Squirrel Baby

by Author/Elias in Maia (my made up world)

My brother Brooks runs in, “We saw a little squirrel baby!” he cries. My brother Orion looks in through the screen door.

“Really?” asks mom.

“Yeah. At first I thought it was a vole and I’m like ‘Ew, what is that?’ but then I thought it could be a baby squirrel,” Brooks says this twice.

“Come and see!” shouts Brooks and Orion.

“Just a minute,” says mom. “I have to help Elias with his math,”

I finish my math in 10 or 5 minutes.

“We saw the baby squirrel again!” shouts Brooks and Orion. Mom runs outside and I get off KidPub. We stand looking up into the branches of a tree. A squirrel is carrying a tiny object in its mouth. ‘The baby squirrel!’ I thought. The object was brown and an inch long, it did not move.

“Do you think its still born?” I ask.

“I don’t know,” said mom. “Lets leave her alone, I think she’s freaked,”

We walk up the steps and onto the deck.

All of a sudden the mom squirrel scuttled down the tree and disappeared into the moss.

“I’m cold,” I say.

“Me too,” says mom. We all walk inside and I get on KidPub again…