Hi everyone.
If you have read a few of my stories you may have noticed that most of them take part in the same city in Sweden (basically my hometown Örebro) and that the people from one story may turn up in others. This is the story of how Erik and Bettan, minor characters in "Mate", get together.
Comments are welcome, including grammatical nitpicking. I do, after all, write in a foreign language and there are lots of pitfalls.
I hope you will enjoy this little story.
Risgrynsfisk
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A dog tells the tale of his master falling in love.
I was in love. Her smell was delightful; fresh, female, healthy and good-natured. Leader was getting impatient, but this time he just had to wait. He tried to offer me a goodmunchie, but this was important and he understood. He sighed, but waited while I explored the nuances of her wonderful sweet pee.
Sweetpee was new to the area, and I couldn´t wait to meet her. I lovingly covered her sweet smell with mine and the together smell was fantastic and surely meant to be. I saw a dog coming our way and my tail started wagging but it was just old Sourgum. I didn´t mind Sourgum, but I did not want to play today. I wanted to find Sweetpee. Leader wanted to go Home.
"No," I said, pointing my nose the other direction, planting all paws solidly, "Not go Home, must find Sweetpee."
"Stupid mutt!" Leader muttered, which means he lets me decide. Leader is a good leader and only sometimes he does not understand. But we did not find Sweetpee, not that day.
Next day there was fresh pee from her on the same lawn. That was a relief; she was not just passing through. I followed her lovely scent, it lead to a door just a short-run from Home.
"Open door!" I told Leader but he was stupid then and did not understand. He thought it was just any old female in heat and did not know this was not just mating but my Mate, at least that was what I hoped. Sweetpee was not in heat, but irresistible anyway.
I had to wait many many days before we met, but perhaps not as many days as it felt like. At last I saw her coming with her human, a female, and I knew even before I could feel her wonderful scent that it was her. I knew by the graceful way she carried her beautiful tail and the spring in her steps. I could feel from her scent that she liked me too, just like it should be and she showed her lovely teeth and growled beautifully threateningly, just like she should and I lay down on my back showing her the respect I should and she liked me even more and all was well. I would fight an entire pack of pitbulls for her, I told her and she licked my nose.
Leader and Sweetpee´s human stood watching us and also watching each other but in secret. The fur on her head was dark and she had made two tails of the fur. I think Leader liked that, he certainly liked Twotails. I could tell this by his smell, and Twotails liked him, too. As she should, Leader is the biggest and most powerful human male I have ever seen. He is also nice and wise but sometimes really stupid like all humans.
Humans can´t smell and hear almost nothing and they have no tails to read and their ears are mute. They depend on talking and hearing to find out about other humans but their system is very inefficient. I and Sweetpee knew we liked each other and also that Leader and Twotails liked each other but they did not know that.