The Story Of That One

Hullo. I am a rat an dis is my story, liking it or not.

When I was dah baby rat I was living in dah pet shop wit my bruhders an sisters, an dah uhder bruhders and sisters, in a beeg fish tank. We all sleeping in daer togehder an eating dah food slops an sometimes we playing around too. All kind of animal in dah pet shop. Bird, rabbit, you know. All dohws bird making all dat noises all dah time when we sleeping an den dey quiet when we wanting to playing at night.

Anyway, One day a lady coming in to seeing us. Dah man pulling out ahr tank an dah lady, she reaching in wit her han an she petting all dah sleeping ratties, but dey don't paying attention. Den she trying to petting dah two grey bruhders das playing and chasing each uhder, but dey jus running around an dey don't care. Dah lady, she not seeing me, because I hiding in one of dah tube, but she leaving her han in dah tank righ next to me, an I can seeing her. She is pretty lady an her eyes is so soft an nice. So I peeking my head out to looking at her, an now she see me an she smiling at me. Oh, I liking her. She not like dah mans or dah uhder ladys.

So I climbing out of my tube an I climbing right into her han! Ha! She smiling an she picking me upan standing up, an woah! we high from dah floor, but she holding me in her face an looking at me wit her nice, soft eyes an smiling at me, an I really liking her. Den she asking dah man if I am boy or girl. He taking me from heran looking at me like dat an den he say dat I am a boy! Ha! What dohws he knowing?! I am a girl! But anyway, dah lady, she telling dah man dat she want to taking me home. So dah man taking me an putting me in a box an carry me around. Den I hearing dah lady again an she taking dah box an we leaving dah pet shop.

All of dah sudden I am scare. I am in dah box. My bruhders an sisters ahr still in pet shop fish tank. Dah lady taking me outsigh now and it so big an heavy an loud sounding. I backing into dah corner of dah box an shaking. Den dah lady, she star gentolly rubbing dah side of dah box an singing to me soft lullaby. An she singing an singing an I star feeling a little beddur. Den we going into a moving ting an we moving an moving an moving for long time. Up an down an side to side an side to side an I not feeling good. Den suddenly we stopping an getting out.

Den dah lady, she carrying me again an we climbing up, up, up, an den we stopping an going inside a place. Dah lady walking across dah room an putting my box on dah floor an opening it. Now I seeing dah lady house. She taking me home. Dah house is pretty like dah lady, an quiet, an I not smelling all dohws uhder animal, just dah nice lady smells. Den she opening dah window an dah fresh air coming in from outsigh an dah uhder birds I not knowing is outsigh making all dah noises talking about me. Dis is a very differen place den dah pet shop. I can seeing dah sky an dah trees an dah high mountain righ outsigh. Dis is feel good, but I still scare and hiding in my box. 

Den dah lady, she taking me out of my box an holding me close in her face an kissing me. I feeling a little shy and crawling into her collar an her hair. I still feel a little scare an missing my bruhdersan sisters a little, but I liking it here in her collar an her hair, an I staying here a lot for dah next few days. But dah lady, she also making a hidey bed for me wit her own favrite blue blanket so I can climbing onto dah couch an cuddolling wit her or hiding an sleeping under. I like hiding under an sleeping all day an crawling into dah lady collar an hair at dah night time.

Dah lady, first she calling me "Badger", an she calling me dat for a little while, an I knowing she talking to me when she saying dat. But den dah birds all talking about me, because dah lady, she always feeding dah birds an dey liking her too, an always keeping eye on her, but so she knowing how to making dah same noises as dohws birds, an dah birds, dey calling me That One. "THAT ONE is in the house with the lady! THAT ONE is running around in the lady's house! The lady is feeding THAT ONE! The lady is holding and kissing THAT ONE!" So den dah lady, she star calling me dat one, too. Also, she calling herself mommy, so I calling her mommy, too. Dah lady is mommy an I am dat one.

An den she figurr out dat I am a girl, not a boy like dah man at dah pet shop saying. Mommy saying dat I am a pretty girl, too pretty to be a boy anyway. I am all white wit dah grey on my head an shoulder like mommy hair, an it coming over one eye, too, an I having three grey spot on my back. Sometime I looking at myself in dah meerrorr an I tinking dat mommy is righ. I am too pretty to be a boy.

