Today is day I'll never forget. It started out as a normal day--I get ready for school, get my things, and say "love you Lady" as I walk out the door. Over the past month, the last part of that routine has changed. I would stop everything that I was doing, put my things down, and lay on my bed and hug my dearest friend Lady Bug and say that I love her before I go. I did this so that she would not have to stress her body to bark at me; thats was her way of telling me "love you too" as I would walk out the door.

I considered today to be relatively normal. I went to class, I took a test, I doodled, and I surfed the web. All of the normal things that I would do during my day. I considered my arrival at home to be normal. But, I found it odd to find my mother's truck home and the door locked. Odd to see my parents bedroom light on and my matress up against a wall. I put two and two together and realized that the day I've fearing has come. My dearest most beautiful friend, best-friend, little sitter, my puppy, my Lady Bug had been taken to the vet to be put down. She was suffering from a tumer in her left lung and she couldn't breathe. Over the past few days, I could even hear her heart beating five feet away. She seemed fine a month ago.

It feels as through someone has taken the most powerful hunting rifle and shot me right through my chest. The wound is fresh, and I'm not sure it will heal.

During Lady Bug's nine and 3/4 of her life, when ever I would get sad, she would come to me and lick my tears away...... She's not here........


To Lady Bug--January 17 2000 - November 23 2009