Kaiser

Bad times gone good

It seemed now that all happiness and joy had been drained out of my life, the house was full of color when my papa was still here, but now when I returned from school, all I was greeted with was Kaiser, and the lonely heart-breaking crying of my poor mama. I felt I was being a little bit selfish when wishing that my papa was still home, after all, he was trying to help others, well, he wasn't actually, but he was defending his country. None of it seemed right to me though. when I was at school, people would say that I had a wonderful father because he was a soldier, but they didn't see it the way I did. I knew that my papa was doing this to spare the lives of the young men, but I felt that he could have stayed, after all, he had a family, didn't he? He had us! But I wasn't thinking of myself, it was mama's sake, it was terrible seeing the state she was in. If anything would ever happen to father, I don't know what she would've done. I didn't want her to go mad! So each Sunday, to ease our pain, we'd put Kaiser's lead on and walk to Jürgen's Ice Cream Parlor! Kaiser would get a 99 cone, mama'd get honeycomb and so would I. Then we'd go to the field and play games! It was my favorite day of the week, it was the longest time I'd get to see mama's happy face. As for the days after that, she'd go back into her broken shell and hide again.
But apart from the heart ache, I had a tad of hope, Kaiser. Sure, he didn't bring gold or anything like that, no no, he was just always there with a paw to help if you know what I mean. When I felt like giving up on the world over grief, Kaiser was beside me, pawing at my hand to dance, we'd dance and dance. And not only that, when I was bringing the cleaned laundry up to my bedroom, Velken bumped in to me and I dropped it all! He just walked away, but Kaiser started lifting the load of laundry into the basket again, sure, my blouse was all slobbery now, but it's the thought that counts.
In my opinion, it's the small things that make life, not the money (which we didn't have alot of then). Even if you tried, you couldn't get the courtesy off the most charming people in the world put together that you could get off Kaiser. He was always there to catch me.
But Kaiser's generosity didn't pay off when we heard the shocking news about papa...