LOVE INTEREST

I was cold. Too cold. We walked back to the house shivering silently hoping we would both not get a cold. It wasn't a long walk, but it felt like it. I kept stealing glances at my Jess as we walked on. Her fur was flat and sticking to her skin but she still looked beautiful.

When we reached our neighborhood I said good bye to Jess as I crossed the street and headed to my house. I entered the small door and locked it just like my owner had taught me to. I found him pacing in the living room and I meowed to alert him I was home.

His eyes immediately snapped to mine and he looked relieved, also angry.

"Where have you been Lyman? I was so worried..." I tuned his rant out.

He was too worried sometimes and I instead was worried it would lead to his death one day. Who would be my owner then?

I enlarged my eyes and looked at him innocently and he sighed. This trick always worked on him.

"I can't stay mad at you you sneaky little cat." He pet me and I purred, enjoying the feel of his hands. He had soft hands, too soft for a man.

"You want a snack before I go to sleep?" He asked and I meowed again. He went to the kitchen and came back with milk in my bowl and a little chunk of fish.

I ate the fish and drank the milk happily. He

carried me upstairs to his room, dried me and placed me on my small bed at the corner of his room. I curled up and went to sleep thinking of only one person. Jess.

*Dream*

I woke up to Jess beside me, five little kittens surrounding her. She was asleep too, and I admired her for a second before the kittens were up and demanded milk. Our oldest was Zako, followed by Thomas, Lin, Les and Frank. They came out in that order, and I couldn't be more proud of our creation.

The purrs of our kittens woke up Jess and she started to feed them, while I went to the kitchen to find food for my family. I nudged Jess' owner on the leg, and she looked down at me before carrying two bowls back to the living room.

My owner and Jess' owner were married. Yes married. It happened five months ago and we moved out of the neighbourhood to a new house. By then Jess was already carrying our children, but none of our owners knew. They were born a few days ago, a little bit into the night. I could see a bump on Jess' owner too. Did that mean she was pregnant? She probably was.

She placed the food where Jess was and I lay next to her as our kittens fed. We ate our food, enjoying the new cat bites our owners bought just a few days ago. After we were done we just lay there comfortably as our kittens played with the new toys our owners bought for them.

I thought about Jess. Out of all the males that wanted her I got to have her, to love her and to own her. And she got to own me. I always knew she was mine from the start, even if she didn't know it herself. Who knew like a couple months later our owners would be married, we would be living together and have five children.

Our kittens came nudging Jess and she went on to play with them. Sometimes I became jealous of them. Why did they have to take my Jess away from me? I huffed and watched them play and it took me back to the first time I saw her playing in the backyard. She had caught my heart from that far back and she didn't even know it.

Jess came back and sat next to me, scooting closer and closer to me. I could see her lips and I wanted to kiss them. We leaned closer and just as we were about to kiss, something shook me removing me from my blissful dream.

*End of dream*

I woke up to my owner shaking me. I grumbled under my breathe wondering why he couldn't just wait for a few seconds.

...........

It seems Lyman has started dreaming of the future. But is the future that easy? W

Or was it just a fantasy?