i can take this off." said Spot as he arched his back so that the velcro would pop. A scratchy noise was heard and the dress fell off. "now for these sunglasses." he thought as he dipped his head forward. Then he shook his head back and forth, slowly the glasses came off. They landed on the ground and one side of the glasses folded in.
"Spot! Bud! You took your clothes off!" Aiden laughed at his sister's comment. To him it sounded like she was talking about the dogs had to normally wear clothes and now they had taken them off. "Kyra!"Aiden said to her. "what Aidey?" she asked. "you said something funny!" he said.
Kyra start to ignore him and put the clothes on Bubba. When she finished Bubba had almost everything in the dress-up box on her. This included: 3 purses, 2 dresses, 3 boas, 6 necklaces, and a few more items to add.
"i'm hungry!" called out Kyra to no one in particular.

Written on: un-know date in december

Chapter 3: Clumsy Cousins
"come on. I'll get you a snack." said Kyra's mom. They walked toward the kitchen to get it and Bubba followed behind. She knew that she could get some food from Kyra, she always gave her food. Aiden raced into the kitchen, narrowly missing running into Bubba. "can i have a snack?" he asked his mom. "sure." she replied. Bubba sat down near Kyra's chair at the kitchen table to wait for her snack. In the familyroom Jasmine had gotten up and was walking around on her knees to clean up the mess that Kyra, Spot, and Bud had made. As she went along trying to pick up each and every accesory or dress, Bud decided to help her. He grabbed a purse that Bubba had tossed off in his teeth, then he carried it to the box of dress-up things. He looked at Jasmine. "thanks Bud. You knew i could use some help, didnt you?" Jasmine said. Bud barked in an agreement sort of way. Bud loooked around, "oh no. Where are Spot and Fluff?!" his head turned back and forth to confirm his question. As he looked around he saw a length of green matreial. It was Green Pully! Spot wouldnt go too far with out Green Pully. He began to walk toward it when a large brown paw moved it in closer, more out of view. "that is Green Pully and that was Spot's paw. Where ever Fluff is i still have to find her." Bud thought. He walked to the frontroom again, maybe she was under the couch. He stuck his nose under the couch sideways so he could see underneath it. "Fluff? Are you under there?" he spoke. There was no responce, not even a noise. "where else would she be?" he thought franticly. The dog trotted upstairs and down the hall,to Jasmine's room. They had left the door open a little. The golden paw reached up and pushed in the door slowly. Bud stuck his head in the room and looked around, then continued walking in. "Fluff, are you in here?" he asked. "im up here!" came a voice from up high. "where is here?" Bud asked looking around the room. "Bud! Look at the bookcase." came the voice again. Bud looked up toward the bookcase, there sitting on top were some electronic toys and a live pet! Fluff sat on top of the large bookcase and was licking her paws again. "how did you get up there?" Bud asked Fluff. "oh it was easy. You climb up on the bed, then on the third bookshelf. Then you stand on the edge and climb up on the next shelf. After that then the top of the bookcase! Easy." was her responce. "that is not an easy feat Fluff." Bud said knowing he could never do anything like that. Dogs, ecspeically large dogs like Bud, didnt have good balence. Or they were to heavy to do things like that. "why are you up there?" he asked the cat. "they got pretty loud down there, i didnt want to be subject to that." Fluff said. "why dont you come back down? They got a little quieter now." he said. "ill stay up here for now. Come get me in a few minutes, i might fall asleep!" Fluff joked. It was very quiet and relaxing in Jasmine's room since no one was in it. Bud started back down stairs to see how everything was going with Spot and Kyra. Kyra was still in the kitchen trying to decide what she wanted as a snack with Aiden. Bud walked over to where Spot was. Spot was still resting on a pile of blankets that belonged to Max, he looked up at Bud. "hi Bud." he said. "what are you doing Spot?" Bud asked. "nothing." he barked back. Then Spot stood up facing Bud and stretched his back. He started to go to the kitchen to see if Bubba had any news, or atleast something interesting to say. "hey Bubba." he said. "hi Spot." she said back. "got any news?" he asked. "no. Im waiting for the food to drop." she answered. "hmmm. Can i do that too?" he asked as his next question. "yeah. It might take a few more minutes though." she told him. As they talked Kyra looked in the pantry for her favorite food, marshmellows. Her small hands shuffled through the contents of the large pantry. Finally, her hands hit a bag. A bag of marshmellos. "momma, can i have these?" she said. "a few." her mom replied as she went to get a bowl. Kyra handed her the bag of mashmellos. Her mom opened the bag and dumped nine or ten of them into the blue bowl. "here Kyra." she handed her daughter the marshmellos. Kyra ran to the table and sat in her non-rolling chair that was brought into the kitchen for her only. The sticky marshmellos clung to her fingers. Kyra licked her fingers when she finished her sixth piece of the fluffy snack. Bubba sat up and walked to Kyra, her black head rested on the chair's seat. "here Bubba! You like marshmellos too dont you?" she asked the dog. Bubba barked a quiet bark and licked up her sweet treat, she closed her eyes to savor the treat like a human would. Spot walked over to Kyra just like Bubba had. His brown head rested on the seat."here Spot. You can have one too!" Kyra said when she saw him. His long pink tounge came out of his mouth and licked the marshmello off her now sticky hand. The soft and squishy candy snack was one of the best things Spot had ever tasted. This was the first time he had ever eaten a marshmello before and he decided that he would get some more at some point.

Written on: un-known date in december
Un-finished

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Headed to Home is a story of two dogs and a cat who go on a huge adventure in the woods. An old golden retriver, a young boxer-bull terrier mix, and a fancy himalian cat all end up in the woods behind the house. They run away from the house because of their owner's noisy cousins end up making a huge mess. Out the door and lost they go. When the trio of friends gets lost, they must find a way to get back home. Will they ever get back home?

Written on: un-known date in december