“I’ll see you when I get home. Be a good boy while you’re home, Luc.” My bestest friend, as some people call her, Victoria said reaching down to scratch me. She put some treats down on the floor. She always gave me a bunch when she would leave to make me feel a bit better about her leaving, but I still get a bit upset when she leaves. “I will be on my best behavior and protect the house from bad guys.” I said wagging my tail. She gave me one kiss on the top of my head before heading out the door. I ran to our front door and looked out the window to make sure Victoria was able to leave without any bad people coming for her. Watching her pull out and then wave at me one last time made me sad, but at least she turned on the good show. It has squirrels, bunnies, and birds throughout it. The things I like but can’t always get when I am indoors. But my bestest friend always tells me when these are outside. She points them out to me and gets me to look at them, even though I think she’s being silly. But her being silly means she’s happy so I get many treats. And that to me is the best thing. Especially the long tubular ones that taste like what my bestest friend calls pepperoni. She likes to call them “pupperoni” and honestly, I know whenever I hear that word, I’m getting a good treat. But back to the window, the squirrel I was watching was tempting. If there wasn’t this thing in front of me, I’d go after it. But there is an invisible wall in front of me. Watching these things makes me tired though, so now it was time for a nap.

I was rudely awakened from my nap by someone messing at the front door. I turned back to the window to see who it was. It’s the evil man that comes dressed in blue. I don’t know what he wants, but he is constantly at our house when Mom goes away. And I try to scare him away. Which in the end ends up working. I think my bestest friend would be proud of me. I always am able to scare him off. He’s always here for at least a couple of minutes before he runs away. And it’s all thanks to my bravery. After he left though I kept on the lookout for more people that may come up to the house. But instead, I got to see a bunch of birds, some squirrels, and a cat walking down the street. Which you know isn’t too bad when I’m staring out the window. Don’t get me wrong, there were a couple cars that passed by as well, which makes me wish I could get into the car too to go for a ride. I need to see if my bestest friend will take me on a ride. We often get to go on rides because she likes taking me everywhere. She says “bestest friends go everywhere together” thus that is why I’m allowed to go with her everywhere.

After about a couple of hours, I could feel my tummy rumbling so I got up and got some food. One other thing my bestest friend did before she left was always make sure I had food in my food bowl and water in my water bowl. She was awesome for that. She even made me special food for dinner or dinor, whatever she would say. Usually, it was chicken and rice. Sometimes though it included some other things, she calls them green beans. And don’t get me started on the carrots she makes me. They taste like beef. They are very tasty and my favorite thing she makes. She gives them to me randomly. She does something to them that causes them to be soft and not hard and crunchy. I like them softer, but I will still eat them when they are hard and crunchy.

After I finished eating, I walked to my bestest friend’s room. I ran and jumped in her bed. When I start to miss her, I come in here and sleep. It’s also a lot more comfortable than the couch. Plus, I don’t have to worry about anyone coming to the house. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still on high alert in here, but I get more peace and quiet in here than if I was out in the living room. She never gets mad at me being here. Sometimes at night, I even come in here to protect her from any bad guys that could get her. I see things that she can’t see all the time. Especially, when she takes those funky things off of her face. She calls them “glasses” and says, “They help me see better”. Sometimes when she wants to be silly, she lays them on my face. She is a strange person, let me tell you that. But she keeps me happy and healthy, so I can’t complain. I was able to fall asleep because it was nice and warm in her room.

After what felt like four years for me, but in all actuality was about four hours. My bestest friend was home. I heard her car pulling into the driveway. It’s the crunch of the gravel that allows me to know when she’s home. It’s time to bring her a baby and bring it to the back door. I always wait for her by the back door because I’m so excited for her to be home and usually she takes me outside. We spent a few minutes outside before she had me come back inside to eat dinner. After I heard her door shut, I heard the garage door open and close before the back door opened. There she appeared.

