Avelon by Mariann

I wanna tell you about something that lays so heavy on my heart. The story goes like this.

A month ago my neigbour girl said her cat was getting kittens and that they all had to be killed if no one took care of them. that just softend my heart and I said I’d take one of them. The next day the cat called Sacha and her sister Rofus had kittens. Sacha got three kittens and Rofus got two. One was still born. Due to busy life I never got to see them alive. A week later my neighbour called and said three of them had been taken by a stray dog. I felt so terrible. I didn’t know what to do. There was only one left of the kittens. The cats didn’t live inside. They were too wild for that. Well they loved us human but they’d been kept outside all their life as my manly neigbour didn’t want them in the inside the house. That was the first time I saw Avelon. It was the most beautiful cat I have ever seen. He was so small. He fitted in the palm of my hand. He was black and orange all over and he had four little white paws. He was mine from that day. and he owned my heart.

In the meantime I was going to school next year in another city so I moved already then. Since there is only two month until I start school I made everything ready for my kitten to come home. I made appointment for the vet to give him his shots and chip mark him. I bought food and water bowls for him toys and a little collar for him to wear. I was soo excited the day I went home for the weekend to pick him up. I had even bought a traveler bow for cats. That when I got the news he was gone one morning. She had gone to to feed the cats and he was gone. Right then right there I started crying my heart felt so empty. Avelon was not gonna live his life with me.

I remember those days I was out in the forest checking if he was still alive. Holding him one time he had rolled down from where the nest was and I carried him back. I was so thrilled and proud the first time he opened his eyes. They where baby blue.

I remember the first time I told him his name was Avelon. Avelon is a paradise. Arthur the Head Knight of the Knights of the Round Table comes from. At Avelon there existed no pain or evil. It was the perfect name for him. the truth is that I never got to know if Avelon was a he or a she cause it died so young but we think it was a he. I went home and prayed to God. I asked him why he had taken my kitty away from me? That night I had a dream about him. I saw him again just a little bit bigger. You know the size when they can be taken from their mother. He was playing on a big meadow with lots of other kittens. He wrestled with a kitten that looked a bit like him and ran around with some toys. Around his neck was the collar I had bought for him. I realized just what that the dream was a message from Avelon to me that he had loved his sibbs so much he couldn’t live without them. He was so happy playing on the rainbow bridge and that he would be my kitten in heaven. At the end of the dream I saw his mother Sacha sitting coming up on his side and he looking deeeply into my eyes. I did go home with a cat not just the one I expected. I took Sacha to her new forever home.

I lost Avelon but he wanted me to take care of his mum and I intend to do just that but I have to buy her a new collar. I’ve hung Avelon’s over a photo of an angel. I never got to take a photo of him but I’ll always keep him in my heart. I will Avelon. There is no one like you. You were the cat of thieves cause you stole my heart. I’ll never forget you baby.

Love

Mummy and Sacha