Dude the Cat has tattoos and rainbow fur. He has a mean dad who won’t give Dude the Cat a basketball for Christmas. His mom wants to get him a basketball for Christmas, but there has to be a special occasion for him to get the basketball.
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Dude the Cat was at basketball camp, which was called Basketball Dudes. He plays basketball.
He said, “Can I get a basketball?”
His dad said no, but his mom said, “For a special occasion, yes.” Dude was sad. He went to his room crying. His mom came and said, “I’m sorry, but we can’t just give you one for no occasion.”
Dude the Cat said, “I’m not mad at you, I’m mad at Dad.”
The mom said, “Well, it doesn’t matter about Dad. Just listen to your mom, and your mom says for a special occasion, and that’s that.”
Dude went back to camp and he talked to his friend Joe that he’s going to try to ask his mom to get it from his money.
Joe said, “Great idea!”
First, Dude went back home. It was nighttime. He ate dinner and he went straight to bed. The next morning, when he woke up, he ran to his mom and he said, “Is it camp?! Is it camp?!”
His mom said yes, but his dad said, “I wish it was cancelled.”
Dude said, “Well, I’m going to solve the problem.”
Chapter 2
Dude went to his camp running. He didn’t even greet the teacher. He went straight to his friend to say, “I have an idea! I have an idea!” The idea was smart. He told his friend, “I’m going to ask my mom to get a basketball from my money.”
Joe said, “That’s the most amazing idea in the history of the world!”
Dude got in trouble because he didn’t greet the teacher. At the principal’s office, he got in trouble because the teacher was so strict. They weren’t going to call his parents, he just had to talk to the principal. The principal said, “If you do that one more time, we will call your parents.” Dude was too excited to concentrate. So he got in more trouble. They had to call his parents.
When his dad got there, his dad said, “I hate you.”
Mom said, “We’re getting divorced.”
Dude the Cat smiled at the dad.
Then, when it was bedtime, Mom went to give him a kiss and a hug.
And then, the next morning, he remembered he needed to tell his mom his idea. He told his mom about the teacher first, and then he told his amazing idea. And the mom said, “On the weekend, you can do that.”
At camp, he was running to his friend, but this time he remembered to greet the teacher. He went off to his friend and said, “My idea worked!”
Today was Friday. He was so excited for tomorrow, so he went rushing to camp and he was the first one there. Dude found out he got there at 7. Camp was supposed to start at 10. For the three hours, he ate breakfast while he was playing with the basketball. But every time he looked at the basketballs, Dude got so excited for tomorrow when he would be practicing with his own basketball. When everybody came, he was playing basketball so well, he got an A+.
When he went back home, he ate dinner, and he couldn’t even fall asleep with how excited he was.
The next day, he was so excited. He asked his mom, “At what time can we get my basketball?!”
She said, “After lunch.”
Dude said, “Awww.”
At lunch, he only ate half of his sandwich because he was so excited. His mom said, “You can only get the basketball if you eat all of your sandwich.”
After lunch, he said, “You don’t have any more excuses. Let’s go get the basketball.”
She said, “All right.”
He got a rainbow basketball because it was his favorite color.
Chapter 3
Dude asked, “Where does Dad live?”
Mom said, “He lives with his sister.”
“Can we have an interview with his sister?” he said.
Mom said they could have one tomorrow.
It was the next day. She came over and for some reason, she really looked like his teacher. She was strict, she looked like it, and she was acting like his teacher. She was very weird. But she seemed to be like his dad. That’s when Dude had the greatest idea in the history of the world. Their teacher had a tattoo. That’s not the amazing part. The amazing part was that he could check if Dad’s sister had a tattoo. And she sure did have a tattoo. He was going like crazy. This could not be his teacher. But Dude’s dad was mean so that made sense. He went to school, and Dude ran to his friend. And Dude yelled at him.
“Our teacher is my aunt!” Dude went crazy. Joe went crazy too. He told Joe this was very bad. But his aunt didn’t know that he knew she was their teacher.
Joe said,“I dare you to tell her that you know she’s your aunt.”
Dude said, “Fine.”
The teacher came to the camp and Dude said, “I know you’re my aunt.”
She said, “No I’m not!”
He said, “You have to be honest, everybody knows you’re my aunt because of the tattoo, I saw it then and you have it now.” The tattoo was a rainbow unicorn climbing a rock on her belly.
“You just have to release the secret. Everybody knows,” Dude said one more time. He felt so, so glad that he found out who the teacher was and why she was so strict. She had to admit it.
“I am your aunt.”
“I wish I could put an army on you, but you’re not just my teacher, you’re my aunt.” It made sense that she was strict because his dad was strict too.
Dude told her, “I hate you. You are the worst teacher in the history of the world.”
She started to cry.
He was like, “That’s so fake.”
“Alright. I was faking it. But you gotta admit that you cannot say those bad words.”
“Well, it’s actually true. I do hate you,” Dude said.
She kicked him. They started fighting. And guess what? Dude won. Everybody cheered
for him. He was smiling at her because he won. She was bleeding.
He said to her, “You suck.”
“YOU suck,” she said back.
So Dude said, “You’re looking in the mirror,”
“Fine, you won. But don’t forget you have to play basketball in the lower level because you suck.”
“Don’t forget you’re looking in the mirror!” he said. Dude went bump, bump, bump, all the way to the highest level easily.
When he went home, he told his dad, “Your sister is the meanest teacher in the history of the world.”
Dad said, “You figured it out?”
“I got the basketball,” Dude told him.
“I wish I could kill you,” replied Dad.
“I wish I could kill YOU!”
“I wish I could get a dog. I got one,” Dude’s dad said. He didn’t. He just wanted to make
Dude jealous.
Dude went home to hug his mom. And he said, “I hate basketball camp because my aunt is the teacher. But I still love basketball.”
Mom said, “I know. Your aunt is strict.”
Dude told her, “You are the best mom in the history of the world.”
She hugged Dude very tight and said, “You are a very good son.”
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