[Quiet Man Cometh]

I talk and interact with my pets (and other people's pets) a lot, so I do get to know what they do and how to ask for things. It's when they do something unusual that sticks with me.

For example, my old dog would normally walk over and sit next to be when I was on the couch, or in my lap, and normally slept on the bed with me for at least part of the night (he moved around a lot). At times though, he would sit and put himself right next to my head. Wasn't sure why, but just figured he wanted to be extra close at that time or something.

When I was leaving for college for the second time, I was packing and had stuff all over the bed. He was sitting on the bed in front of me and I was chatting to my mother and just happened to be talking about how it sucked that I had to leave him with my mom again since I would be living on campus most of the time (back on weekends). I was patting him and looked down at him and he looked up at me and leaned his head onto my stomach while still looking at my face. It was the only time he had ever done that and it was damn hard not to cry.