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The Strange Purple Cat
“Naisha!” my class teacher who seemed to enjoy yelling at me was at it again as I was late. “I hope you realise what time it is. You’re late by 10 minutes! You’re fortunate enough to be even able to enter the school after being so late!” she said. “Miss, however when I entered the school, I was just in time, and you allowed me to enter only after the prayer got over and another 5 minutes after that.” my argumentative nature took over me as I was annoyed being scolded everyday in the morning. No more was said after that and I received loads of science homework from her which she also asked me to get signed by either of my parents.
After school was over, I thought I’ll hurry back home so I could finish my home work but then I suddenly recalled that I was after the purple cat and started looking for it. I followed the path I had taken in the morning. I couldn’t find it there either. I was looking for it but then ultimately I gave up. I went home as quickly as possible. I went to sleep after ensuring I finished my extra homework.
The next day, I decided I’ll look for the cat only after school. I went home and changed my uniform, ate some snacks and left, to look for it. However, I couldn’t find it anywhere. A week had passed by, I don’t know how it had kept me curious just after one encounter. I soon, forgot about it. However one day, I finally spotted it, again, this time, I had enough time and hence decided to follow it. However interestingly enough, it’s tail seemed to have turned red now!
I couldn’t understand what it was about at all. I kept following it but it stopped at a point and soon fell asleep. I couldn’t understand it one bit. However in some time, I soon realised that I was lost! I didn’t realise I had come quite far from home. I was devastated as it was quite a remote place. I couldn’t find anyone around either.
I remembered that I had some homework as well. I started blaming myself for having followed a cat just because it looked different. Then, all of a sudden the cat woke up, there was bucket of water nearby and it jumped into it and alas! The purple coloured cat lost its purple colour and was ginger coloured now, which was normal for a cat. This literally got me, and I realised I had been reading too many fantasy novels. I had given up on all hope now. I didn’t know what to do and was thinking of a way of out of the situation. The cat started moving now. I had no idea where it was going now, I thought it would be naive just like before to follow it. However I followed it anyways since I knew I was quite naive already and most importantly I didn’t know where to go.
It took rather strange routes I did not know, and I was right behind it even though it was difficult to catch up with it. Then, it came across a red paint can and finding nothing better to do, it dipped itself in it and now turned whole red. I couldn’t understand how exactly it found so many open cans of paint. Then I understood that it took the path where there were houses which were being painted. I thought to myself how I had never even been to the places it took me. Even though I was lost, for some reason, I wasn’t feeling worried anymore, in fact I started enjoying it.
Soon something like a miracle happened, it stopped and I was standing in front of my house! “Naisha! Where have you been all this time! It’s been more than an hour! I believe you had homework as well!” my mom said the moment she spotted me. I did not tell my mom about the fact that I was lost and apologised. As for the cat, I didn’t know what to think of it, it was possibly psychic, but I chose to think of the incident as a coincidence. Anyways I didn’t wish to think much about the cat anymore. It got me lost in the first place and it was the one who helped me find my way when I was lost as well. But then I realised, it was my decision to follow it in the first place. Anyways, I learned my lesson of not wandering off randomly and certainly not to let my curiosity get me!
“What a unique cat! It’s blood red! I’ve never seen a cat like this before. I wonder how it’s so red.” said my mom while looking at the creature with astonishment. And at that very moment I was able to guess, where I got my curiosity and possibly naivety from!
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Superb story....had a nice laugh in the end
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