A cat's tale

Ch.4 The warm towel

In the middle of the night crystal suddenly woke up, he felt something warm and soft on him.

A towel was wrapped around him, it made him feel warm.

His ear twitched as he stood up.
"Oh it woke up!" He heard a woman's voice.

He looked at the woman, she had short brown hair and hazel eyes.

"Hello kitty...." She awkwardly laughed.

Crystal tilted his head.

"Haha... You seemed cold, that's why I bought this towel for you." She said.

She smiled warmly as she spoke, "it might be weird for me to suddenly talk to a cat, I know you're wondering about this too... I guess I just needed someone to talk to."

'cats can't fully understand humans, and we can't speak their language...'
Crystal thought as the lady's silhouette matched with his previous owner's.

He hissed at her.

"Wow! What happened?" She said confusedly.

Her confused look successfully brought Crystal back from the illusion.

He sat down and lowered his head, 'i can't believe I did something childish... I'm not a kitten anymore.'

The woman took crystal into her arms and hugged him.

"I don't know why you look sad kitty, i guess because you were abandoned? Just like me..." She said as tears filled her eyes.

Crystal's eyes widened, 'she is also abandoned?'

She put Crystal on the ground and continued to speak to him, even though she doesn't know if he understood or not, "I was abandoned by my best friend, the only friend I had."

Crystal looked at her face, her eyes were moist and filled with loneliness.

"i own a shop near here, come by if you want anything..."
She laughed after saying, "I'm getting way too lonely..."

She walked away after that.
Crystal stared at her as the woman walked, his eyes held sorrow.
'what a weird human...' he thought

He didn't want to but he admits that he was evading his true emotions.
He can't be a kitten no more, he has to act like a big cat and take care of himself.

Crystal trembled and curled up on the ground wrapping the towel around him. 'why was i abandoned?' thoughts swirled in his mind.

He knows a lot of things from the tv shows he watched and the stories he heard but he hadn't experienced them before.

This was his first time being a stray cat, he will eventually make some mistakes and learn from them.

Crystal shook his body and jumped back into the box with the towel.
He wrapped the towel around him and curled up.

He wanted to sleep, he was tired, he had a very nice dream. he had a warm home with a good human and food to eat every day. He smiled, immersed in the dream.