When Dukee had finished telling Mia about his dream, he went back to his bedroom. Later that night when everyone went to bed, Mia hopped up onto the window sill in her bedroom. She saw a large hairy looking creature with a long rope tail and long pointy nose in the neighbor's yard. Their yard light was on in the back so she could clearly see it.
It walked around the yard as if it was looking for something. When it got closer to the fence line by a tree it stopped. Mia watched as it picked up and ate the cumquat fruit that was on the ground under the tree. Mia hadn’t seen a creature like that before so she quietly watched as it searched the ground, and continued to find and eat the fruit.
Mia’s maid (Mom) was in bed and rolled over to her side, so this gave Mia the chance to share what she sees with her. Mia sprung onto the bed from the window sill and walked up to Mom’s face as she laid on the pillow. She put her nose in Mom’s face and sniffed. Because of Mia’s long whiskers, they tickled Mom so she woke up and looked at Mia.
Hopping a couple of times on the bed, and then jumping back to the window sill made Mom get up. She carefully staggered to the window, rubbed her eye, and looked out. There she saw the opossum that Mia was watching. It was still enjoying the fruit that lay there on the ground.
Mom picked up her cell phone and snapped a couple of pictures to share with Auntie the next day. She watched it for a few minutes with Mia, patted her on the head, and climbed back into bed. The opossum was there only a few more minutes while it finished eating. But Mia continued to watch it as it casually walked toward the ravine, and slowly disappeared into the darkness.
Because Mia no longer saw the opossum, she hopped down onto the floor and trotted out to the front living room. She jumped up onto the table where her food and water dish was and had a midnight snack. She was starting to feel a little sleepy herself so she hopped back down and went back to her room. Mia jumped up onto the bed, went to her favorite spot at the foot of the bed, walked in a small circle, and laid down. That was a funny-looking creature, Mia thought as she put her head down.
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