“Hi, Lucifer! I’m so excited to see you. It was boring at work. I wish I could bring you, but I know some people won’t like that.” She said giving me a bunch of kisses and head scratches. She let me out and I took off running through the backyard. She stood on the back porch watching me run all over the place. I love being in the backyard; I always want nice and free out here. But man did I have to use the bathroom after staying inside all day. So, I took the time and sniffed out where I wanted to go to the bathroom. She always thought I was weird and would laugh when I would do this. “Did you go poopy?” She asked when I came running back up to the back porch. “Yes, I did.” I said to her. I kept wiggling my butt and got more scratches. “Do you want dinnor now?” She asked me. “Yes!” I said getting more excited. She laughed at me and opened the door. I went in first with her following behind. I watched as she got out the chicken and rice and cooked it for me. She had to grab the god-awful white thing that she always hid in my food, but don’t get me wrong sometimes I found it. She was not smarter than me when it came to that thing. Supposedly it’s my medicine to keep me from having seizures. Although I don’t know what that means I just know that there were points in times where I would shake, and it would cause great anxiety in her. I don’t know what causes these things, but she says I have epilepsy and that I have to take my medicine every day. Sometimes, I am able to find my medicine and I eat everything around it and spit it out. After making me dinner, she made herself some leftovers which I think is what she calls pizza. It’s a triangle-shaped piece of bread that has cheese and pepperoni on it. I swear I’ve heard her call it pizza, but I’m not too sure. I think she’s nuts sometimes, so I don’t really know what to think about what she calls things. My name for example is because I look like a demon dog thus that’s where she gets Lucifer. Although she called me the goodest boy and her bestest friend. So, I don’t know why she calls me a demon dog. Well, I guess I do look kinda scary, so it makes sense. I’m glad I look scared she needs a protector and that’s my job.

When we went to sit down in the living room, I was all up in her bubble trying to get her food. Her food is my food just like my food is my food. “Get back you already had your dinner.” She said pushing me back a little bit. Like I said I get into her bubble, she’ll slightly push me away, so I scoot right back into that bubble. This is an everyday thing. Which is what exactly I did. She let out a laugh at my antics and shook her head while she was at it. “You’re a goofy dog, Luc.” She said petting on the top of my head. I gave her a small smile. I know I’m a goofy dog I come from a goofy besest friend. I tried to get a bite of pizza, but she was too smart for me and moved her pizza away. “You cannot have my pizza you already had your dinner.” She said with a small laugh. “Can we go for a ride when you’re done?” I asked trying to look extra cute to be able to go for a ride. Instead, I watched her pull off a piece of pepperoni and give it to me. And you know what, that sometimes is much better than a ride. “You wanna go for a ride after this?” She asked, looking me in the eyes. I jumped up because I wanted to go for a ride. It’s like you read my mind. “I need to get gas before work tomorrow so might as well do it tonight and I can take you with me. I was gonna go shopping but decided to go against it. I thought it was more important to come home to you. As soon as I’m done with dinner, we can go for a ride.” She said. I impatiently waited for her to finish her dinner. Which felt like forever by the way. Yet it was only 10 minutes long. And soon we were off in her car to go get gas and drive by the cows. I like looking at the cows. I don’t know what they are, but they look like big funky doggos. I like the way they smell but Victoria does not. She always puts her shirt over the top of her nose. Usually, that’s all we see, but sometimes we see geese or the other nickname covert chickens. If I have a leash, she’ll take me on walks, and we see covert chickens on them too. She usually runs with me to scare them off. Those times are quite fun.

But soon we were back at the house, and she had changed out of what she calls her ‘work clothes. Now we were both sitting in the living room with the TV on and a random channel playing. It was time for us to start getting ready for bed. Victoria sometimes took showers at night or even early in the morning just depending on her mood. Tonight, it seems that she’s gonna take it in the morning. She seemed quite tired coming home. But having her home I could sleep peacefully and not have to worry about bad guys coming to the house. Thus I closed my eyes and fell asleep.