"Tiger do you have to do that?" I scolded.
She continued to scratch at the garbage.
"Tiger!" I yelled.
Still nothing.
"Ti-"
Too late. She somehow knocked the entire garbage can over and everything that was in it spilled to the ground.
"Great. Just great!" I screamed.
Lucas walked in as I set the garbage upright and started picking up the trash.
"What happened?"
"What happened is that I asked you two days ago to change the garbage!" I screamed.
"I'll change it now, stop I'll do it."
I stopped and stood there.
"You're only doing it now because I'm upset."
"I said I'd change it and I am."
"I needed you to do that two days ago Lucas!" I scolded.
"I'm sorry."
"Just forget it."
I was moody and short this week with pretty much everything and I didn't know why. To top it off I was getting sick, there was probably a bug going around and I was lucky enough to catch it. Lucas was driving me insane as well and I wasn't even sure why, it was just little things here and there.
...
You really don't know when the last day is the last day. It starts just like any other day, you wake up and get prepared for the day like any other day. I decided a nice outside breakfast would be nice and refreshing.
"Hi Scruff!"
He was busy chasing his tail, somethings he's done since he was a puppy and he still hasn't managed to catch it. I wondered what he'd do if he ever did catch it or how he would even react.
"Good morning Scruff!" Aria greeted as she walked out.
He barked as she took a seat at the table.
"Eggs and toast! Smells yummy!"
"Thank you."
"Lucas said he'd be a little late."
"Of course, that's fine. Let's just eat and we can go about our day."
"Everything okay?"
"Yeah, I just can't kick this bug and I'm grouchy all the time. It'll pass."
She gave me this look, but I chose to ignore it.
After breakfast I decided to take Scruff on a walk because I needed air and he needed to go on a walk. We walked around the block and through the park and then back home. It was a nice day outside and the sun was shining without a cloud in sight. Just like every walk though Scruff got covered in mud and dirt so he needed a bath. Aria loved giving him his baths, it was really their thing to do.
But like I said, we never really know when the end is the end, not until it finally hits...
Scruff...
He was gone...
He was gone and I wasn't there for him. I was asleep and Lucas woke me up to tell me that he had passed away in the backyard. He wasn't alone, Aria was there with him when it happened but I still felt horrible. Scruff was there for me every time that I needed him and I felt like I let him down by missing this. I was taking it pretty rough, but Aria was taking it harder. She felt like it was her fault because at the time they were playing in the tunnel.
"I pushed him too hard." She cried.
"You had no way of knowing this was going to happen." Lucas told her.
"I could've let him relax."
"Honey, it would've happened no matter what." I told her.
"I-I have to go!"
She cried as she ran into the house.
He really was gone.
...
"Tiger, please stop crying. It's okay." I whispered.
I held her in my arms. She spent the last couple days pacing and crying for Scruff. It was hard for her to understand that he was gone, they were best friends even though sometimes they didn't show it. A lot of the time they slept together, but when we would catch it they would hurry to their own beds. It was the cutest thing ever, and I know that she will miss that the most. After Scruff's passing I decided it was time for a change. So I went to the hair cuttery and then I went to the mall and bought a new outfit.
"What's wrong Tiger?"
Something else Tiger has been doing was running from window to window each night around this time.
"What's out there, huh?"
I carried her to the window.
That's when I saw it.
"Lucas there's a cat wondering outside!"
I went outside and I was able to get it to come to me with some treats.
"There you go."
I picked him up carefully and carried him into the house.
"Lucas! Aria!"
I brought the cat into the living room.
"Look!"
We discovered that it was an adult male cat.
"Awww! Look!"
We decided as a family to adopt him. We couldn't just leave him to roam the streets and we thought that maybe it would ease Tiger's pain from missing Scruff. Who knows, maybe he could help us as well.
Welcome to the family, Tux (Short for Tuxedo, because he looked like he was wearing a tuxedo).
...
I bit my lip as I walked into the bedroom. Lucas was sitting on the bed reading a book, I quickly but quietly shut the door and walked over to the bed. I sat down and rubbed my legs as I took a deep breath. Lucas closed the book and looked at me sensing that something was about to happen.
"I know I've been moody lately." I started.
"It's fine babe, everyone goes through rough patches."
"No, I shouldn't of been so angry and mean."
He rubbed my back and kissed my forehead.
"I should get dinner going."
"Wait!"
He stopped standing up and sat back down. I took another deep breath as I turned to face him more.
"I have something else I need to tell you." I told him.
"Okay, I'm listening."
I nodded.
"Lucas..."
He looked at me.
"I'm pregnant."
Bum, bum, bummmmm. RIP Scruff </3 I was honestly so heart broken when it happened. I couldn't even plea with the reaper! Ugh! Hope you liked the twist at the end!