Chapter 398: Gigi—Around the House

Gigi sneezed, stretched and yawned. Mom was smelly today. First she went all over the eating room spraying things and rubbing things shiny and it left such an overpowering scent in the air that she couldn't stop sneezing, it burned the inside of her nostrils and she couldn't understand why Mom would do things like that, didn't it burn her nose? Mom continued however, even after Gigi scratched at her legs and asked her not to. She just patted her on the head and said, "No, baby" but she didn't stop.

Why no? Gigi thought, she hadn't done anything wrong. She yawned again and wagged her tail and Mom looked down at her and left the eating room. Gigi turned her head to one side and whined, now what was Mom doing? She wanted to play or be picked up or have her belly rubbed.

"Rub me! Pet me!" Gigi called out, "MOM!" she trotted out of the kitchen and after Mom who didn't even look back at her. "Mom!" She still didn't look back and Gigi growled and ran up the stairs after her. She sat down and watched Mom pull out more bottles of smelly things from a room and go into the rooms with the noisy water bowls to do more rubbing and spraying.

When Mom was done with all the rubbing and spraying Gigi thought maybe playtime was at hand but Mom instead went to the scary room. A small door in the long hall downstairs and inside that room, no not room, DEN, there lived a creature of unspeakable evil, and terror and hunger. Mom had such bravery to fight with this beast, she pulled it from its lair once every couple days and it roared and swallowed and sucked in air and deafened her with fear. But Mom showed none at all as she chased it through the rooms before it eventually got tired and had to be put back in its lair.

Gigi, although terrified, wanted to help Mom fight it and not look cowardly so she would stand by Mom's legs and bark at it, tell it to go away and leave this house in peace. She always made sure to be a safe distance from it just in case she needed to run from it. Mom would nudge her away though or the young males would yell at her, and Gigi understood that they wanted her to be safe and away from it. Really, she was content to let them do it. Today Gigi let Mom fight the beast alone and she listened from another room to the most epic battle.

After Mom's fight with the noisy beast, Gigi sighed and went into the youngest female's room, she jumped onto the bed and closed her eyes. Sooner or later Mom would stop with the smelly spraying and rubbing and tangling with beasts and then she'd want to play. Or better yet, she'd go into the food room and make delicious hot things that if she were lucky she'd get a taste of if something fell to the floor.

When Gigi woke up she had the ache in her ears from that creature that screamed ear splittingly loud and was shushed only when it got touched by one of her pack. They picked it up and talked to it and it obeyed and was silent. Stupid thing, Gigi thought, didn't it know if it barked enough it would get more attention? Still, it might mean that Mom would think of something else to do. So she jumped off the bed and ran to Mom who was talking to the creature. She seemed annoyed; Gigi could smell her body temperature rise and wondered why she let that thing bother her so much.

She sat down and Mom put the thing back on its nest and then disappeared into the water room and closed the door. Gigi yawned and lay down next to the water room door. She could hear the hiss of the water beast in there and smell the droplets in the air. Gigi could only hope that Mom would defeat the beast again today. Sometimes Mom or sometimes the younger male would put her in the water chamber and let the beast loose on her and she supposed they were teaching her how to fight it. Really, Gigi couldn't see how they wanted her to fight it so she just stood still and closed her eyes and let them rub the protective herb paste on her and the water beast always gave up.

The hiss of the water beast stopped and Gigi stood up and listened through the door and she could her Mom moving, ah so she'd defeated the water beast again. Gigi nodded in approval and waited for Mom to open the door. Mom opened the door smelling sharp and powdery in an almost edible way only she smelled like. Gigi followed her licking her damp bare leg. Mom didn't have any skin on! "You forgot your skin!" Gigi exclaimed and Mom said, "Yes, Baby" but didn't look at her or touch her.

Mom groomed herself and put a different color skin on and Gigi was patient, following her and waiting for her turn to be cuddled and groomed. Smelling strongly of sweet foods and dressed in soft skin, Mom opened the back door and said, "Bathroom." Gigi felt her bladder tremble and the puppy felt grateful as she ran outside and relieved herself onto the snow. She ran back into the warm food room at top speed and she jumped onto her hind legs trying to touch Mom with her paws. "Play with me please Mom!"

"Come on," Mom said.

Gigi followed her, panting and wagging her tail, happy they could play now. But then she saw where Mom was going. Gigi felt her tail uncurl and fall and she whined and touched the ground with her nose and whined. Mom looked at her and opened the door. "Come on."

"I don't wanna!" Gigi exclaimed. "Don't don't don't!"

"Gigi, Come here!" Mom snapped and Gigi recognized the swat on the butt, ultimate displeasure voice. She couldn't disobey Mom. She whined and then walked slowly into the room and watched as Mom spread the potty papers over the carpet.

"I'm grown up I promise I won't pee on the floor!" Gigi exclaimed wanting Mom to be at least a little proud of her.

"Shh," Mom said and Gigi sighed and sat down.

Mom opened the fun bin and scattered some of her toys on the floor. Elated, Gigi grabbed her favorite one, a small pink one that squeaked and Gigi ran to it, barked at it grabbed it into her mouth and ran to Mom wagging her bum. "Let's play please!" she asked.

