True Love
It was extremely hot and I could feel the blazing sunrays, parching my body. I could
even feel beads of sweat threading themselves in a necklace just where my itchy flesh met the collar of my starched uniform. I was coming home from school and as I pushed the gate forward to enter my house, I was puzzled to see something black lying on the floor. It had whiskers, a tail and weak, closed eyes. I knew what it was. I knew it very well..It was a newly born
kitten. �But what was it doing over here,� I asked myself. Suddenly my mind lit up with an idea. My cat must have given birth to a kitten. �But where is she herself and why did she leave the kitten at our doorstep?� As these questions popped in my mind, I decided to go inside and ask my mom what was going on.As I went inside, my mother told me that my cat had given kittens. The cat was not our pet but often came to our house for food. I told my mom that the kitten was lying on the doorstep; even she was a
little stunned. We waited all day for the cat to come and take her kitten away but all in vain. When it was night and cool breeze started blowing, I took the kitten in and gave it some milk. As the kitten was very weak and its eyes hadn�t opened yet, I fed it myself with a small bottle. At night, I wrapped it in a piece of cloth and put it in the milk carton. I took good care of it and made sure that the kitten was getting everything it needed.The next day I told all my friends at school about the kitten. They were very thrilled as all of them liked kittens and asked me to let them see it. But I refused them to come and have a look, as the kitten was very feeble. I told my friends that they can come after a few days, when it had grown a little bigger and stronger.That day when I came home, I gave the kitten some milk and went to sleep. When I woke up, a great shock was waiting for me. As I went outside to bring the kitten in for a cosy sleep as it was a little cool outside, I was traumatised at the scene which caught my eye. My little kitten was dead! I bent down to catch a clearer vision of my kitten and touched it but it didn�t budge.I was so much taken aback that for a second I could feel my heart stop beating and my whole body went numb. With great difficulty I managed to take my kitten in and told everybody the saddest news. That was the worst moment of my life as far as I could remember. Hot tears rolled down my cheeks. I cried all night in my bed, �I had taken such good care of the kitten then why did it die?� I asked myself again and again.I was very much shaken and the whole night I twisted and turned while sleeping as the flashbacks of the kitten came to my mind. I just couldn�t understand how could it die?Then my mother consoled me saying that it was Allah�s wish that He took the kitten away from me. However, my sadness remained for a month and even now when I replay the whole incident in my mind I feel really murky and wish that the kitten was with me!