So me an mommy becoming bes friends, an all dah birds ahr jealous, because I am that one, mommy's favrite, dah only one allow in mommy house, an dah only one mommy loving like dat one. I climbing all over her, up her leg an back, an sitting on her showlder in her hair an collar all dah time. Mommy giving me all dah yummy foods like banana, cheerio, avocado, egg, sour cream, carrot, peanut butter, spinaches, dah bird ahmon an wahnut an suffower sees, and dah cah food, too! Yeah! Ha! I eating dah cah food, not dah cats! An I always wanting whatever mommy eating, too. 

An do you knowing what else? Mommy gotting for me dah beeg climbing house, an I can climbing dah whole beeg ting, too! Mommy only locking me in daer when I doing dah bad pee pee. I trying to explaining dah pee pee is jus dah water, but she not understanding dees tings. But uhderwise, I can going wherever I can going an I getting into everyting, too! So mommy an me making all dah liddle hidey hole for me in every room. And, oh! Dah tomorrow grasses dat mommy planting for me! I loving to foraging an eating dah root sees! Also I going on dah back porch to feeding dah birds a cuppohl time. I loving dah ahventur, but dah cats ahr always coming, so I don't going outsigh anymore, an mommy stop feeding dah birds, too, because one time one of dah cat catching one of dah bird an mommy running outsigh to scare dah cat an letting go dah bird. Sometime mommy still giving dah nuts to dah birds, but only in dah big tree away from dah porch.

But dah bes par of living wit mommy is dat every night I going to sleeping wit mommy in dah mommy bed. She putting dohws flannel for me, because I making dah pee pee an den she cleaning dat for me every day. I always making dah poo poo an dah pee pee,an mommy always running aroun cleaning after me. I tink is funny. Sometime I do it jus to making her paying attention to me, because I am akchoolly potty train to going in dah litter box an in dah shower tray, too. But anyway! I always going to sleeping wit mommy in dah mommy bed. I liking to sneaking out when she sleepingan going running aroun dah housaan doing all my rattie tings, but I always coming back to sleeping wit mommy before she waking up. Sh! Don't telling! But Mommy loving me an I loving mommy. Cuddolls an kisses an cuddolls an kisses! Mommy kissing me and I kissing mommy all dah time! Mommy an me ahr live happily ever after.

So das nice, but everyting not ok, too. Mommy an me, we getting sick all dah time. We eating dah food and drinking dah wahturr an den we not feeling good. My tummy hurt an dah food wanting to come back up an I doing dah poo poo all dah time, an mommy too, she making dohws not feeling good sounds an going to dah batroom a lot of time. Mommy taking dah minty medesin an she giving me, too, an dat helping, but we still not feeling good a lot.

An dah itchy scratchy, dey coming in from dah front door an dah back door all dah time, an I scratching an scratching an scratching. Mommy too, she scratching too, but dohws tings, dey liking me more. Mommy giving me dah uhder medesin an den dah itchy scratchy all die. An mommy cleaningan cleaning an cleaningaan spraying always dah fron an baa door, but dohws tings always coming back when every time she opening dah door. I scratching so much an so har dat I hurting my face an mommy making me wearing dat cown I not liking, an taking dah uhder medesin, because it hurting.

Mommy also cleaning my face wit dah wahturr, but it only hurting more, an dah wahturr hurting mommy, too. Mommy, she washing her hans an her face an her body, an dah wahturr burning her an making her reh an she not letting me licking her hans an face, because is so reh an hurting her. But we drinking dah wahturr, because we haf to drinking dah wahturr, an mommy, she running dah wahturr an filling dohws bottle for dah drinking an dah cooking. Sometime when we drinking dah wahturr we falling alseeping an sleeping an sleeping an sleeping, an cannah waking up, an so tire all dah time.

But den I star getting dah bleedy sneezes, an mommy, too, she star getting dah bleedy sneezes, too, but not as bad as I getting dem. I getting dah bleedy sneezes so bad dat I cannah breedthing an I gotting a beeg heemohtohbah inside of my nose dat not going away. Dah bleedy sneezes ahr scare me, an scare mommy, too. I cannah breedthing an I gonna dying an mommy, she crying an crying an cleaning my bleedy sneezes so I can breedthing again. I almohs die all dah time, but mommy, she always cleaning my bleedy sneezes an holding me an rocking me an kissing me until I can breedthing again. Mommy, she giving me again dah uhder medesin to making me better an it helping a liddle, but I still not feeling good an now I having a beeg lump under my armpih, too.