"Good girl," Mom said and she smiled and to Gigi's heartbreak she left the room and closed the door. Gigi ran to the door and whined and scratched but she knew that Mom wouldn't open it until forever from now. Gigi sighed and she picked up her toy and gnawed on it just a bit but it was no fun. Gigi wanted to cry and she wanted someone to open the door and cuddle her but she knew that if she cried someone might just bang on the door, someone like the big male and he would yell at her and be scary.

She closed her eyes and stretched and soon she fell asleep.

When Gigi woke up her stomach was growling. Well enough was enough, someone needed to feed her and she had been patient. She ran to the door and barked, she listened for someone, but no one came. She barked again, and noone came to her rescue. "I'm hungry I want to play!" she cried. "Someone!" She sat down and no one came. "I'm sick of all of you!" she yelped and she scratched on the door and then irritated and pouting, she slammed her body against it.

The most amazing thing happened, the door opened. It squeaked and squealed and slowly opened and Gigi stopped panting and froze. She trembled and felt cold, wondering if this was a trick and if she crossed the threshold someone would swat her and yell at her. Sniffing the air produced no warm fresh scents and she snorted. She peeked out of the doorway and heard nothing and saw nobody. She licked her lips and decided that it was safe, and could they blame her that the door decided to open itself and let her out? So that was decided.

Gigi trotted out of the room and ran through the house, up the stairs and into the light of the food room. "I'm free!" she exclaimed and wagged her tail but the excitement faded instantly. What fun was there in being free and in charge of the house if there was no one to play with. Gigi cried and hoped that someone would hear her, even if they yelled at her she would be happy and grateful. No one came to comfort her or yell at her.

Gigi whined, never before could she remember such misery.

And then another miracle happened! A dark shadow passed by the food room window, a shadow that could only be from the tall people. Gigi cried out, "Thank goodness someone can play with me now! I'm sorry I left the big room but the door opened by itself, it wanted to let me out, did you tell it to open?" The tall person peeked through the window and Gigi stopped barking and turned her head to one side, realizing that she didn't recognize this person. She couldn't smell either if it was a male or female, but it had hair on its face and it looked really big.

"Who are you?" Gigi cried and she knew she wasn't supposed to but she was too excited to think about that. She waggled her butt and jumped onto one of the wood chairs and she then jumped onto the table so she could get a better look out the window. "Who are you? I don't know you? Do you want to play? Please play with me, can you play? I'm lonely! Please!"

The furry faced person squinted its dark eyes and it held up its hand but didn't touch the window, it looked confused. "Come in!" Gigi cried. "Just go to the door and turn the shiny circle and it will open and you can come in and play I would do it but I'm too small!" The person went to the door and Gigi jumped off the table and ran to it and jumped up and down. "I would open it but I'm too small! I would do it please just open it!" She heard it turn but something wasn't right, the sound wasn't right and the door didn't open.

Gigi's heart broke, "I'm sorry I can't open the door!"

"SHUT UP!"

Ah then it was a male and Gigi's tail went down and she felt her blood go cold. He didn't sound friendly and he sounded angry. At first Gigi wanted to hide under the bed or apologize but then she got angry herself. After all only the Master Male and Mom and the little ones were allowed to tell her what to do or yell at her. Those that didn't belong in her pack had no right at all. "You shut up!" Gigi snarled. "Shut up and go away before you actually do come in and I bite off your toes and make you cry and trip you down the stairs and you cry and the Master comes and stomps on you and you die and I laugh and pee on you!"

She took a deep breath and cocked her head to one side and she didn't see the man's shadow or hear him. So he had been scared and he left, and she's the one who scared him. Feeling proud, Gigi woofed and strutted across the kitchen tiles, pacing back and forth making sure that male didn’t return. When he didn’t she felt satisfied of a job well done and she stretched and yawned. Now what?

Gigi decided to go take a nap somewhere comfortable, she missed Mom. She ran up the stairs and down the hallway, going to where Mom’s scent was the strongest. None of Mom’s loose skins lay on the ground for her to cuddle with so Gigi jumped onto the large bed and found Mom’s sleeping side. She closed her eyes and whined, but as she began to drop off to sleep, another scent caught her nostrils.

Gigi sat up and sniffed the air. Ah she knew that scent, the Master male had it around him nowadays and he yelled at her if she even got near it. Well he wasn’t here now and he couldn’t stop her. Gigi pawed and scratched at the soft blankets and then the soft lumps of bedding and there under the Master’s bedding lump she found them. Fragrant, soft, dark and tasty, her mouth watered and she licked one of them, and they tasted better than she ever thought they would.

Not caring who ever found her or caught her or what they would think Gigi set to devouring the fragrant colored hand skins, they were connected to each other by a long string and Gigi chewed and chewed and her instincts overrode common sense and the puppy began to swallow. The first swallow stuck to her throat and felt uncomfortable but tasted so good that Gigi, although worried at first decided that it would be better once it was in her stomach.

She swallowed and swallowed and tore at the skins but then Gigi choked. It was hard to breathe, and her stomach hurt and it didn’t feel so good in her throat anymore. She whined. Mom would make the hurt stop and Gigi jumped off the bed, the remainder of the material still hanging out of her throat. She wanted to bark for Mom but she couldn’t bark, she could only choke. Her stomach heaved and she wanted to vomit but nothing would move properly.

Gigi whined and hid her face in her paws, hurting so bad, and feeling so sick and knowing now that she was more miserable than she’d ever been and she wanted to close her eyes and never wake up.