They say you should try and write when you are drunk. I am tipsy. Here goes.
I sat by my window all day, waiting for it to rain. It's because I told myself, if it rains today, Mummy will come home early from work. See though, I already knew it was going to rain because the newspaper said so. I just wanted Mummy to come home already. I always missed her when she was at work. As soon as she got back, daddy was nicer, and then there would be dinner.
That particular day, my socks didn't match. I remember because it was Friday, and Mummy never did laundry til Sunday, and by Wednesday I always ended up losing a sock and having to substitute with another for school, throwing the whole system off.
One was brown. It had specks of gray and went up high and had a hole right below my knee. The other was white and a lot shorter, because I wore it with my dress shoes to church.
Kitty crawled up and rubbed against my leg, then walked on my lap, and off, and back on, losing his balance, and finally he circled and curled up next to me. Kitty was his name, because I named him that when I was just four or five.
I was ten by then, but now I'm fourteen, and Kitty is still alive. Old, but alive. He is an orange tabby. Mummy always called him "she." I always had to remind her that Kitty is a boy. But Mummy went ahead and called him "she" anyway.
Daddy just calls him "the cat."
I sat by the window and waited. I think I was fooling around, blowing on the cold window and then drawing hearts on the fog, because I just remember daddy saying, "you cut that out, now." Daddy hates when I do that, he says it leaves marks. I still don't see what's wrong with marks.
There was a black car that was always parked in front of our flat, and then there was the striped awning of the bakery beneath us. I was just staring at them for what must have been forever. The wind was blowing and I even remember it coming through the cracks in our window.
I heard thunder from far away. I sat more attentively and waited.
More thunder. No rain. No Mummy.
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