` What a little squeaker! ` pet

| Klaus Grey |

|date:Aug. 18th|

Klaus stepped into the store, looking around with his face scrunched up slightly. He didn't like going into a store in the Diagon Alley by himself but his mother had things to do and his father sure as hell wouldn't walk him into the pet store and help him buy something..

The first thing he noticed was the never ending, almost ear drum throttling sound of animals all around the store. Quite awkward, he walked up to the front desk with a weird look on his face.
"Uhm.." His hands fidgeted with the hem of his shirt. Though he might be a hyperactive idiot around his friends...he didn't like being around strangers much. "I- I'm looking for a pet i guess? Something small...cheap.."
Klaus's amber hues blinked at the woman who was behind the counter.
She was the same height as him and gave off the smell of sugar cookies. yum.
Klaus loved sugar cookies.

This lady made Klaus feel a little more calm, as if she was his grandmother. His own grandmother has died a couple years back and the thought made him a little sad.
Anyway, the lady was trying to tell him something now.

"I have a wonderful selection for you!" She beamed, leading him to a bunch of smaller pens and cages at a corner of the store. "Would you like a toad? maybe a rat? OH! What about a ferret?"
She kept yapping and Klaus just followed her along.

"whats that?" Klaus asked, pointing at a tank filled with water. Some type of mystical aquatic creature perhaps?
Miss Witticker, she had said her name during a rambal, shook her head and kept walking along the wall. "You don't want that, it's merely a fish! How silly you'd look wandering the halls of Hogwarts with a pet fish!"

Oh. Klaus blinked and glanced at the tank, where a little orange fish had swam out of it's hiding.
just a fish. Klaus felt bored just looking at it and he followed the lady.

She had lead him to a colorful kennel now, Three of them side by side. Grey Rat...Brown Rat...Common Rat..
Klaus liked rodents, used to feed them when they'd skitter under his bed at home in the winter. Yaknow, before his mum found out and had scolded him for doing so. He still fed them, but don't tell his mum please.

"Miss," He said, pointing at a little Brown Rat that was chewing on a corn kernel. "I'd like him please."
Miss Witticker smiled, and to Klaus's dismay, she patted Klaus on the head and moved to open the kennel that said Brown Rat and picked up the little fella.

"What a little squeaker!" Klaus chirped, watching as the little creature squeaked madly.

Miss Witticker asked him to come up to the counter and she put Snoot, Klaus had already named the rat, into a cardboard box.

What animal do you wish to purchase? Brown Rat
What do you want to name it? Snoot
Is this a boy or a girl? boy
What is your pet's date of birth? 07- 19- 2024

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