Gloria


 * Dear Flower ** **By Chen **

**‍ ****When I was at six years old, my parents took me to Yun Nan province to spend our vocation. Like other vacations, my father always bought a lot of things for me but this time I refused because I want to have a dog. I said to my father:“I don’t want beautiful clothes this time, I want a tiny dog.’’ My father promised me and took me to a pet market right then. There were so many pets there and it was too hard for a six year old child to decide which to choose. Suddenly, I saw a man in the corner and there was a basket in front of him. I went over and found three beautiful dogs in it. I liked these little thing so much and I couldn’t move my eyes off them. I choose a white dog with some yellow dots on it. She looked so smart and beautiful that I wanted to keep her. She even knew she should pee in the toilet when we were in hotel. After our vocation, we took her home. **

**‍ ****Flower grew up gradually and she knew me very much. When I were happy, she seemed happier than me. She jumped with me, danced with me, played games with me. When I was depressed, she didn’t say anything, and she just accompanied me quietly. Sometimes, I sat on sofa the whole day, and she was not going anywhere just laid on my legs. When I was sick, she was on my bed to help me get over the disease. **

**‍ ****However, she is not a perfect girl, when I played with other dogs, she would get jealous of it and fight with other dogs. Though she did this, I still loved her very much. One day, she really grew up because she gave birth to a dog. She loves her baby so much and don’t let anyone to touch her baby. After seven days, her baby could open his eyes. She just left her baby alone, go out to take a walk and relax but shortly afterwards, she robbed food with her baby unexpectedly I thought maybe she didn’t love her baby anymore, so I gave her baby to my sister. After Flower found her baby was not there anymore, so she started to miss her baby. At that time, I couldn’t make her baby back on account for my sister and her baby was get along with each other. Fortunately, time can solve everything. Flower didn’t miss her child after two weeks. **

**‍ ****Good times don’t last long, Flower passed away suddenly when I was eleven years old. She was poisoned by rat poison when she played outside, so she died at night and all of my families were slept so no one noticed until the next morning. It was too late to take her to see a doctor. I still remembered her face when she died, and she was crying. I knew she was in pain and didn’t want to die. But I couldn’t help her,and we felt guilty about we didn’t take care of her, so we cried for a long time and buried her. It was tough thing to receive the fact and face it, for a long time, as long as people mentioned Flower in front of me, then I cried. My families and I didn’t want to go through this pain again so we decided not to keep a pet anymore. Although I couldn’t see Flower in my rest of my life, I could remember all details of things that we all have done. I felt comfortable when I reminded she was laid on my legs; I felt happy when I reminded of her jealous face; I felt more energy when I thought of her. My families were always mentioned Flower as she never left us. I hope she can live better in the heaven and God must like her so much for she was such a smart and beautiful girl. **