Jamie Gonzalez
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Hand-me downs
We had just moved into our forever home me and my husband and our two children. We had been living with my parents for the last 6 months with an addition of our two ginormous orange tabbies. So we were stretching out and getting comfortable in our new home. My sister and her husband who is in the Marines had just got a new duty station in Georgia and would have to move with their own family which included a handsome 3 year old golden retriever mix, Bo. He was sweet and great with kids but they couldn't take him, the new place they were staying didn't allow animals and my sister had become allergic. The kids were heart broken but their grandmother was going to take him. She has a house out in the country were he could run and play all day. Freedom compared to the fenced in back yard of their house in North Carolina. However after about a month or so Grandma was going down to Georgia for a 2 weeks to stay and asked if we would keep Bo while she was gone. We are not dog people. I know you know what I mean when I say that. We have cats and I had no desire to have a dog. I agreed anyways to keep him while she was gone. She brought over his bowl, leash, bag of food and his crate. As she handed off his things she jokingly said "you know you can keep him if you want". We laughed it off and she explained his routine and that he was an outside dog and would sleep in the crate in the shed. We have a large workshop that we set him up in and would let him out in morning and back in for bed time. He was a good dog, he didn't get in to anything and he loved the kids. Soon the end of week 2 came and no Grandma. No phone call to ask to drop him off or for her to come pick him up. We didn't think anything of it, she didn't have job to get back to so we assumed she hadn't gotten back yet and had decided to stay longer with the family. That wasn't the case, she had made it back and just assumed we would keep him. After week 4 rolled around I called my sister and asked if her mother-in-law was going to come get him. She sounded surprised and replied that she was told we wanted to keep him. I was taken aback and let her know that it was not the case and that no one had talked to us about keeping him aside from a joke made at drop off.
By Jamie Gonzalez5 years ago in Petlife
Tye
TYE I sat at the edge of her hospital bed. Holding my breath, while she took her last. The machines started to sing out that she was gone. The doctor reached over and flipped the switch to silence the alarms. Your hand no longer holding mine but mine holding yours. You were gone, and nothing I did could have saved you.
By Jamie Gonzalez5 years ago in Criminal
Sidney's Mask
Thinking back, it all seems crazy and to this day my Momma still doesn’t believe me. It started when I was seven Momma hired a new babysitter who was with me 3 times a week while Momma worked night shift at the hospital. Her name was Sidney, she had long black hair and bright blue eyes, she had freckled skin and was tall and thin. I remember her...
By Jamie Gonzalez5 years ago in Horror
