My cat Shelly was missing. This wasn’t our only cat. Our other cats were busy eating some food. but not Shelly -- she was out in the miserable world all alone! And we were looking for her. She had disappeared about three weeks ago. and we had been looking for her ever since. Before she disappeared she was getting really fat! Shelly was a calico, and everyone knows all calicos are females.
Now to get to know what kind of cat Shelly really was I’ll tell you a couple quick stories about Shelly and individuals in my family. First there was the time when my mom was working in the garden and bent down with the hoe. All of a sudden Shelly jumped up on my mom’s back. Pretty funny, huh? Then there was the time when my sister was sitting down to practice piano and Shelly was asleep on the far end of the couch. My sister sat down and started playing the piano. Shelly got up went over to my sister’s arm and bit her on the elbow, and then went and laid down again to go back to sleep like nothing had happened. Yep, interesting cat, huh? That is nothing compared to what is next. My sister and I were heading out the door to go to Washington D. C., and had the one job that was the hardest, getting Shelly outside with us. The rest of the family were in the car waiting for my sister and I to come down so we could leave. I went to grab up Shelly, and she started pawing at us. (like she does when we walk by and she is under the bed and jumps out to grab our feet. That’s how she got the nickname Machine Gun Shelly.) We tried one more time, and as incredible as this sounds, Shelly jumped up and did a back flip. Now to the real story now that you know a little bit about Shelly.
Going back to where we left off, we were driving around looking for Shelly. But now it was going on 9:00 p.m., and we were all exhausted. We decided we did enough searching for one night and headed home. I had to get up in the morning and go to Vacation Bible School.
RINGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!! It was 7:30 a.m. I got dressed in my favorite new jeans and a cool shirt, then went to the kitchen to eat breakfast. After I ate and was ready to go, I grabbed my backpack and went out the door to my ride. When I got back it was lunch time, and I was starved after memorizing verses and watching a puppet show and doing crafts. I was happy that my friend had come home with me. We went outside to play while our parents talked about me going home with my friend. When we were playing tag, all of a sudden Shelly came out of the bushes!!!!! I ran over and called, “time-out.” When I got Shelly back in the house, everyone was celebrating! We were all happy Shelly was home, and I could go to my friend’s house, and did I mention, Shelly was home!!!!! When I got back from my friend’s around 3:00 p.m., my mom was downstairs with my sister on a ladder fishing into the drop ceiling. When I asked them what in the world they were doing, they simply said Shelly had kittens in the ceiling and that they were trying to get them out. Was Shelly coming home really “just in the nick of time?” What a coincidence!
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