Part 4 Babylon Gardens and her new problems with it
The family noticed the water balloon fights going outside, Maya's Dad looked back to the road, "Wow, talk about a scrimmage." Maya saw a cat got hit by a water balloon in the head knocking him to the floor. She was a little shocked and then roll up the windows to keep herself dry, it wasn't long before a water balloon landed on the top of the SUV. The water was all sloshing through above the roof.
Maya looked to see a brown cat smashed a water balloon right onto a chocolate lab's belly, she heard the dog's yelp and she shuddered at the thought of joining the water balloon fight and looked away from the scene. "I think that our house." she saw a black house that was squeezed between two neighboring houses.
Maya pressed her snout against the window of the SUV, "Our new home!" she said as her tail smacked Bryan's face, "Hey, keep your tail under control." Maya was mad at Bryan but forced her tail to stop wagging, as they parked next to the house, Maya unlocked the car door and ran out to the yard, she sniffed most of the house and her new environments. To her it smelled significantly different than her old home in Yuma.
She wanted to go inside super badly, she ran to her dad "DAD, OPEN THE EFFING DOOR!" her face was very tense. Her dad smiled like a child, "Ok, hold on." he handed the keys to Maya and she ran to the door unlocking it and then kicking the door, the new smell was overwhelming, she could smell all of the new house had a much different layout than her old home, "where's my room?" her dad took her upstairs to her new room, it was bigger than her old room. "Wow, this is nice let's get my stuff."
She ran outside to get her things she felt much colder than in Yuma, she looked at the thermometer which said "72 degrees" it felt colder than what she's used, "But it's not cold." she thought. She turned to see a black cat on the top of the SUV grinning, "Well, well, what do we have here?" Maya looked at him confused, "Who are you?" she said to him, he continued grinning "Question is who are you, new girl?"
Maya sat down on the hood of the SUV, "Um, Maya Raven, nice to meet you." she handed out her paw, Max shook her hand, "Max." as soon as Maya turned around to look for her sister, the cat was gone. "Hey Maya, help me with the boxes." Melissa said, Maya ran to help while looking around for Max, "Hey sis, did you see a black cat?" Melissa shook her head, "I didn't, why?" Maya told her about the cat, "There's going to be a lot of pets around, better get used to it."
"Get used to it?" Maya thought, she then saw a dog in a vest and a mouse on top of his head approach her, "Hey, you're new here, what's your name." She introduced herself to them, "Maya huh?" said the mouse, "Nice to meet you, my name is Spo and this guy here is Fido, K9." Maya put her finger near mouth, "K9? Never heard of that." Fido looked confused, "How can you not know about police dogs?" Maya lived in an area where dogs were fairly rare, and the police department didn't carry any K9's.
Fido explained to Maya what police dogs are and what they do, Maya was still perplexed about dogs being part of the police department but she went along with it. "Just follow the laws and you won't be in trouble." he later introduced himself and Spo to the rest of the family, reminding them of the laws in Babylon Gardens, especially to Melissa and Bryan since he never really sees human children.
"Here." he said as he handed Maya a card saying "the Good Ol' Dogs Club" and it's address, "you should come, it's recommended by my little brother that every dog comes to the club." Maya looked at the card, "Who the leader?" Fido looked at Maya with thought, "It's me and Bino, there's occasionally going to be other dogs too, so you might have to know all of them." Maya never knew more than a couple of other dogs. "How many dogs are there?" she said, Fido thought about it, "A lot."
"Great." she put the card in the collar, she held out her paw, "Well see you tomorrow." Fido shook it then left, "Dad, I'm going to walk around." her dad said she could go so she walked down the streets, meeting all kinds of dogs, cats, a rabbit, a chicken, and several ferals. Then she reached a house that had
wolves in it, the only wolves that she knew where wild ones in the desert and they were aggressive to her. She then saw a Welsh Corgi being carried off by little wolf pups, "Hey, put me down I'm talking to someone on the phone!" she giggled to herself before moving on.
