“I sleep with Daddy tonight, pweese?” Ryu asked when he was
done.
“Of course you can,” Daddy replied as he finished his
cookies and milk. “Why don’t we get your binky and your stuffy and get settled?
It’s getting late, and I wouldn’t want my boy to get cranky.”
“Okay, Daddy,” Ryu replied before heading back into the
living room where he’d left his things. His stuffy was right on the pillow, but
binky was gone.
It wasn’t on the blanket.
It wasn’t under the pillow.
It wasn’t on the tray beside Daddy’s chair or on the coffee
table next to his crayons.
His binky wasn’t anywhere.
His lower lip trembled so he shoved his thumb in his mouth
to keep from crying, but big fat tears fell anyway.
“Ready, Ryu?” Daddy called from the kitchen.
Shoving his hands beneath the couch cushions, Ryu checked
there and found a quarter, a crumpled wrapper, and Daddy’s phone, but no binky.
He was just about to tell Daddy exactly what was wrong when a rattling clatter
caught his attention and he spotted kitty racing down the hall, his binky
spinning in front of her.
“Binky!” he cried, racing after it.
Murph!
Artemis was faster than him and snatched it up, her tail
disappearing behind the washing machine before he could reach it. Dropping to
his knees, Ryu shoved his arm between it and the wall, fingertips brushing her
fur before she scrunched further away and hissed at him.
“Give it back!” Ryu demanded.
Merow!
“Ryu, what in the world is going on?” Daddy asked, his
shadow falling over Ryu as he tried to stretch his arm further behind the
dryer, metal pressing against his cheek as he kicked his feet, trying to propel
himself further only to find the sleeve of his onesie caught on something.
“Kitty stole my binky and now I stuck!”
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