Samantha told me all about the flood while she drank her tea. She was being stored in a box in the basement, she said, when all the water started to come in and get her. She was terrified and could not get out of the box; all she could do was try to keep her head above all that water, and thankfully she did and did not drown. I got shivers down my spine listening to her! Her story also made me remember my own past, from before I came to live with Katie.
Before I got adopted through Ebay, I had to live in a box for a very long time. Years, I think, but I was so sleepy and sad from being in the box all the time that I lost track. Then when I finally got to Katie's house, her little brother got me from the delivery man and decided to play a trick by taking me hostage in his closet and leaving a ransom note for Katie to find. He even took me out of the box and tied my wrists together, like I really was a hostage, and laughed his head off the whole time! I thought I had come to live with crazy people, and actually wished I was back at my old house in the box! But then Katie found me and untied me, and she was nice. Even her hostage-taking little brother is actually nice, I discovered - he taught me and Hodel how to play Frisbee golf one summer when she was visiting.
So I know what it's like to be locked in a box and not be able to get out, though I was very lucky to never be in a flood. I told Samantha not to be scared - she will get all fixed up and feel better than ever. But I can't promise she won't have to go back in a box, because she probably will. She is being saved for a little girl who might come along sometime in the future, so I think she will have to wait for that girl to someday be born and get big enough to play before she can come out and have adventures again. Poor Samantha. :-(
She is so pretty, though, and very nice...she will make a wonderful friend for that little girl someday!
