Doggy Day Care by AJ Stern

Author:AJ Stern
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2010-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

“I just drank some, silly!”

“When you break something you get very thirsty,” I told her.

“Really, is that a fact?” Magoo wanted to know.

“Oh,” I responded, looking down. “Well, maybe not a scientific fact,” I said.

“I’ll let you know if I want more water.”

“Okay, but if you need me to push you somewhere else really soon,” I told her, “I could do that, too.”

“Sounds like a deal,” she said.

I waited. And waited. And waited. But Magoo didn’t need to go anywhere. Then I got bored and decided to count how many rooms (including bathrooms and closets) Magoo had in her house.

When I went into Magoo’s room, she yelled, “The boxes are off-limits!”

“Okap,” I yelled back, even though I didn’t know what she was talking about.

But then I saw them. There were three very big cardboard boxes, one next to the other. I went over to look. One was filled with cloth and yarn, the next with buttons, and the next with socks and cotton! Because they were “off-limits,” I looked with my eyes and not with my hands, as my dad would say.

Next to the boxes was a bag. Its mouth was wide open. I stood over it and looked inside and you would not believe what was in it!

It was filled with a hospital amount of medical tape, Ace bandages, Band-Aids, and every single thing in the world that you could ever imagine or want. I didn’t know which bag I liked more, my dad’s briefcase or this one. I pulled it out and brought it with me into the living room to show everyone. It was not a box so it was okay that I looked with my hands.

“Look what I found!” I said.

Everyone looked at the bag.

“What is that?” my dad asked.

“It’s supplies for my leg,” Magoo explained.

“Frannie, where did you find that?” my dad asked in his I’m a little bit annoyed with you voice.

“It’s not a box!” I argued.

“Frannie,” continued my dad, “put that bag back immediately. You know you don’t go through other people’s personal belongings. You leave Magoo’s things alone, okay? The Ace bandages, the medical tape, the crutches, the wheelchair, it’s all off-limits. Do you understand? We need your help with the cats, not with the medical supplies.”

“Fine,” I grumped, and then dragged the bag back to Magoo’s room, sat on her bed, and waited to become unbored.

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