The clock rang as it struck six in the morning and James silenced it with the push of a button. He cracked open his eyes a bit and stretched lazily, his joints cracking menacingly as he did so. Another day of work seemed so far away, when he was in bed with his wife, Marie. He was about to go back to sleep, when his wife stirred beside him.

“Good morning,” she greeted as she planted a kiss on his cheek, “Time to go to work.”

“It’s time already?” he said with a sigh.

“Yes,” his wife replied

Right at that moment, the door of their bedroom was thrown open and a small figure, about ten ran in.

“Wake up! Sleepy heads! It’s 6.15 already, I’m starving!” little Jack said as he bounced up and down on the king size bed.

“Mommy will be down in a minute,” answered Marie to her cheeky son.

“Now! I command you, or you face the wrath of the vicious fire breathing dragon dog!” cried Jack in his high-almighty voice.

“Oh, I’m so scared!” teased Marie.

“I’ll protect you, my fair lady,” promised James as he uses the blanket to cover both of them.

“Hey!” protested Jack. He pulled at the blanket hard, but it would not budge. “I always kept my word. Now you’ll face the wrath of the dragon dog! Rover!” he called out to their giant hound dog, which was famous for drooling.

“Ruff! Ruff!” barked Rover as he stormed in panting hard.

“Come on boy!” cooed Jack to Rover, patting the bed.

Rover jumped onto the bed. The bed creaked under the weight of the enormous dog, its springs threatening to penetrate the surface anytime now.

“Charge!” shouted Jack as he and Rover wiggle under the cover, going like torpedoes towards James and Marie.

“Ahhhh!” screamed James and Marie as they jumped out of their bed and bursting into fits of laughter.

“Why do you have to bring him into this,” asked James to his son, who had just poked his head out from under the cover.

“Just to make your life more entertaining.” he answered sheepishly.

“My life had already been full of entertainment with you three in it. And, that’s including you, Rover,” he said as he scooped Jack up from under the covers. Rover let out a happy yelp as he heard his name mentioned by his big master, which had always meant something good, like for instance, food. The thought of food made Rover drool, once he had started doing it, you’ll never see the end of it till he gets what he wants. A pool of saliva was slowly forming on the wooden floor, but, what nobody knows would not hurt them.

“Now, we can take our revenge on this cold-hearted king, who had sentenced us to our end,” announced Marie in a malicious tone as she advanced towards her son, who was currently in her husband’s hands.

“Yes. We should,” agreed James, grinning widely, his eyes fixed on his son, who was staring wide-eyed back at him and wife, dreading what was to come.

“Please spare me! I promise to be good!” begged Jack, showing his Puppy eyes.

“It’s too late for that,” replied Marie, and she pounce.

They were soon on the bed tickling Jack.

“Stop it! Stop it!” pleaded Jack as he giggled uncontrollably, the tickling was sure unbearable.

“Ha! Take that!” laughed Marie and she tickled Jack under the foot.

“I surrender!” announced Jack. But, his mother and father took no notice of it.

“Help! Rover! I’ll promise you a drumstick if you could lend me a paw,” called out Jack to Rover.

Rover at that time was slumped on the ground drooling and daydreaming of his meal, which was to be given by his master, according to his dog prediction. The word “drumstick” struck a beautiful chord in Rover’s mind, “drumstick” echoed Rover’s mind as he sprang up into an attack stance, with the front part of his body lowered, ready to pounce.

“Here comes Rover, the dragon dog!!!!! Ruff! Ruff!” barked Rover as he jumped onto the bed, turning he head to face the attackers of his small master.

Marie and James looked up when Rover jumped onto the bed, and in the process when Rover turned his head, his saliva went like bullets and splattered on Marie and James’s face.

“Eewww!” exclaimed Marie as she got up and wipe her face, “Rover!”

Meanwhile, James just laughed, “This day just couldn’t get any better!”