Bubbah

We brought you home on the day before my 15th Birthday. I had begged my parents for ages to buy me a kitten and so they did. The owner saw that I had chosen you and mum had chosen your sister Rani. So she gave you both to us...for free.

I remember when I got home and my sister said straight away that she wanted you and so she had you and I had your sister.

I remember spoilng you with food when no-one was looking you used to eat everything and anything you could get your hands on.

Everyone took a liking to you. Friends, relatives. They all preffered you to your sister. I didn't take that offensively because I understood why..ur characteristics. You were so annoying at times..when we called you and Rani to come in in the evening Rani would come but you wouldn't. The only time you would come in was if I shook the food. I still remember when you went missing for a whole day and didn't turn up until the next afternon

The day you died was a big blow to everyone including me because I still cry everyday when I think of you because you would always follow me into any room.It's been nearly 3 weeks but it still hurts.

Me,mum and dad had just returned from shopping on a Friday we were suppose to be having a dinner party the next day. There was a note in the door and dad went to go see it. I don't know what it said but my dad went down the road to the neighbour who left the message. I asked my mum what was happening and she said: Something to do with Bubbah... I don't know. I just thought that you had gone into someone elses garden as you usually did but then I saw dad runnin across the main road at the end of our road. I thought to myself what is he doing? And so I said to my mum that I would be right back and that I was checking to see what had happened. I reached to the end of the road and saw Dad standing outside one of the neighbours' house. I went and joined him and said What's going on dad? And he said: Bubbah's dead

I remember that going through my head and felt a bit dizzy: What? I said. Then the young lady explained what happened as we went inside her house and into her back garden. Someone had ran you over early that morning around 1am. And you were left to the side of the road. She discovered you and had brought you into her house. I thanked her because I wouldn't think that anyone would do something like that but she had cats aswell so she knew what it was like as she had previously lost one of her cats the same way. So she brought us to the garden where you were under a towel. I looked at you and cried my eyes out.

'It's not fair!!' I said aloud and their my dad was consoling me. I carried you home and remembered you being so stiff it made me shudder. I caried you into the house and put you in the garden where I sat in front of you and cried.

My older sister was out of the house and so when we told her she started crying she kept saying she was alrite but we knew she wasn't. She the kind of person who hides her feelings-like Dad.

And the worst of all was that Thursday-the day before you passed away my older brother went on holiday and when he phoned and asked: So any news? Anything to report? I felt upset that we were hiding it from him but realized that we didn't want to ruin his holiday and when he returned he didn't ask where you were because later, he had said that he just thought you were outside as usual.

Mum told me that the next day he went back to work and he was really upset. He is another person who hides his feelings well.

We buried you on that Friday the day we found you int he local park because me and my sister agreed that it would be too difficult and hard to bear if you were right in front of our eyes.

I suppose I have been the one who has taken it the hardest as I am crying as I type this.

Bubbah: I will always love you and will always miss you. You were an amazing creature and altough you've gone your memory will live on.

I haven't got a picture of him on the computer but I have it in my digital camera and in my heart and mind.###

Lubna Ahmed