It's been a while since my last entry, I feel a little alone but still happy. Don’t get me wrong, I still miss Coco. Like yesterday I was doing my homework and I missed Coco coming and jumping on the table knocking down my pens and papers. I would shout at him. But now I miss him doing that. I miss Coco but Ammi explained that he had to go, she said “all things come to an end”. The thought filled me with sadness but also a strange feeling of happiness. It meant that homework and household chores and time-outs would come to an end. And that is happy indeed.

Ammi took me to the mall today. She bought me ice-cream and a fluffy toy dog. The dog reminded me of Coco even though I knew that Coco was real and the dog isn’t. But still, the dog really looked like my old friend Shiro. So I named the dog “Cuckoo” like Coco but not really Coco. I take Cuckoo with me wherever I go. He is not as good a companion as Shiro, he can’t fetch or bark loudly to irritate Ammi. But he listens to me just like Cuckoo did, and I feel like he understands me too.

Mumma read me a story yesterday. It was a story called Alice in Wonderland. I feel like Alice in a strange new world, without my best friend Coco. But Alice had so many adventures in the new world and maybe I will too. And maybe Coco has gone down a rabbit hole and has new friends and new places to go and yummy things to eat. I hope there are a lot of kurtis there for him to happily tear to shreds and many friends like me to defend him after. But I don’t want him to forget me either. I am not going to forget him and that I know that as surely as I know that one and one equals 2.

I miss you, Coco. I hope you miss me too.