Floyd cautiously opened the door to his home, peering around the living room to see if his dad was there, since he wasn’t Floyd led animal into the house closing the door behind them.
“Pop! You home?” Floyd called out leading Animal into the kitchen; “POP!!” he continued to yell until he spied a written note on the kitchen table. Picking it up he read it out loud
“Dear Floyd, The office called me in, I’ll be working late tonight, apparently one of my coworkers didn’t show up today and they are a man short. For dinner you can order pizza I left you enough money in the envelope on the table, try to leave me a slice or two. –Dad. P.S. if you want all your friends to sleep over that’s fine with me, there is more than enough money for you all in the envelope, love you!”
Floyd put the note back on the kitchen table and snatched up the envelope full of money, after he got the cash in his wallet he turned to address a confused animal “Well, looks like it is just you and I for some time. Not that I mind, that gives me time to give you a bath.”
For he just noticed how unkempt and dirty animal was, animal grunted looking around the kitchen at every bright and shiny object. Leading animal up stairs where the bathroom was, Floyd couldn’t help but feel a little nervous, he had never done anything like this before.
But, if he could wash himself or a dog (which he had until it died a few years ago) then he could do this. No matter how awkward it may be.
Opening the door to the bathroom Floyd released animals hand, closed the door and walked over to the large sparkling white bath tub, well aware that animal was watching him in fascination wondering what he was doing. Deciding to keep talking to the animal Floyd spoke as he began to fill the tub up with warm water
“Your probably wondering what I am doing? Well, this is a tub; you can wash yourself in it. When you wash yourself you typically desire to grow fresh and clean.” Getting a bottle of bubble bath from the nearby closet he poured a generous amount in the tub and swished it around to get the foam and bubbles going, animal cocked his head to the side with a confused grunt as though he was trying to say ‘what are you talking about?’
Floyd smiled, throwing a rubber duck into the rising water “when you wash its typically done in privacy, but in this case I will assist you since I get the feeling that you don’t understand quite yet what I am talking about.”
As soon as the water was at a good level, Floyd turned the water off and indicating for animal to come closer to him. Animal obeyed and approached Floyd with no fear, Floyd was glad that animal seemed to take such a liking and strong trust to him so fast.
“Ok, man, uh…” Grabbing a nearby towel Floyd wrapped it around animals waist and carefully took his ratty old T-shirt off, tossing it to the side Floyd lifted animal into his arms with care so as not to scare him. Satisfied when animal leaned into him, Floyd gently sat him in the water, taking away the towel so it wouldn’t get wet.
Floyd smiled warmly as animal began to play in the bubbles, hesitantly at first, then with more enthusiasm. Picking up a bottle of strawberry scented shampoo Floyd knelt next to the tub and held it up, animal wasn’t unhappy with what he did yet, but just in case he introduced as animal played in the bubbles
“This is shampoo, I’m just going to start washing you now man.” Pouring a small amount onto animals head, Floyd began to gently run his hands through animal’s hair/fur trying to build up good foam but at the same time make is soothing.
Animal was in fact enjoying the bath, amazed at how gentle Floyd was being and he practically purred as Floyd washed his hair. After rinsing the soap out of animal’s hair, Floyd began to wash animal’s body using a dish rag.
After he was done washing and grooming animal, Floyd was very pleased with himself. He washed the animal, cleaned his sharp nails, brushed his razor sharp teeth, and just did the whole grooming routine and now animal was nice and clean.
He was currently caring animal to his room, where sat him down on the bed a towel wrapped around animals body. He had some old cloths that didn’t fit him anymore that would probably fit animal, “Now that you are squeaky clean, let me find you some cloths.”
Floyd addressed a wide eyed animal, who was watching him with his head cocked to the side as though wondering what he was doing. Digging through his biro Floyd began to take out a pair of new boxers, brown knee high shorts, and white t-shirt that read ‘music rocks’.
Turning back to animal Floyd motioned him to hold his arms up, once animal did Floyd slipped the shirt over his head, it was a little baggy but it would have to do.
He was a little uncomfortable when helping animal get into his cloths, but once animal was dressed he had to admit he did a pretty good job with animal and since the animal seemed pretty satisfied with being nice and clean, so that was a plus.
“Man that took a while longer than I thought.” Floyd commented as he watched animal climb off of the bed and begin to look around at Floyds brightly colored room, it was covered with posters of musicians he liked, he had an old stereo system, a large pile of CD’s and a second hand guitar that was given to him from his grandfather.
It wasn’t very clean, but it showed clearly what kind of person Floyd was. “You must be hungry, why don’t we order that pizza?” Floyd asked animal who was sniffing his guitar with interest, but he walked over toward Floyd the minute he heard his voice, grabbing his guitar from its stand Floyd took animals hands and led him back down stairs and into the living room.
After he had ordered three large pizzas, three two litters of diet soda, cinnamon and regular breadsticks, Floyd settled down on the brown shag rug in his living room with animal. Floyd plucked a few notes on his guitar elated when Animals perked up with amazement, so he decided to sing him an old nursery rhyme.
Once he got the tune right Floyd began to sing to animal “I know an old lady who swallowed a fly, I don’t why she swallow the fly, I guess she’ll die.” Animal made a noise that sounded close to a laugh, as Floyd sung to him.
“I know an old lady who swallowed a spider, that wriggled and tickled and jiggled inside her, she swallowed the spider to catch the fly, but I don’t know why she swallowed the fly I guess she’ll die
I know an old lady who swallowed a bird, how absurd she swallowed a bird! She swallowed the bird to catch the spider that wriggled and tickled and jiggled inside her, she swallowed the spider to catch the fly, but I don’t know why she swallowed the fly. I guess she’ll die.”
At this point animal was jumping in place, clapping his hands together, and growling with happiness. Floyd smiled widely; he was really beginning to take a liking to this strange creature.
“I know an old lady, who swallowed a cat, imagine that she swallowed a cat! She swallowed the cat to catch the bird, she swallowed the bird to catch the spider that wriggled and tickled and jiggled inside her, she swallowed the spider to catch the fly, but I don’t know why she swallowed that fly, I guess she’ll die.
I know an old lady who swallowed a dog, what a hog she swallowed a dog! She swallowed the dog to catch the cat, she swallowed the cat to catch the bird, she swallowed the bird to catch the spider, that wriggled and tickled and jiggled inside her, she swallowed the spider to catch the fly, but I don’t know why she swallowed the fly, I guess she’ll die.
I know and old lady who swallowed a goat, just opened her throat and swallowed the goat, she swallowed the goat to catch the dog, she swallowed the dog to catch the cat, she swallowed the cat to catch the bird, she swallowed the bird to catch the spider that wriggled and tickled and jiggled insider her, she swallowed the spider to catch the fly, but I don’t know why she swallowed the fly, I guess she’ll die.
I know an old lady who swallowed a horse, she’s dead of course.”
Animal jumped in Floyd’s lap, when the song was finished; in surprise Floyd dropped his guitar onto the floor and screamed loudly as animal knocked him to the floor. Yeah. This could work.