Jenna tried to escape the cage, but wasn't strong enough to open the latch, and bending the wires, which were like steel bars to her, was right out.
A little defeated, Jenna decided to instead go and look around the cage.
Walking around, the wood chips chafing and prodding her feet, and weren't very stable either...
The cage was surprisingly clean, Sarah was talking about wanting a new pet for a while...
The food bowl was empty, the water bottle (luckily?) wasn't. There was a small, plastic hamster wheel in the corner, and a... hamster toilet in the other...
In the front left corner there was a plastic hide box, somewhat shaped like a log cabin. Looking in, it was filled with cotton fluff or something.
After about half an hour of looking around, Jenna gave up. Maybe she could convince Sarah to let her go later, but there was no way she'd be able to escape this cage on her own. This small, child friendly, discount store, pet cage...
Jenna went up to the cotton fluff, and decided to sit down. Eventually, she started to doze off a little.
At least an hour later, Jenna was loudly awakened by the sound of the door slamming shut.
Making her way out of the box, she was too late, and Sarah started tapping the wires of the cage.
"SQUEAKY! COME OUT COME OUT WHEREVER YOU ARE!" Sarah spoke, before she started laughing at Jenna, groggily covering her ears, just outside the tiny house.
"Squeaky?!" Jenna asked.
"YOUR NAME IS SQUEAKY NOW!" her little sister said. "PETS SHOULD HAVE PET NAMES!"
"But -"
"OH! I'VE GOT SOMETHING FOR YOU!" Sarah remembered, and raised... an almost empty hamburger box.
Opening the latch, she took out "Jenna's" food bowl, and when it returned, Jenna saw it was filled with the remains of a hamburger and some french fries, bitten in (supposedly) little chunks. She was feeding Jenna. Her own baby sister was feeding Jenna food scraps...
Sarah leaned closer, looking at Jenna like she was a little pet. "SQUEAKY NOT HUNGRY?" Jenna shook no. "THEN LET'S PLAY!"
"Wha- What are we gonna play?" Jenna gulped, hoping to play along until she could convince Sarah to show her to their mother, or at least sneak away when her "little" sister wasn't looking. "Dolls? Hide-and-go-seek? A board game?"
Her little sister's face lit up, probably happy about Jenna playing along, and she pointed past Jenna. Pointing to the hamster wheel behind her.
"Wha- NO! I'm not a hamster!" Jenna yelled. "I'm not gonna run in some stupid wheel!"
Sarah frowned, and her hand moved into the cage. Rather than move her out, though, she moved her into the wheel.
"SQUEAKY, PLAY." her sister commanded. "GO!" ... at least she didn't sound too angry?
But Jenna decided sh didn't have much of a choice; she didn't want to make an enemy of her giant baby sister.
She started running, in the corner of her eyes she could see Sarah look less angry.
After running for about a minute, the wheel suddenly went really fast, Jenna falling over, and getting carried around. Sarah had given the wheel a little push, and was clearly laughing at her "big" sister spinning around. Eventually, the wheel stopped abruptly, a giant thumb pressing down on the wheel.
"THAT WAS FUNNY!" she had still not completely stopped laughing. "NOW WERE-"
The door flew open, and their mother, walked into the room. "SARAH, HAVE YOU SEEN JENNA?"
"YES, MOMMY!" Sarah said. Her hand left the cage, and she turned to face her mother, though not before closing the latch. "SHE'S RIGHT HERE! SHE'S MY PET NOW!" she turned a little aside to show off Jenna in the cage.
As her mother, rolling her eyes, started walking closer towards the cage, Jenna ran up to the edge of the cage and started waving: this could be her way out of here!
Maria looked down, and gasped. Jenna really was there; the size of a hamster and dressed in only her underwear, but definitely there.
She bent over to get a closer look. Regaining herself, her mother started talking. But not to Jenna.
"SARAH? " her mother turned away from the cage and faced her youngest daughter.
"YES, MOMMY?" she seemed actually surprised. After all, she'd already told her about Jenna before.
"WHY IS YOUR SISTER TINY?" her mother put her hand on her hips, a display of authority that gave Jenna some hope.
"DUNNO. I FOUND HER LIKE THAT." Sarah answered, puzzled, but, unfortunately, not concerned.
"I woke up li-" Jenna wanted to add to the conversation, but Sarah started tapping the cage again to shut her up. "SHUSH, SQUEAKY!"
"DON'T DO THAT, DEAR, THAT'S MEAN." her mother said "WHY IS SHE IN A CAGE?" Jenna wasn't sure, looking at the back of her mother's head from below and all, but she thought she could see her raise an eyebrow.
"BECAUSE SHE'S TINY AND CUTE AND MY PET NOW! I'VE NAMED HER SQUEAKY!" Sarah perked up, obviously finding this all very amusing.
A short pause followed. Their mother looked puzzled; this wasn't and everyday problem, after all. She even leaned closer to the cage to get a better look at Jenna.
Finally, she turned back to Sarah.
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