My human is smiling at the glowing rectangle again! But nobody is HERE! That is so strange and so wonderful!
My human props it up on the little stand, sits very close, and starts talking in the HAPPY voice, the good voice, the voice it uses when it says "who's a good boy," and I check, and it is not saying that, but the voice is the same, so I wag anyway. Just in case.
Little words keep floating up the screen! Up, up, up! Like bubbles! Like leaves! My human reads them and laughs and says "thank you, thank you, welcome, hi, hi!" to nobody! To the AIR! My human has SO MANY friends and I cannot smell a single one of them! Where are they?! I sniff behind the rectangle. Nothing. I sniff the front. Nothing. WHERE ARE THE FRIENDS.
Sometimes a little heart shoots up and my human gasps like the doorbell rang! I love the doorbell! Is someone coming?! Nobody is coming. But my human is SO happy. My human keeps looking at a number and the number goes up and my human sits up straighter and glows like the sun through the kitchen window in the morning which is the best window.
I put my chin on my human's knee. I do not understand the floating hearts. I do not understand the invisible friends. But my human is smiling the real smile, the whole-face smile, so this is the BEST thing that has ever happened.
And when the rectangle goes dark and all the friends go away, my human will still have ME. And I will still be here. And there is a cookie in the drawer. I can smell it.