It all started this morning. I was resting on the heater, letting the warmth soak into my fur and flesh. I had been well fed had just finished grooming myself, and was thoroughly enjoying not doing anything at all. One of my humans, the girl, was moving about the room, seeming to be almost floating. She picked up something here, put it down there, came by for quick scritchie, moved along to move something else. This human seemed obsessed with placing things in other spots.. Silly humans, but what can one do?

She was not the human that had picked me up from my previous home. That human had been a boy. An odd one, for sure, but sweet. He didn’t seem to be happy a lot. In fact the only time I’ve seen him smile is when I require scritchies and nuzzles. He had positively beamed with joy when he saw me, and kept making odd noises to me on the way to my new home. But when he was not paying attention to me he seemed sad. His shoulders sagged, his smile disappeared, and his demeanor was alltogether depressive.

Of course I did my best to make him focus on me so he’d be happy. And he was for the short times (too short) that he spend scritching me, but afterwards he always drooped back to his previous mood. Absent mindedly he would reach out and go for that spot just behind my ears. I never was able to reach there properly myself, and it felt SOOOOOO good when he scritched there. Matter of fact, I was feeling an itch there right now. I stood up, stretched out, reluctant to leave the warmth of the heater, but I now had a goal. I was going to find the boy and get me some of those good scritchies.

I strolled through the room, navigating between the legs of the girl who giggled as she had to sidestep to evade me. Didn’t she know I was walking there? I swear, for no matter how sweet they are, humans at times can be SO inattentive. I reached the door, which was closed. That was no problem though, I complained loudly to my human, and almost immediately the door was opened. I strolled through the house, taking the time to eat a couple of kiblets of food on the way, but the boy was nowhere to be found. I checked in the closet, under the bed, behind the closet, but came up with nothing.

This is where IT happened. I went back to my regular spot on the heater, sad that I couldn’t get the scritchies I so much deserved, when my girl’s mood seemed to deflate as she looked at some thingy stuck to her arm. She sighed heavily as she grabbed a rubber band and pulled back her hair into a boring ponytail. Grabbing a wet cloth from the sink she wiped it over her face, then finished grooming herself with some white cotton.

I was thoroughly intruiged now. Something really odd was happening here. She pulled off the dress and got some of the boys clothing from a closet. I sat very still on the heater as bit by bit the girl disappeared and the boy took her place. After fully dressing up again there was no trace of my girl human left, and the sulky boy had totally reappeard. I never had two humans. I only had one.

I stared at him for a couple of more moments before I remembered my quest. I jumped down from the heater, up unto his lap and demanded the scritchies I so much deserved. Humans are silly, but they can be SO useful.

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This is my entry for the "So... you want to be a writer" contest. I couldn't select it yet in the contests section, but here it is :)

Love,
Amber