As his family began to assemble for breakfast, Rob watched silently as everything seemed utterly normal...except his dog was playing the role of his mother.
"Rob, are you listening to me?" Lucy said.
He blinked. "What? Sorry?"
"I asked if you could walk the human before school." He almost repeated his confused what but he had actually heard her this time, making him realize that his actual mother was at present his pet.
"Sure," he said, way too quickly. He got up from the table and headed back outside. "Here Carol! Come here!"
Carol looked over at Rob and excitedly made her way over to him. As she looked up at him, he saw the same innocent expression that he was used to from Lucy before this. Rob began scratching behind her ears and running his fingers thru her hair. "Good girl!"
Then, Carol jumped up on Rob and began licking his face. Rob laughed the way he would when Lucy had done it and pushed his mom off of himself. He held his hand in front of her face and she began licking his hand. He began to pet her again as she cleaned his hand.
"In this reality," he said, "you're my pet...and no one thinks anything of it." He wasn't sure what he was going to do, but he needed to understand this more.
