promise me you wont grow up

Little sounds and movements weren’t enough to fully wake up Ram but it was enough to take him from that deeper sleep to something in that murky between sleeping and awake.  Reality and imagination blurred to make a dreamy world.  The sleepy pup’s tail raised and lowered a few times.  Something caught his attention in his dream, the tail stopped and the nose started twitching.  

Rebel had passed by Ram without signs of the boy waking to realize it.  Rampage’s eyelids flickered, and a vicious snarl started in the back of the tiny pup's throat! There was a giant rabbit nearby in his dream world and Ram’s legs twitched as he stalked it.  In his dream, it was much easier than he’d find in real life.  As Rebel whispered in dad’s ear her sleep-hunting brother made his move.  The boy’s front paws jerked with his imagined lunge, his teeth snapped at empty air and the boy’s eyes opened.  Hey!

Rampage sat up looking about him with a huff.  There was no rabbit here.  Just his sleeping parents and sleeping siblings.  Change that, they weren’t all asleep. Turning his head to get a better look at Rebel with dad earned Ram a swat of Rebel’s tail whacking him in the face.  Ram’s ears pinned back in irritation and doing what any reasonable pup who just woke up would do.

“Rebel!” The boy barked loudly and indignantly, charging in to repay a tail to the face with a pinching bite to an ear if she didn’t avoid it.