Black kitten one.

Black kitten one.

                                     A short story

                                    Muthu karthikeyan,Madurai

When it said ”meow” the first time I noticed it. it was a cute black and brown mixed kitten.

It look at my face and once again said ”meow”.

I thought it asked- me some food.

I mixed rice and sambar and put to it.

It didn’t accept it.

My mother laughed and said”it will not accept sambar rice. It will accept only non-veg or curd rice”

I got into kitchen and get away with curd rice to it.

It ate it. When it was taking food it inclined its head. It adds more beauty to it

After having food it entered in side

I said ”su,su”.

My mother once again laughed and said “it will not take any food and unless we offer to it”

I noticed. There was milk in a cup. It just ignored it. It got into kitchens upper slab and slept

“It ‘s very good cat”.

At that time we were living in a house which has both ground floor and upstairs.

Ground floor only accommodated me and my mother.

In upstairs my brother and his family were resided.

There is one interesting character called Ravin in our family, younger son of my brother. He is not just naughty but  we received  daily based complaint from his school  and my brother and sister-in-law would attend the principal of the school with bowed heads. he was  studying 10^th standard in a good named school.

Management of the school said only because of Ravin  the whole school get bad name.

It was many no of times they were ready to give the transfer certificate.

Simply saying he is a type of child which was portrayed in pasanga-2  film.

He is very intelligent and good in his studies but because of his bad friends he didn’t care about lessons.

When he was just three I went to telephone booth near by house and I ran out of money . when I told to booth manger and he just said” it ‘s all right I think you are Ravin’s chithappa(uncle)”.

It made me feel differently about his influence at the age of only three. When walking in the street, he will have a conversation with everyone.

But by getting in age of fifteen he has many bad friends. And he formed as a head of that group of rowdies.

Even though very bad characteristics we cannot deny he has excellent inter-personal skills.

Akash first son of my brother didn’t study well .but he was not as naughty as Ravin .

Ravin’s intention was having a pet dog with him.

But my brother Ram never accepts it.

Because pets have only short term of life theirs loss will  be a big  depression to children like Ravin.

But at the same time in ground floor we fed that cat every day.

This cat is feminine. Some time it will come with another male cat. My mother will not allow mw to feed male cat. After making left of male  cat we fed our black kitten . without  taking food it will simply stands calm. I  could understand  our cat about its feeling.how ever we decided too feed our cat only.

There will be a fight between my brother and Ravin when there is a cat  grown-up by me and my mother

Why should not he adopt a dog?

My brother ram adviced my mother not to feed our cat. But we didn’t accept.

“it will not end up to current position.it will put kittens and all will settle here” he strongly said.

But without known to my brother we fed it.

What he said was happened one day. In our long room ‘s corner there will be a unused waching machine without working condition.

One bad morning.

In the unused washing machine there is a small kitten.

But without knowing seriousness my mother called Ravin. “Ravin come here  there is a small kitten”

My brother came from upstairs scold my mother for 10 minutes. My mother came to the stage of cry.

We took out that new kitten we  simply put it outside of the of our house.

Within three days new kitten   was disappeared..

Within few months my mother had heart stroke. She was admitted in the hospital and she went to my sister rani’s house as here there is no person to take care of her.

Mean time I received food from my brothers house. It couldn’t be guaranteed that I will receive curd rice. I made a different plan. Instead of come by  bus from the institute worked I saved five rupees.

I bought a curd cup for five rupees I simply put a cup of curd for its night food.

My sister-in-law always showed opposition to our cat for the only reason it was grown up my mother.

Every time she made compliant about dog that it scared her. Nobody is admitting her statement because all of us known that it was very good type.

It put another kitten. But this kitten was different one . Whenever I feed mother cat ,the child cat will

Oppose and fight with its mother’s cat. Mother cat simply stand calmly. It only known that is its kitten. That kitten didn’t know that it was its mother.

With in few days second kitten also disappeared.

There was a continuous mental torture by my sister-in law to my brother that mother cat shouldn’t be fed by me..

My mother came back from my sister’s house. After 10 months my mother died.

After my mother’s dead there was strong opposition from my sister-in-law to not to feed   the cat.

My brother advised me about this .but I didn’t care about.

But unfortunately it put three kittens same time.

That is also with in inside of my house.

I put the entire kitten in the outside but within the outside wall of my house. It simply tried to take each one in inside of my family. Each time I strongly opposes and put out side. Daily I fed all the four cats.

When the mother cat sit along with its three kittens there will be pride in its eyes that it is a mother of three kittens.

It irritates my sister-in-law eyes.

There is no strong reason to be told by her to not to feed the cats.

Days passed .one morning  Ravin tried to punch one of a kitten  by silver rod . Suddenly mother cat tried to make a scratch in Ravin’s  hand.

House exploded. my sister-in-law suddenly got angry.

But I want to ask only one simple question. If Ravin was attacked by other she will simply watch it?

But I didn’t ask it.

Within two days entire cats were disappeared.

One day I was told by brother that mother cat died in an accident. And all the kittens were disappeared after its mothers dead. I didn’t know whether it was true or not

I remembered pride in its eyes when it was surrounded by three kittens.

Because of Ravin  forming of head of a group, my brother sent him to erode for higher secondary studies

Ravin was admitted in the hostel and he was crying whole the year in the remembering of his parents

(But after watching pasanga-2 movie and its resemblance to Ravin I cry about thinking him is another story)

Six month passed. I was laying in the mat in the floor. A cat come from outside and run inside speedily and returned back to outside of my house.

I could identify it was one of the kitten which was in my house.

I could identify it was one of the kitten which was in my house.  A thought appears to ananth that why shouldn’t we feed it?suddenly  he decided ‘no this story must end here’.