Dolly

I waved my right hand saying goodbye while my left hand wiped a tear falling from my eye. The scene of goodbye always made me weeping but this time there is something special. Despite the time that I spent with Dolly was short, I felt as I was leaving my child. The first time I met Dolly, he was still in his egg.

It was a summer day, I was walking in the forest then I sat under a big tree with a large shadow. Suddenly, my hand touched something straight and hard. I turned away the leaves and the stones to find an egg three times bigger than chicken's egg. I turned my head right and left but I saw no human nor birds, so I put the egg in my basket and turned home.

I know well that my mother does not accept any pet in the house, but it is my chance to care about something and show her that I am a responsible girl so she will allow me to drive my father's car. I went straight to my room and put the basket under my bed and started looking in the net how to care about an ostrich chick. Even I called the Zoo asking about the ostrich and its favorite food.

After three days, I woke up by hearing a sound under my bed. I pulled the basket to see then I slid it back immediately. Oh my God, it was not an ostrich chick but it was a baby dinosaur. The stranger creature looked at me with its big eyes, then it came towards me and licked my face. Firstly, it was sickening then it turned to funny, so I decided to keep it and gave it Dolly as a name.

Dolly and I became good friends .we share the room and the food, but what made my mother discover that I keep something stranger in my room is that Dolly always feels hungry and I was obliged to go to the fridge at midnight and bring all what I find in. My mother started smelling a rat. She thought that there was a food thief in the house, so she began putting numbers on the apples and eggs and took pictures of the plates that she keeps in the fridge.

One night Dolly couldn't sleep .he started licking my face. Although I gave him all my dinner, he still looks for more food. I put my robe in and crept into the kitchen without turning the light on, I opened the fridge and took a bottle of milk and before I move, something touched my foot. I looked down and the bottle fell from my hand and crushed. My mother turned the light on and shouted when she saw Dolly. My father came in a hurry and I stayed there speechless seeing clearly that the time I spent with Dolly will be ended soon. 

I fed Dolly then put it in the bed, cleaned the kitchen floor then joined my parents in the living room. They were sitting and waiting for me to explain when, how, and from where I got that dangerous dinosaur as my mother described him. I told them the whole story and begged them for keeping Dolly home. My father's facial expression says that he sympathizes with me while my mother says she or him in this house.

I was crying when I woke up the next morning, I had not slept well . I dreamed a bad dream. My tears fell on Dolly so he woke up too, we looked to each other for a while. I asked him silently: where is your mother? ; is she looking for you?; will we leave each other?; what will be my parents' decision?. Before I get any answer my mother called me from the kitchen. 

I pulled a chair and sat my mother was sitting on my left while my father on my right. 

• At ten o'clock the man will come and take The dangerous dinosaur.

My mother said.

• it is not dangerous, it is a baby. Besides, he has a name.

I replied.

• whatever his name, the man will take him.

My mother said with a serious tone.

• who is that man? and where will he take Dolly?
• Don't worry my dear, the man is the best who can care about animals. He is a zoologist.

My father answered me.

• No one will take Dolly. I said and run to my room. 

I opened the door and let it shut with a slam. I sat in my bed and took Dolly in my lap then suddenly I felt excited .we had to escape from the house.

when I opened my eyes my mother was sitting by my bed and my father standing behind her. I couldn't read their faces.

• what happened.

I asked.

• we were sitting in the kitchen when we heard a strong bump. we ran fast towards your room. 

My father said.

• the window was opened .we looked through it to see that you were on the ground passed out.

My mother continued.

_ but...but where is Dolly?

I asked.

My mother looked at my father then he ran fast from the room.

Dolly can't skip any opportunity to feed his stomach.he was on the kitchen table eating the apple pie, the favorite sweet for my father who admitted that he felt in love blindly with my mother due to apple pie.

• Come on, little bastard, my daughter put herself in risk for you while you are eating up my sweet.

My father said with a grin.

Dolly stayed with us for two more days after my father called the zoologist and asked him for another appointment.

during the two days, Dolly spent almost time in the kitchen with my mother. Sometimes I heard her shouting at him and sometimes she laughed loudly.it seems that she starts liking him.but unfortunately he can't stay with us because he belongs to nature and his mother as the zoologist said when he came to my room and reassured me that Dolly will be happy with his mother that she was found under the big tree. A family was there and called the zoo and now she is waiting her child .