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a very good boy

david pov double drabble for the ever-esteemed @everwitch-magiks and @sparklepocalypse

David knows he’s a very good dog.

He finds the best sticks. He doesn’t bark at squirrels— much. When his human stayed in bed for days, David stayed too, until the soggy man came and made everything better.

David gets excited when his human takes him to a loud place that has many birds. The soggy man— he is dry now— comes too. He smells nice. He even jumps into all the leaf piles with David.

His human does not, but he does laugh often now.

David’s new bed is in a warm part of a big, bright room. He hides things there, like the good-smelling man’s slippers, and the small folding sticks he puts on his eyes when everyone’s in bed. (David’s careful not to chew those. His human’s very fond of them.)

This way, the good-smelling man can’t ever leave.

David also likes to make circles around their legs when they go on walks, so that his human gets stuck to the good-smelling man. This is David’s favorite trick yet.

David’s a good boy. A smart boy. The best boy.

But when his human says “good boy,” sometimes he’s not talking to David. And that’s very confusing, indeed.

When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany (via quotespile)

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