Happy Birthday Sonic!

Shag heard the basement door opening and ran up the stairs, then when the girl shut it behind her he bounded back down, purring. *SHE'S HERE!*
*So?* said Sonic as Shag purred away super loudly. The girl pet him too but Sonic didn't purr.
The girl went through the basement to check out how things were and saw that the water bowl had been overturned and emptied out, then dried out, some time during the day. She refilled it and Sonic started to drink. Shag plopped down nearby and watched from inside his fluff.
The girl combed the impossibly large volume of fluff on both boys. Shag didn't want to be combed but he had to sit there and endure it. Shag looked over at Sonic afterwards and said, *Guess what I am now?*

*Owned?*

*No silly, nobody owns us. I'm 7 months old. I just turned 7 months old!*

*Big deal,* said Sonic. *Cause guess what day today {feb 7th} is?*

*What?*

*My birthday.*

*Happy birthday! How old are you?* said Shag.

*Three.*

*Wow, three months old? That means I'm older than you! You have to be older than that.*

*Three years, nitwit.*

Shag looked at Sonic with round amber eyes. *Three years? You're really OLD!*

*Happens to the best of us,* said Sonic.

*When you were a kitten like me, were you as cute and fluffy as me?* Shag pondered this.

*I had you totally beat in the cuteness area. I was so cute I could just make humans cry over it. Way cuter than you, kit.*

*No one is cuter than me,* said Shag.

*Just you wait,* said Sonic. *You'll see. Some day maybe not too far away, some kitten's gonna come along who's littler and cuter than you. Just you wait. It'll happen.*

*No it won't, silly,* but Shag worried, as the girl brought him back out of the basement to join her and the others in the Room. He wondered whether this was actually true.

*~Sonic & Shag