The Cat Was Never There
My girlfriend and best friend adopted a stray. She kept going to his place ever since. Whenever she did, she would have that look of impatience on her face as she said, "I would go over to his place, but that cat only lets me hold it."
Blake Chaucer sneered. "You think I want you at my place? It's the cat that likes you, not me."
They would squabble whenever they met up. Still, it didn't take long for her to memorize his door's passcode. She even remembered how he needed something warm before bed because he had a weak stomach.
When she didn't show up on my birthday, she said, "The cat's having a fever, and he can't handle it himself."
I held my resentment over our situation for a long, l