Mommy, she worry an she crying all dah time an dat scare me. Someting wrong an is me. But I am good girl an mommy loving me, mommy say so all dah time, an I wanting to be ok, an I wanting mommy not to worrying an to knowing I am ok. So I trying to runnning aroun an doing all dohws tings dat always I doing, but I cannah do it. I cannot breedthing an I tire an mommy haf to coming to picking me up an bringing me back to dah mommy bed. I star staying in dah mommy bed all dah time an mommy, she haf to star feeding me like dah medesin, she squeezing dah baby food an dah wahturr in my mout.

Den one day dah medesin is all gone an mommy say dat I haf to getting better on my own now. Mommy, she worry still, but I trying to running aroun like always I use to doing an maybe I feeling a liddle beddur. Mommy, she liking to seeing me like dat an she saying dat I am good girl, but I still cannah breedthing good an mommy still have to cleaning my sneezes. An den it gotting more har to breedthing again. An den I jus die one night.

Dat nigh, mommy was coming to sitting wit me in her lap like always I doing every nigh, wit dah rocking, dah cuddolls, dah kisses, an mommy whispering dah good girls an dah mommy loving dat one, but I not breedthing good, so mommy, she say she going to cleaning my sneezes. So mommy cleaning my sneezes wit dah wahturr like always she doing, but suddenly I cannah breedthing at all! I star trashing aroun an mommy she trying to holding mean rocking me like always she doing, but I cannah breedthing at all! So I trashing an trashing an climbing on mommy shoulder an freaking out scare! Den mommy knowing someting wrong. She grabbing me an holding me in her face an looking at me an she can see dat I cannah breedthing.

Now mommy, she star crying an saying "No! No! No! No!" I scare, buh I cannah breedthing an now I cannah moving anymore, I jus looking at mommy crying. Mommy, she crying har now and she saying "Waking up, Dat One! Waking up!" Buh den I stop breedthing an I star falling to sleeping. All of dah sudden I floating outsigh of me an watching mommy holding me an crying an kissing me an saying "Waking up, Dat One! Waking up!" I feel weer, but I not scare anymore. I still wanting to waking up wit mommy dohw.

Den mommy, she putting her mout on my mout an nose an she breedthing into me, an all of dah sudden I waking up an trying to breedthing again. I hurting to trying to breedthing, but mommy, she smiling an so happy to see me waking up! She kissing me and saying dah good girl an mommy loving dat one! Buh I cannah breedthing still an den I stop breedthing again. Mommy, she star crying an saying "No! No! No! Waking up, Dat One! Waking up!" again, an I floating outsigh me again. Dis is so weer an I star looking aroun an suddenly I see cats! Cats?! Coming in mommy house?! Where dees cats come from?!

Now mommy, she still crying an saying dohws tings, and she putting her mout on my mout an nose an breedthing into me again, an I waking up again, an I hurting trying to breedthing again. Mommy, she crying an laughing an saying dah good girl an mommy loving dat one. I looking aroun an daer ahr no cats. I confuse, but den I stop breedthing an I floating again. Mommy, she crying an crying an crying, "No! No! No! Waking up, Dat One! Waking up!" Buh now I starring to floating down an den I am sitting on dah chair an watching mommy crying an holding me an rocking me an kissing me. I trying to floating again so I can going back to mommy, buh I cannah. I dohwn knowing if dah rats can crying, buh I wanting to crying too. I am so sad. I wanting mommy, but I cannah going back.

Den I see all dohws cats again! all of dem sitting an standing aroun mommy an looking at me. Mommy crying an crying, rocking an kissing me. Den dah beeg grey cat, he coming to me an he saying "It's ok, That One. It's over now." Den I say "Fuck you! I going to be wit mommy!" Den I climbing down dah chair an running into mommy lap a climbing on top of me in mommy arms an rocking wit mommyan crying. Den I hearing one of dah uhder cat, she saying "Let's just leave her alone now. She needs a little time." Den dah beeg grey cat, he saying, "Ok. We'll come back later." An den dah cats, dey leaving an I staying wit mommy.

(To Be Continued 6.3.26)