Greatest Thief

Alley Cats

Young Kitty was getting ready to go out. "Mom! I'm going out!" She yelled to Nix. "Okay, honey! Be back before dark and don't get muddy!" Nix called back, referring to it raining the day before. Kitty ran out the house, though closing the door softly behind. She ran until she was out of breath, though she ventured to the side of town that was unfamiliar. She looked around curiously at the wanted posters of thiefs' and criminals'. She walked into an alley, unknownly. She saw mean looking cats looking at her.

She stood there, frozen. The cats hissed and growled at her, and looked like they were ready to attack. A random kitten got infront of Kitty. She growled at the alley cats. The cats looked like they were ready to pounce. "Run." She said. Kitty and her ran down the alley alley hid in a pipe. Kitty realized she got her white as snow paw, dirty. "Hey. I'm Valeria." The kitten smiled. "Kitty." She replied to Valeria, shaking her paw to try and get the mud off.

"Fancy?" Valeria asked, looking at Kitty's beautiful blue eyes. "Not really." Kitty replied.

"I'm kinda lost." Kitty admitted. "Oh. I'll help you! You don't look like you belong here so you're from the other side of town. Follow me!" Valeria leaded Kitty back to her side and found her house.

"Thank you, Valeria." Kitty said shyly. "Oh, it's no problem!" Valeria replied happily. They said their goodbyes and Kitty walked into her house. "Kitty! Where you were?! And do you have mud on your paws?" Nix asked her daughter with anger and care. "I'm sorry, mama. I wondered to far and got lost." Kitty looked down in such shame.

Nix sighs heavily and sends Kitty to her room. Kitty lats there, sad. "Hey, sis." Thiago said softly, walking slowly into his little sister's room. "Why is mom so mean to me?" Kitty blurted out through tears. "It's called tough love. You get used to it after awhile." Thiago sat on her bed.

"I feel that you're the only one who gets me, Thi." Kitty wiped her tears away. "Maybe I am. But mom loves us all. She's just tough. She's a single mom, y'know." He tried to reason with his sister. "Doesn't mean she has to be so mean." Kitty mumbled, sitting upright next to her brother.

Kitty lays her head on Thiago's shoulder. "I love you." She said.

"I love you too, Kit." He replied softly.