[sadie]

i was sitting here at my computer in my office downstairs in my parents' house when i heard a scampering sound on the floor. i looked over toward the door, and there was a little brown mouse staring up at me with his big round eyes.

and he just sat there staring up at me. i told him he better go away or my dad was gonna kill him. and then i wondered aloud if he were rabid 'cause mice don't generally sit and watch you like that. do they?