text: Hi! You are new! I am Max. That is the name my humans gave me. They are great humans. I love them so much. They should be home soon. I will be very excited when they are home. I do not like it when they leave because I'm always scared they will not come back. *The front door makes a noise, and it opens to reveal a man and a woman.* Yes! My humans are home. I am so happy! *Bark Bark.* Hello humans I missed you so much! What? They did not pet me...Why didn't they pet me? Maybe they did not see me. I will try again! *Bark Bark.* Hello humans I missed you so much! *The man and woman walk into the kitchen. They appear to be fighting.* They did not notice me again. Maybe it is food time? *Max runs into the kitchen eager for food* *"Not now Max," the man said sternly.* What is wrong? Why did he look at me like that? Am I in trouble? What did I do? *Max walks slowly out of the kitchen and into the living room where his toys are.* *Max grabs his bone chew toy, and he lays on the carpet with it.* I am sorry humans. I did not mean to be bad. *The woman walks out of the kitchen and goes upstairs.* *The man comes into the living room and walks towards Max.* Oh. Human I am so sorry for what I have done please forgive me. *Max nuzzles his head against the mans hand* *"Hey boy, sorry about that. How about we go outside," the man says while petting Max.* Oh boy! I want to go outside! I do! *The man and Max head out the back door to go play fetch.* That was so much fun! But I am thirsty now. *The man and Max come back inside. Max heads over to his water bowl and drinks all that is left in it.* *The man fills up the water bowl first. Then he fills up the food bowl.* Yay! Food! I love food! *Max starts to eat his food quickly* That was so good. I think I will check on my other human. *Max goes upstairs, and he enters the room with the big soft thing* There she is! *The woman was sitting on her bed crying.* What!? Why is my human sad? I must comfort her! *Max hops up on the bed, and he pushes his head against her arm.* *"Oh hey max," the woman says as she pets him.* I am sorry human. I shall give you kisses! *Max licks her nose, and she smiles a little.* *"Thanks for being here for me Max. I love you," she says as she pets him some more.* I am getting sleepy now. I think I will go to my spot now. *Max gets off the bed and goes into the living room where his dog bed is located.* *Max gets into the bed and turns around twice before finally settling down.* *Yawn* I am so sleepy. *Max closes his eyes and dreams of tomorrow.* *Max wakes up early.* *Yawn.* It is time to go wake my humans up. Wait....what is he doing here? That is not his spot. *The man is sleeping on the couch.* *Max walks over to him and starts licking his hand.* *The man wakes up quickly and sits straight up. He looks around confused for a second before he realizes where he is.* Okay. One human up. One more to go. *Max goes upstairs to wake up the woman, but she is already awake. Max sees that the bathroom door is open and looks in. The woman was in the shower.* I am not going back in there. It looks like she is awake though. *Max goes back downstairs to eat some food.* Yum. I am starving. *Max eats the rest of his food and goes into the living room.* Yay! Both of my humans are here! *Max walks over to them.* *The man and woman are still bickering but not as badly as the night before.* *They start to put on their shoes.* Oh no! You guys are leaving? Can I come this time? *Max goes and stands by the door.* *The man and woman both pet Max before heading out and closing the door behind them.* Oh. I guess they did not want me to come. I have an idea! They always put on those things before they leave, and there are a bunch of them in the humans spot. I will just go eat them! If I eat them then they won't leave me! *Max heads into the humans room and heads towards the open closet.* *He sniffs out the shoes sitting on the floor and starts to chew on them.* There. They can't put those on anymore. *Max walks back downstairs and gets a drink of water from his bowl.* What was that?? *The front door opens, and the humans walk in holding a bunch of papers.* Yay! My humans are back! I knew that would work! *Max runs up to the man and puts his front paws on the mans chest.* *Papers go flying everywhere. "Uhg," The man moans.* Uh oh. I think I made him mad again...I am sorry human. *The man grabs Max by the collar and puts him outside.* Wait. You are not coming too? Do not worry! I will guard the home! *Max sees a squirrel.* *Grrrrrr.* *Bark Bark.* *Max runs towards the squirrel and starts to chase it.* *The squirrel runs up a tree, and Max tries to follow. However all Max can do is jump up at the tree.* *The back door to the house opens, and the woman calls out Max's name.* *Max runs inside and gets his head pet by the woman.* Hello human! I missed you so much! *The woman heads upstairs, and max goes to get a drink.* That was so good. I will go say hello to my other human now. *Max walks into the living room and hops up on the couch with the man.* *The man starts to pet him when the woman comes downstairs. She looks angry.* *"Your dog chewed up all of my shoes," the woman yelled.* *She shook a chewed up shoe in Max's face.* *"I think it's time that you left, papers signed or not," the woman said to the man. The man pleaded, "Can't we talk about this some more?" "I'm done talking," the woman walked back upstairs.* Oh I am so sorry humans....I just didn't want you to leave. *Max went to his bed slowly and laid down. The last thing he saw before he went to bed was the man holding his head in his hands.* *Yawn* *Max wakes up slightly late today* What is all this new stuff? Is it for me? *Max looks around and sees brown boxes everywhere.* *Max sees the man putting things into the boxes.* Hello human! What are you doing? Is this a game? Can I play? *As the man puts a pair of socks into the box Max jumps up and start to tug at is.* *"No bad dog," the man says as he rips the socks back and puts them into the box.* Bad dog? I am sorry human. I did not mean to be a bad dog...I guess I will go lay down in the kitchen for a bit. *The front opens, and Max pokes his head out of the kitchen to see what it is.* *The woman walks through the door holding a pair of keys. "Here the moving van is out front whenever you are ready," she says as she passes the keys to the man. "Okay," the man says with a sad look on his face, "I'm on my last box now."* He finishes packing up the last box with all of Max's stuff.* Wait! What are you doing with my stuff? Are we going somewhere? *The man and woman pack every box into the back of the van. The woman goes back inside and gets Max.* Yay! I love going places! *Max hops up onto the seat with the man. He moves into the middle so the woman can get in, but she shuts the door instead.* Wait...is she not coming with us? *Bark Bark.* Don't worry human we will be back. I love you. *The man drives to a dark looking apartment building and takes Max in. He puts Max in the bedroom so he can unload everything.* Wow this is a small room. It also has one of those fluffy things. I wonder who this spot belongs to. It smells funny in here. *The man opens the door.* *Max walks out of the small room to see all of his stuff over by the television.* My stuff! What is it doing here? This is not my spot. *Max walks around the small apartment feeling very confused and scared.* *Bark Bark.* I do not like it here human. When are we going home? *The man goes into the bathroom and comes out later in his sleep clothes. He goes to bed.* Wait that is not your spot human. Where is my other human? I hope she is okay. I am feeling kind of tired so I will sleep now, but do not worry human. I will sleep lightly so I can still be alert. *Max walks over to his bed in the strange spot and falls asleep.* *He dreams about the woman, the man, and the home that he will never see again.* The End.