Chip

When my little brother was in 5th grade he liked a girl. He confessed to the girl through AIM that he liked her. Next day at school he was too embarrassed to talked to her. In 6th grade the girl started to like my brother but he stopped liking her, but they were still friends. One day she told my brother that she’s moving away to another country, so she asked him to take care of her beloved Chip, a Parakeet bird. My brother came home, asked if we can have a bird, and we said “yes”. I was excited to meet our new bird. In my mind, I thought that Chip was going to be really energetic and playful. When Chip came to our home, he was really shy, opposite of what I imagined. He’s friendly, but likes to keep everything to himself, very quite around people. He’s only loud when no one is watching. We call him our introverted self-absorbed bird because he also likes to look and adore himself in the mirror for a long long time everyday.

OH! But an interesting thing about Chip is that he likes to play with our dog, Pooka. He doesn’t like people, but he likes Pooka. He’ll fly around and tease my dog. Sometimes my dog would catch him with her mouth so it looks like the Chip was being eaten by Pooka. Kinda scary, because I don’t want to see Chip’s head on the floor one day. Pooka is harmless, but we don’t want to see any accidents happen, so Chip stays in his cage now.

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