I get that this is a little long, but I poured a lot of work into this. I just hope that you guys will read through the whole thing and enjoy it as much as I did.

My heart beat rapidly, I could see the figure behind me. My mind told me to swim, but I stood there frozen. I could barely make out that the figure was an alligator. But I closed my eyes in desperation waiting for the figure to end my life. Hold up. Let's go back to the beginning. My names Carlos. I'm a catfish. I love my owners and the place where I live. My owners are pretty cool. Their names are Rebecca and Ben. They put me in this huge fishbowl I could play around in. It was amazing. My life was amazing. Until the baby came. I don't know how it got there, or why my owners let it come. But one day it just showed up like it owned the place. I don't know why, but it seemed like my owners liked the small devil more than me. They cuddled him, they fed him, they cleaned him. They never did that stuff for me. I was furious. I tried yelling at the baby but, I can't really talk. The baby looked at me, and then picked me up. I was like,"Woah Woah Woah." I knew what the baby was going to do. He looked at the window, then at me, then chucked the fish bowl outside the window. I tried to scream, as my body flailed through the air. The wind blowing into my face. It kind of felt good, until I realized that fishes don't survive outside of water. I panicked. I was still falling, and if i did nothing I would either suffocate or go splat on the floor. Suddenly, I saw it. It was a trampoline. I had no clue why it was outside, but I saw the baby jump on a small version of a trampoline. I aimed for the trampoline. My body bounced off the trampoline and right into the sewer. "Great." I thought. It was so dirty down there. Disgusting droppings on the wall. The water was nasty. There were clamshells on the floor. What kind of cruel person puts clamshells in the sewer. I didn't know what to do. I was away from my owners and I was scared. The sewer tunnels were the most disgusting thing ever. I was used to clean fish bowls, and clean food, and toy clamshells in my bowl. But none of those things were here. I started getting tired, so I decided to sleep now, and think about what to do in the morning. I woke up rattled. I swore I heard something. I looked to my left, and I saw the biggest alligator ever. I knew people said there were alligators under the New York sewers but I didn't believe them. I swam as fast as I could. I could hear the alligator breathing on me. I swam faster than Usain Bolt when he is running. I saw this clown right in front of me, asking me if I wanted a balloon, but I just ignored him. Crazy New Yorkers I thought. But I still had to run. Then I saw it. My escape. It was a jug of water. I jumped straight in. There was a sewage worker there too. He picked up his jug of water, and left as soon as he saw the alligator. The man yelled at the top of his lungs which was pretty annoying for me. I looked around in amazement, the outside world never looked better(mostly because I spent a day in a sewer). But I still had to find my owner. Then I saw her. It was Rebecca. I tried to motion to her somehow but, I was a catfish. The sewage worker was telling everyone not to go or look into the sewers because there was an alligator. Rebecca saw the sewage worker, then saw me. She came up to the sewage worker, slapped him in the face, and said,”Never steal my catfish again!” Finally I was back with my owner. It never felt better. Rebecca never found out that the little devil child threw me out the window, but I was happy that I was back home. I was back with my clean water, my toy clamshells, and my clean food. I knew never to mess with that child again. Then everything went back to normal. I ate, played for a little, slept. I didn’t go near the child. It was starting to go back to my normal life, and I loved it. Until the dog came.