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a boys and girls let's get started reading are the Pitt war and let's start with chapter 1 I stood at the bottom of the driveway and pajamas with a serious case of bed-head across the street a large yellow rental moving van backed out of our neighbor's driveway I felt a cold deep pain of loneliness c-cure my body or maybe it was the wind there weren't very warm pajamas from the driver seat mr. Finch smiled at me he stuck his hand out the window his other hand on the steering wheel by Auto he said take care I miss you I hollered but I wasn't yelling to mr. Finch I wouldn't miss him ice cream to to Alfalfa their golden retriever who sat in the back seat I think I even heard an are a single Gruff dress depressed bark sounding in my in his stroke by I croaked my yell catching in my throat I couldn't hear much over the loud clacking of the truck but I imagine they bark rang out as a full of sadness and misery as I felt then they were gone the finches Alfalfa and their truckload of stuff around the corner and out of sight mom said a new family would be moving into the house in a few weeks I asked if they had a dog or if they had kids or if they we're professional soccer players mom said no no and she highly doubt it it and I stood in the driveway for a moment longer lonely shivering and wishing I'd worn shoes I feared this day I feared it for weeks so I pretended it was never going to happen but ignoring bad things never worked I sometimes ignored my homework and watch TV but then I just had to do my homework the next day and mom wouldn't let me watch television for a unfortunately things don't vanish just because you stopped paying attention to them too bad if they did I just have ignored my sister Lexie and poof life would have been perfect but I figure life was going to stink now that Alfalfa had left I had played with him almost every day since he was a puppy I mean the daughter was practically more money than the finches I knew which are scratched the right ear his face game keep away with the tennis ball and exactly how long he wanted his tummy rubbed until he barks twice Alfalfa's new neighbors whoever they were wouldn't know any of that what if they did even like dogs what if they liked cats there are two types of people in the world dog people and Cat people don't people are clever friendly good-looking funny and overall fantastically Wonder fat people on the other hand are ugly boring and smell bad I'm not making that up those are the facts II by the way I'm a dog person but now that I had moved away there was only one thing I could do well there were two things I could do the first thing was to move to Montana into the house next door to the finches then I can play without that for every day but I didn't think Mom would agree to move to Montana the second solution the more likely one was for me to get a dog of my own and I wasn't picking I'd even taken jet taken just about any dog we can adopt a quiet dog or barking dog dog or a happy dog sitting dog or a running dog Shaggy Dog or a hairless dog mom wasn't exactly a pet person though she didn't love cats or dogs or anything I needed help convincing her I needed Lexie I couldn't believe Lexie and I were related to be totally honest we were barely alive she had long straight hair mine was short and curly mom called it unruly Lexi spend hours picking out her clothes and I just wear whatever jeans and t-shirt were on my floor usually because I missed a she got Asian school I got grazed share the same alphabet as A's there were a few letters later most of all I wasn't annoyed and Lexi was the most annoying person in the world but while Lexi wasn't good for much she was good at winning mom over something I wasn't good at usually I hated that about Lexi but not now because with my sister on my side we could convince mom in a nanosecond that the family should get a dog I found Lexi in her bed reading a magazine it was one of those magazines with some annoying teen singer on the cover that kind of magazine I wouldn't read if you tied me up and force me to eat horseradish have you ever eaten horseradish if you hear you know what I'm talking about if you haven't don't you've been warned Lexi we need to talk I said stepping into her room you didn't not she didn't even look up the door was did someone say something she continued reading her magazine there can't be anyone here because I didn't hear I'm not first so I walk backwards out of my annoying sisters room and not now wasn't the time to argue there would be plenty of time to call her names after we had a dog yes baby brother she's saying she like to call me baby brother because she knew it bother me I'm not a baby by Bart then I took a deep breath reminded myself that I needed to ignore Lexi's annoyingness if I wanted to get her on board Lexie put down her magazine while I'll explain what I wanted Lexie and I argued about a lot of things actually we argue about everything but I knew we couldn't argue about getting a dog who wouldn't want a dog parent Lee Lexi wouldn't want the dog no way she shook her head poop smell their dirty they lick everything I'm not cleaning up after it goes outside that's just gross cats are much better pets everyone knows that but everyone did not know cats were better that's the dogs because it wasn't true just because Lexie was 12 and measly you're older than me she thought she knew everything which also wasn't true I should have known she'd cause trouble dogs are they're fun they're your best friend a dog will do anything for you I said he'll lay his life down for you but a cat you're lucky if a cat gives you the time of day they act all high Mighty like they're better than anyone just like certain sisters sure I wanted Lexi on my side but a guy needs to stand by his principles that's because cats are smart should Lexie just like certain sisters we are so not getting a dog she picked up her magazine again ignoring me we are so not getting a cat I grabbed Lexi smirked from behind your magazine I knew that smart I meant she was up to no good it meant she was hatching a plan will seize you said turning the page and continuing her reading as if I were invisible and not standing in her room falling my fist in anger I wheeled around stomped out of the room as loudly as I could and slam the door behind me there was nothing to see we were not getting a cat we are getting a dog we needed a dog this wasn't just an everyday argument like who gets to eat the last bowl of ice cream or who got to use the bathroom first it wasn't even an argument about who sat on the passenger side of the back seat of Dad's car that was the better side because I was more legroom this was a big big bigger than big it was humongous this was the difference between right dogs and wrong cats between being a true blue friend or an annoying stuck-up airball this wasn't your simple everyday agreement this was war

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