This sounds like "YouthYouth" a short story by Asimov, first published in 1952 and later collected in "The Martian Way and other stories.
The story centers on two children, Red and Slim, who find two alien creatures and keep them secretly as pets, concealing them from their parents. The twist at the end is that we discover that the children are actually the aliens, and the creatures they are keeping are humans.
The full text is available from the Internet Archive.