The Two Cats

Once at evening, a man was walking on the streets. He seemed lonely and quite mysterious, he had a hat with big pant, a brown leather cloak and his face was down. Maybe he had just such mood or probably he had something else which happened before in his life. He had been passing through the side street when a certain sound destructed him. The man slowly turned his head at that place where sound was coming from. There was a black cat digging the trash with a hope to find something to eat. The cat seemed to be shabby and very thin. The man called him. The cat came towards him and stared at him. His eyes were full of sadness. The man felt sorry for the cat and thought of giving him something to eat. But he didn’t have any food with him. Then he decided to take the cat home. He crouched and stroked the cat’s head. The cat rubbed his face on the man’s hand. The man got up and gave the cat a sign to come with him. The cat with comfort followed him.

At home, the man fed the cat. When he was going to sleep, the cat jumped onto his bed and prepared to lay. But the man sent him away and the cat offended, went onto the windowsill.
The night was long and hard. The man always had nightmares, and this night wasn’t an exception. When he fell asleep, he found himself in the familiar place; he was on a little island alone, he had no food but he knew somehow that ship will arrive soon to rescue him and he had nothing to do but wait. Then sky started to get darker, wind was becoming stronger and sea waves becoming higher and higher. At the end, a large wave has washed him off from the island…

The man abruptly woke up. He made a deep sigh and looked at clock. It was midnight. Then he looked at the windowsill. The shadow of sleeping cat was still there. He fell asleep one more time. The dream got repeated; he was on that island again and still waiting for a ship. Then sky started to get darker again, the wind got stronger and waves higher. He was already seeing that large wave again when he suddenly heard a ‘meow’ and woke up just before the wave was about to wash him off.

He looked at clock again. Just one hour has passed since he woke up last time. This time, there was no cat on the windowsill. The cat was already laying on the bed. When the man looked at him, he got up his head and looked back at the man. The man sighed one more time and fell asleep.

The same dream has followed him. This time, he instantly heard the meowing. He decided not to wait again, especially when the result was already known. He decided to find out where that meowing was coming from. He stepped through the bushes and saw a little wooden house, which he has never seen on this island before. The meowing was coming from inside of the house. Sky already started getting darker. The dream will be repeated soon… He opened the door and saw that black cat in front of him. He was shocked for a moment, but the noise of the big wave has brought him back and he stepped in.

Surprisingly, but the wave did nothing to him. He wasn’t hearing the noise any more as well. By turning back, he didn’t find either door. He looked around; there was nothing but dark and glowing cat eyes. A moment later, he heard a loud toot of train. He had turned around and saw the train which was arriving on the station. The man was on train station now. People were coming closer on the platform. When the train had finally stopped, the doors opened and the man looked for the cat.

He found the cat already sitting in the tambour of carriage. The man had no idea what to do, therefore he followed the cat. He was afraid of getting him off the train because he hadn’t a ticket. But it seemed no one noticed he was in the carriage. He took a seat and train moved off. The cat was sitting by him. A seat in front of them was free, but not for long. A woman with a little boy has got that seat by a couple of stops. The boy instantly started to play with the cat, and the cat didn’t mind about that at all. He was gladly playing with the kid. The woman got a handbag and put it right onto man’s knees. They were very surprised when they saw the handbag floating in the air. The cat looked at the man. He understood the situation and now he needed to think fast. Luckily, the train got into a tunnel. The man quickly dropped off the handbag from his knees and got up from the seat. When the train got out from the tunnel, they found the handbag lying on the floor. For some time, the woman was still putting and getting off her handbag from the seat to try making it float again. All the rest of the way man was standing and avoiding any contact with people in the carriage.

Finally, the cat has left the carriage at the one stop. The man stepped off too. This time he found himself on the swamp. But there was a hotel. The cat escorted him into the hotel where there were no people at all, and then into an empty room. There was nothing but an old bed and a dim lamp on the wall. Although, all this was the dream, the man got tired. He laid on the bed to get a rest and fell asleep. When he opened his eyes, he was in his room. There was no cat and the sun was shining bright. He left his apartment and came out on the streets. The streets were totally empty. He didn’t understand. And just before he was about to explore the town, he noticed the large wave from his nightmare. It was alive, and it was really funny to see how it walks on the streets and looks for him. However, there was no fun for the man. He felt the fear and started to try hide from the wave. He was trying to open doors of houses, but every door was locked. The wave had noticed him and started to move straight to him, sweeping everything on its way. The man started to scream for help, but there was nobody. Suddenly, a meowing hailed him. He turned around and saw the familiar cat was calling him from a window of basement. The man sneaked in hurry into there too.

It seemed nothing more can surprise him. But all that what he saw before was nothing. He was at familiar place which he had seen a few years before. It was a temple. He was feeling the odd negative feelings now. There was another him right in front of the altar with a cage on it. A white, like snow, kitty was in that cage. She was pitifully meowing. It seemed she asked to make her free. But the other man didn’t want to do that. The black cat came to him and tried to ask him to make her free as well. But that man got angry at the cat and kicked him away. He decided to don’t let the kitty go. He was afraid of being alone so badly. Then the kitty saw the kicked cat, she started to sizzle at that man. Soon, the doors into the temple opened wide. The large wave came into there. The wave instantly noticed the other man near the kitty in the cage and started chasing him. The other man ran out from the temple when chased by the wave. Now the first man could remember this place and the dream.

It was about three years ago when he just got married. He was the happiest man ever! Sadly, it was not for long. Soon after the marriage, his wife died in an accident. The man was willing to speak to her for one more time. And his prays was heard.

One night, he had a dream. He was in that temple and the light has got down from above. He saw a kitten. It was his wife. After he had spoken to her, he got a fear of not being able to see her anymore. He wished to keep her with him so badly that he caged her then and there. The black cat had come into the temple and asked him to leave her, but the man refused. And so, the man was coming into this temple every night, and every time cats were asking him to make his wife free. But once, the man got tired of all this and kicked the black cat. After that, the large wave has started to chase him every dream. And how he didn’t try, he couldn’t get into this temple any more. He was lost till now.

Now he knew what to do. He came to the cage and tried to release the kitty. It was no use. He was trying his best, but cage was too heavy. He didn’t know how to help her else. “What have I done?!”, he asked himself. Just he has asked that, the cage got cracked up and the kitty jumped off the altar.

Once that has been done, the man woke up instantly.
When he opened his eyes, he felt a big relief. He found the black cat was mysteriously disappeared from his apartment. He was quite sad about this, but soon, his mood became much better, and finally, for very long time, he was happy. Maybe because he understood that he is not alone any more.

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