Remind Me Again

Bonus Chapter: Juni

JUNI

(This is actually a deleted chapter from RMA Chapter 019; under Ivan’s POV. It’s the scene before Tam and Ivan went to do the no.7 To Do list. I deleted this scene because it made the chapter very long.)

“Where are we going?” It was the fifth time she asked me but it seems that the winds have changed and I’ve been giving her all the right answers since the past couple of minutes.

“It’s a surprise.” I stopped walking and I produced a blind fold out of my pocket. “I think I’ll add the word cliché in my dictionary.”

She smiles as she allows me to put the blind fold on her.

I brought her in a shop. One that she wanted to go in since I met her but the timing would always keep her out. I guess this is the best time to give that moment to her.

“I smell poop and I hear…” she took the blind fold off and she gasps. Her eyes glowed like the stars as fascination sweeps her away. Almost immediately, she made her way to the dog pen. She takes one puppy out and cuddles it in her arms. “Oh my gosh, they are so adorable.”

 She smiles appreciatively at me and I smiled back. “Thank you.” she says as she leans in to kiss me. Wow. I feel like I am all grins right now. If I knew this would happen, I should have brought her here every day. Imagine how many sweet and tender kisses I’d get.

The shop keeper adored Tam’s love for animals and her knowledge with the pups. Of course, her humanoid of a father is a veterinarian. Even though she’s that forgetful she still knows a lot about animal welfare. The shop keeper regards me well too. At least now some people know I am not entirely a bad person. Well, I am not when things would involve Tamara.

“You like that one?” I asked her when I realize she was still holding that smallest pup in the group. That pup was actually a Siberian husky—you know relatives of the dogs in the movie “Eight Below” such sweet sleigh dogs but this one has very blue eyes that looks like a hawk rather than a dog. 

“I think she likes you.” I noticed, how the dog growled at me when I tried to touch its head.

Tam turns the dog to her and it started licking her face and she giggles.

“Oh, it’s a he.” I said as I moved my hand away.

“And a brute one. The smallest of them and yet the deadliest.” The shop keeper says and Tam giggles again.

“A lot like me.” I murmured as I regard the dog slyly.

“So you’re a bad boy, huh?” Tam tells him and it kept its cuteness with Tam—only with Tam.

“No one wanted to adopt him.” the shop keeper continues. Tam’s face fell and she hugs the mischievous dog like it’s an abandoned baby. I sighed on my own. I know it’s the shop keepers’ way to give away her pet.

“That’s kind of sad.” Tam says.

“Well, no one seems to like a bad dog in the house.” The shop keeper went back to the counter.

Tam started to pat the dog’s head and it started to lick her hand. “Well, no one’s bad. He just needs to be tamed.”

She looks sadly at me and I want to roll my eyes. She wanted the dog. Her eyes tell it clearly.

I sighed as I stood up. “We can arrange that.”

Her eyebrows met and I pulled out my wallet. Only then her eyebrows unfurled. “You’ll… buy him?”

“For you.”

She stood up with the dog in her arms as I went directly to the counter.

“You want the dog right? That dog?”

She grins widely at me and she nodded, thrilled even.

“You’ll need to sign the adoption papers.” The shop keeper tells me and I turn to Tam to do the signing. I don’t want the dog. She clearly wants the dog.

“Will you hold him for me?” I turned to look at the little growler in her arms.

“Sure.” I tried to get the pup out of her hold and it almost bit me. “Are you sure about this?”

She laughs as she hands him to me. I made a disgusted look while the dog growls at me.

“Does it have to be this dog?” I turn to her and the dog barks at my ear. Stupid dog.

 “Yes.” She answers me as she fills up the adoption papers. “Juni.”

I frowned at her. “What’s Juni?” she finished signing the papers and she turns to take the dog from me. Oh thank Anubis.

She gave me a fascinated look. “Juni for Boy George Jr.”

I double checked the papers and my subconscious sagged inside my head. Juni it is. So I paid ungratefully for the dog—I mean, Junior and Tamara asked for a receipt so that she could get a proof that I actually “bought” it.

“You need to take the dog home.” I said as I walked out of the pet shop. “I hope your parents agree with your spond.” I smirked at her and she narrows her eyes at me.

She hugged Juni. Now I really hate the freaking dog—I mean Junior. “Who wouldn’t love him?”

“I need to bring you somewhere and Juni is…” I turned to the dog who gave me the cutest look. What? Can a dog do that? Anyways, I didn’t let myself be distracted. “…off limits. You need to take him home.”

She pouts at me. “But Juni needs daddy time with you too.”

Oh this is ridiculous. How will I be a father to a dog?

“Tam,” I sighed. “Juni is adorable.” The dog growled at me. “But this place we’re going, it’s not for Juni. This is very important for you and me—”

“It’s important for Juni too. He’s family.” She cuts me off.

“Now, I’m really regretting I bought that dog.” The dog whimpers and Tam glares at me.

“Hey, that’s rude. You hurt his feelings!” she whines at me.

I scoffed at her. “What about my feelings?” I followed her exaggeration.

That made her smile. She sighs as she shakes her head. “Fine. I’ll leave Juni to his grandparents.” She pouts at me then. “But you have to promise to make it up to him.”

I rolled my eyes this time and Tam made the dog face me. “Go tell your son.”

I frowned at her and she raised her eyebrows in warning at me. “Don’t be shy, Boy George.”

What the blip. “Fine!” I turned to the blipping of all blips dog. “Juni, son, I promise to be a good father if you be a good son—”

“Boy George!”

“Catch you later, Growler.”

Tam grunts. “His name is Juni.”

“And you really remembered his name but not mine?”

She pouts at me.

“Fine. Let’s go.”

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