Clifford and Lincoln Loud

Lincoln whistled a tune as he walked down the sidewalk in the direction of Emily's house. He saw poster for a tree asking for a dog-walker and saw the huge amount of money. The picture displayed a red dog laying in his dog house. According to the poster, the dog's name was Clifford. He didn't know why some kids around the block gave him weird looks as he headed to Emily's home and started calling him the walker for Clifford.

Lincoln didn't see what the big deal was, Clifford looked like a nice dog. Sure he looked big, but from his experience big dogs were more tolerant than small dogs. Charles was tolerant but he was the only small dog Lincoln knew who didn't have attitude problems.

He remembered being interviewed by Emily's parents, at first they seemed worried that someone as young as him would walk Clifford but then they were impressed with his bio and gave him the job. He was known by friends, family, and enemies as 'The Man With the Plan'.

When he arrived at the house Emily let him in and told him to give her a call if Clifford was too much. Then she told him that Clifford was in the backyard and left.

Lincoln headed out the backyard, he was told Clifford was very playful and very lovable so he'll see how Clifford reacts after he gave his hand a good sniff then-

Lincoln froze when he saw the dog house. The dog house was over 25-freaking-feet-tall! He hastily took out the poster to look at the picture, this was dog house from the poster. If this was the size of the dog house then that meant Clifford must be-

He heard booming footsteps and froze as a giant red paw was placed directly behind him. He slowly turned around and had to tilt his head to see Clifford in all in gigantic-size glory. Clifford barked released a loud bark and lowered his head right in front of Lincoln, shaking the ground in the process. Lincoln stumbled a bit when Clifford pushed his gigantic snout into Lincoln's body. The big red dog began sniffing him. Normally Lincoln wouldn't mind but since this dog was the size of Godzilla, the white haired boy just hoped Clifford wouldn't get the idea to treat him like a chew toy.

Clifford soon stopped sniffing him and wagged his tail wwith his tongue hanging in the front. That was the only warning Lincoln got.

SLURP!

The giant dog licked Lincoln with his long tongue that dragged from his foot, to his shirt, and all the way to his face.

"MMPPPHHH!" Lincoln was dragged up into the air by the slurp before the tongue swiped off and Lincoln fell back to the ground on his bottom.

Clifford barked excitedly at his new playmate who was covered in saliva and had a stunned look on his face and his hair had bent swept back.

"Gross." Lincoln muttered, with a hint of laughter in his voice. He then proceeded to wipe the saliva off his face and fix his hair.