She then met a mutt and a purple cat, she knew that there was some kind of tension between them and they weren't the rival kind, but something else, they introduced themselves as Peanut and Grape, Maya then introduced herself, "Hey, did any of you seen a black cat with a golden bell?" Grape looked at her curiously, "He's Max, my boyfriend." Maya nodded her head to show she understood, "Do you know Fido?" Peanut smiled happily and his tail wagged, "Oh yeah, he's one of the leader of the neighborhood, along with his little brother, Bino."
"Who's Bino?" Maya asked to them, Grape smiled mischievously, "He's an annoying mutt, brother of my boyfriend." Maya looked confused, "Wait,
brother?" Grape then said they lived together under a common owner, so effectively they are brothers. "Oh, got it. So he's really that annoying?" Grape and Peanut laughed under their breath, "He sometimes has to be controlled by someone." said Grape gesturing hitting him behind the head.
Maya grimaced slightly at Bino being knocked out by Grape but she then saw a mutt walk up to them, "Hey cat-lover, how's your cat treats?" he laughed, then he saw Maya and he looked a little stunned, "Who this?" he observed her, "This is Maya, don't get any ideas." Grape knew about Bino's gaze at Maya and then punched the palm of the paw to show she's serious. "Well, my name's Bino." he pointed his finger to his chest, "Leader of the dog community in this neighborhood." Maya rolled her eyes, "This is not what I wanted." Then a husky came up behind Bino.
"Hi, cat-lover." the husky said though unlike Bino he didn't seem to be enjoying himself like Bino, Maya has never seen so many other pets beside herself, see felt a little scared but she was also excited, "And you are?" the husky at her, "My name is Fox." Fox looked at Bino, "Look, I got to go." Bino looked at mad, "Why, because you want to see
him again?" Fox then got mad too, "Bino stop being mad at King, he's never done anything to you." Bino looked at Fox a little hurt, "He's taking you away from me, he's going all over the neighborhood trying to get other people against me!" Fox looked away Bino and towards Maya, "Sorry, he's just a little jealous." Bino stuck out his tongue at him.
Maya looked at Fox, she felt heavy at the heart, and shook a little on her legs, "What's this feeling and why is Fox in it?" she thought to herself, she stuttered slightly, "My name's Maya." he shook her paw, Maya blushed a little but not enough to make them see, "See you later." he walked down the street, Maya put her paw on her chest, "Well, he's kind of cute." she thought. Peanut looked at Maya a little confused, "You okay?" Maya came back from to focus, "Oh, yeah I'm okay." Bino looked at Maya a little suspicious and Maya knew, "Does he know about me liking Fox?" Bino then said goodbye and walked to the opposite direction of Fox.
"Well, I got to go." Maya said, Peanut and Grape said goodbye then saying they should see each other again, Maya then goodbye and walked to her house. As she walked Fox kept popping in her head, she had to keep thinking of other stuff, "Oh, yeah I better help." she remembered about the things needed to be brought to her house, "What am I doing, I'm to busy to involved in romantic stuff, I do that later." but the thought of Fox didn't leave her mind. "Stop it!" she thought to herself, "Ugh, why can't I stop?" she saw the wolf cubs approached her, "Why are you mad?" one of them said, Maya looked at them, "Oh it's nothing." She then saw the Welsh Corgi they carried earlier, "Hey, what did I say about going outside by yourself?" he said.
He saw Maya, "Oh, it's you." he said, "So you're that new girl that's been talked about." Maya was surprised at his behavior, it wasn't a normal dog, he acted different than a regular dog should be doing. Fox came out of the house, "King, the cubs are back inside!" King gestured that he was coming, "Fox told me about you." he face became less tense, "Name's King." Maya shook his hand, Fox came to them, "I see you met King." he smiled to her, Maya felt a little weak and also excited, "You want to come in?" Fox said, Maya nodded her head happily, "Sure." she said quickly trying to control her glee about be inviting by Fox.
Jees, Maya you need to keep your mind in check before someone takes your heart away
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